30 Days of Dead

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It's a Dead Head's most wonderful time of the year! Welcome to another 30 days of unreleased Grateful Dead tracks from the vault, one for every day of the month, selected by archivist and producer David Lemieux. The tracks are yours, 100% free gua-ran-teed, but the real fun is taking part in the challenge for the chance to win some sweet swag from the Dead.

Those of you who know what to do, feel free to skip right on ahead. For those of you who need a refresher, here's the drill:

You know your Ables from your Bakers from your C's, but can your finely tuned ears differentiate the cosmic "comeback" tour from a spacey 70s show? Each day we'll post a song from one of the Dead's coveted shows. Will it be from that magical night at Madison Square Garden in '93 or from way back when they were just starting to warm it up at Winterland? Is that Pigpen's harmonica we hear? Brent on keys? If you think you know, lob your answer in and you just might find yourself taking home our daily prize of a 2025 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize – a copy of limited, numbered, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL '78 boxed set!

Hint:
Paired since 1969, it's hard to imagine either of these songs without the other
day22_OEYTZMsSukmfCEa_china_sunflower.mp3
832 comments

  • geododge
    6 days 10 hours ago
    Out of 13 Shows here

    This was a good one. Never saw a show here but have had many glimpses over the years of 30 Days!

  • Birchwood
    6 days 10 hours ago
    Hornsby: more shows with GD than TC?

    Hornsby: did Bruce play more shows with the GD than TC did?

    Anybody here know?

    Peace!

  • jamgol
    6 days 10 hours ago
    DB50

    yes, DB50 was just a reprint of DB9 with other extra sections added

  • gnosticaspirant
    6 days 10 hours ago
    Yesterday’s flaw

    From The SetList Program. Def messed me up.

  • driftin and dreamin
    6 days 11 hours ago
    Chat Mods

    Pretty sure Dave has nothing to do with moderating the chat section of 30 days of dead and clearly no one is watching over the chat except us. As a whole, the community is doing a great job, could the dead net folks give some power to a few mods that could delete specific posts, maybe but for now we are on our own and doing a pretty good job of it.

Yesterday's answer...
Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The final Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks featured this excellent first set closing sequence with Cassidy sung by Bobby, Far From Me sung by Brent, and Phil singing Box Of Rain to end the set
Yesterday's Winner...
Jared
Marlboro
MA

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