30 Days of Dead
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!
Setlist.fm was helpful for me today, once I got to the correct year. This is so fun and I look forward to November every year :) Got all but one right so far… that Casey Jones a week ago really stumped me! Happy hunting!
I actually sent the correction recommendation to setlists. We'll see if anyone is still actually over there.
Just enjoyed some time at a local cafe with a non-head friend, explained 30DOD to them. They were like huh? My point…we are so blessed to share this music together after all these years grateful forever! Thank you Dave & Co. for the gems, to hear these in vault quality is a treat all month long and much appreciated!
One more thing…did anyone see those photos from RFK that the guy just found in a shoe box? I guess his dad was a photographer and he just found them like last week? Unreal! Can’t do links etc. if anyone knows how to share let me know…
This next one might be a polka. Classic show. Thanks David!
I agree, but it wasn't that hard with all the information available and it was well worth it. What a great show from top to bottom