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:
The penultimate song of the night from the Dead's penultimate show at this classic venue, where they played more than four dozen times
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1038 comments

  • DRKSTARR
    1 week 2 days ago
    ‘The Warlocks of Tokyo’

    Might just be my favorite GD cover band

  • truckinup2buffalo
    1 week 2 days ago
    In Attendance

    Great show in my newly located state. A 1st set song hade me in awe as I was never expecting it. Just 4 songs later another had me in happy tears. On to the 2nd set, WOW it just blew me away... Yes, SMALLZ you're spot on about EOTW outro... Amazingly they throw out something I've always got into for a long time. Encore wait for it, because that's what they did.

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    jeff4682
    1 week 2 days ago
    RELISTEN is down!

    But you don’t really need it today- I started from the beginning and found it pretty dang quickly on “the YouTube”

    Belated congratulations BirthaLove, and thanks for the ETREE mention. Never used it before- it seems to connect really quickly to the Internet Archive and I’m sure it will come in handy in the future

  • Bundubush
    1 week 2 days ago
    Relisten down

    I saw yesterday someone else also had an issue with relisten and it's still down for me this morning. I cleared the cache but it is still an issue. Others have the same or should I keep trying to fix it from this side?

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    jeff4682
    1 week 2 days ago
    The 5.6.7.8’s

    THE 5.6.7.8’s were the all-female Japanese band featured in KILL BILL VOL. 1. I believe that “Cassandra” (was that her name?) was the only woman in the band in WAYNE’S WORLD… excellent!

Yesterday's answer...
Providence, RI, Providence Civic Center
From 1978, 1977, and 1973, respectively, all three of these songs land on many people's Top 20 Grateful Dead songs list.
Yesterday's Winner...
Rock
Malaga
NJ

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