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:
A classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
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1017 comments

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    Shindigger
    1 week 6 days ago
    12/01/79 Easy To Love You

    I just noticed that Day 9 plugged a hole I didn't know I had. My CD copy of this show is missing Easy to Love You. So check your CD! I'm sure mine is not the only one.

  • gnosticaspirant
    1 week 6 days ago
    louisweinreb22…you're wrong, not once but TWICE!

    First, your guess is wrong. It's not The Spectrum. Second, you're wrong to post the answers in the comments and ruin it for everyone else. READ THE RULES!!!

  • gnosticaspirant
    1 week 6 days ago
    C'mon man!!

    In my 9 years of doing this, I've never seen anyone put an answer in the comments. Now I've seen 2 in two days. Reflective of the state of the country...

  • deded54
    1 week 6 days ago
    Jeezus!!

    half way through 30 Days and still so called 'newbies' can't figure out the rules...how sad
    how helpless many people are that they won't even scroll down to the BOTTOM OF THE PAGE...ya know...poke around???
    Maybe the moderator will include directions next year for the handicapable..or just drop the comments and avoid all the whining, altogether

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    gr8phul
    1 week 6 days ago
    Hints

    Hints have always been part of the game. I appreciate a clever or mysterious hint. The date of show is a no no. I have been here since the beginning so please post clever hints

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
The track that opens Workingman's Dead signals a new Grateful Dead sound, the Americana acoustic Dead focusing on vocal harmonies. It was often played as an encore in 1977, to very strong results as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...

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