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!
i was at this show!! With my brother Mike, and Bill H, Michael T, and Charlie K.
It was dream time awesome.
Run and See This One, it's a Treat.
Let see how they spell it tomorrow :-D
Mr. Spacely would be proud. But that poor, Poor Peter. Sometimes I think we should just let him die already, but I love hearing it so much that he's just going to have to wait. Hang in there Pete.
Please, please, please Dave, release this show. It’s been one of my favorites for 25 years, especially with all the great jams in the second set!
Listened to a number of space>truckin' from different periods on this search - this one is one of the best, hints of the truckin' rhythm appearing then gradually strengthening until it opens right up. And Jerry's first solo on Black Peter is masterful (and good voice here too). "The people might know, but the people don't care". Sad but true.
But, man, that distortion! (and Healy's shenanigans?) - Bobby's guitar right up there in the mix and wickedly distorted at times. Yeah!