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!
Today I zeroed right in on the era of the super charged Healy waste effects on Bobby's voice during Other Ones (waste is not a negative connotation). A few peeks at the year in question and bingo there it is.
When entering the date it is really easy if you just type digits into the field provided (don't deal with scrolling or paging backward through pop up calendars). Just enter the digital date one number at at time.
I took yesterday off to celebrate my daily prize win and also wasn't feeling like combing through the seemingly endless Dark Star options. Ironically, the one chosen was on my birthday...
So fun. I guessed it…and I’m now completely hooked. The Deadcast got me through the pandemic…this far out game will carry me thru November. After dancin’, dancin’ dancin’ at the Greek in August for Rex Foundation’s benefit, I was reminded that this band and community is my religion. Here’s to peace, LOVE and freedoms…go swing states, go!
I finally won a daily prize after 8 years! They don't make it easy to claim though...
I impatiently jumped on the wrong one thinking it a lengthy task I wasn't up for and then went to this week's fresh Tapers section as I usually do early on Mondays. Took me about 5 seconds to realize Dave had slyly snuck the answer in there in plain sight. Doh! At least a couple of us saw that. Sneaky but brilliant Dave. Bravo!
We got this. Don't worry. Be joyful warriors.
Cheers