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:
Three songs in a row sung by three Grateful Dead lead vocalists, none of whom are Jerry
day21_IuzIPpgBDAZPQtX_cassidy_box.mp3
786 comments

  • ynecawla
    2 days 4 hours ago
    Greetings from the UK

    Been in from the start - a wonderful annual treat. Many thanks
    (Appropriate today - we have snow here in North Wales for the first time this winter)

  • deadheadned
    2 days 5 hours ago
    softballs

    Hornsby you're right about the easy bucket.

    Dave & co have been very generous this year, with the music, and with the game. all these multiple tracks each day have made the searches easier. raising a glass to all !

  • UK Deadhead
    2 days 5 hours ago
    Phew

    Well today's is a lot easier to tie down. And am so pleased that yesterday's hard work paid off with the right answer.

  • hornsby
    2 days 5 hours ago
    another easy three

    nothing but net-count it

  • deadheadned
    2 days 6 hours ago
    Brent's keys !

    as i said about yesterday's quiz. ^

    to maybe start a topic of conversation, does anybody else experience the music as texture ?
    or any other synesthia ?

    along with many other factors influencing how i hear the Dead especially, like seeing colors etc, is seeing Jer's guitar like a rose vining up a trellis of Bobby's chords, or Brent's B3 (and sometimes his voice) feels furry.

    in some way, this helps me narrow down the different eras of the Dead's music for this game, because of the texture.

    all the ways to *hear* the music !

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Family Dog at the Great Highway
The Other One was a consistent part of the Dead's repertoire 1967-1995, with Jerry's Cryptical Envelopment portion of the suite around 1967-1972 and 1985. Black Peter arrived in 1969 and stuck around to 1995
Yesterday's Winner...
Craig
Hoosick fall
NY

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