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!

Today's Song
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider
Hint:
Paired since 1969, it's hard to imagine either of these songs without the other
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826 comments

  • Birchwood
    6 days 6 hours ago
    Hornsby: more shows with GD than TC?

    Hornsby: did Bruce play more shows with the GD than TC did?

    Anybody here know?

    Peace!

  • jamgol
    6 days 6 hours ago
    DB50

    yes, DB50 was just a reprint of DB9 with other extra sections added

  • gnosticaspirant
    6 days 7 hours ago
    Yesterday’s flaw

    From The SetList Program. Def messed me up.

  • driftin and dreamin
    6 days 7 hours ago
    Chat Mods

    Pretty sure Dave has nothing to do with moderating the chat section of 30 days of dead and clearly no one is watching over the chat except us. As a whole, the community is doing a great job, could the dead net folks give some power to a few mods that could delete specific posts, maybe but for now we are on our own and doing a pretty good job of it.

  • Wackaloonq
    6 days 7 hours ago
    whitegum

    i love this site...30 days of white gum.
    it has so many links and ways to research songs, lyrics, discographies, shows...lots of things to explore. Helped me find the days show more than once.
    Happy not to have to scroll too far today.
    Great venue, spent many shows there

Yesterday's answer...
Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The final Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks featured this excellent first set closing sequence with Cassidy sung by Bobby, Far From Me sung by Brent, and Phil singing Box Of Rain to end the set
Yesterday's Winner...
Jared
Marlboro
MA

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