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
day27_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_shakedown_world.mp3
1016 comments

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    rasta5ziggy
    1 week 6 days ago
    bundubush

    you gave a hint while telling someone to not give hints

    Edit: what I meant to say was "you gave an answer while telling someone not to give an answer" in this chat........everybody just relax, we got you all night long (Harpur College)

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    SoupForDummies
    1 week 6 days ago
    DON'T POST THE ANSWER IN THE COMMENTS

    If you want to enter the contest, scroll to the bottom of the page, please don't spoil the search for others.

  • Bundubush
    1 week 6 days ago
    Not Philly

    No answers, even wrong ones in the comments please.

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    louisweinreb22…
    1 week 6 days ago
    The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/21/72

    All three songs were played at this concert. MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP, BLACK-THROATED WIND, and BIRD SONG

  • Wackaloonq
    1 week 6 days ago
    lyrics

    interesting order of lyrics today on the song
    beautiful music
    dyslexic jerry
    happy day to all
    enjoy the search
    would post my current batting average so far but this too embarrassing.
    today will help

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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