Grateful Dead 30 Days Dead

They’re BACK!

Link to 30 Days

Since 2010, the Grateful Dead have given away a file of live music every day in November.

From the Grateful Dead site:

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!

Grateful Dead 30 Days Dead

NOW!

2024’s first download was “Space>Playing Reprise>The Wheel” performed

Each day, if you want, you can enter the contest and guess. Or simply wait for the answer the next day.

Keep in mind that these are high quality live recordings and if you are only familiar with the song’s studio recording, live is where it’s at.   Of course, there will be the seques like a China/Rider or a Candyman/Cassidy or even a Help/Slipknot/Franklin’s Tower.

And even if you are familiar with a live version, remember how songs evolved, left a tour’s setlist for a few years, and came back renewed.

You can’ go wrong. 2023’s 30 downloads yielded  9 hours and 19 minutes  of previously unreleased Dead recordings. That’s right!

And so far (2010 – 2023), the site has given away 473 files which adds up to over 3.7 days of music, nearly 90 hours.

Open up.  November is the month the sun is shining on your back door.

Climb aboard!

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