Grateful Dead

see here how everything leads up to this day

now let's go run and see

I should've been more familiar with this show to recognize the set list was wrong in my research information. It had "Row Jimmy" and "Ramble on Rose" swapped it their respective slots in the set. Dammnnit! I really wanted to find this one bad, anyways it's a 1977 show I hope gets released next time the '77 year goes around in Dave's releases. That or 5/18 I suppose. Anyways,... Day 28 seems to have a rather "Greasy" offering like a Thanksgiving dinner!

Holy smokes! The Way TOO explodes out of drums just left a smoking crater of my mind! Then that leisurely, smooth transition into Black Peter, just leaves me smiling on a cloudy day. Got a bit confused initially as the original soundboard doesn't have the tape glitches at the beginning of this offering, but no matter, what a great gift from Dave to help us digest our Thanksgiving bounty!
Interesting that I never really considered before how appropriate the pairing of Black Peter and The Other One (part one anyway), given that "you know he has to die". Well, if we all have to go, this is the best accompaniment, "with rainbow colors blended". So thankful for this musical flashback. Allright!

I won? Awesome. :D

See here how everything lead up to this Day 28.
Roll on up to solve the Day, gonna roll back down to let the food continue to digest.
I’m not so sure our minds have remained unbended by all this great music over the years.
Now let's go run and see what the last 2 Days bring.

Yes RyXs, that mistake in the setlist made life a little more difficult. Earlier this month the venue was the Capitol Theater but SP had the city as Portchester NY and NOT Passaic NJ - I should have known better (the band hadn’t played the NY venue for a few years and wouldn’t again).
The thing is that these issues never get fixed. I’ve sent emails to some of these sites to point out generally glaring mistakes (where all other sites agree but not…) and nothing gets fixed. Well, whatcha gonna do?

Setlists.net had the wrong setlist...

The answer remained cryptic until I figured it out

Drum fill and bass notes (And that tape cut of course) in the intro nail it down. Got this one and yesterday's to sync up nicely with that phased out/chorus/flanger effect whooshing through the headphones. I never get tired of that heh! So fun to get the 2 players going. But today's falls in and out of sync depending on the source with the different tape cuts a few minutes in. Had to check out the Phil rumbling riff "Other One" part a bit later on to make sure.

SetList Program and Relisten once again have made it easy for 100%. So easy to navigate, search, narrow down in separate tabs or monitors etc with those 2 sites. A key tip: use 'one-word' song key words in SetList Program. And to try different key word searches for entries such as today's where the main piece is known by alternate names. A single word can help weed out some problems getting full search results.

Your last sentence is the key. Just one word. If you know the lyrics it helps even more.

A show from the date i was born. I got to see them live one time on my birthday ,also in their hometown. They only played this date 4 times in their live performances. Love the pigpen organ vibes also!

What a nice show! I seldom listen to the whole thing while playing this game but I'm glad I did yesterday. Interesting factoid there as someone noted that it was the only show with a Scarlet>Fire and a H>S>F. That 2nd set was great! The whole thing had that lazy in the groove funk of 1976 but with the 1977 sound. Move over May '77, there's room for more killer shows from that era.
Cheers

one more day we're lucky enough to comb through the taj mahal of live concert recordings that is the grateful dead archive! today was a quickie as there are limited possibilities and they are easy to tell apart. gonna spend a little time and listen to the rest of this show.

Happy hunting!

Yesterday was tricky. Always good to have multiple sources. I have Deadbase 50 and the setlist for 4/23/77 is incorrect, but there is a section in the front where they noted the mistake. Appropriate that the show was in Springfield as my first show was there a year later.

Note to self-
*BEFORE starting to search, listen to the song.
*AND, read the friggin' clue.
Made that way harder than it needed to be.

You don’t need to come up with a one-word or so title for the search. Just hit LOOKUP and it takes you to a list of all the songs. However, THAT’S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE is not listed, so on that case you gotta click on CRYPTICAL and THE OTHER ONE to find the whole thing. But I still don’t know how you get it to show the results in only a specific order. Don’t believe the EXACT MATCH option does anything. You just have to go thru all the results to find the ones with the order you’re looking for. DEADBASE’s every-time-played feature is the best for that need.
I find that Dave often gives us songs where there is a glitch in the search- timings don’t match or a situation like yesterday’s where a setlist was wrong- these are the circumstances that make you pull out whatever hair you have left.
And D-Rae, the Springfield Civic Center was the best venue where I saw the band. The 1985(!) and 1986 shows there were fabulous. Same with Portland Maine for those years. After that it got bigger and crazier and much less cozy on the East Coast. Of course, then there was Oxford Plains in 1988………..!!!

but HOT DAMN! That's some intense jamming! Fun search and listening all around though and I feel more better now that I solved this little riddle before the day had ended.

This was a fun journey, throughout the run, cryptical led into a many other songs....

The word on the street was they played Cryptical during sound check, so it was not a complete surprise that they broke it out on 6/16/85 at The Greek for 20th Anniversary shows. So many memories from those three shows: meeting Ken Kesey, breaking out 'Derek and the Dominoes' "Keep On Growing", Harry Poppick and Dan Healy messin' with our aural environs with crazy echoes, lunatic laughter, and a backdrop by Rick Griffin with the Lexington Minute Man, in true Grateful Dead fashion, harkening me back to when I went to school just 1/10 of a mile form the North Bridge in Concord, MA, the first engagement with Red Coats, the "shot heard around the world", on April 19, 1775. I digress...now, let's go run and see, run, run, run and see...

the daily listening journal, listen to the music play, also had 4-23-77 correct and confirmed, this is a new book for me this year and while it would make a search difficult on its own i am enjoying the book and wanted to give it credit for its accuracy. Today i listened to the complete show, ive never heard a better slipknot, and several others would be competitors for my favorite version. if u did not get a chance go back and check it out. well worth it.

Listen to the first 6-7 minutes, you'll find it. Oh Billy, Billy, Billy!

Saw some comments earlier that today's selection was listed wrong in so&so web set list. I disagree, there is a good 5 to 6 bars of the listed intermediate song. So&so is my secondary reference after DB50 but I neglected to listen all the way trough at first. Upon a full listen the choice was simple. So sad we only have 2 days left... 27/28

Had it pinned down to 2 shows, and jotted them down.Once I was sure on my choice, I entered the other show by mistake! I love this sequence and era!

Its actually unbelievable we have this.... Unbelievable.

The RSD Old and in the Way release is very nice. Liked it more then I thought I would. I have the original release and the 2 Acoustic Disc releases so I thought I wouldn't be to excited about it but it has got enjoyable different feel to it. The GD release of 2 more acoustic sets from the 15 night run at the Warfield is always welcome. I remember buying 2 copies of Reckoning the day it came out. Played it to death, it's just too good.

At first glance I thought todays answer might be the other of the 2 choices since we got a taste of the day before earlier.

Bad time to switch reels, Betty

The song tags in the file names in the mp3 file aren't very helpful. When I import the mp3 files into the macOS Music app( and probably Windows' music apps) the song names are for example 30DaysDayEleven2025, instead of the song names as posted on the 30 Days 2025 web. Could that be changed?