30 Days of Dead
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 November, 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.
How the heck does that work?! Let us remind you...
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 2026 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize – a copy of the SOLD OUT limited-edition ENJOYING THE RIDE boxed set!'
Based on my own proprietary algorithm -- which is in turn based on herbibot data -- the show that today's sequence comes from was the 60th most popular show of it's year.
Yesterday's song came from a show that was the 72nd most popular show in 1981.
Sometimes it takes all day and you never find what you're looking for. Other times, like today, it takes about 30 seconds!
To me it sounds like the Saint that precedes the He's Gone ends and He's Gone starts as a discrete song, so there should not be a ">" leading into the He's Gone in a set list. There is certainly no gradual transition between the two. Unfortunately the folks at GDSets.com apparently disagree, so I spent the whole day barking up the wrong tree. Doh!
Congrats to those who found it!
51 minutes of free music. Don't jump the gun on this one; just gotta poke around.
Congrats to Pete in Milford, NH!!!