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 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!
Got it. My clue is you have to go to the guitar solo. Unique to it's time period. That helps narrow it down....
Based on the available information, I have narrowed the possible list down to about seven shows. I have a theory about which one it is and if I can't find out anything more I'm going to take a stab in the dark and see what happens.
Cause I don't have one. Been searching among the potential candidates, but I got nothing.
I think I'm right. The key was listening to how Jerry rolled into the first solo. After a short period of time it had that halting, chunky, choppy pause before he came in.
I had the same issue with being able to edit properties - and had noticed the first three days I downloaded were .wav files... But I just came by to download yesterday's song and realized that now they're all showing as .mp3 files, so they're compressed - but you can edit properties.