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30 Days Of Dead - November - Grateful Dead
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1. New Speedway Boogie - Download
New Speedway Boogie
Fillmore East, NY, NY - 9/20/70
10:03 - 23,574 KB approx 23.0 MB
This is one of the acoustic/electric hybrid versions of this Workingma's Dead classic.
Although not residing in the Grateful Dead's master tape collection, this was drawn from the
tapes recorded by the Fillmore East crew.
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2. Dark Star - Download
Dark Star
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA - 6/5/69
21:11 - 49,686 KB approx. 48.5 MB
Another classic mid-1969 version of Dark Star, similar in tone and energy to the versions
played in February-March, 1969 at the same venue, one of which (2/27/69) was included on
Live/Dead. This Dark Star would later go into the "typical" (oh, the days when THAT was
typical…) sequence of St. Stephen>The Eleven>Lovelight.
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3. Althea - Download
Althea
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - 3/14/81
8:46 - 20,579 KB approx. 20.0 MB
This was recorded on the excellent Spring Tour of 1981, which featured to magnificent
nights at Madison Square Garden, the famous University of Maryland show with the
super-long Bird Song, and the end of March jaunt over to Europe for a batch of shows at
London's Rainbow and the 3/28/81 show in Essen, West Germany with The Who.
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4. Playin In The Band - Download
Playing In The Band
Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA - 5/13/73
28:56 - 67,837 KB approx. 66.2 MB
This long, spacey Playing In The Band is one of the finest versions from a year that was
filled with great Playings. This show in Des Moines was the first of three consecutive
weekends of giant shows by the Grateful Dead, with May 20 seeing the band play at UCSB in
Santa Barbara, and of course the famous 5/26/73 to wrap up May's performances at Kezar
Stadium in San Francisco.
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5. Easy Wind (A) - Download
Easy Wind (A)
Springer's Inn, Portland, OR - 1/16/70
9:51 - 23,109 KB approx. 22.5 MB
Another mighty fine Easy Wind from 1970, complete with that great Bob Weir guitar work
(not to mention Jerry's fine playing…). This was the first of two shows at Springer's Inn in
Portland, sandwiched around a show in Corvalis.
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Easy Wind (B)
Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 12/31/70
9:35 - 22,465 KB approx. 21.9 MB
The file for Easy Wind (B) is no longer available.
6. Sugaree - Download
Sugaree
Warfield, San Francisco, CA - 10/13/80
10:14 - 24,011 KB approx. 23.4 MB
This version of Sugaree was recorded on the 14th and penultimate show at the Warfield
during the three week run of shows that featured three sets of music night, one acoustic and
two electric. After these shows at the Warfield, the band took their show on the road for two
nights in New Orleans, followed by eight shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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7. He's Gone (A) - Download
He's Gone (A)
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - 3/26/87
12:55 - 30,310 KB approx. 29.5 MB
This version of He's Gone is from the "comeback" tour that welcomed the Grateful Dead
back to the East Coast for the first time since 7/7/86, when Jerry was recuperating from his
diabetic coma. The band brought a renewed energy with them to virtually every stop on this
tour, as shown in this powerful, inspired He's Gone. The closing jam at the end of the song,
in particular, shows just how happy they were to be playing again. This recording was drawn
from a very clean "matrix" recording, which is a blend of the soundboard feed with audience
microphones, creating a very "live" sound.
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He's Gone (B)
L'Olympia Theater, Paris France - 5/4/72
8:05 - 18,954 KB approx. 18.5 MB
The file for He's Gone (B) is no longer available.
8. Estimated Prophet - Download
Estimated Prophet
Warfield, San Francisco, CA - 10/7/80
12:16 - 28,779 approx. 28.1 MB
This recording was drawn from the middle of the Grateful Dead's unprecedented 15 night
run at the Warfield, from which part of Dead Set and Reckoning were drawn. All of these
concerts were recorded to multi-track tape. This a rough mix done in 1981 during production
of Dead Set.
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9. China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider - Download
China Cat Sunflower / I Know you Rider
The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA - 2/1/70
12:03 - 28,274 KB approx. 27.6 MB
This show took place two days after the famous Grateful Dead bust in New Orleans
("busted down on Bourbon Street…"), and was a bust fund benefit gig, featuring special
guests Fleetwood Mac. As you can hear, it featured typically inspired 1970 playing.
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10. Cream Puff War - Download
Cream Puff War
Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 3/18/67
(The 3/17/67 show date announced on Dead.net was a typo according to the day's winner)
6:15 - 14,656 KB (15,006,880 bytes) approx.14.3 MB
This show took place the day before the release of the Grateful Dead eponymous debut
album, and the band celebrated appropriately by playing most of the songs from the album,
including a rare live version of The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion).
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11. Saint Stephen - Download
Saint Stephen
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - 10/15/83
7:52 - 18,473 KB approx. 18.0 MB
The final east coast St. Stephen by the Grateful Dead, this was the second version played
that week, with the first coming on 10/11/83 at Madison Square Garden. The band would
play the song one more time, two weeks later on Halloween at Marin Veterans' Memorial
Auditorium in San Rafael, before putting the song away for good.
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12. The Music Never Stopped - Download
The Music Never Stopped
Horton Field House, Illinois State University, Normal, IL - 4/24/78
8:52 - 20,789 KB approx. 20.4 MB
This is from the show that ended the first leg of the Grateful Dead's Spring Tour of 1978.
The band performed a first batch of shows 4/6/78 to 4/24/78, followed by two weeks off,
then a second batch of shows 5/5/78 to 5/17/78, shows at which the format for Grateful
Dead shows' second sets would be established (three-to-five songs, long Rhythm Devils
segment, Space, three-to-four songs, encore).
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13. Truckin' - Download
Truckin'
Winterland, San Francisco - 5/30/71
8:27 - 19,844 KB approx. 19.3 MB
This is the from the two night run of shows at Winterland, which were pushed back a night
due to Jerry having a bad cold. But, the show must go on, and the band still played to
excellent nights in San Francisco at their new home venue, as the Fillmore West was just
weeks away from closing for good.
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14. New Minglewood Blues - Download
New Minglewood Blues
Legion Stadium, El Monte, CA - 12/26/70
5:27 - 12,800 KB approx. 12.4 MB
These 1970-1971 Minglewoods were surprisingly rare, which is a shame considering how
great they usually are. After 1971, the song was put away until 1976.
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15. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance - Download
Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance
Radio City Music Hall, NY, NY - 10/25/80
13:15 - 31,066 KB approx. 30.3 MB
This 1980 classic sequence is from the eight night run at Radio City Music Hall in New
York City, the famous 3-set shows from which the albums Dead Set and Reckoning were
partially drawn (along with music from the Warfield just before these shows), as well as
the Dead Ahead DVD. This is a rough mix from the 32-track (two 16-track machines synced
up) recordings.
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16. New Potato Caboose - Download
New Potato Caboose
O'Keefe Center, Toronto, ON, Canada - 8/4/67
13:15 - 31,066 KB approx. 30.3 MB
A fine stand-alone New Potato Caboose recorded at the O'Keefe Center in downtown
Toronto as part of the Grateful Dead's week-long run of shows in Ontario's capital city, at
which they shared the bill with the Jefferson Airplane. These shows were billed as "Bill
Graham Presents the San Francisco Scene in Toronto."
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17. Cold Rain And Snow - Download
Cold Rain And Snow
Legion Stadium, El Monte, CA - 12/28/70
6:41 - 16,668 KB (16,043,422 bytes) approx. 15.2 MB
This is the show-opener from the final night of a three-night run in El Monte, near Los
Angeles. These shows in El Monte signaled a return to recording the Grateful Dead by the
crew, after a nearly-six month hiatus where very few shows were recorded between July
and December, 1970.
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18. So Many Roads - Download
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7:24 17,385 KB approx. 16.9 MB