Hey Now Kids!

I have emerged after a much needed rest. I want to take the opportunity to personally express my thanks to all of you for following this year’s edition of the Unofficial 31 Days of Dead and for all of the messages and kind words that you have sent me. This was a pretty ambitious project that kept me busy right up until the final day, so I apologize for the delay or lack of response to some of your emails. It was a fun ride, and we covered a lot of ground. Here are some quick stats:

31 Days

86 Songs

23 Different years represented

12 hours, 6 minutes of music

1.79 GB of music

…and of course, 10 Years doing these projects

As in past years, I have provided a full track listing and zipped and uploaded all of the mp3 files so that you can download for your future listening pleasure.

WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE TRACKS???? I would love to hear what your favorites were this year. Some of you have reached out already and I truly appreciate it. I’m always curious what you liked and what you didn’t like so that I can make improvements in the future.

THANK YOU!! These projects are a big undertaking and there is no way I could do it all on my own. I want to take this opportunity to recognize two key people who helped out. First, a big thank you to Brian Levine who has been providing the artwork since I started doing these projects in 2010. Each year his artwork gets better. He obviously takes our tagline very seriously – “When they go high, we go higher.”

I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to my long-time friend, Jason Freitag, who hosts these projects on his blog, Liner Notes Music Blog. The blog provides an online home where you can reference these projects anytime you want. Also, if you like the 31 Days of Dead then you should be sure to check out “Grateful Dead Monthly” which is a fun side project that Jason and I collaborate on each month that features a GD show on the anniversary of that particular show. So, if you are not already following Liner Notes Music Blog, then I urge you to do so. Not only can you get your Grateful Dead fix but there are articles and playlists that cover the musical spectrum from jazz to Indie.

If you are having 31 Days withdrawal then you get can you get your fix by following me on Instagram @31daysofdead

Wishing you all the best in the New Year!

Ed

2019 Track Listing

Day 1 – One Afternoon Long Ago: The Magical Three

Ripple (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set) Brokedown Palace (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set) To Lay Me Down (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY; acoustic set)

Day 2 – Early Songs & 50th Anniversary of Live Dead

St. Stephen > Alligator > China Cat Sunflower > The Eleven > China Cat Sunflower (Robert Hunter; solo Acoustic; 3.18.03 – Town Hall • New York, NY) Dark Star > St. Stephen (9.19.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY)

Day 3 – SkullFuck Classics

Playin’ In The Band > Wharf Rat > Playin’ In The Band (6.8.74 – Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Stadium • Oakland, CA) Bertha (2.15.73 – Dane County Coliseum • Madison, WI)

Day 4 – Lyrical Influences & Collaborations – Part I

Greatest Story Ever Told (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA) Friend of the Devil (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA) Stella Blue (8.21.72 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA)

Day 5 – Collaborations – Part II

Jack Straw – Weir (3.23.72 – Academy of Music • New York, NY) Box of Rain – Lesh (3.24.73 – The Spectrum • Philadelphia, PA) Mr. Charlie – Pigpen (8.14.71 – Berkeley Community Theater • Berkeley, CA) Alligator – Pigpen (5.5.67 – Fillmore Auditorium • San Francisco, CA)

Day 6 – Aoxomoxoa – 40-Year Anniversary

Radio Promo – Dupree’s Diamond Blues The Eleven – Aoxomoxoa Outtake Doin’ That Rag (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA) Cosmic Charlie (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA) Dupree’s Diamond Blues (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA) Mountains of the Moon (2.15.69 – Electric Factory • Philadelphia, PA) Radio Promo – What’s Become Of The Baby?

Day 7 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part I

Death Don’t Have No Mercy (Soundcheck; 7.2.95 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN) Dire Wolf (7.2.95 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN) New Speedway Boogie (2.19.91 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Day 8 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part II

He’s Gone (3.26.73 – Baltimore Civic Center • Baltimore, MD) Truckin’ (2.19.85 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center • Oakland, CA)

Day 9 – Songs That Have Taken on Different or Renewed Meaning – Part III

Black Peter (12.28.86 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center • Oakland, CA) Touch of Grey (12.15.86 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA) Candyman (12.15.86 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA)

Day 10 – Garcia: The Solo Album

Deal (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY) Bird Song (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY) Sugaree (10.17.83 – Olympic Center • Lake Placid, NY) Loser (12.30.78 – Pauley Pavilion, UCLA • Los Angeles, CA

Day 11 – On The Day That I Was Born

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (12.11.72 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 12 – Songs That Underwent Lyric Changes

Comes A Time (10.19.71 – Northrop Auditorium, Univ. of Minnesota • Minneapolis, MN) They Love Each Other (2.9.73 – Roscoe Maples Pavilion, Stanford Univ. • Palo Alto, CA) Wave That Flag (2.9.73 – Roscoe Maples Pavilion, Stanford Univ. • Palo Alto, CA)

Day 13 – Friday The 13th Edition: The Bermuda Triangle, Seastones, Hunter’s Birthday and Watergate

Seastones > Jam > Ship of Fools (6.23.74 – Jai-Alai Fronton • Miami, FL)

Day 14 – The Europe ’72 Cousins

Tennessee Jed (6.4.78 – Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara • Goleta, CA) Brown-Eyed Women (6.4.78 – Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara • Goleta, CA) Ramble On Rose (12.30.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 15 – Acoustic Sunday

It Must Have Been The Roses (10.31.80 – Radio City Music Hall • New York, NY) Attics of My Life (9.24.94 – Phil Lesh and Friends; Berkeley Community Theatre • Berkeley, CA)

Day 16 – Keep Your Workingman’s Job: Monday Morning Edition

Cumberland Blues (8.3.82 – Starlight Theater • Kansas City, MO) (Keep Your) Day Job (8.28.82 – Oregon County Fair • Veneta, OR) Easy Wind (9.20.70 – Fillmore East • New York, NY)

Day 17 – Lyrics About Specific Events

Casey Jones (10.28.77 – Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall • Kansas City, KS) Might As Well (10.29.77 – Evan Field House, Northern Illinois University • Dekalb, IL) Here Comes Sunshine (2.23.74 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 18 – Another Musical Renaissance: 1973

Eyes of the World > China Doll (10.29.73 – Kiel Auditorium • St. Louis, MO)

Day 19 – First Set Delights

Row Jimmy (6.21.89 – Shoreline Amphitheatre • Mountain View, CA) Althea (7.19.89 – Alpine Valley Music Theatre • East Troy, WI) West L.A. Fadeaway (7.19.89 – Alpine Valley Music Theatre • East Troy, WI) High Time (6.19.76 – Capitol Theater • Passaic, NJ) Stagger Lee (10.18.78 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 20 – JGB Songs Covered by the Grateful Dead

Reuben And Cerise (6.9.91 – Buckeye Lake Music Center • Hebron, OH) Mission in the Rain (6.10.76 – Boston Music Hall • Boston, MA)

Day 21 – The Three-Part Suite: A Spiritual Journey Towards Enlightenment

Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (4.23.77 – Springfield Civic Center • Springfield, MA)

Day 22 – The Last Hunter-Weir Collaboration(?)

Sugar Magnolia (2.18.71 – Capitol Theater • Port Chester, NY)

Day 23 – A Marriage Made In Heaven

Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain (4.23.77 – Springfield Civic Center • Springfield, MA) Fire on the Mountain – proto-rap version (Unreleased Mickey Hart solo album – 1973)

Day 24 – Something New Is Waiting To Be Born

Crazy Fingers (9.30.76 – Auditorium, Ohio State University • Columbus, OH)

Day 25 – “The Song” – Come Hear Uncle John’s Band

Uncle John’s Band (3.19.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 26 – Disco Dead

Shakedown Street (3.28.81 – Gruga Halle • Essen, West Germany)

Day 27 – 30-Year Anniversary of Built To Last: The Final Studio Album

Standing On The Moon (6.7.91 – Deer Creek Music Center • Noblesville, IN) Built To Last (5.7.89 – Frost Amphitheater, Stanford University • Palo Alto, CA) Foolish Heart (8.13.91 – Cal Expo Amphitheatre • Sacramento, CA)

Day 28 – 1979 Flashback: Farewell to the Godchaux’s & Wolf / Welcome Brent & Tiger

The Wheel (2.17.79 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA) …Shakedown Street>Jam (Soundcheck – 4.21.79 – Spartan Stadium – San Jose, CA) China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (10.28.79 – Cape Cod Coliseum • South Yarmouth, MA)

Day 29 – Rare & Different Tunes

Mason’s Children (12.28.69 – Miami Pop Festival, International Speedway – Hollywood, FL) Till The Morning Comes (10.31.70 – SUNY-Stony Brook – Stony Brook, NY) Clementine (1.23.68 – Eagles Auditorium – Seattle, WA) Rosemary (12.7.68 – Bellarmine College – Louisville, KY) What’s Become Of The Baby? (1969 – Aoxomoxoa Outtakes) Hunter’s Stage Banter about The Barbed Wire Whipping Party (Robert Hunter Solo Acoustic – 6.11.03 – Museum of History & Industry) The Barbed Wire Whipping Party (1969 – Aoxomoxoa Outtakes) Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (9.11.73 – William & Mary College Hall – Williamsburg, VA) France (1.8.78 – Shakedown Street Rehearsal) If I Had The World To Give (8.30.78 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO) Believe It Or Not (7.17.88 – Greek Theatre, University of California – Berkeley, CA)

Day 30 – Let My Inspiration Flow…Again

Terrapin Station (3.18.77 – Winterland Arena • San Francisco, CA)

Day 31 – Gave The Best We Had To Give: The Last Masterpieces

So Many Roads (9.18.94 – Shoreline Amphitheater • Mountain View, CA) The Days Between (12.11.94 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum • Oakland, CA) Black Muddy River (7.9.95 – Soldier Field • Chicago, IL) And We Bid You Goodnight (9.20.70 – Fillmore East – New York, NY)

Zipped File Links: Tracks 1-21: http://www.mediafire.com/file/7qpx85c0jtmc4hp/1-21.zip/file Tracks 22-43: http://www.mediafire.com/file/g3d7hdgu3fci7xs/22-43.zip/file Tracks 44-63: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rysfp119hvhhig0/44-63.zip/file Tracks 64-86: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fwkd20088ohu5sr/64-86.zip/file Phantasy Tour Link: https://www.phantasytour.com/bands/phish/threads/4580717/gd-2019-unofficial-31-days-of-dead#page/1 Link to “Official 30 Days of Dead” with track listing 2010 – present: https://www.whitegum.com/livedate/30days.htm