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Dead Drops Tuesday takes a slight detour from Spring Tour 1992 for a newly remastered gem from 1973! ⚡ Stream the official masters of 9/17/73 and 3/1/92 in Hi-Res now, only on Play Dead. Two eras, two incredible shows, and that timeless Grateful Dead magic. Enjoy! #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

The Vault is open, and now streaming in Hi-Res is 3/6/92 💀 It's night two in Hampton, and the band is just getting warmed up. Listen Here: live.gd/1992-03-06 Curated By: David Lemieux Recorded By: Dan Healy Tape Transfer: Sonicraft Mastering: David Glasser #PlayDead #GratefulDead #GDVault

Bobby Weir: Listen to The Thunder Shout 🔊 Listen to the complete playlist on Play Dead 🎧 #BobbyWeir #GratefulDead #GDVault

Bobby Birthday Drop 🎂 Now streaming are two sets of acoustic Grateful Dead from the Warfield on October 4th and 6th, 1980. Listen now in Hi-Res, and exclusively in the Play Dead app 🎧 live.gd/1980-10-04 #PlayDead #GratefulDead #GDVault

The final night at the Spectrum, and this one is a show from heaven. Three nights, one incredible crowd, and the band has saved something special for the finale. Don't miss a single note of the run closer, now streaming on Play Dead 🌹 Listen Here: live.gd/1985-04-08 #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Night two at the Spectrum, and the Philly faithful are ready for Phil to sing! Listen Here: live.gd/1985-04-07 #PlayDead #GratefulDead #GDVault

The Philadelphia Spectrum, one of the great East Coast rooms, where the faithful bring enough energy to launch this three-night run into orbit. Taking a deeper look into night one, streaming in Hi-Res for the first time only on Play Dead ⚡️ Listen Here: live.gd/1985-04-06 #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Tuesday Dead Drops brings us three nights at the Spectrum during Spring Tour 1985, and the Philly faithful are bringing everything they've got. Curated by David Lemieux and mastered by David Glasser, enjoy the latest official releases to hit the app in Hi-Res 💀 playdead.app #PlayDead #GratefulDead

September brought in ten new Dead Drops releases to Play Dead, streaming in Hi-Res for the first time exclusively in the App. Listen to the entire batch at playdead.app 💀

More Primal Dead just dropped ⚡️ Now available in Hi-Res is the final Download Series release, featuring the full show from 4/17/69 at Washington University Quad, in St. Louis 🎧 live.gd/1969-04-17 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

A couple hundred miles south on I-95 and we’re in Providence, a city that needs no introduction to the Grateful Dead. Put the band inside the Civic Center and you’ve got an immediate party. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-04-03 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

It’s April Fools’ Day in Maine, and the final night at the Cumberland County Civic Center might just be the best of the run. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-04-01 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

Ride, ride, ride, at least I’m enjoying the ride! Two more shows from the Spring of '85 are now available ⚡️ Stream the official Hi-Res masters exclusively on Play Dead, or unlock the vault at playdead.app #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

Out today on Play Dead: Dave's Picks Vol. 59 🐻 Stream the official release from 9/26/91 at Boston Garden now, in Hi-Res, and only on Play Dead 🎧➡️ live.gd/1991-09-26 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

Next stop, Maine—Deadhead central—and about 9,500 faithfuls are packed into the Cumberland County Civic Center for another night that gets knocked out of the park. Stream our first Dead Drops release from The Pine Tree State now 🌲 Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-31 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

Spring Tour 1985 continues, and we’re finishing this two-night Springfield run with a smashing success. Enjoy the show anytime in Hi-Res only on Play Dead ⚡️ Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-25 #GratefulDead #GDVault #PlayDead

It’s another Tuesday Dead Drops “But I can’t stop for nothing, I’m just playing in the band…” This week Lemeiux brings us the second of two nights of the '85 Springfield Civic Center run, and the Dead's stop in Portland, ME six days after. 🎧 ➡️ playdead.app

Now available to stream in Hi-Res for the first time, the Grateful Dead's 'Download Series Vol. 11' featuring the complete show on June 20th, 1991 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI - supplemented by songs from the previous night's show at the same venue. 🎧 ➡️ live.gd/1991-06-20 #GDVault

"North, Miss Teschmacher, North" After a travel day, Spring Tour lands at the Springfield Civic Center, where 8,000 lucky fans are waiting for the first of another two-night run. Stream the complete show exclusively on Play Dead. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-24 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

The journey continues as Spring Tour 1985 is officially underway, and we’ve got one more stop aboard the Spaceship before heading north. Twenty years in, and so far, so great. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-22 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Tuesday Dead Drops keeps rocking through Spring Tour 1985 ⚡️ Curated by David Lemieux and mastered by David Glasser, listen to 3/22/85 in Hampton and 3/24/85 from Springfield now, in Hi-Res, and only on Play Dead. #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

The next volume of the Grateful Dead's Download Series is now available to stream in Hi-Res for the first time! Listen to July 21st, 1972 from Seattle's Paramount Northwest Theater in the Play Dead app ➡️ live.gd/1972-07-21

Seven days later we’re on the East Coast and Spring Tour 1985 is underway at one of our favorite spots, the Hampton Coliseum, a bona fide transport mechanism. By 1985, this place was a well-oiled machine. The first of two nights at The Mothership is now available in the app. 🎧: live.gd/1985-03-21

Dead Drops finishes an incredible four-night Rex Foundation run at the cozy Berkeley Community Theater, and the band has a few friends along for the ride. Check out guest appearances and the final performance of Ollin Arageed with the original composer Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-13

Tuesday Dead Drops finishes the Rex Foundation run in Berkeley before jumping seven days and 3,000 miles east to launch Spring Tour inside the Hampton Coliseum spaceship. Enjoy both shows from March of '85 in Hi-Res only on Play Dead ⚡️ #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

The Grateful Dead’s Download Series Vol. 9 is now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time! ⚡️🌹 Turn it up in the app ➡️ live.gd/1989-04-02 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Fresh off a day off, the band is back in Berkeley with two shows remaining in the run. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-12 Curated By: Dave Lemieux Recorded By: Dan Healy Tape Transfer By: David Glasser Mastered By: David Glasser Master Sample Rate: 24-bit/96 kHz Source Media: TDK F1 Digi Beta

The Rex Foundation festivities continue in Berkeley, with night two of this run bringing another one of those wonderfully unpredictable 1985 set lists. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-10 Curated By: Dave Lemieux Recorded By: Dan Healy Tape Transfer By: David Glasser Mastered By: David Glasser

Tuesday Dead Drops continues the Rex Foundation festivities in Berkeley 🌹 Complimenting the 3/9/85 Drop, both 3/10 & 3/12 are newly mastered and now streaming in Hi-Res at playdead.app #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway 🐾 It has never sounded so good. Listen now in the app: playdead.app #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

The Grateful Dead always played well when honoring Rex Jackson, especially in an intimate hometown room like the Berkeley Community Theater where the band could take chances—and 1985 is all about taking chances. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-03-09

The opening run of 1985 comes to a close at the Kaiser, and the band continues to remind everyone why this year is going to be different. The song selection is unpredictable, the combinations are unusual, and the transitions keep coming. Listen Here: live.gd/1985-02-20

Closing out the '85 Kaiser run and our first Rex Foundation Benefit show in Berkeley for this week's Dead Drops Tuesday. Listen to the newly mastered releases only on Play Dead ⚡️ #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

More 1973 Grateful Dead is now available in Hi-Res for the first time! 💿 Listen to Download Series Vol. 8, featuring the majority of the show on 12/10/73 in Charlotte, NC with a 20+ minute "Playing In The Band" and the live debut of "Peggy-O." Tune in on Play Dead --> live.gd/1973-12-10

1985 starts right here. David Lemieux picked out two stellar Bay Area shows for this week's Dead Drops, fresh from the Vault. Up first is the opening night of the year, starting hot right out of the gates 🔥 Listen Here: live.gd/1985-02-18 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Tuesday Dead Drops celebrates Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Grateful Dead's 20th year with two wild nights at the Kaiser in '85 🐲⚡️ Curated by David Lemieux and mastered by David Glasser, stream both performances from Oakland, CA in Hi-Res, only on Play Dead. #GDVault #PlayDead

Another burner at The Spectrum in Philadelphia during an incredible Fall ’87. It's night two of the run, and the band wastes no time. Fresh from the Vault, September 23rd, 1987 is now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, only on Play Dead. Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-23

Another burner at The Spectrum in Philadelphia during an incredible Fall ’87. It's night two of the run, and the band wastes no time. Fresh from the Vault, September 23rd, 1987 is now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, only on Play Dead. Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-23

Download Series Vol. 7 is now available to stream for the first time in Hi-Res on Play Dead 💀 Recorded over two nights in New England on September 3rd and 4th, 1980, the release contains almost four hours of music from Springfield, MA and Providence, RI. 🎧 Listen now: live.gd/1980-09-03

The Philly faithful, much like New York, always brought energy, and the band knew exactly what to do with it. Our first listen to the Grateful Dead at the Spectrum - one of the great East Coast Grateful Dead rooms, is now available in Hi-Res on Play Dead ⚡️ Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-22

Dead Drops Tuesday visits The Spectrum for the first time, and what better year than 1987? Listen to 9/22 and 9/23 only on Play Dead, newly remastered from the the original cassettes ▶️ playdead.app

The cherry on top of five incredible nights at Madison Square Garden rounds out this week's Grateful Dead Dead Drops. 🗽 Newly mastered from the original cassettes, stream the show in Hi-Res now exclusively on Play Dead 💀 Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-20 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, the Grateful Dead's 3/17/1968 show at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco ⚡️ Originally released as Download Series Volume 6, listen to seven tracks from this historic night now in the Play Dead app live.gd/1968-03-17

Spring Tour '86 West and we're diving in to the opening night of the run at Irvine Meadows, a venue the Grateful Dead made home for 15 shows throughout their career. Newly mastered from the original cassettes, enjoy the first Dead Drops Tuesday release in the app ⚡️ Listen Here: live.gd/1986-04-12

Two different coasts, one hot band 🔥 Opening up the '86 West Coast run and closing out the '87 MSG run, listen to both shows, fresh from the Vault, only at playdead.app #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, the Grateful Dead's Download Series Vol. 5 ⚡️Listen to the 22-song release from 3/27/88 at Hampton Coliseum, exclusively on Play Dead. live.gd/1988-03-27 🎧 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

By Night Four, once again Madison Square Garden feels like home, and finds the band complete settled in. The exchange between the band and the New York faithful is just exactly perfect. Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-19 Recorded By: Dan Healy Tape Transfer By: Sonicraft Mastered By: David Glasser

Dead Drops heads back to Madison Square Garden for two highlights from the legendary September 1987 run. Newly mastered from the original DATS, stream the Hi-Res releases now on playdead.app 💀 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

We're back at Madison Square Garden, and it's 1987. The first Dead Drop of the week comes from night one of the storied five-night run, and from the opening notes it's obvious they're ready to make another Garden run memorable. Listen Here: live.gd/1987-09-15 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead

Now streaming in Hi-Res for the first time, the Grateful Dead's Download Series Vol. 4 is available to listen to on Play Dead 💀 Stream it now at live.gd/1976-06-18 #GDVault #PlayDead #GratefulDead