Help on the Way

FiG here coming atcha with another HOTW Minisode!  Lots of Reddit chatter about this one so would be remiss not to highlight all the fun!   Here's the link to the Reddit thread where you can find the archive link!     https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1uie4bm/help_on_the_way_your_weekly_listening_thread/   and the set:    One Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > C C Rider > B...

FiG coming atcha with another mini-sode to highlight 7/30/83 -- you can find more info on the show here! https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1u6h09h/help_on_the_way_your_weekly_listening_thread/    

...and take another step back in time to this excellent show from the promised land of 77. Your hosts FiG and Knob discuss some GD news and updates and of course walk you through the weekly show, which Dick chose as his 34th  pick. Here's the  set:    One New Minglewood Blues [4:58] ; Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [11:38] ; Looks Like Rain [7:22] ; Dire Wolf [3:32] ; Mama Tried [2:24] >...

Another HOTW MiniSode, this time from Landover, MD in October 1994.  Not one of their bests but some interesting stuff (last China Doll, I beleive -- also Jerry on Drums) and we get a JWG3 reaction post so I'm gonna talk about it on the pod!     Here's the board: https://archive.org/details/gd1994-10-11.sbd.miller.34564.sbeok.flac16   And the set: One Picasso Moon ; Jack-A-Roe ; It's All Over Now...

More on this format change!!  In between episodes where more than one of us can chat about a show, we're gonna feature mini episodes which discuss very briefly the weekly Reddit thread (including comments from all ya'll lovely people) and then give a link to the archive where you can access the show.    This one comes to us from Spring 85, a Rex Benefit show that can be accessed here:   https://ar...

And we're back! As your hosts for the evening catch up, introduce a format change to the pod, and bring you they're discussions of a Spring '89 heater from Milwaukee!  Here's the set: One        Hell In A Bucket > They Love Each Other ; Little Red Rooster ; Stagger Lee ; Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues ; Bird Song Two        Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain ; Saint Of Circumstance >...

In a quick one here your host FiG discuss an early 78 show. Enjoy!   One       Cold Rain And Snow [5:43] ; Mexicali Blues [3:30] > Big River [5:55] ; They Love Each Other [7:02] ; Looks Like Rain [7:41] ; Loser [7:21] ; Passenger [4:33] ; Brown Eyed Women [5:05] ; El Paso [4:10] ; Peggy-O [6:28] ; The Music Never Stopped [7:40]   Two        Good Lovin' [5:56] ; Ship Of Fools [7:34] ; Estimated...

Welcome back to another episode of the Help on the way podcast! Lots of negging on this random show from 1995 but your host FiG rather liked it! What say you all?    One - [1:01:00] Jack Straw ; Peggy-O ; Wang Dang Doodle ; Row Jimmy ; When I Paint My Masterpiece (1) ; Brown Eyed Women ; Let It Grow Two - [1:24:00] Samson And Delilah ; Way To Go Home ; Crazy Fingers > Corrina > Drums > Sp...

Join your host FiG for some BBQ and Good ole Grateful Dead as the band takes on Kansas City, MO, 7/7/81!  Here's the set: One New Minglewood Blues [6:22] > Bertha [5:23] > Dancing In The Street [8:10]; Big Railroad Blues [4:10] > El Paso [5:07] ; To Lay Me Down [8:37] ; Lazy Lightnin' [3:24] > Supplication [6:32] ; Bird Song [8:44] > Looks Like Rain [8:06] > Deal [6:04] Two Man S...

Join your host FiG on a (northbound) train headed to midtown Manhattan on what was undoubtedly a cold, rainy night in 83!    Cold Rain And Snow [6:43] ; New Minglewood Blues [9:15] ; Ramble On Rose [6:55] ; My Brother Esau [4:50] ; It Must Have Been The Roses [5:30] ; Cassidy [6:09] > Cumberland Blues [9:35] ; Looks Like Rain [8:29] > Might As Well [4:24] Two Help On The Way [3:15] > Slip...

It's May 77, it's Baltimore MD and it's ... Not a sell out?? FiG takes you back to the past to enjoy one from the Golden age and ponders whether the music can ever be too perfect? One      The Music Never Stopped [7:03] ; Sugaree [15:15] ; Mama Tried [2:35] ; Sunrise [3:36] ; Deal [5:07] ; Passenger [3:10] ; Brown Eyed Women [5:32] ; Looks Like Rain [8:32] ; Jack-A-Roe [5:28] ; New Minglewood Blue...

One Playing In The Band ; Bertha ; Mama Tried ; Mexicali Blues ; Ramble On Rose ; Little Red Rooster ; Bird Song Two     The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [4:17] ; Dancing In The Street [7:00] > Black Muddy River [5:41] > Playing In The Band Jam [3:54] > I Need A Miracle [5:19] > Drums [8:54#] > Space [6:03] > Truckin' [5:49] > Smokestack Lightnin' [3:35] > Comes A Time [...

Join your host FiG as he discusses another excellent show in GD history, this time from the very day the Steal Your Face album was released!    One The Promised Land [3:59];[1:17] ; Sugaree [9:27] % Cassidy [4:12] % Row Jimmy [9:48] % Mama Tried [2:43] % Tennessee Jed [8:53] % Looks Like Rain [7:41] % Scarlet Begonias % Lazy Lightnin' [2:54] > Supplication [4:39];[1:33] ; Peggy-O [7:53] ; The M...

In which FiG let's us know his thoughts on this one from juuuust before Jerry's coma    One Feel Like A Stranger ; Friend Of The Devil ; Mama Tried ; Big River ; Loser ; Cassidy ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; Let It Grow Two Bertha ; Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ; Ship Of Fools ; Smokestack Lightnin' ; He's Gone ; Drums ; Space ; I Need A Miracle ; Stella Blue ; Good Lovin' Encore The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The...

We're headed to to bean town with your hot FiG. Will this one make his book of the dead? The length of the pod indicates yes! Here's the(excellent) set    One Good Times ; Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; El Paso (1) ; Lazy River Road ; Eternity > Don't Ease Me In Two Victim Or The Crime > Foolish Heart ; Looks Like Rain ; Samba In The Rain > Jam > Drums >...

One Week after Bobby we're back featuring a heater from 1990 (VW's second ever show with the band). FiG takes the mic to tell you about the show and all of the eulogies and well wishes that have come pouring in over the past week.  Here's the set  One Hell In A Bucket [6:06] ~ Sugaree [10:09] ; New Minglewood Blues ; Friend Of The Devil ; Queen Jane Approximately ; Loser ; Cassidy > Deal Two Ey...

FiG and Knob bring you a sad but special episode as we remember the life and legacy of Grateful Dead guitarist and co-founder, Bob Weir. Along the way we'll be discussing our personal rememberances as well as those that have come pouring in since his passing Saturday.  Let It Grow ***   Also featuring the full show from 12/12/93 (which really rocks)!   Set 1 Cold Rain And Snow , Minglewood Blues ,...

And we're back! With a HOTW 4-fer to catch-up on the shows we missed during the busy holiday season.    Come for the fig pod, stay for the full 10/21/78 post Egypt glory!   Happy new year y'all!!

And we're back with another one -- this time from 1980.  It's Black Friday, its 1980, and you just bought a Rubik's cube (the toy of the year for 1980) and headed to a small town between Orlando and Tampa to see the Dead! Here how it sounds on this AUD!  Here's the setlist:   One Jack Straw [5:24] ; Peggy-O [6:30] ; Little Red Rooster [9:17] ; Tennessee Jed [8:33] ; Passenger [4:55] ; Deep Elem Bl...

It's a bird, it's a plane it's a . . . FiGpod!  Enjoy this one from 4/9/82 where Bobby kind of forgets where he is.  Along the way FiG will discuss additional remembrances for Donna Jean and will give an update on the big Archive fundraiser, URL below:   https://donate.archive.org/team/776830   Here's the set (we'll be featuring set 1):   One Alabama Getaway [4:41] > Greatest Story Ever Told [3...

A sad week on the pod as your hosts FiG and Knob remember the life and legacy of Donna Jean Godchaux, who was an official member of the band from 1972 to 1979 and whose work made an indelible impact. Along the way way we'll get an update on the fundraiser for the Archive and read some reddit comments about this week's show, 11/14/71, the first set of which follows our discussion.    Here's the set...

I fell in love with a show from 73! Hear your hosts FiG and Game talk about this excellent show! Conversations abound about Bobby's birthday (and Johnny's), as well as an update to the subreddit's Archive.org fundraiser     Here's the set (we feature set 1):   One Bertha ; Mexicali Blues ; Deal ; Looks Like Rain ; Don't Ease Me In ; The Race Is On ; Loser ; Jack Straw ; China Cat Sunflower > I...

We're back for the second (?) European tour of 1981!  Your hosts Game and FiG will talk about this smoker of a show (including the last ever set 2 Sugaree) and wrap up the West LA Giveaway as well as introduce a new fundraising effort to help the Archive!  https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1o5tepa/lets_donate_to_archiveorg/   Here's the set:   Set 1: Shakedown Street > Bertha >...

The Brent-era Boys are simply having a wonderful Christmas time in 1981 on home turf!  For a review, join your hosts for the evening TheGame and FiG. Along the way conversations abound about a new fundraiser for the Archive that FiGs been kicking around.  If you can and would like to donate here's the link! https://donate.archive.org/fundraiser/6730391 And here's the set:    One New Minglewood Blu...

Let's All Get Yacco'd as the Dead hit up the Stabler Arena in Christmas City, USA - Bethlehem, PA!  Here's the set (unfortunately Tons of Steel was still in Brent's beautiful brain):   One     New Minglewood Blues [6:42] ; Friend Of The Devil [9:02] > El Paso [4:55] ;Peggy-O [6:37] > Little Red Rooster [8:02] ; Bird Song [10:15] > Beat It On Down The Line [2:59] ; Cumberland Blues [4:54]...