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Your host for the evening FiG brings you one from early Spring 1990 in Hamilton ON. Aftewards, a discussion about tape/show trading before archive.org   No set is attached to the podcast, so please go to the following link to check it out: https://old.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1w3xhp4/help_on_the_way_your_weekly_listening_thread/

Join your cohosts FiG and Knob as they Go to Nassau in this extraordinary 1992 show! Along the way they'll be discussing the days between, the first summer after Bobby, NPR, and a huge shout for friend of the pod Mike from Guess the Year    Here's the set:   One Greatest Story Ever Told ; Bertha ; Walkin' Blues ; Stagger Lee ; Beat It On Down The Line ; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ; Tennessee Jed ; The Promised Land Two Saint Of Circumstance ; Ship Of Fools > Corrina > Playing Reprise > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia Encore It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Your host for the evening FiG brings you an interesting set plagued by technical issues but historic nonetheless as later that night the Dead would go on to be 🎵busted down on bourbon street🎵 .  No set is attached to the podcast, so please go to the following link to check it out: https://old.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1v1jxd4/help_on_the_way_your_weekly_listening_thread/

Join your hosts FiG and Knob as we explore 6/30/85 over in Columbia, MD.  Along the way we'll discuss some GD X MLB collabs and Bobby and the Midnights (now on streaming services!)  Here's the set: One Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > C C Rider > Brown Eyed Women ; Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues ; Keep On Growing ; Big Railroad Blues ; Looks Like Rain > Don't Ease Me In Two Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah ; Gimme Some Lovin' > He's Gone > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia Encore U.S. Blues

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 > Brown Eyed Women ; Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues ; Keep On Growing ; Big Railroad Blues ; Looks Like Rain > Don't Ease Me In Two Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah ; Gimme Some Lovin' > He's Gone > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia Encore U.S. Blues

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] > Big River [6:25] ; Candyman [6:56] ; Jack Straw [5:34] ; Deal [6:26] Two Jam (1) [3:21] > Eyes Of The World [14:32] > Samson And Delilah [7:47] ; It Must Have Been The Roses [7:01] ; Estimated Prophet [10:55] > He's Gone [11:30] > Drums [2:55] > The Other One [12:27] > Black Peter [11:30] > Sugar Magnolia [9:53] Encore One More Saturday Night [4:42] Comments (1) Phil Jam

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 ; High Time (1) ; If The Shoe Fits ; Lazy River Road ; Easy Answers ; Deal Two Eyes Of The World ; Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Samba In The Rain > He's Gone > Drums (2) > Space > China Doll > Sugar Magnolia Encore Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Comments (1) acoustic Bob (2) with Jerry   JerryBase Page

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://archive.org/details/gd1985-03-09.176199.sbd1.donaldson.miller.flac2496   And the set:   Set I Bertha > One More Saturday Night > Sugaree It's All Over Now Row Jimmy Let It Grow Set II China Cat Sunflower > Cumberland Blues > I Need A Miracle > Eyes Of The World > Drums > * Space > * The Other One > * The Wheel > Sugar Magnolia Encore: It's All Over Now Baby Blue *= with merle saunders on organ JerryBase Page

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 > Truckin' > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Throwing Stones > Turn On Your Love Light Encore     Box Of Rain

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 Prophet [12:34] > Eyes Of The World [15:08] > Playing In The Band [25:31] > The Wheel [5:20] > Playing In The Band [9:10] Encore     Johnny B. Goode [4:15]

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 > Space > All Along The Watchtower > Black Peter > Around And Around Encore Box Of Rain

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 Smart (Woman Smarter) ; Candyman ; Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Black Peter > I Need A Miracle > Good Lovin' Encore Don't Ease Me In [2:53]

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] > Slipknot! [10:23] > Franklin's Tower [14:10] ; Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [6:44] ; He's Gone [12:56] > Drums > Space [12:21] > Truckin' [7:56] > Black Peter [9:15] > Not Fade Away [7:53] Encore Revolution [5:05]

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 Blues [5:26] ; Bertha [7:18] Two       Samson And Delilah [6:57] ; High Time [7:26] ; Big River [6:26] ; Terrapin Station [10:27] > Estimated Prophet [8:37] > Eyes Of The World [11:48] > Drums [0:38] > Not Fade Away [16:44] > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [8:27] > Around And Around [7:19   Encore   UJB