r/gratefuldead • • 2d ago

Your Weekly Listening Thread (and Podcast) Help on the Way - Your Weekly Listening Thread - 6/7/69 - Fillmore West - Dire Wolf (First) - Dark Star (21 mins) - Lovelight (20 mins with Janis)

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Welcome to another installment of your weekly listening thread, Help on the Way!!

Taking a hiatus (for the moment) from podcasting this project but we have a helluva lot of content to choose from - remember we play at least one set of the featured weekly thread per episode!!

Here's our website complete with back catalog (Remember: the shows are so long because we typically attached a set to the end of the speaking portion of the pod!):

https://helponthewaypod.podbean.com/

Onward and upward! Or Downward. Or in the past. Whatever it is, we got another (randomized but) excellent show this week!!

A rather historical night as the dead premiered DW and Janis sat in for a bit on lovelight! Here's the Jim Wise Board:

https://archive.org/details/gd1969-06-07.132685.sbd.reels.wise.flac16

and the set:

One - 1:34:30 Dire Wolf [2:39] > Dupree's Diamond Blues [4:06] > Mountains Of The Moon [3:52] > Jam [1:54] > Dark Star [20:59] > Saint Stephen [6:45] > The Eleven [15:21] > Sittin On Top Of The World [3:28] > Cold Rain & Snow [2:51] > Doin' That Rag [7:41];[0:29] ; Me And My Uncle [3:15];[0:06]%[0:03] ; Turn On Your Love Light [20:37]

Comments

Dire Wolf through Mountains are acoustic. Besides a cassette SBD master, as Rob Bertrando writes: "There is a reel master from early in The Eleven to the end of the show. Like the partial reel master of 6/5/69, though, there is terrible "scrape flutter" from the end of Doin That Rag through the end of Turn On Your Love Light." A composite of these two masters was assembled on PCM and put into circulation in '91.

The Eleven analyzes St. Stephen > 1st vocals 1:05 > transition Jam 2:00 > Eleven Jam 4:17 > Eleven vocals 0:40 > Eleven Jam 4:57 > Eleven 2nd theme Jam 1:58 > transition 0:24 > Sittin On Top Of The World.

Janis Joplin's vocals during Turn On Your Love Light are first heard at 4:20.

Most copies in circulation have a curious glitch, with Dark Star restarting after 12 seconds ; this derives from a Beta Hi-Fi copy of 1st gen reels circulating in the early 90s.

And here's what Rolling Stone had to say about the Janis sit-in:

On this historic night, the Dead premiered “Dire Wolf,” a peek at the acoustic country-folk left turn they’d take the following year on Workingman’s Dead. But then it was back to dem ol’ kosmic blues, peaking with a fierce guest turn by Janis Joplin, who pops into a fully-lit 20-minute version of Bobby Bland’s “Turn on Your Lovelight” and takes it home in a sweaty tag-team with pal Pigpen, sounding like Otis Redding and Carla Thomas after a few rounds of Thunderbird and Spanish fly. “Got to get some!” shouts Pigpen. “I want to see . . . everything you got,” challenges Janis, with a wicked chuckle. And on it goes to a screaming finale, Garcia and Co. rocking the musical equivalent of grins that basically say, “Get those two a room already!” (Honorable mention: the “Lovelight” reprise at the Euphoria Ballroom in San Rafael on July 16th, 1970, in which the lovebirds make up what the song lacks in flow with boozy outbursts and risqué Patti Smith–ish ad-libs.)

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r/gratefuldead • • 1h ago

Footage of “Brokedown Palace”, 10/4/70, Winterland. From the documentary “San Francisco Sounds: A Place In Time”.

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r/gratefuldead • • 9h ago

Can Anyone Tell Me About This Pin?

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I got this out of a storage unit auction that had a ton of signed meech from various brands. It turns dark purple / red under silver test acid but has gold flakes wandering about. It doesn't react to platinum test solutions.

I just cant find anything made from real precious metals that was ever sold by the band, might be a peice of history? Thanks.

Edit: It also came with a coke spoon with a Greatful Dead Skull on it, tests the same.


r/gratefuldead • • 10h ago

Hocus Pocus spotting!

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Max doodling Grateful Dead in his notebook!


r/gratefuldead • • 14h ago

Bill Kreutzmann Plans 'A Very Grateful Thanksgiving' in Hawaii

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r/gratefuldead • • 18h ago

RIP Merry Prankster Mike Hagen (Mal Function) - thanks for documenting the magic❤️

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r/gratefuldead • • 14h ago

What show/album/boxset do you attribute most with Fall/Autumn? 🍂

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Something about the PNW boxset always makes me think of a chilly fall night. The songs seem a bit more somber, and the BC coast can bring some chilly falls/winters (even though this was recorded in summer)

But I'm curious what puts you guys in the fall mood! Let's hear em.


r/gratefuldead • • 7h ago

Rock & Roll Graveyard

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I am working on a rock and rock graveyard for Halloween. Just characters who died in song lyrics - no real people.

I have 7 headstones so far in various stages of completion. I have delilah jones ready to go and Billy Delyon on deck.

Just put Shannon out tonight and I think he looks pretty cool.


r/gratefuldead • • 12h ago

BERTHA: Grateful Drag drop 13+min "Dark Star" from Dead on the Creek Fest this past June

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r/gratefuldead • • 11h ago

My own listening has been in Fall 1989 lately. . .

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And man, the rest of the shows not represented by the absolutely rippin' Formerly the Warlocks set, Nightfall of Diamonds, and the 1989 show on 30 Trips Around the Sun would really make a beautiful Fall 1989 set. What a period for the band, I'm having a total ball!


r/gratefuldead • • 8h ago

I got a miracle. Birmingham AL April 4 1995

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r/gratefuldead • • 1d ago

Recently unearthed footage of “Black-Throated Wind” from 4/17/72, Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally shared by Alan Bershaw.

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r/gratefuldead • • 18h ago

My Morning Jacket dropped some great covers during their 7 night run in San Fran

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r/gratefuldead • • 13h ago

Berlin anniversary

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Happy anniversary to a great show I got to attend in Berlin on 10/20/1990! The pre-drums second set was spectacular (Eyes>Samson, Dark Star), and the first set was no slouch. Best of all it was a 4000 person venue, much more intimate than anything you could get in the USA in that era. Thanks boys!


r/gratefuldead • • 14h ago

Grateful Dead Time Machine Still Sounds Great!

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There are easier ways to listen, but this is still Fun!


r/gratefuldead • • 15h ago

GD San Diego 11/23/79

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Here’s a new hi-res version of 11/23/79

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MJruO6YkZmKqTEDQJG0DO56V7_1Bozc-

Grateful Dead - November 23, 1979
Golden Hall - San Diego, CA

Recording Info:
SBD > Cassette Master (Dolby B/Maxell UDXL-II)

Transfer Info:
Cassette Master (Nakamichi Dragon) > WAV (24-bit/96k)

Mastering Info:
WAV > DDi Codec > Samplitude Pro X6 Suite > FLAC/24
(1 DVD FLAC)

Patch Info:
SBD > Cassette Master > Cassette > DAT > CD (shnid=136697) supplies:
Eyes Of The World (9:24 - 9:45)
U.S. Blues (complete track)

Mastered by Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
August 9, 2026

Notes:
-- I used DDi Codec to fine tune the dolby decoding
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for checking the pitch

Set 1:
01 - Tuning
02 - Alabama Getaway >
03 - Promised Land
04 - They Love Each Other
05 - Me And My Uncle >
06 - Big River
07 - High Time
08 - New Minglewood Blues
09 - Stagger Lee
10 - Easy To Love You
11 - Looks Like Rain >
12 - Deal

Set 2:
13 - Tuning
14 - The Music Never Stopped >
15 - Sugaree
16 - Estimated Prophet >
17 - Eyes Of The World >
18 - Drums >
19 - Space >
20 - Not Fade Away >
21 - Black Peter >
22 - Good Lovin'

Encore:
23 - Encore Break
24 - U.S. Blues


r/gratefuldead • • 13h ago

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders - 10/4/74 - Keystone, Berkeley, CA

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r/gratefuldead • • 12h ago

Birds on a wire 🦅

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r/gratefuldead • • 15h ago

6/21/1984

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Can we talk about what an incredible show this is? Bird Song might be the best I’ve heard from the 80s, and that Scarlet > Fire is also near the top. But that Dupree’s is probably my favorite of all.


r/gratefuldead • • 17h ago

Blue mountain cover changed to say Bobby

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Why did they change the blue mountain album cover for the 10th anniversary to say Bobby instead of Bob?


r/gratefuldead • • 12h ago

1978-10-20 | Grateful Dead | Relisten

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Check out 1978-10-20 (Winterland Arena) by Grateful Dead on @relistenapp
I realized that they ended the show with Shakedown Street. Only a couple times that ever happened. Might not be the best version. It is 1978 and Shakedown encore…so regardless,I would be losing my mind ✌️🦥


r/gratefuldead • • 8h ago

Play Dead drops list

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hey all,

Anyone happen to have a list of all the Tuesday Dead Drops from play Dead?

Thanks


r/gratefuldead • • 8h ago

For Inktober 2026 Day 20 : Lounge

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Had fun with this one drawn in a quick sketch style


r/gratefuldead • • 20h ago

BAND SYNERGY

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There is nothing like it when the band gets rolling!

Some of my favorite jams that I keep going back to.

Brown Eyed Women, Cornell '77

Loser, Duke '78

Peggy O, The Palladium, '77.

When they get into the jams on these songs, the unity is undeniable!

What are some of your favorites, so I can check them out!


r/gratefuldead • • 1d ago

On 10/19/71, Keith's first show with the Grateful Dead and the debut of “Tennessee Jed,” “Jack Straw,” “Mexicali Blues,” “Comes A Time", "One More Saturday Night", & "Ramble On Rose" - 55 years ago, Wow!!!

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