[Shaggy]

For listening and learning look no further than off Blues For Allah, it's neat and clinical and sounds great. Easier to follow than the live stuff from a listening point of view because of the clarity.

[Rev_Roach]

no problem swain, hope it helps! i would hope you have Blues For Allah. I'm not much of an album listener either but its definitely one of the ones i like better, probably number 2 behind American Beauty (tho the latter self titled is up there as well).

[chinacat503]

Tigerstrat - good call on the 9/24/76 version...that is a wicked 'slipnot!' wow! And talk about crazy timing for this discussion - "Taper's Section" just added this version to the current weeks listenings!

[Ozrichead]

I see some guys beat me to suggesting 5/9/77. It was actually one of the first, if not the first, show I heard. Help on the Way was also the first Dead song I learned to play on guitar.

Lately I've had lots of fun jamming to Phil Lesh & Friends versions of Help, they usually seem very tight and easy to follow along with.

[wisedyes]

First, another vote for 5/9/79 in Buffalo. A good later years version is the one from June 1991 at RFK Stadium in DC; plus, there is an astoundingly clean board version of that widely available. Very, very tight version.

Second, yes, it's CMaj7 after the A in the transitional section.

[Tennessee Jedi]

Everyone is different but I like the album for learning that tune.The riffs are real clear.
Keiths keys on live stuff made it harder to focus on the riffs I felt.
Also tried Without a Net version but found out I think that version blows.And it had just changed too much.
Another version I dont like is that 76 Cow Palace version.Drummer showed up with it at a band practice;we kind of played along w/it,but it really breaks down later on.
Spent the summer working on it.
Aint easy.
But fun.
Good luck!

[astroman99]

4-9-83

first eastcoast Help, in a long time, HUGE PHIL BOMB at the end of the slipknot Am jam that seques back into Slipknot riff.