14 July 1984 at Berkeley's Greek Theater was my favorite performance of the Grateful Dead's "Help on the Way / Slipknot! / Franklin's Tower" suite. With the band ready for the second set, Bob Weir wasn't on stage yet, so Phil Lesh got the crowd to shout, "Come on, Weir!" as Jerry Garcia began the "Help on the Way" groove. Then at the end of "Slipknot!", Garcia pushed the register ever higher until the rhythm section suspended the beat and he spiralled back down to the song's primary riff. During "Franklin's Tower", the crowd roared when it began to rain and Garcia seemed to be calling it down from the clouds. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 19 August 2025)