Slipknot

Music: Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, K Godchaux

An instrumental nearly always forming the transition between Help On The Way and Franklin's Tower. It grew out of a jam that featured in 1974 performances of "Eyes Of The World" (thanks to Mike Scheier for pointing this out). The title may have come from a fragment of lyric that Hunter wrote for "Help On The Way" that was never used:

Beautiful lie
You can pray
You can pay
Till you're buried alive

Blackmailer blues
Everyone in the room
Owns a part of the noose
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig

Did someone say
Help on the way
Well, I know
Yeah, I do
That there's help on the way

Grateful Dead Recordings
	Date	Album
	studio 1975	Blues For Allah
	12 Aug 1975	Blues For Allah (50th Anniversary edition) (soundcheck/rehearsal)
	13 Aug 1975	One From The Vault
	28 Sep 1975	30 Trips Around The Sun
	10 Jun 1976	June 1976 Box Set
	14 Jun 1976	June 1976 Box Set
	17 Jun 1976	Dave's Picks Volume 28 (note 5)
	19 Jun 1976	June 1976 Box Set
	21 Jun 1976	Blues For Allah (50th Anniversary edition)
	24 Sep 1976	Dave's Picks Vol 4 (note 2)
	9 Oct 1976	Dick's Picks Vol 33
	31 Dec 1976	Live At The Cow Palace
	26 Feb 1977	Dave's Picks Volume 29
	9 May 1977	May 1977: Get Shown The Light Box
	22 May 1977	Dick's Picks Vol 3
	9 Jun 1977	Winterland June 1977 - The Complete Recordings
	11 Oct 1977	Road Trips Volume 1, Number 2
	26 Apr 1983	Dave's Picks Volume 39
	2 Sep 1983	Dave's Picks Volume 27
	11 Sep 1983	Dave's Picks Vol 52
	12 Oct 1983	In And Out Of The Garden
	1 Apr 1984	30 Days Of The Dead (2014)
	17 Apr 1984	30 Days Of The Dead (2018)
	21 Apr 1984	30 Days Of The Dead (2021)
	8 Oct 1989	Warlocks Box
	22 Oct 1989	30 Days Of The Dead (2017)
	24 Mar 1990	Spring 1990
	30 Mar 1990	Without A Net (note 1)
	18 Jul 1990	Dave's Picks Volume 40
	24 Mar 1991	30 Days Of The Dead (2016)
	5 May 1991	30 Days Of The Dead (2010)
	12 May 1991	Enjoying The Ride
	14 Jun 1991	View From The Vault II (video/DVD & CD soundtrack)
	10 Sep 1991	30 Trips Around The Sun
	25 Sep 1991	Dick's Picks Vol 17
	1 Oct 1994	30 Trips Around The Sun (note 6)
	3 Jul 2015	Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD)

Phil Lesh and Friends Recordings
	19 May 2006	Live At The Warfield

(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Dead & Company, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.)

Other Recordings
	Date	Album	Recorded By
	1996	Blues For Allah Project	Joe Gallant & Iluminati (note 3)
	1997	Jake's Leg	Jake's Leg
	1998	Blue Light Rain	Jazz Is Dead
	2001	Live At The Green Mill	Sabertooth
	2012	D'Eadphibians	D'Amphibiand
	27 Apr 2012	UMBowl at Park West, Chicago, IL	Umphrey's McGee (note 4)
	2015	Twangin' The Dead	Matt Rae
	17 Apr 2015	Live: Morrison, CO	Disco Biscuits (note 4)
	14 May 2015	Dear Jerry: Celebrating The Music Of Jerry Garcia	Billy & The Kids
	2016	Better Left Unsung	Holly Bowling
	2018	Garcia Songbook	Joe Craven & The Sometimers
	2019	Live At The Old Church	Holly Bowling
	31 Dec 2018	Rising Up To Paradise	Big Swell
	2025	WCK	Winderman, Colman and Kimock

Notes
(1) also on the box set Spring 1990
(2) also made available for download on 30 Days Of The Dead (2011)
(3) also released on "New York Downtown, Jazz and Other Sounds"
(4) The list above includes only one illustrative example of the series of live recordings by these artists. For a full list see the Grateful Dead Family Discography.
(5) also included in 30 Days Of The Dead (2012)
(6) also included in 30 Days Of The Dead (2022)

Further Information
For an online discussion of the lyrics to this song see the deadsongs.vue conference on The Well.
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography
For information on references in the lyrics see David Dodd's Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
For David Dodd's discussion of this song on dead.net see Greatest Stories Ever Told
For online chords and TAB see www.rukind.com
For details of every time played by the Grateful Dead, see Chris Edwards Grateful Sets site
For sheet music, see:
Without A Net Songbook (piano arrangement)