Grateful Dead
Noteworthy Comes A Times

This is a collection of noteworthy versions of Comes A Time played by
the Grateful Dead. It is a revision of a collection originally
circulated on eTree in June, 2008.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=524623

The original collection was closely based on a list put together by
Eric Wybenga and published in his book _Dead To The Core: An Almanac
of the Grateful Dead_. This revised collection includes sources from
Eric's list that were omitted from the original collection because I
did not believe I should seed them at eTree. It also includes several
other versions of Comes A Time that were recommended in the
comments on the original collection, as well as versions that I
thought should be added. Remember, "noteworthy" does not mean
"best". In particular, I've included some versions just to illustrate
how the song sounds over the band's lifetime. I welcome your ideas
about what should be included or dropped from the collection. There
could easily be a version 3.

When Comes A Time was played as a stand-alone song, or when the links
between it and its neighbors were straightforward, I included it as a
standalong track. When it was played as part of a longer jam,
especially when a jam where there was no clear place where Comes A
Time started or stopped, or when the build to Comes A Time is firmly
embedded in the previous song, I have included longer jams.

The track names are self-explanatory: they list the date of the
performance, the SHNID of the source, and shortened names of the songs
included in the track. The music in these tracks is exactly the same
as the music from the source indicated by the SHNID. When necessary, I
joined the songs into jams using "shntool join", I snipped white space
from the end of the tracks and sometimes added fades using WaveLab
6.0, and then I compressed the files using "flac --best". I used
shntool version 3.0.9 and flac version 1.2.1.

If you have the first version of this collection, you should be able
to rename the old files (I'm using six digit SHNIDs now, so you'd just
add a '0' as the first character in the old SHNIDs) and then leech
this torrent into the old directory -- you should just get the changed
tracks.

Shared at LL, December 2009.


Contents:
gd71-10-19.003301.ComesATime.flac
gd71-10-30.026608.ComesATime.flac
gd71-12-04.100316.ComesATime.flac
gd72-07-26.087034.DarkStar-ComesATime.flac
gd72-10-19.004506.ComesATime.flac
gd76-06-12.100328.WharfRat-ComesATime.flac
gd77-05-04.091970.Playin-ComesATime-Playin.flac
gd77-05-09.008304.ComesATime.flac
gd78-05-16.008333.Space-ComesATime.flac
gd80-08-19.088172.Space-Playin-ComesATime-Playin.flac
gd80-10-02.002204.Drums-ComesATime-Sailor-Circumstance.flac
gd85-06-24.025315.Space-ComesATime-OtherOne-Cryptical-WharfRat-Around-GoodLovin.flac
gd85-09-07.033954.MrFantasy-HeyJude-MrFantasy-Truckin-ComesATime-Lovelight.flac
gd85-11-01.000379.HesGone-Spoonful-ComesATime-LostSailor.flac
gd86-06-20.081645.UncleJohn-Playin-ComesATime.flac
gd87-04-04.095721.Playin-ComesATime-HandJive.flac
gd90-12-27.008193.Estimated-ComesATime.flac
gd91-06-25.026350.Space-ComesATime-GoinDownTheRoad-GoodLovin.flac
gd91-09-16.100910.ComesATime-UncleJohn.flac


SHNTOOL LEN:
    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     7:25.70       78662684 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5483  gd71-10-19.003301.ComesATime.flac
     8:12.53       86913500 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4727  gd71-10-30.026608.ComesATime.flac
     7:31.05       79568204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6042  gd71-12-04.100316.ComesATime.flac
    37:49.72      400420988 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5197  gd72-07-26.087034.DarkStar-ComesATime.flac
     7:14.25       76616444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5365  gd72-10-19.004506.ComesATime.flac
    20:34.74      217851692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4825  gd76-06-12.100328.WharfRat-ComesATime.flac
    36:48.00      389491244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4614  gd77-05-04.091970.Playin-ComesATime-Playin.flac
    11:49.22      125119388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4099  gd77-05-09.008304.ComesATime.flac
    11:53.24      125829692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5561  gd78-05-16.008333.Space-ComesATime.flac
    25:50.67      273577628 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5712  gd80-08-19.088172.Space-Playin-ComesATime-Playin.flac
    28:37.43      302979980 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5040  gd80-10-02.002204.Drums-ComesATime-Sailor-Circumstance.flac
    40:35.34      429614012 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6740  gd85-06-24.025315.Space-ComesATime-OtherOne-Cryptical-WharfRat-Around-GoodLovin.flac
    24:42.47      261535388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5836  gd85-09-07.033954.MrFantasy-HeyJude-MrFantasy-Truckin-ComesATime-Lovelight.flac
    31:30.46      333504236 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5583  gd85-11-01.000379.HesGone-Spoonful-ComesATime-LostSailor.flac
    22:44.07      240626108 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5677  gd86-06-20.081645.UncleJohn-Playin-ComesATime.flac
    24:50.01      262838396 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5996  gd87-04-04.095721.Playin-ComesATime-HandJive.flac
    22:26.53      237559100 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5126  gd90-12-27.008193.Estimated-ComesATime.flac
    34:08.57      361401308 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5071  gd91-06-25.026350.Space-ComesATime-GoinDownTheRoad-GoodLovin.flac
    23:36.44      249885932 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5467  gd91-09-16.100910.ComesATime-UncleJohn.flac
   428:22.69     4533995924 B                            0.5427  (19 files)
