Comes a Time

Played live by Grateful Dead on 66 nights, 3% of shows.

First: October 19, 1971 at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Last: October 9, 1994 at USAir Arena, Landover, Maryland

Nights per year

1971: 12 · 1972: 9 · 1976: 6 · 1977: 5 · 1978: 1 · 1979: 1 · 1980: 7 · 1985: 11 · 1986: 7 · 1987: 2 · 1990: 1 · 1991: 2 · 1993: 1 · 1994: 1

Most in 1971: 12 nights.

Next

  1. Sugar Magnolia: 11 times
  2. Around and Around: 7 times
  3. Drums: 5 times
  4. Truckin': 4 times
  5. El Paso: 3 times
  6. Lost Sailor: 3 times

Before

  1. The Other One: 10 times
  2. Playing in the Band: 6 times
  3. Space: 6 times
  4. Truckin': 5 times
  5. Sugar Magnolia: 4 times
  6. Saint of Circumstance: 4 times

Latest nights

  1. October 9, 1994: USAir Arena, Landover, Maryland
  2. March 27, 1993: Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York
  3. September 16, 1991: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
  4. June 25, 1991: Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, Kansas
  5. December 27, 1990: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California
  6. July 8, 1987: Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, Virginia
  7. April 4, 1987: Centrum in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
  8. December 27, 1986: Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, California
  9. June 20, 1986: William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California
  10. May 11, 1986: Frost Amphitheater, Stanford, California

All of Grateful Dead

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Setprint

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Every song your band played that night, drawn as a constellation. Find the show you were at, watch the set play back song by song, and keep it as a print.

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