The Official BigSoccer Dave Matthews Band Thread

[Th4119]

Love 'em or hate 'em post what you want about the Dave Matthews Band here.

Favorite songs, concert experiences, why you think they suck, anything goes.

They're my favorites if you haven't guessed.

[SportBoy321]

I thought their first few albums were kinda cool but then I got sick of them.

[CHICO13]

I like what I hear. Dave's a good songwriter. I especially like the song he did on Carlos Santana's "Supernatural" album.

I'd like the chance to see him live, but my standing in line for tickets days are behind me.

[capt. america]

i love that "your body is a wonderland" song.

[Th4119]

Originally posted by capt. america
i love that "your body is a wonderland" song.

That's John Mayer.

Chico if I ever come across some extra tickets, I'll drop you a PM. Dave is good on CD, but in person it's just a whole different level.

[capt. america]

Originally posted by Thamlin19
That's John Mayer.

Chico if I ever come across some extra tickets, I'll drop you a PM. Dave is good on CD, but in person it's just a whole different level.
that was a joke, b/c they sound exactly the same

[CHICO13]

Originally posted by Thamlin19


Chico if I ever come across some extra tickets, I'll drop you a PM. Dave is good on CD, but in person it's just a whole different level.
10-4 Good Buddy, you hook me up and you'll be in Salteña heaven. :)

[Th4119]

Originally posted by CHICO13
10-4 Good Buddy, you hook me up and you'll be in Salteña heaven. :)

:D

Dave is about to go on tour with his buddy, Tim Reynolds. If you have the "Live At Luther College" CD, it's the exact same type of deal, Dave and Tim in small ampitheaters. I wasn't able to get tickets, and on ebay they're going for a ridiculously high price.

However there is going to be another summer tour this year, and it is rumored that the Dave Matthews Band will be making a return to the large stadium venues as opposed to the ampitheaters and arenas that they used this year.

Hopefully tickets are much easier to come by for those shows.

[BlueMeanie]

Originally posted by Thamlin19
Love 'em or hate 'em post what you want about the Dave Matthews Band here.
Sterilized jam band for the Starbucks set.

[TheWakeUpBomb]

I took a date who is a huge fan to a DMB show in December. Perhaps someone who has been to a few shows (this was my first) can explain to me why everyone feels they have to sing along with Dave Matthews? I thought I was going to hear him, not the two dozen or so people sitting around me.

Is this common at DMB shows?

I should add that I have no problem with people singing along occasionally to the big anthems (like U2 with Pride), but these people were singing every word to every song.

[Th4119]

Originally posted by TheWakeUpBomb
I took a date who is a huge fan to a DMB show in December. Perhaps someone who has been to a few shows (this was my first) can explain to me why everyone feels they have to sing along with Dave Matthews? I thought I was going to hear him, not the two dozen or so people sitting around me.

Is this common at DMB shows?

I should add that I have no problem with people singing along occasionally to the big anthems (like U2 with Pride), but these people were singing every word to every song.

I can't really explain it, I've been to 4 shows and this is very common. In fact, I sing along to all the songs as well. Usually I can hear Dave sing during the songs and talk inbetween them though.

I thought it was pretty customary to sing along to all the songs, or at least all that you know.

[nicodemus]

I used to really dig his stuff back from say '93-'95. They actually used to stretch songs out a good bit in concert (sometimes 20 mins or more), but as they became more popular and wrote more songs, they started pretty much playing them straight off the album. I'm really into improv, so they started not doing it for me anymore. That, and the first time I saw him was for $8 or so and I think they're charging $45 or $50 these days and the quality has gone down.

[Th4119]

Originally posted by nicodemus
I used to really dig his stuff back from say '93-'95. They actually used to stretch songs out a good bit in concert (sometimes 20 mins or more), but as they became more popular and wrote more songs, they started pretty much playing them straight off the album. I'm really into improv, so they started not doing it for me anymore. That, and the first time I saw him was for $8 or so and I think they're charging $45 or $50 these days and the quality has gone down.

At the last concert I went to, 6 songs were 10 minutes or longer, with 5 of those being 13 min. or longer. The shortest song was 5:03, however it is about 2:30 on the album it's on.

At one concert I went to this summer, 3 songs were 15 min. or longer, with one being over 20 min. long.

Also, at a concert early in the tour (4/20/02) Dave and Bela Fleck played a song for 40 min., which I think is a bit much but I think Dave is still doing alright in the area.

[nicodemus]

Originally posted by Thamlin19
At the last concert I went to, 6 songs were 10 minutes or longer, with 5 of those being 13 min. or longer. The shortest song was 5:03, however it is about 2:30 on the album it's on.

At one concert I went to this summer, 3 songs were 15 min. or longer, with one being over 20 min. long.

Also, at a concert early in the tour (4/20/02) Dave and Bela Fleck played a song for 40 min., which I think is a bit much but I think Dave is still doing alright in the area. That's cool. The last time I saw him was around '98 or '99 I guess and everything was pretty much straight off the albums except for "Jimi Thing." I wasn't going to pay the massive ticket price, but I was writing for a newspaper and used some connections to get free tix. Regardless, I think his song writing isn't what it used to be. The last few albums just haven't done it for me. That being said, I find him a fascinating rhythm guitar player. He comes up with some interesting things. I've always wanted to hear the group stripped down to just him, the drummer and the bassist. I think the sax player and violinist are the weak links in the band even though they help them stand apart from other pop music groups.

[Th4119]

Originally posted by nicodemus
That's cool. The last time I saw him was around '98 or '99 I guess and everything was pretty much straight off the albums except for "Jimi Thing." I wasn't going to pay the massive ticket price, but I was writing for a newspaper and used some connections to get free tix. Regardless, I think his song writing isn't what it used to be. The last few albums just haven't done it for me. That being said, I find him a fascinating rhythm guitar player. He comes up with some interesting things. I've always wanted to hear the group stripped down to just him, the drummer and the bassist. I think the sax player and violinist are the weak links in the band even though they help them stand apart from other pop music groups.

Definitely agree about the songwriting, and I think Dave Matthews is with us on that as well. I listened to an interview where he said that the stuff from their latest album, Busted Stuff, wasn't their best writing because after Before These Crowded Streets they went into a bit of a slump. The next record after BTCS was Everyday, hastily written with a new producer, and very different from the rest of their work. A lot of people didn't like this album, but Dave credits it to getting the band re-energized and now that they re-recorded the tunes for Busted Stuff, I'd look for something of a revival from DMB on their next studio release.

[fidlerre]

dave matthews band: used to be a huge fan back from about late 1993 until 1998. i was one of those that collected hundreds of tapes from all the live shows <actually b/c friends with one of the main tapers at the time who is now in a band called 'the pat mcgee band' out of d.c. area> i think at one point i think i had about every tape that was out there for trading.

anyway, when they released BTCS i felt they were losing some of the stuff that i really enjoyed about the band; the long improv. jamming. every now and then they would throw one or two in to a show but they all became the same jam, unlike the earlier years when each jam was different and what made collecting the tapes worth it.

i still try and see him once a year when he goes on tour just for the hell of it, i would like to see dave & tim when they are on tour but i failed in getting tickets on-line and the scalpers are asking an arm and a leg for them...

oh well, just have to wait and go see him this fall in europe i guess.

[Th4119]

Friends with someone in the Pat McGee Band?? Man, that's pretty tight.

[Crew14]

I'm a huge Dave fan. (Actually listening to Everyday right now) I have liked him since I first heard "Too Much" back in 96. I then started hearing some of his other stuff and liked it, nothign real major. I then got BTCS and absolutely loved the album. Needless to say I now own all DMB's studio albums and a couple of their live ones. I think they are amazing musicians and do this for the pure joy of it. That's something not many groups can truly say now that coporate music rules.

C14

[Kryptonite]

Originally posted by nicodemus
I think they're charging $45 or $50 these days and the quality has gone down.

DMB - Give us your money
Promoter - Give me your money
Venue - Give me your money


Hilary Rosen - Give me all your goddamn ************ing money so you are ************ing dirt ass poor and have no ************ing money for anything else, you ************ing piece of ************. And if you don't give it to me, i'll shut down P2P so you HAVE to give me your ************ing money.

I'm ************ing evil.



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Yeah, something like that.

[Kryptonite]

DMB - Yeah, a bunch of it sounds the same... slow and all that. Coffee shop/college kid in coffee shop type music.

With that said, The Space Between is one of the biggest stoner songs i've heard. There's something about that song and a stoner.