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Review: dave matthews band gets funky in triumphant concert at target center.

Maybe something happened when the Dave Matthews Band played in St. Paul on the eve of the 2018 Super Bowl.

On Sunday at Target Center, in DMB's first local gig since then, Matthews asserted himself as a pro football analyst.

"That was a good game," he declared after a few songs, without having to mention that he was referring to the Vikings-Bills thriller. Then he demurred, saying, at first, it wasn't so good. "Then it got good. It was nice to be in this building when the game ended because there was a lot of happy voices" among the Minneapolis arena's crew.

And there were even more happy voices on Sunday night — about 12,000 of them — thanks to the often thrilling 2¾-hour marathon performance by DMB.

Unlike the Vikings, this ensemble started strong and bold, in a decidedly funky mode. The group opened with the funk-rock groover "So Right," tore into the insistent funk of "So Much To Say" accompanied by a backdrop of artful designs that looked like live State Fair spin-a-paints, and then came "Anyone Seen the Bridge" and the determinedly funky "Too Much."

"Happy Sunday!" declared Matthews, the jam-band king who had unexpectedly morphed into the godson of funk.

Then DMB dialed it down with a rendition of Daniel Lanois' "The Maker," treated as a reggae-tinged hymn. But there was more funk to come, including a hard-edged reading of Peter Gabriel's 1986 smash "Sledgehammer," featuring Matthews' nerdy dad-rock dancing, the stomping metallic funk of "Rooftop" and the emphatically herky-jerky funk of 1998's "Pantala Naga Pampa," during which Matthews romped around as saxophonist Jeff Coffin and trumpeter Rashawn Ross jammed to the delight of the crowd.

Of course, the 31-year-old Dave Matthews Band is not merely a funk band. America's biggest jam band plays a mélange of funk, folk-rock, jazz, math-rock, metal, blues and South African pop. (Matthews was born in South Africa but has lived most of his life in the States, founding DMB in Virginia but now living in Seattle.) There is always room for improvisation and jamming, but their jams are substantive expressions, not aimless rambling.

That's because Matthews, 55, the unassuming namesake, may write and sing the songs and play rhythm guitar but he doesn't dominate DMB the way, say, Jerry Garcia did the Grateful Dead, the ultimate cult band. DMB is a democratic septet: Everyone gets to showcase their talents even though Matthews is the mouthpiece.

Guitarist Tim Reynolds took some extended solos, notably on "#41" starting with a slow, soulful passage, segueing into jazzy flamenco and then going on a trippy rock excursion. On "Dancing Nancies," Reynolds traveled between prog rock and jazz-rock fusion, woven together by a gypsy vibe. He may not be as seamless as John Mayer or Garcia, but Reynolds was consistently compelling.

This was the first DMB performance in the Twin Cities with new keyboardist Buddy Strong, who used to tour with Usher and Ariana Grande and who joined in the summer of 2018. He added depth and some artful introductions to a couple of numbers and soloed on the triumphal, Caribbean-flavored "Warehouse" and the propulsive finale "Two Step."

Maybe the only disappointment was that DMB twice teased a snippet of "Water Into Wine" and Matthews did a taste of the blues "Kill the Preacher" but never delivered either song in full. DMB, like the Vikings on Sunday, might let fans down occasionally but the band ultimately triumphed.

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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Classic Album Review: Dave Matthews Band | The Central Park Concert

The jam-rockers belabour the point with their seventh live release in a decade.

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T his came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

I like dave matthews as much as the next guy. i also appreciate the fact that the live setting is where he and his band truly do their best work..

But honestly, when the guy puts out seven live albums over 10 years — and only five studio albums in that same period — he’s belabouring the point. Yes, the three-disc, 160-minute Central Park Concert has its fair share of stellar moments, from perennials like All Along The Watchtower and Jimi Thing to a nice cover of Neil Young ’s Cortez The Killer co-starring ubiquitous guest guitarist Warren Haynes . But as you sit through the umpeenth live versions of Don’t Drink The Water, Dancing Nancies, Stay (Wasting Time) or Ants Marching , you find yourself asking: Just how much live DMB do I really need? The answer, quite obviously: Not quite this much.

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Concert Review: At Daily's Place, Dave Matthews Band leaves Jacksonville fans hungry for more

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You don't need to know what song the Dave Matthews Band is playing to get swept away at one of their concerts — everyone else in the venue knows the title, all the words and whether it's been played yet on this summer's tour.

The Dave Matthews Band has lots of fans like that, and they packed the Daily's Place amphitheater in Jacksonville Monday for the first of two nights of big hits and top-notch musicianship. Quite a few of those fans plan to be back for more on Tuesday.

The band was forced to postpone a pair of shows in West Palm Beach on May 28 and 29 due to a positive Covid test but returned to the stage for two concerts in South Carolina just a few nights ago. They certainly didn't show any signs of being slowed down on Monday, playing for well over two and a half hours. 

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Matthews and guitarist Tim Reynolds were one of the first acts to play at Daily's Place when the venue opened in 2017, but the full band had never played there before Monday night. They typically play larger venues, so performing in the 5,500-seat amphitheater only cranked up the intensity.

There's really no weak link in the band, and you could watch any player on any song and be impressed. Monday night, trumpet player Rashawn Ross really stood out right from the opening numbers, "Warehouse" and "Come On, Come On." Everyone in the band got time in the spotlight to show their stuff, but Ross left the crowd breathless time and again over the course of the evening.

The core of the band has played together for decades, and it shows. Drummer Carter Beauford and bass player Stefan Lessard hardly seemed to glance at each other all night but played the complex rhythms like they've done it a thousand times, because they have.

The band played roaring rockers on Monday ("Don't Drink the Water," "Break Free"), some rambling jams ("Jimi Thing") and a few numbers that showed their Virginia roots ("Grace is Gone," "You Never Know"), plus some of their best-known songs ("Why I Am," "So Much to Say," "Dancing Nancies"). 

They didn't play everything, though. But no true fans were disappointed if they didn't hear their favorite Dave Matthews Band song on Monday — they know that's what Tuesday's show is for.

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Concert Review: Dave Matthews Band Teaches Crash Course in Chops at Tour Finale

The jam master's epic-length Hollywood Bowl show included new songs about fatherhood, Prince covers and a bonus mini-orchestra.

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Team Lady Bird, all the way.

That’s one appropriate thumbnail reaction to the Dave Matthews Band ’s tour-ending show Monday at the Hollywood Bowl, which included a mid-set rendition of “Crash Into Me,” as revived last year in a certain Oscar-robbed teen comedy-drama. As “Lady Bird” viewers may recall, one of the film’s key moment of empowerment for its heroine comes when she stands up to a carful of her cooler friends and declares that the group’s mid-‘90s smash is a great song after all, jumping out of the car rather than finish the ride with snobs. Rock critics with a public fondness for the DMB may have been able to relate.

It was fun to imagine Saoirse Ronan’s character getting over her own pro-New York snobbery, coming back to California and, as a now 34-year-old, joining a lot of her contemporaries at the Bowl (and maybe, like a significant number of them, indulging in a bowl before or during the show). She would have seen a band that’s been through a lot of its own changes in recent years — losing key members in unfortunate circumstances, adding others for the joy of it, and refocusing some of the lyrics in the direction of literal dad-rock — but still driven by a sense of female veneration in the themes and sophisticated physicality in the playing.

And still playing “Crash Into Me,” although that’s by no means a given (setlist stats show that they were playing the tune for only the 14 th time out of 50 dates this year). There’s no such thing as a given at a DMB show, although “Ants Marching” almost counts as a reliable. No two shows remotely resemble one another, and so, of the 21 songs performed over the course of two hours and 45 minutes Monday at the Bowl, only eight were holdovers from the group’s performance two nights earlier at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. And the minority of tunes that did repeat appeared in completely different places in the running order. When you’re placing songs in the middle of a show that served as climactic encores a couple of nights earlier, that’s a pretty good sign of repertoire health, and not entirely  capriciousness. (It’s also a pretty good way of drawing at least a small contingent of repeat-customer road-trippers, post-Deadhead era.)

If the scrambler approach to setlists very much carries over from the DMB’s early days, hardly everything has stayed the same. Two out of five original members are gone, significant for a group whose every member is loved or scrutinized by fans as much as players in the E Street Band. This month marks the 10 th anniversary of the death of sax player Leroi Moore, and violinist Boyd Tinsley, who was already on leave to deal with personal issues, officially got the boot this year after allegations of sexual improprieties emerged. Those were the two players who made the signature sound most unique, although Matthews’ own emphasis on acoustic over electric guitar was also a key ingredient in the eclecticism. No fill-in fiddler has emerged since Tinsley’s exit, and the last decade has found Moore replaced by an entire horn section, with somewhat less emphasis on lead sax riffs and solos. Not being tied to these distinguishing characteristics has probably been freeing in some ways for Matthews — you don’t see him needing to make solo albums anymore — but it does risk making the band’s sound turn more toward the conventional.

A longtime Matthews cohort, electric guitarist Tim Reynolds, joined the touring band full-time 10 years ago; he was the departed sax player’s real replacement, apparently. And for this tour, Matthews had added a new keyboard player, Buddy Strong, who seems to be an unofficial fill-in for the MIA violinist. At a number of points in Monday’s show, the jam element was represented when Reynolds and Strong got into call-and-response guitar-and-organ licks. Watching these two take over the show in electric dribs and drabs wasn’t the Matthews Band of yore, but it wasn’t a gift horse to look in the mouth, either.

Sunday’s show had some extra players — a lot of extra players — who were showing up only for the tour climax. The horn section grew to five for one stretch of songs, with the entire quintet trading off four-bar solos through a very extended version of “Jimi Thing” and plying some extra funk for a cover of Prince’s “Sexy MF.” The greater novelty was the introduction of a 10-plus string section for three songs, conducted by David Campbell, aka Beck’s dad, a familiar sight any rocker wants to pull strings at a big L.A. show. The mini-orchestra was added for “Here on Out” and “Come On Come On,” two comforting songs from the latest album that had strings on the record as well, plus the older “Squirm,” which used the strings to far tenser effect.

The more nervous songs, like that one and “Don’t Drink the Water,” were mostly from Matthews’ past. The group’s 2018 release, “Come Tomorrow,” is more about domestic bliss — even if Matthews can never resist adding intimations of mortality to the most jubilant songs. One of the best of the seven songs played from the album was the first encore, “Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin),” one of his salutes to fatherhood, which had Matthews strapping on a rare (for him) electric guitar to provide a rhythmic undertow for Reynolds’ Edge-like lead. Another selection from the new album, the lovely and stripped-down “When I’m Weary,” was actually getting its tour premiere at this tour finale — maybe because the tiredness theme befit a band that’s been on tour for months?

But there weren’t too many signs of road fatigue by the time the encore found the band jolting through the odd rhythms of “Why I Am,” from the underrated “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” and a resurrection of their perennial cover of Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” amended for this tour-closer to include a climactic bit of Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Something about delivering a high-pitched howl of “And as we wind on down the road” must’ve appealed to a guy winding things down on the road.

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Review - Dave Matthews Band @ Shoreline Amphitheater (9/17/22)

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Without an opening band, the DMB took the stage right at 7:48pm to what seemed like a very full house. If it wasn't sold out, it was pretty darn close! And the crowd in the lower bowl were on their feet just about the entire night from the very first sight of Dave walking out of the shadows of the right side of the stage. The band launched into "Minarets" to kick off the night and quickly followed it up with a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain."

After "The Riff", Dave took a moment to say how nice it was to be back at Shoreline. Saying it'd been a while since they'd been back, but there was a time where it felt like they were here every other week. Potentially referring to their many visits to Neil Young's annual acoustic 'Bridge School Benefit'. Dave went on to talk about the history of Shoreline, saying 'This was, I think, they put this on top of a dump, so when you were out on the lawn, every once in a while, a fire would go whosh , and come right out of the ground. Some of you probably remember! And then if you were the right amount of high, you'd be like, whoa! Did you see that fire? There's no fire. There's a fire! You're just high! No, cause I felt the heat too! And then over there, whosh ! And we could see it from here (referring to the stage). Oh, there's a fire! It always kept us on the edge in case the whole thing went up, but now they've fixed it. There's no longer a risk of fire...' And as the crowd was laughing, Dave ended the story with 'thank you very much for coming!' before the broody "Madmen's Eyes" began with scenes of lightning filling the backdrop behind the band.

Dave spoke again after the song saying 'that song is a little bit newer than some songs, it's called "Madman's Eyes" and I think it's about, I think it's just another love song really. When you peel it back. But I'll leave that up to you.' Then saying, 'I think this is the same song, just a little bit different' before the band started to softly play "If Only."

Concluding "Drive In, Drive Out", Dave said 'thank you very much it's nice to be here and I hope you feel the same way!' just before Buddy Strong led off with the keyboards on the Isley Brother's "It's Your Thing" and where he also took over vocal duties on the song -- giving Dave a bit of a break. The song was a perfect example of how strong the band is, with highlights from the horn section, the funky bass line which is such a staple within the song, and of course, the drums from Carter Beauford.

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Rain is No Match for Dave Matthews Band Beats

By Giana Pacinelli

I was crouched in a corner of a Tiki bar, one of hundreds hiding out as the rain came beating down on the lawn chairs and blankets that were holding our place on the lawn of Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre Saturday night. The show was to have started 45 minutes ago, but Dave Matthews hadn’t come out yet. I wondered if he was hidden away in his own tiki hut, as scared of the rain as I am. Abruptly, you heard the unmistakable tuning of a guitar. Suddenly, the rain didn’t matter. As my friends and I scurried our way up to our seats, our plastic ponchos rubbed against strangers touting the same ensemble. One of my friends turned to me and said “Imagine all of these people waiting for you in the rain.” The thought gave me chills. Why wouldn’t I be racing up muddy steps to hear the opening song? There wasn’t even a question. But as I looked around at the scene taking place around me, I thought of how it must look for the person at the other end of the mic. It had to be everything. Dave came on and instantly thanked the crowd for being there. For standing in ponchos, eager to get jiving to his music. This is everything. It was the moment I had been waiting all summer, and all year for.

As he does most years, Dave played two sets. What was unique this year were the sets had two very distinctly different tones. His first set was acoustic – just Dave and his guitar. He opened up the first five minutes with just the guitar, a Lefty Frizzell cover of Long Black Veil . Other band members slowly trickled in as the song progressed.  No one knew, at first, what song he was playing. No one cared. It was Dave. And it was enough to make you want to slide back and forth in your muddy sandals and dance. The acoustic set was smooth and energetic. When intermission time arrived, Dave said, “Change your jeans and put on your shorts, thank you so much for coming.”

The next set was electric, but it felt more like big band. The electric guitars came out, lights started flashing, and the first few chords of Granny exploded through the amphitheater. This is what Dave excels at. Filling the stage, and your hearts, with blasts of perfectly compiled sounds that don’t even need lyrics. It’s the only concert where I’ll find myself dancing with my eyes closed, not even knowing what song is being played, or if it’s even an actual song. Fans seemed to be dancing harder than before.  At this point, the rain had subsided and no one seemed to remember it had ever been raining. The only clue was the mud continuing to squish beneath your feet, as fans began to jump up and down with their arms high in the air. While Dave Matthews has an uncanny way of consuming a crowd, his band takes the concert on a whole different kind of adventure. Carter Beauford is invigorating on the drums, Jeff Coffin had a few expressive saxophone solos and Boyd Tinsley’s violin solo on Dancing Nancies nearly brought me to tears. His fingers were moving so fast my feet couldn’t even keep up. While Dave succeeds at bringing the sweet soul, his band gives the fans some extra, much-needed energy.

Dave closed another mesmerizing summer stop in West Palm with Rapunzel and Halloween. But he didn’t walk away without, once again, thanking his fans. “Thank you guys so much for tonight.” No Dave, really, thank you. Until next summer.

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Review: Dave Matthews Band busts loose in first Seattle show in 16 years

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For someone who’s lived in Seattle somewhere between 20 and 150 years (his words), Dave Matthews rarely convenes his namesake band in the Emerald City, saving their juice for their annual Labor “Dave” weekend blowouts at the Gorge Amphitheatre. The rootsy rock star is certainly present in the local music community, popping up for various benefit gigs , low-key and semiprivate solo or duo sets with guitarist Tim Reynolds, and working with artists like Port Townsend bluegrass renegade Danny Barnes .

But the Dave Matthews Band ended a 16-year drought in epic fashion Friday at a packed Climate Pledge Arena, playing this side of the Cascades for the first time since a 2006 date opening for the Rolling Stones at Qwest Field. And according to Matthews, their last Seattle headliner was 10 years before that, under the same roof at the old KeyArena.

Perhaps enticed by Seattle finally having a good-sounding room big enough for them — and the sound was superb — the jammy juggernauts made up for any lost time, busting loose with a three-hour marathon that ran the gamut of their expansive sound, often within the same song.

Rippling and woozy trumpet and sax solos from two-man horn section Rashawn Ross and Jeff Coffin opened a potent “Seek Up” that boiled into a proggy, jazz-rock storm that was just the first extended jam of the song. “Sometimes I feel like I’m faaaaaalling,” Matthews softly injected as the song came up for a breath of folk-rock air, his eyebrows darting up when punctuating a note.

Carter Beauford’s drums sounded crisp and robust, his thunder-and-roll panache joining Stefan Lessard’s mischievous bass line that had a steadying presence through the song’s various turns, including a pranging bridge deftly teased out by pianist/keyboardist Buddy Strong and some of Reynold’s rootsier guitar work.

For a number of reasons, DMB has always been a polarizing love-’em-or-hate-’em band with a die-hard fan base that’s basically an ecosystem of its own. But the talent in the versatile seven-piece unit is impossible to deny and when they’re cookin’ like they were on Friday, there are few bands of their size and caliber who can touch them.

DMB’s amalgam of roots rock, funk, blues, jazz and more is an organic genre-fusing sound that might seem more at home in a town like New Orleans than the rainy Northwest. At times they sound like all the side stages at the Crescent City’s Jazz & Heritage Festival rolled into one jam-rocking band, especially on choppy funk-rock stomper “Louisiana Bayou,” which capped the pre-encore portion of their set. Between the well-oiled musicianship and Climate Pledge’s intimate-for-an-arena feel, Friday’s show felt more like one of NOLA’s late-night Jazz Fest after-parties (minus the fedoras) when all the top-tier musicians in town descend upon the city’s infinite clubs.

That free-swinging, ready-to-jam feel was bolstered by cameos from a pair of Seattle all-stars, starting with Mike McCready. The Pearl Jam guitarist joined Matthews and the gang for a rumbling, rambunctious turn through the Bob Dylan-penned (and Jimi Hendrix-reinvented) “All Along the Watchtower,” with McCready making for a triple-guitar attack and locking in for his own Hendrix-channeling solo.

“Now what are we gon’ do?!” asked Matthews afterward with a no-effs-given, Southern dad goofiness that matched the paternal dance moves he busted earlier while bellowing his way through DMB’s fun, crowd-pleasing cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer.”

Matthews’ next hometown guest was progressive sax master Skerik, the ubiquitous Seattle hornsman with a million projects, including the jazzy, funk-rocking trio Garage a Trois, who reliably slayed a Nectar Lounge gig a few weeks ago. Skerik bolstered the horn section on another Hendrix-referencing tune, DMB’s “Jimi Thing.” What started as a temporary cooldown became a jumping-off point for a squiggly funk freakout, with a rip-and-wail solo from Skerik.

For all the freewheeling fun, Matthews did bring a little bit of business to the table. Before kicking off DMB’s tour in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday, Matthews was actually on the campaign trail, lending his rock-star celebrity to a couple of Rust Belt Democrats, including John Fetterman, who’s squaring off with celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in a high-stakes race for an open Pennsylvania Senate seat.

Addressing a friendly Climate Pledge Arena crowd, Matthews encouraged fans to vote ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, while endorsing incumbent Washington Sen. Patty Murray, whom he called a friend of 25 years.

Politics aside, let’s hope it doesn’t take DMB another couple of Senate terms to play in Matthews’ backyard again.

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“All Along the Watchtower” with Mike McCready

“Kill the Preacher” snippet

“Why I Am”

“Jimi Thing” with Skerik

“Louisiana Bayou”

“Singing From the Windows”

“Two Step”

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Not even a lightning storm could derail Dave Matthews Band's cosmic Ruoff performance

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It was too epic for a mere mortal with only these two hands to describe, but I will try.

It started with a long Friday evening bass solo.

Dave Matthews, covered in sweat like the rest of us, began strumming away as he launched into a lilting cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." His group — horns, keys, the whole merry band — brought a rush of good noise behind him.

No guitar solo, I thought to myself. Strange. This band can handle it. An organ solo hits instead.

But then, the guitar solo. But this isn't "All Along the Watchtower."

It's "Stairway to Heaven."

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One top five all-time solo exchanged for another, and then here comes Matthews in full screaming falsetto singing the Led Zeppelin outro.

That was still not enough. We go back to "All Along the Watchtower" for a huge finish.

As God as my witness, when the song ended the set, a lightning storm kicked in — booming thunder, though drowned out by applause, with visible strikes surging down.

Is the — is the wind actually going to begin to howl? Did Hendrix do this?

The band soon re-emerged for an encore, but it was wholly unnecessary. Something unforgettable had just occurred.

I am not a member of the annual DMB Ruoff/Deer Creek mini-residency fan club. At least, I wasn't at the beginning of the night.

Last year, we opted to send an intern, Griffin Wiles, on a lark. He loved the show and did an excellent job .

So this year, even though I had already seen eight bands at three Ruoff shows this week, I was determined to see it for myself.

No. 9 was the best of the lot.

A packed house was treated to an astounding allotment of musical textures, singing styles and general wizardry. Even the boring or weird songs, of which there were only a few, had a little something interesting to chew on — a whistle or saxophone solo, a startling tempo change.

I can pick out Matthews's radio hits. We got a solid "Tripping Billies" rendition to open up the show and "Where Are You Going" toward the end.

But the stuff I didn't know was even better, and the stuff that wasn't written by Matthews was somehow even better than that.

In addition to "All Along the Stairway," Matthews dropped his otherwise fixed guitar from his hands and did a note-perfect cover of "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel.

It was not a Matthews-esque treatment. It was exactly the way Gabriel does it. Probably better in 2023. Matthews was '80s dancing and doing an impeccable impression.

DM is astounding. He gets tremendous gas mileage out of that voice, with vocals in a variety of styles, tones and volumes painted across a two-and-a-half-hour set.

But the B in DMB is astounding. The B is on fire. The B can cook.

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"Grey Street" had people dancing in the aisles. Matthews was up there belting, but then the band launched into an instrumental break with a sublime dueling horn solo. The dancing people began screeching as loud as they possible could. They damn near popped my earplugs out (nine performances in six days can hurt, if you aren't careful).

Another moment zoomed over my level of understanding, but it was nice all the same.

After "So Damn Lucky," the crowd started singing the chorus from Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)." The band knew it was coming, so it was just me out of the loop.

"Break Free' turned into the type of jamming I like: A long, worthwhile organ solo that builds with the horns and drums into a satisfying conclusion. They're all playing the same song up there. No one is getting lost on a nine-minute journey.

The only real negative was I had a partially obstructed view of the stage, but half of it looked great. The sound was good, and that's what matters.

Plus, I spent some time people watching.

It was, as I had been warned, a sufficiently bro-y crowd.

I heard men in their 40s talking about beer pong. If I were to ask this crowd what its favorite Matthew McConaughey film is, the answers would contain both depth and nuance. If it needed to sneak out of its favorite sorority house under cover of total darkness, this crowd could navigate on memory alone.

That's not to say folks weren't friendly. The couple next to me could sense I was the fish out of water and asked me about my job.

The audience also brought tremendous energy. So, go forth. Bro if you want to. Bro around the world.

And what's all this I hear about Saturday usually being the better show of the two? Who is this Satur-Dave, and how could that possibly be true?

Unlike 99% of my reviews, you can go see what the fuss is about on Saturday, if you desire.

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Rory Appleton is the pop culture reporter and columnist at IndyStar. Contact him at 317-552-9044 and [email protected], or follow him on Twitter at @RoryDoesPhonics.

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When we’re young, we define ourselves as much by the culture we disdain as by what we love. One of the pleasures of adulthood is letting some of that go.

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By Melissa Kirsch

The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with which it’s often lumped together, Dave Matthews has a deliriously passionate fan base that follows the band from city to city, reuniting with fellow disciples at preshow tailgates, showing off devotional tattoos, trading live recordings.

In the early ’90s, when I arrived for my first year at the University of Virginia, Dave Matthews was a local celebrity. His band played for five bucks every Tuesday night at the little bar down the street from campus. I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I never went to see them.

It would be years before the stereotype of Dave Matthews fans as “pot-smoking, tie-dye-touting former frat bros fawning over craft beers in parking lots between cornhole games,” as Perri Ormont Blumberg puts it, would become a widely understood social designation. But for those of us figuring out how to reconcile the rise of grunge with our carefully curated Manic Panic-dyed identities, a college bar band with a fiddle player was way too mainstream.

“You’re sort of defined as much by what you dislike as by what you like at that age,” Ben Sisario, a music reporter at The Times and one of my first college friends, said recently. Ben and I met on our first night at Virginia. He was wearing a T-shirt from the 1992 tour of the alt-rock band the Pixies; our friendship was cemented in the uncomplicated way of teenagers for whom there’s little distinction between who you listen to and who you are. We spent the next four years not going to Dave Matthews Band shows together.

When I read about the community that flourishes via shared adoration of the Dave Matthews Band, I feel — not left out, exactly — but instead like I missed an opportunity. I could have participated in the early fandom of a band that would become an American institution. I could have “been there when” rather than having “been there on the sidelines with my arms folded smugly when.”

In adulthood, in theory, we get more comfortable with our contradictions. We can emphatically like things that others — or even we — deem uncool without risking an identity crisis. Ben has seen Dave Matthews perform several times since college and has come to appreciate the complexity of their music. “I was just too clouded with the teenage factionalism of being a first year in college to see that,” he said, adding, “My persona at the time was very much ‘indie rock snob.’”

Ben and I became friends because of our indie rock snob personas, which makes it hard for me to totally dismiss my youthful disdain for popular music as useless. I’m grateful for the taste I developed as a teenager that helped me find my people, taste that’s become more complex. Now, I listen to the 1994 Dave Matthews Band album “Under the Table and Dreaming” and am overcome with nostalgic pleasure. And when Dave sings on the first track, “If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you’re missing all the rest,” I know categorically that he’s right.

Jon Pareles on “ Walk Around the Moon ,” the Dave Matthews Band’s first studio album since 2018.

Bill Hader as Dave on “Saturday Night Live,” with a guest appearance from the man himself.

“Either you’re down with DMB’s amalgamation of soul-stirring ‘Joshua Tree’ anthem rock and smooth jazz and bluegrass-fiddle hoedown and hacky-sack funk or you aren’t.” A lovely profile of Dave Matthews by Alex Pappademas in GQ.

The Dave Matthews Band performing “ Ants Marching ” live in Central Park in 2003.

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The death this week of Sinead O’Connor prompted collective grief across Ireland, where she was a symbol of both hope and defiance , Una Mullally writes.

When O’Connor ripped up a photo of the pope as a criticism of priest abuse and the complicity of the church, many in the U.S. were not ready to hear her .

Listen to 10 essential songs by O’Connor, and see her life in photos .

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The Emmy Awards, which had been scheduled for September, will be postponed because of the strikes in Hollywood.

Influencers are rejecting deals to promote movies or TV shows for fear of someday being barred from the striking actors’ union.

Venice Film Festival organizers said the Hollywood strikes would have little effect and that they expect to premiere films including “Maestro,” a drama about the composer Leonard Bernstein, starring Bradley Cooper.

Kevin Spacey was cleared of sexual assault charges. A return to major Hollywood roles may not be likely anytime soon.

The dance of the Kens in “Barbie” recalls the vitality and grace of Gene Kelly, Gia Kourlas writes.

Some of Britain’s biggest ’90s bands, like Blur and Pulp, are playing major gigs again . (There was even talk, albeit misplaced, of an Oasis reunion.)

“Oppenheimer” fans are rediscovering a 40-year-old documentary about him.

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President Biden approved the most significant changes in decades to the military legal system, including steps to ensure that sex assault prosecutions are independent of the chain of command.

Biden acknowledged his 4-year-old granddaughter, Navy , for the first time publicly. Hunter Biden, the girl’s father, has said he is not involved in her life.

Lebanon’s yearslong financial crisis has forced some people to hold up banks to take out their own deposits.

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📺 “Hijack” (Wednesday): Yes, it’s been a bad summer for air travel, but no one has had it worse than the passengers of Kingdom Airline flight 29, which is hijacked shortly after taking off from Dubai on its way to London. The seventh episode of this overheated and entertaining Apple TV+ show, starring Idris Elba, is the Season 1 finale.

📚 “Tom Lake” (Tuesday): In the latest by Ann Patchett, whose 2019 novel “The Dutch House” was a Pulitzer finalist, family members find themselves holed up at their Michigan cherry farm early in the pandemic. There, they hear the story of their mother’s youthful affair with a famous actor during a production of “Our Town.” Patchett’s is one of several books to look forward to in August .

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Blackberry Corn Cobbler

A juicy berry cobbler is a laid-back weekend treat, an adaptable, colorful way to showcase seasonal fruit. This one , from Jerrelle Guy, is especially vivid, with blackberries that cook down into a jammy purple compote that bubbles around a cornmeal topping. To make it even more summery, Jerrelle grates fresh corn cobs, collecting the kernels and corn milk, to knead into the biscuits instead of the usual buttermilk or heavy cream. It adds a lovely, sweet character to every bite. If you can, serve this warm with scoops of ice cream or coconut yogurt, letting them melt into a creamy sauce to mingle with the berry syrup.

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GAME OF THE WEEKEND

Brazil vs. France, Women’s World Cup: Brazil is desperate to win a trophy for Marta, one of the game’s great stars, who at age 37 is playing in probably her final World Cup. And the team looks sharp. (Watch this incredible goal against Panama .) France’s squad is talented, but has had a bumpy path. The team recently replaced its head coach to appease players who had threatened to sit out the World Cup, then lost a veteran midfielder to injury. “France’s hopes, now, rest on the new coach’s being able to get the best out of a team he has only just encountered,” The Times’s Rory Smith wrote . Re-airing at 10:30 a.m. Eastern on FS2.

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England, a tournament favorite, defeated Denmark, 1-0 , and moved to the top of its group. Sweden thrashed Italy, 5-0 .

A TV deal makes it hard for fans in Australia, a co-host country, to watch the tournament .

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Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. — Melissa

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CONCERT REVIEW: Dave Matthews Band at Coral Sky Amphitheater

By Rick Munroe on July 28, 2019

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On a steamy shirt-soaking South Florida summer night, rockers  Dave Matthews Band made their annual tour stop at Coral Sky Amphitheater on Friday night for the first of their two-night stop in West Palm Beach.

Playing before 20,000 of their most faithful and exhilarated fans, this is a band that has never had any trouble selling out two nights at the massive amphitheater. Dave Matthews Band first played at this venue on September 4, 1996, and has made West Palm Beach a stop every year since they first started touring. What you get when you attend a DMB show is an ebb and flow of multi-genre music with a great deal of consistency. There are no surprises other than a set list that changes each night they perform. This is the type of band that brings you to the very high of highs and into a deep often times sorrows that has you look and reflect upon your own life and question it. Simplicity rules here: no crazy stage setups, no explosions, fire or smoke; what you get compares to going down to your local bar and hanging out with your closest friends, drinking a few cold ones, and watching your favorite local band playing some bluesy, jazzy rock-influenced music that will loosen you up and make you smile and want to dance like nobody is watching.

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Faithful DMB fans have enjoyed a fairly steady lineup over the past nearly 28 years since the band initially formed. After losing key members in unfortunate circumstances and parting ways with longtime violinist Boyd Tinsley in mid 2018, it only left founding members  Dave Matthews , Stefan Lessard and Carter Beauford  as the lone remaining original band members. Tinsley brought a unique energy and sound that is clearly missing and has yet to be replicated, and gone are the days of those live on-stage jam sessions with Matthews.

The night opened with “What Would You Say” and the band quickly engaged the spirited crowd. With thousands of the bands most faithful singing along to nearly every word in unison and harmony, this was setting up to be a night that they came for. This is a band that draws you in from Carter Beauford’s first drum strike to Dave Matthews final bow. The dynamic Dave Matthews led the band through a series of their very best, including fan-favorite “Don’t Drink the Water” and their version of Peter Gabriel’s 1986 hit “Sledgehammer.” With the always-smiling Carter Beauford on the drums, guitarist  Tim Reynolds ,  Rashawn Ross on trumpet,  Jeff Coffin  on saxophone and their newest member  Buddy Strong  on keyboards, the band ripped through a medley of hits including “Seven,” “Lie in Our Graves,” “The Idea of You,” “Lover Lay Down,” “The Last Stop,” “Come Tomorrow,” “Why I Am,” “Lying in the Hands of God,” “Here on Out,” “So Right,” “Warehouse,” “Can’t Stop,” “Where are you Going,” “The Song That Jane Likes,” “Louisiana Bayou,” and “Virginia in the Rain” and closed out the night with Bob Dylan’s “Along the Watchtower.”

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This is a band that represents diversity and erases the boundaries that divide us all. “If I was standing on the moon looking at the earth, I would see one earth, not us and them, just us,” said Matthews during the concert Friday night. Their music bridges the gaps in society and aims to unify and unite, bringing people of all ages, races, and creeds together as one. The world has become a better place through their music, and it was clearly evident on that night. As the fans of the longtime band left the venue, you could feel an energy that is hard to describe. For some it was a time to reconnect with old friends and perhaps make some new ones, for others it was part of their annual tradition to see and listen to a unique band than continues to delight their fans. One thing is clear: the Dave Matthews Band didn’t disappoint and gave their fans exactly what they came for, a night of unique, inspiring, spirit-uplifting music that is created by the distinctive sound that only this band can deliver.

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Saturday, November 12, 2022, marked the return of  Dave Matthews Band  to Omaha, a 12-year wait for the group. Thousands of people packed into  CHI Health Center  in downtown  Omaha  to see the band that holds the record for the most consecutive albums to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200.  Dave Matthews Band  fans are some of the most passionate fans on this planet, and I now understand why.

Say what you will about  Dave Matthews , but I think he has a good ear for music. He brings along musicians who play well with him. The musicianship on that stage was electric from the very start when they kicked into “One Sweet World”. What I enjoyed about their opening was that there wasn’t any fanfare or any kind of lead-up. The PA music turned off and  Dave Matthews , whom you have to respect as a very normal-looking guy, and his band walked on stage and were ready to go.  Dave Matthews  had spent a couple of days in Omaha prior to the show, as he mentioned that he enjoyed going to the local record stores and hitting up the local movie theatre, which my guess was Film Streams from across the arena. I always enjoy it when artists that are not from here engage with the local culture. Also,  Dave Matthews  dancing on stage was something else, but I was into it. Going back to musicianship, I was very impressed with drummer  Carter Beauford ’s unique drumming, the dual-horn section of trumpeter  Rashawn Ross  and saxophonist  Jeff Coffin , and the back-and-forth solos between keyboardist  Buddy Strong  and guitarist  Tim Reynolds . The video production they brought along with them was visually incredible. They even covered Led Zeppelin’s “Fool in the Rain”! They ended the show with one of their hit singles, “Ants Marching”, with the crowd singing along. I wouldn’t call myself a casual fan, liking some of their songs, but I have a newfound respect for  Dave Matthews Band . It sounds like they will be putting out their latest studio album, their first album in five years, in 2023, so be on the lookout for that.

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Set for Sept. 28 and 29 at the Park at Harlindale Farm, the headliners lean into the folky pop and country revival currently underway, while the undercard has a more eclectic vibe. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Allison Russell, Lukas Nelson, Willie Carlisle, and bluegrass prodigy Wyatt Ellis are all on Saturday’s lineup. Coin, Stephen Sanchez, the Cadillac Three, Sierra Hull, and Charlie Worsham are on tap for Sunday.

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Swiss life hall, hannover, de, stockholm, se, royal arena, copenhagen, dk, show time 8:00, verti music hall, o2 universum, show time 8:00pm, mediolanum forum, mandela forum, florence, it, royal albert hall, show time 7:15, o2 apollo manchester, manchester, uk, forest national, brussels, be, salle pleyel, altice arena, midflorida credit union amphitheatre, show time: 7:30pm, ithink financial amphitheatre, west palm beach, fl, daily's place, jacksonville, fl, the cynthia woods mitchell pavilion, the woodlands, tx, dos equis pavilion, ameris bank amphitheatre, alpharetta, ga, coastal credit union park at walnut creek, raleigh, nc, veterans united home loans amphitheater at virginia beach, virginia beach, va, alpine valley music theatre, east troy, wi, show time: 7:00pm, blossom music center, cuyahoga falls, oh, pine knob music theatre, clarkston, mi, ruoff music center, noblesville, in, broadview stage at spac, saratoga springs, ny, northwell health at jones beach theater, wantagh, ny, pnc bank arts center, holmdel, nj, xfinity center, mansfield, ma, jiffy lube live, bristow, va, bank of new hampshire pavilion, gilford, nh, freedom mortgage pavilion, fiddler's green amphitheatre, greenwood village, co, hayden homes amphitheater, gorge amphitheatre, show time: 5:00pm, bourbon & beyond festival, louisville, ky, highland festival grounds kentucky exposition center, pilgrimage festival, franklin, tn, 10th anniversary pilgrimage music and cultural festival, oceans calling festival, ocean city, md, ocean city inlet beach.

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  1. 6 things I learned after my first Dave Matthews Band concert at Alpine

    Concerts 6 things I learned after my first Dave Matthews Band concert at Alpine Valley. From the dedication of his loyal fans to the apparel, there were so many aspects on Friday night that took ...

  2. Dave Matthews Band's 'Walk Around the Moon' Review

    Beyond it, the wider world holds strife and dread. And looking inward can be just as troubling. "Walk Around the Moon," the band's 10th studio album, opens with its title song, swinging the ...

  3. Dave Matthews Band

    Critic Consensus. Based on 134 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Dave Matthews Band is rated as an average live performer. Dave Matthews Band concert reviews describe live shows and performances as funky, soulful, amazing, joyous, engaging, boisterous, and dazzling.

  4. Review: Dave Matthews Band gets funky in triumphant Minneapolis concert

    Of course, the 31-year-old Dave Matthews Band is not merely a funk band. America's biggest jam band plays a mélange of funk, folk-rock, jazz, math-rock, metal, blues and South African pop ...

  5. Classic Album Review: Dave Matthews Band

    I like Dave Matthews as much as the next guy. I also appreciate the fact that the live setting is where he and his band truly do their best work. But honestly, when the guy puts out seven live albums over 10 years — and only five studio albums in that same period — he's belabouring the point. Yes, the three-disc, 160-minute Central Park ...

  6. Review: Dave Matthews Band in Dallas, May 15, 2022

    By Preston Jones. May 16, 2022. Like robins returning with warm weather, Dave Matthews Band is a regular summer visitor to North Texas — and sings much better. Preston Jones. As surely as the ...

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    CONCERT REVIEW: Dave Matthews Band at iTHINK Financial Amphitheater. It's hard to believe the last time we saw Dave Matthews Band performing in South Florida was nearly two years ago. It wasn't Dave's fault, of course, after all, the pandemic prevented the world from doing much of anything. There were a few live stream shows and other ...

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    The Dave Matthews Band has lots of fans like that, and they packed the Daily's Place amphitheater in Jacksonville Monday for the first of two nights of big hits and top-notch musicianship. Quite a ...

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    Indianapolis Star. 0:03. 1:23. NOBLESVILLE, Ind. - Halfway through their set at Ruoff Music Center Friday, Dave Matthews Band played crowd-favorite "Tripping Billies," Matthews' voice ...

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  12. Concert Review: Dave Matthews Band

    The only clue was the mud continuing to squish beneath your feet, as fans began to jump up and down with their arms high in the air. While Dave Matthews has an uncanny way of consuming a crowd, his band takes the concert on a whole different kind of adventure. Carter Beauford is invigorating on the drums, Jeff Coffin had a few expressive ...

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    But the Dave Matthews Band ended a 16-year drought in epic fashion Friday at a packed Climate Pledge Arena, playing this side of the Cascades for the first time since a 2006 date opening for the ...

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    Probably better in 2023. Matthews was '80s dancing and doing an impeccable impression. DM is astounding. He gets tremendous gas mileage out of that voice, with vocals in a variety of styles, tones ...

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    CONCERT REVIEW: Dave Matthews Band at Coral Sky Amphitheater. On a steamy shirt-soaking South Florida summer night, rockers Dave Matthews Band made their annual tour stop at Coral Sky Amphitheater on Friday night for the first of their two-night stop in West Palm Beach. Playing before 20,000 of their most faithful and exhilarated fans, this is a band that has never had any trouble selling out ...

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    AFP/Getty Images. Early in his band's 2½-hour-plus set Wednesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Dave Matthews joked about playing the hallowed venue. "It's always hard for me playing the ...

  19. Concert review: Dave Matthews hits high notes in Charlotte

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  20. Dave Matthews Band Brings Great Music to Omaha

    REVIEW BY DAVID TAYLOR AND PHOTOS BY BOB DeHART | Go Venue Magazine. Saturday, November 12, 2022, marked the return of Dave Matthews Band to Omaha, a 12-year wait for the group. Thousands of people packed into CHI Health Center in downtown Omaha to see the band that holds the record for the most consecutive albums to debut at #1 on the ...

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  23. 2024 Pilgrimage Festival Lineup: Noah Kahan, Needtobreathe

    The Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival has announced the lineup for its 10th anniversary. Noah Kahan, Hozier, Needtobreathe, and Dave Matthews Band will headline the weekend festival this ...

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    Dave Matthews Band (also known by the initialism DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991.