The drinking in the parking lot thing does NOT work for the Buzzfest/Lollapalooza style all day fests. In fact, the CWMP may be the worst local venue for that kind of event. No shade if you bought a lawn seat, $5 waters, $7 beers, massive bathroom lines... Did I mention no shade?
Great Concert! Really wish I was going to the show tomorrow in Dallas... #41 is simply amazing live. Listening to a studio/live CD version just doesn't quite do it justice.
Did everyone catch the short version of #36? They only did a little of it. Wish they would have done more, I like that one. I just listened to Two Step on Listener Supported for comparison. As good as it is, it's nothing like last nights version. Man, we really got a treat. I would have paid $60+ just to see that song! Carter was smokin'!
Great song live... Are you sitting in the lawn for the SA show? Im thinking about buying tickets.... Drew
#41 is my favorite DMB song. i was hoping they'd play that and was stoked when they did. same w/ crush, SMTS, and PNP/ Rapunzel. personally, i can't complain one bit. great set for me. my mom wanted to leave 1/2 through two step, but i wouldn't let her. had we left and i'd a found out they played an incredible 20 min. two step to end it, ida been pissed.... real pissed.
I e-mailed you. I've got reserved seats, but you should still go and we could try to get you down there...wouldn't be hard at all.
You should've come say hi. You did open the show didn't you? The guy who opened kinda looked like you. I just glanced up there while going to get a beer after getting to our seats and thought it was you for a second.
Unquestionably the best concert I've been to this year! Arguably the best DMB show I've ever been to. Personally, I think it was probably better than last year's two shows here, but that's a close call. The biggest highlights were: SMTS->ASTB->PNP->Rapunzel -- WOW!!! Didn't see that coming. I thought they might do ASTB into something like Ants Marching or WWYS. Two Step -- GREAT performance by Butch. I lost Leroi for quite some time on stage -- did he leave, then return? #41 -- Carter was great! Stay -- Great show to get the crowd into it. Ya know, I should just stop trying to list these things because the whole show was awesome! I desperately need to get a good copy so I can hear the words on Kit Kat Jam because they were different from on the Lillywhites. I'd say the only thing that was even remotely a letdown was "If I had it All" -- my favorite song from Everyday, and it wasn't as good as others I've heard. I have a feeling Dallas will be GREAT . . . I'm hoping to tailgate at Selma, if any of you all are interested . . .
Vengeance -- Please let me know if you get a good CD copy of the concert...i'd love to have a copy for myself.
Sorry if it's been posted. July 17, 2003, 4:57PM Matthews and Co. deliver perfection By MICHAEL D. CLARK Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Just one day after Houston flirted with Hurricane Claudette, fans of the Dave Matthews Band were unfazed by the weather. As a capacity crowd filed into the open-air Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Wednesday, there was more mud on the hill than usual. Muggy, gray skies threatened but never delivered a downpour. It would take a lot more to keep the DMB faithful from seeing the country's premier jazz-influenced, roots rock jam band. Blessed with cultish fans, depth of musical vision, the talent of modern peers Phish and an expansive, decade-in-the-making catalog, the DMB never gives the same show twice. Backed by his band and a huge video screen, Dave Matthews launches into a song during an 18-song performance Wednesday at the Woodlands Pavilion. This year's 2 1/2-hour-long, 18-song performance may have been even more anticipated than in the past because the band was not saddled with obligatory support for a new album. With last studio release Busted Stuff already a year old, the DMB was free to explore the catacombs of its career. With five studio albums, dozens of unreleased fan favorites and a laundry list of frequent covers to choose from, the setlist was almost as anticipated as the performance itself. That Matthews and Co. were making just a one-night stop on the Gulf Coast (they've often done two-night stays in the past) made an action-packed set even more necessary. Wasting little time between songs with chit-chat or pyrotechnics, the DMB delivered a gem. The show drew democratically from each album, so it was not filled with rarities. It was more a well-informed career overview that coupled early favorites like The Song That Jane Likes with the eloquent improvisational grace of recent work like Digging a Ditch and Grey Street. Taking a stage forged from metal pipes in the shape of overhead lighting cranes and a frame to house a large screen, the sextet was greeted with howls of affection -- and a smattering of microphones recording the action for future bootlegs. The band -- vocalist/guitarist Matthews, sinewy violinist Boyd Tinsley, horn player Leroi Moore, drummer Carter Beauford and bassist Stefan Lessard -- was accompanied by keyboard player Butch Taylor. It took exactly two notes of every song for the crowd to burst into hallelujahs over the band's choice. As Matthews opened the show by tickling the notes of Everyday, the crowd of 16,209 cheered as if Roman Emperor Commodus had just given the "thumbs-up" sign in an ancient gladiator ring. Lessard burst in on Matthews' prelude with bouncy bass lines that allowed the singer and Moore's saxophone to dance through a falsetto duet on the chorus. If Lessard were a clock, the big hand of his bass fret would be pointing at two o'clock. He looks like he's lifting a piano when playing, but balances the melodies of songs like Rhyme & Reason and Kit Kat Jam like an effortless pendulum. His lead allowed Rhyme & Reason to rise out of a hypnotizing string-and-brass loop into the kind of uptempo, electric-rock riff one expects from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In retrospect, it gets harder to understand why 2001's limited Everyday album jumped ahead of the release of the deeply touching Busted Stuff. Onstage Everyday songs like If I Had It All provide a palette for long improvisations by Boyd's lightening-fast violin and room for Beauford to dent his cymbals soloing. But Busted Stuff standouts like Grey Street and Where Are You Going mesmerize with a building of tension, the explosion of hooks and Moore's snake-charming clarinet exhales. Some will rue the omission of live standards like Tripping Billies and Ants Marching. Any true DMB fan, however, would see Matthews growling like Springsteen and dancing across the stage on Too Much and know that the setlist was perfect. It was the show the band picked specifically for Houston, and that should be enough. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/music/concerts/1999771
Wow, that's the best review I've ever seen the Chronicle give for a Dave show. Did I mention I was going tonight?
