All you DMB HATERS! The band rocks your face off and you all are gonna hafta

[Bennyboy]

Shut up. Seriously, I just saw them twice. Once in Marysville and once at Shoreline. Almost like two completely different bands. two very different sets, not only in set lists, but in mood, the type of playing the band set up, the mood of the lights etc. 3 1/2 solid hours. No time left on the clock.

Marysville, they did a typical set with all the bit hits, end with "Crash" etc.. The lights were great but more standard stuff. The band had a lot of horns,not so much guitar... but the music was played the typical way everyone does, solos by everyone, big rock tar turns, mugging for the cameras, telling stories etc. A typical tour date. Great show, but one I have seen him do over and over again.

Then last night. OMG. The lights got crazy. They were stages that the light stuff phased in and you only saw one effect once the whole night. I saw lights that were used for one blast of light and never used again.. The videos got crazy and psychedelic. The band played as an ensemble, rather than a big bunch of soloists. The songs were all harder edged, more pulsing beats (THE BASSIST REALLY NEEDS TO BE MUCH MUCH LOUDER!). Less horns (The horn players from R Sadiq's band played a long time in M'Ville but only one of them for one song last night). Tim was shredding, way more than in Marysville. Nobody left, hardly. Everyone stood up at Shoreline and nobody stood up at Marysville.

Some things I noticed, never being that close to the DMB scene before. No kids hardly? Wonder why? On Dead scene, High Sierra etc, there are tons of kids, but at DMB there were hardly any.

Tons of nice cars. Lots of discussions about said cars.

The lights and videos stuff were the best I have ever seen. This rig and crew did Kuroda's (Phish's lighting director who is the bestest)best work in the first song last night. At first they were the standard rig type. the vid screens on the side with seamless videos ever changing and mutating. Then the clearest video screens above the band were phased in, seamlessly, and the whole stage area was a total multi media deal. all kinds of stuff going on. Never seen anything that was that huge and seemed so natural.

Many people in alligator shirts, tons of then. (sold my first candy to an alligator shirter since I started).

A lot more marital type discord. It was funny that the ladies would always get the last word in as to the man buying one of my products. I laughed when they both had a beer in their hands. I never see that hardly usually, but at Dave I saw it tons of times.(then they guy would sneakily buy some later)...

remarkably little marijuana smoke. And hardly any beer consumptions after the show started. I think they should do two sets so the venue can make some bucks.

Compared to most bands not much beer consumption, the bathrooms never got all ARRRGGGHHH!

NO FREAKINESS! Only saw maybe five people, and only one in Marysville, who were flying their freak flag.(I didn't fly mine much either)...


I know that they are taking a year off, and I will miss my every yearly encounters with Dave and his band. Good will to you all and I hope maybe Jeff tours with the Flecktones (hint o rama)in 2011, before DMB takes us to forever....

[Bennyboy]

1. to the top for DMB!

[HEyHEY]

2. The Band does rock... DMB.. not so much

:P