Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band (also known by the initialism DMB) is an United States rock band that originally formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991 by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dave Matthews; saxophonist LeRoi Moore; bassist Stefan Lessard; electric violinist Boyd Tinsley; drummer Carter Beauford, and keyboardist Peter Griesar (who left the band in 1993). Since 1998 the band has performed at most of their shows with keyboardist Butch Taylor, who while not an officially named member of the band, is a fixture on stage. In 2006, the band added trumpet player Rashawn Ross, most noted as the live trumpet player for Soulive, to the stage. It is not yet known if his presence will be permanent. Moore, Beauford, Ross, Tinsley and Taylor also perform back up vocals.

Early history

In the beginning, there was egret.

everything else is meaningless.

In November 1990, songwriter David John Matthews was working in Charlottesville as a bartender at a bar named Miller's. One particular friend that he had made in his time there was a lawyer named Ross Hoffman. With some effort Hoffman convinced Matthews to lay down a demo of the few songs he had written, as the songwriter was shy and "scared shitless" of playing in front of people. Hoffman hoped that Matthews could shop the songs to other musicians in hopes of finding other musicians to lay down some studio work with him. Hoffman encouraged Dave to approach Carter Beauford, a local musician on the Charlottesville music scene. Beauford, at that point, had been in several bands and was currently playing on a jazz show on Black Entertainment Television (BET). After hearing the demo, Carter agreed to spend some time playing with Matthews, both inside and out of the studio. Dave also approached LeRoi Moore, another local jazz musician who often performed with the John D'earth Quintet, and asked if he would be interested in joining them. Not even aware Matthews was more than the bartender at Miller's, Moore skeptically listened to the demo. However, after liking what he heard, Moore decided that he too would give the young South African a chance. So 1991 began with those three working on Dave's songs, however the sessions with just the three of them jamming weren't working out as they had hoped and they knew that more musicians would be needed.

Moore's former bandmate John D'earth not only performed on the local music scene, but conducted the University of Virginia Orchestra, and taught music at the Tandem School. Stefan Lessard, a junior bassist at that time, was under the guidance of teacher John D'earth and also in a student jazz combo called the Yabanci Jazzites. Based on the recommendation from John D’earth, the sixteen-year-old Lessard was asked to join them in the studio to help complete the demo. While they never intended to extend their partnership outside of the studio, the four liked what they were doing together and decided they wanted to continue playing with each other in a live setting. It was at this time that they decided to start practicing (mainly in Carter's basement and Matthews' mother's basement).

Peter Griesar was a bartender at Miller's beginning in 1989, and in August of 1991, during Miller's annual respite for inventory, Matthews, Beauford, Moore and Lessard used the empty bar for rehearsing. Griesar heard them rehearsing and decided to stop working for a while, pull out his harmonica, and start playing with them. After a few songs, he was invited to perform with them. He immediately accepted, becoming the band's first keyboardist. Griesar's last show with the band was March 23, 1993.

Boyd Tinsley was the last member to join the band. Although he had performed on the demo with Matthews, Moore, Beauford and Lessard, he was busy with a couple of other bands at the time (Boyd Tinsley Band and Down Boy Down) and did not want to commit to a group of musicians that were only together in the studio at the time. He didn't become a full time member until the middle of 1992.

Breaking out of Virginia (1991-1993)

The first in-studio Demo done by the Dave Matthews Band consisted of "The Song That Jane Likes," "Recently," and "Tripping Billies." The band consisted of Dave, LeRoi, Stefan, and Carter. Boyd was not yet a member, and Boyd only performed on "Tripping Billies." This was recorded in February or March 1991, before the first live performance by the band.

The first official gig for the newly conceived Dave Matthews Band was May 11, 1991, at a private rooftop party in Charlottesville. It was held on the roof of the pink warehouse on South Street by building resident Lydia Condor. A band called Thin Men opened the show that night. Stefan was in that band as well, playing stand-up bass, and later switching to electric bass with DMB. Their first public show was at the city’s 1991 Earth Day Festival. Local weekly gigs soon followed, and within a little while, word of the band’s contagious new sound spread like wildfire throughout the region. At this point they still didn't have a name for the band. One name that was thrown around was Dumela, but no real enthusiasm was ever felt, and they dropped it. It is reported that someone from the band telephoned a place where they were booked and said to just write Dave Matthews and a band will show up. The person receiving the call just wrote 'band' after the name, and the name stayed Dave Matthews Band from that point on. By January 1992, they were playing a regular Tuesday night show at the popular Charlottesville club Trax. Shows at Trax are some of the most widely spread bootlegs among DMB fans. It took only another five months for them to book another weekly gig on Wednesday nights at another restaurant, Eastern Standard, where Griesar and Matthews had been performing at open mic night.

Sensing that the band was on the verge of making it big, and not wanting to have his life ruled by the grueling schedule that touring musicians are often confined to, Peter Griesar decided to leave after a show played on 3/23/93. . Known as "Big League Chew" (as the bubble gum company was apparently sponsoring something at Trax that night), the show is one of the most well known shows from the early years at Trax.

On December 16, 1993, DMB released its first album, Remember Two Things on its Bama Rags label. The album was recorded live at The Muse Music Club on Nantucket Island in August of 1993. The album debuted on College charts as the highest independent entry, and went on to be certified gold by the RIAA -- a significant accomplishment for an independent album. Meanwhile, the band kept touring and its fan base continued to grow. By allowing fans to tape shows for their personal use, DMB created a highly interactive community that continues in spirit today. Only recently has the band had to take legal action against some bootleggers who sell recordings of their concerts at a profit (something the DMB trading community also abhors).

Breakthrough success (1994-1996)

The band released their second live EP entitled Recently in 1994. The album's five tracks were taken from shows performed at The Birchmere in Arlington, Virginia; and from Trax back in Charlottesville. This EP featured the first recorded versions of the Bob Dylan classic "All Along The Watchtower" and the ever popular "Halloween".

On September 20, 1994 DMB released their first LP, Under the Table and Dreaming, featuring their first commercial hits "What Would You Say," (featuring John Popper on harmonica), "Satellite," and "Ants Marching". The album was dedicated to Dave's late sister Anne who was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide.

Under the Table and Dreaming and its follow-up album, Crash brought the band national attention, culminating in a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for "So Much To Say" as well as four other nominations between the years 1996 and 1997. The band also achieved hits with "Crash Into Me," "Too Much," and "Tripping Billies."

Hitting the mainstream (1997-1999)

By 1997, DMB reached unparalleled levels of popularity across the country and, to some degree, the world. On October 28, 1997, the band released their first full length live album, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95. The album, which was recorded at the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, featured popular songs from the band's first three albums and included longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds on electric guitar.

In late 1997, the band returned to the studio with producer Steve Lillywhite and an array of guest collaborators, including Reynolds, banjoist Béla Fleck, vocalist Alanis Morissette, future permanent keyboardist and unofficial sixth band member Butch Taylor, and the Kronos Quartet, to compose and record Before These Crowded Streets, their third album with RCA, which was released April 28, 1998. The album represented a great change in direction for the band as they did not rely on upbeat hit singles to carry the album. The lead single ""Don't Drink The Water" is a very dark tune about apartheid in South Africa and abuse suffered by Native Americans in the United States. "Stay (Wasting Time)", an uplifting gospel number, and "Crush", a ballad, also became very popular tracks off of the album.

On January 19, 1999 Matthews and Reynolds released the live album, Live at Luther College, from a 1996 acoustic concert played by Matthews and Reynolds at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The album features songs mostly from DMB's first two albums, while also featuring the previously unreleased pieces "Deed Is Done" and "Little Thing." Also included on the album is Reynolds' acoustic virtuoso piece "Stream."

The band took part in the ill fated Woodstock '99 concert, with a memorable set that included several of their hits. The concert is one of the most widely boot-legged DMB concerts and is a must have for most fans.

The band released their third live album, Listener Supported, on November 23, 1999. The concert was recorded from the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey on September 11, 1999 for a PBS television special. The album was also the band's first DVD. The year also provided two more Grammy nominations.

Turmoil in the studio (2000-2003)

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Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, and Butch Taylor in Melbourne during their first tour of Australia

During the year 2000, DMB set up their own recording studio at a large countryside home outside Charlottesville. With longtime producer Lillywhite at the helm, the band began work on a fourth studio album. Heavily influenced by personal conflicts, notably the death of Matthews' uncle from alcoholism, the songs recorded with Lillywhite rank as some of the darkest he has ever written. The band's attentions wandered during the seemingly never-ending recording sessions; they spent more time riding four-wheelers through the countryside and playing video games than writing or recording music. In the end, the studio sessions were a failure. In August 2000, the sessions were scrapped and the band's seven-year relationship with Lillywhite was over. Some believe DMB was unhappy with the atmosphere of the songs and frustrated with Lillywhite's often perfectionist style of production, while others believe Lillywhite was made into a scapegoat for the band's lack of professionalism during the recording sessions.

In October 2000, an energized Matthews began writing with Glen Ballard, most famous for his work with Alanis Morissette. The rest of DMB (along with special guest Carlos Santana) soon joined Matthews in a Los Angeles studio and quickly recorded Everyday. While the album gave the band a much-needed fresh start, Ballard's slick pop-music approach to production was very different from the creative process used to produce previous studio albums. Carter Beauford later told Rolling Stone that he felt that the album was a product of Matthews and Ballard and that it did not showcase the rest of the band. The February 27, 2001 release of Everyday was a huge commercial success, for the band. The singles "I Did It," "Everyday," and "The Space Between," brought the band an even larger level of popularity. But like the band itself, the fanbase was disappointed with the release. Everyday's poppy, slick sound (including Dave Matthews' first ever recording sessions on electric guitar) was a big departure from the band's previous work and highly divergent from the songs recorded with Lillywhite.

Certain songs such as "What You Are" and "When The World Ends" kept a darker edge to them, and have been more well received by older DMB fans. "Everyday" was also familiar to older DMB fans, as the main guitar lick was lifted from the song "#36," which can be found on the Live At Red Rocks and Listener Supported records. Fans noticed this at concerts and towards the end of the bands live versions of "Everyday" you could hear the fans start to sing the chorus to "#36." The tradition is now a staple at almost every DMB live show.

In March 2001, the Lillywhite conflict came full circle when the 2000 studio sessions with producer were leaked over the internet. The tracks spread like wildfire over established internet channels such as the Dave Matthews Band Mailing List. Better known as The Lillywhite Sessions, this rough album was universally lauded by both the fanbase and the popular press. After critical comparison of the two simultaneous albums, many fans were frustrated with the band's decision to scrap the work in exchange for "Everyday". Tracks such as "Bartender," "Grey Street," "Captain," and "Grace is Gone" caused many to wonder aloud whether the band had thrown away its best (albeit unfinished) work.

On October 23, 2001 the band released their fourth live album Live in Chicago 12.19.98. The album, like the Red Rocks live set also features Tim Reynolds on guitar. The band is joined by many special guests on this album such as bassist Victor Wooten, saxophonist Maceo Parker, and guitarist Mitch Rutman.

The Lillywhite Sessions would, however, finally have their chance to shine. In response to overwhelming fan support, coupled with a popular and widely publicized online campaign known as the Release Lillywhite Recordings Campaign, DMB returned to the studio in 2002 to record Busted Stuff. Produced by Stephen Harris, the recording engineer under Lillywhite on previous albums, the resulting CD provided new treatments of much of the Lillywhite Sessions material, along with newly written songs "You Never Know" and the hit single "Where Are You Going?," which was subsequently used for the movie Mr. Deeds. Busted Stuff hit the shelves on July 16, 2002 receiving moderate critical and commercial success, while being generally well-received by the band's fanbase. Tracks such as "Grey Street" and "Grace Is Gone" became immediate fan favorites and were very well received at live shows.

On November 5, 2002, the band released its fifth live album, Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado, recorded July 11, 2001. The live release highlighted songs from both Everyday and Busted Stuff. The "Everyday" and "#36" segue can also be heard for the first time on an official release off this album. The albums was also released as a DVD.

In the Spring of 2003 Matthews and Reynolds embarked on another successful solo acoustic tour. This was the second such outing for the duo. The shows are a great difference from the normal DMB shows in the fact that the venue is usually more intimate, and the song selection is very different. Before a vast majority of the songs Matthews usually tells a dry funny tale about how the song was written, much to the joy of his fans. The shows are also noted for Reynolds virtuoso guitar work.

In 2003 Matthews and Tinsley released their first solo albums. Tinsley released True Reflections on June 17, 2003. The album's title track was a tune that had been played at DMB shows in the past, and also appeared on the Listener Supported live CD/DVD.

On September 23, 2003, just one day before the bands mammoth Central Park concert, Dave Matthews released his first solo album Some Devil. The albums lead single, Gravedigger won Matthews another Grammy Award. The album was followed by the Dave Matthews & Friends tour. The arena tour was in an interesting format as Reynolds and Matthews would play a short acoustic set, followed by a rock set featuring Matthews, Reynolds and Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio. The tour was a success for Matthews, and a welcome break for the rest of the band.

On September 24, 2003, DMB played a free concert on the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park. The band was joined by guitarist Warren Haynes on the songs "Jimi Thing" and the Neil Young classic Cortez The Killer. The proceeds from concert benefited New York City schools, and marked the second time that DMB had recorded a charity based live album. A live recording of that show was released on November 18, 2003 as The Central Park Concert on CD and DVD.

Live Trax & Stand Up (2004-2005)

2004 saw DMB release more music than any previous year. The Gorge, a combination 2-CD/1-DVD set with highlights from their 3-night 2002 tour closer at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington was released on June 29, 2004. The Band also exclusively released a 6-disc CD set through the Warehouse Fan Association from the same run featuring all three nights, with each night spanning across two CDs.

Later in the year it was announced that highlights from the Band's extensive live archives would be available for purchase via the official website. The first such release, Live Trax Vol. 1, was released on November 2, 2004, and was recorded at the Centrum Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 8, 1998. The album featured old friends such as guitarist Tim Reynolds, banjoist Béla Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten and saxophonist Jeff Coffin; and had already been nearly universally accepted as one of the greatest shows in DMB's history.

On September 12, 2004 DMB played their second benefit show in less than a year, with a free show at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The band was joined by guitarist Carlos Santana on many songs, and the tracks led to the second release of the Live Trax Series, Live Trax Vol. 2, on December 17, 2004. The album gave fans previews of newly-penned songs "Joy Ride," "Hello Again," and "Sugar Will;" all at the time presumed to be destined for release on a new studio album in 2005; though only "Hello Again" was actually included on the album's subsequent release. The other songs that debuted during the summer of 2004; "Crazy-Easy," "Good Good Time," "Joy Ride," and "Sugar Will;" were all absent during the duration of the 2005 touring season.

In August 2004, DMB was at the center of a controversy when about 800 pounds of liquid human waste was dumped from band member Boyd Tinsley's tour bus through the grate in the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago on to passengers aboard a sightseeing boat in the Chicago River below. Tinsley was not on board the bus at the time.Template:Fact The bus driver pleaded guilty, and the band has donated $50,000 to the Friends of the Chicago River and $50,000 to the Chicago Park District. In April 2005, the band paid $200,000 to settle the civil lawsuit that followed.

In Fall 2004, DMB returned to their studio in Charlottesville, Virginia with a new producer, Mark Batson. The band considered itself to be at a crucial crossroads in its evolution. The negative reaction of many of its fans to Everyday and the middling success of Busted Stuff, coupled with Dave Matthews' belief that the band has not made a great album since Before These Crowded StreetsTemplate:Fact, all worked to create a sense of eagerness, if not urgency, to create a stellar album. Stand Up was released on May 10, 2005, debuting at #1 on the Billboard charts with sales of 465,000. Fan reaction towards the album was mixed. Some felt the band had new energy, while others felt the album was too simplistic. Regardless, Stand Up spawned the hit singles "American Baby," "Dreamgirl," and "Everybody Wake Up". The band supported the album with a summer-long tour culminating in a four-night stand at one of their favorite jaunts, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Red Rocks holds special significance for the band, as it was the site of their first live album a decade earlier. All proceeds from the fourth Red Rocks show, which totalled over $1 million, went to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

DMB embarked on a brief tour in Fall 2005, with dates throughout November and December. Overall, the 2005 winter tour was quite a success. It featured the return of old school songs such as "Minarets," "Halloween," "Pig," "Christmas Song," and "Recently." The 2005 Red Rocks concerts were released on November 29 as a "best of" CD/DVD combo entitled Weekend on the Rocks. The Complete Weekend On The Rocks, a box set of all four Red Rocks concerts, is also exclusively available from DMB's official store.

2006

Dave Matthews made several appearances in the UK during the Spring of 2006, notably performing a one-off solo show at the King's College Student Union (Tutu's) on February 28, followed a little while later by a small solo tour to promote the release of Stand Up in the UK, performing at the Manchester Academy 1 on May 12, the Birmingham Academy on May 13, and the London Hammersmith Apollo on May 15. The tour was largely promoted through independent channels; Warehouse ticketing for the February 28 show was available exclusively to UK members and promoted via email, and interviews were mostly conducted by minor shows rather than by mass media outlets.

Dave also played a show on May 11 at the Maida Vale Studios for the Radio 2 Bob Harris show, attended by competition winners who formed an intimate crowd of around 100 people. During the show, audience members got to ask questions and Bob Harris asked Dave several himself. During several interviews, Dave professed to wanting to return to the UK to do more solo shows, confessing "I'm enjoying coming over by myself though because I don't get that many opportunities to play solo and I like doing it a lot" as well as hinting at the possibility of the entire band returning to the UK for more shows - "I think the whole idea is I'll make a couple of trips over here by myself and then bring the band over" . This promise has certainly been kept by the band, as the first fully fledged Europe tour for some time is being undertaken, starting on May 23, 2007. The tour is going to Dublin, Lisbon, Brussells, and finishing at Wembley Arena in London on May 30. In addition to this, Matthews is performing yet another solo acoustic tour, this time extending his horizons to countries other than England. The hope is to spread the word of the band to places other than North America, where the band has surprisingly received little publicity.

Dave Matthews Band announced on April 25, 2006, a $1.5 million challenge grant to help build the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village. The band returned to the studio in March 2006 (with the resultant album slated for release in winter) before embarking on their annual summer tour. It features 51 shows across North America, having begun May 30 in St. Louis, Missouri, and concluded with a two-night stand on September 22-23 in the band's home town of Charlottesville, Virginia. Arguably the summer's most notable locale for the 2006 tour was a two-night stand at Boston's Fenway Park, that took place on July 7 and 8, and is featured as the sixth release in their "Live Trax" series. Along with the original five members and Butch, this summer features new addition Rashawn Ross touring full time. The trumpet player, who received recognition with DMB's fans while playing with the jazz band Soulive, guested on several shows in the summer of 2005 and the majority of the shows during the Winter 2005 tour. Rashawn has been added on as a full time for this tour, and the band has also indiciated that Rashawn will be around for quite some time (mentioning it during several shows in the first leg of the summer 2006 tour and due to the fact that he has been an important member of the recent studio sessions that have taken place both before and during the summer 2006 tour). The band has used the summer tour to debut new songs such as "Sister", a song performed solo by Dave Matthews, "The Idea of You", "Kill the King", "Shotgun", "Break Free", and "Can't Stop". Older songs in the Band's catalogue have appeared during the summer 2006 tour after not being played several years, including "JTR", a song that was long thought to never be played live again, as hinted by Stefan in an interview from 2004, "Pay For What You Get", "Sleep To Dream Her", "Raven", "The Song That Jane Likes", "Digging A Ditch", "The Last Stop", "Big-Eyed Fish", "The Dreaming Tree", and a short, full-band version of "#40".

In August, Dave Matthews Band announced on their website that, in order to fulfill a contractual obligation, they would be releasing a "best of" album. They held a survey on their webpage that encouraged fans to select their ten favorite DMB songs. The album, titled The Best of What's Around Vol. 1, named after the opening track of 1994's Under The Table And Dreaming, was released on November 7, 2006. The album features two discs, the first consisting of what the band considers their "best" studio tracks, and the second of live tracks voted on by fans. Additionally, those who pre-ordered the CD on the Dave Matthews Band website received an "encore" CD with four additional live songs. The Encore CD was later made available on their website to anyone for an additional $10.

2007 - New studio album

Template:Current-section As of January 2007, Dave Matthews Band were in the studio with producer Mark Batson recording their seventh studio album. According to the band's official website, "Mark Batson [...] is currently in the studio working with DMB on their next studio release." According to Billboard magazine, the album will come in July under RCA Records. In late February Dave Matthews embarked on a small tour of Europe with Tim Reynolds. The tour has been used to debut a new song, tentatively called "Corn Bread".

Taping and bootlegs

Dave Matthews Band allows audience members to record live shows and permits not-for-profit trading of the recordings. The band cites college students trading these tapes in the early 1990s as a key reason for their current fame.Template:Fact The band and its management also worked with the US federal government in 1996 to launch a crackdown on for-profit bootleggers, which resulted in large-scale arrests of those responsible for illegally manufacturing and selling copies of DMB material. To further combat bootleggers,Template:Fact the band released Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, which was an unexpected success.Template:Fact

Warehouse fan association

Template:Main Another fan-friendly trend of DMB (in the tradition of The Grateful Dead, Phish, and Barenaked Ladies) is allowing their fans to purchase concert tickets before being sold to the general public. This, however, does not mean that Warehouse tickets will always be the best seats. Seat locations are not disclosed until approximately one month prior to the show date. The band's Warehouse Fan Association (also known as "The Warehouse") pioneered the internet-based ticket pre-sales used by many artists today. DMB Manager Coran Capshaw founded and ran Musictoday, a company which runs Warehouse and other online fan clubs. In August, 2006, it was acquired by major concert promoter Live Nation, a spinoff of Clear Channel.

Other benefits of the Warehouse Fan Association is members receive bonus companion CDs when they pre-order official Audio and Video releases. Members who have been active since the establishment of the Warehouse often receive some of the best seats available.

Discography

Main article: Dave Matthews Band discography

Independent albums

Remember Two Things (1993)

Recently - EP (1994)

Studio albums

Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

Crash (1996)

Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

Everyday (2001)

Busted Stuff (2002)

Stand Up (2005)

Live albums

Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 (1997)

Listener Supported (1999)

Live in Chicago 12.19.98 (2001)

Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado (2002)

The Central Park Concert (2003)

The Gorge (2004)

Weekend on the Rocks (2005)

Live Trax series albums

Live Trax Vol. 1
12.8.1998 Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
(2004)

Live Trax Vol. 2
9.12.2004 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(2004)

Live Trax Vol. 3
8.27.2000 Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, CT
(2005)

Live Trax Vol. 4
4.30.1996 Classic Amphitheatre, Richmond, VA
(2005)

Live Trax Vol. 5
8.23.1995 Meadow Brook Music Festival, Rochester Hills, MI
(2006)

Live Trax Vol. 6
7.7–8.2006 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
(2006)

Live Trax Vol. 7
12.31.1996 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
(2006)

Live Trax Vol. 8
8.7.2004 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
(2007)

Compilation albums

The Best of What's Around Vol. 1 (2006)

The band has also released several live albums in their Live Trax series, which are not available in stores, except for Live Trax Vol. 6, which is in limited retail stores, especially around Boston. See Dave Matthews Band discography for more information.

Awards

Grammys

• Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (1996) — nominated
• Best Music Video, Short Form ("What Would You Say," 1996) — nominated
• Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("So Much To Say", 1997) — WON
• Best Rock Song ("Too Much", 1997) — nominated
• Best Rock Album (Crash, 1997) — nominated
• Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (1998) — nominated
• Best Rock Song ("Crash Into Me", 1998) — nominated
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Crush", 1999) — nominated
• Best Rock Album (Before These Crowded Streets, 1999) — nominated
• Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Love Of My Life" wih Santana, 2000) — nominated
• Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("The Space Between", 2002) — nominated
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Where Are You Going", 2003) — nominated

My VH1 Awards

• Coolest Fan Website (2000) (for nancies.org) — WON
• My Favorite Group (2001) — WON
• Must Have Album , for Everyday (2001) — WON
• Damn I Wish I Wrote That! (Song of the Year), for "The Space Between" (2001) — WON
• Coolest Fan Website (2001) (for nancies.org) — WON

NAACP Image awards

• Chairman's Award (2004), "in recognition of their diverse talents put to exceptional use...The special awards are a salute to both professional as well as personal excellence."

Philanthropic efforts

According to the band's website, since 1999 the band has contributed $4 million to the BAMA Works Fund. The BAMA Works Fund supports projects addressing the needs of disadvantaged youth, needs of the disabled, protection of the environment, and the arts and humanities. This foundation only operates in the Charlottesville Virginia area.

Trivia

• Julia Roberts is a fan and appears in the "Dreamgirl" video.
• The band's longest live performance of any song was a 32 minute and 3 second performance of "#41" featuring Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, played on April 20, 2002 at the former Corel Centre.
• On August 20, 1995, the band played the first version of the song "Raven," which did not come back again until June 20, 2000 when it was reworked during the The Lillywhite Sessions.Template:Fact
• One of five musical acts to perform a live concert at the Great Lawn of Central Park in New York City (others are Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, and Garth Brooks (see The Central Park Concert).
• An episode of the show Futurama refers to the band, stating that the main character erroneously believes that the band "rocks" when he is drunk.
• In the "Frat Aliens" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force DP and Skeeter have a sticker on their spaceship that reads "Dave Matthews Band Cover Band Cover Band."
• Dave Matthews Band has had two ice cream flavors from Ben and Jerry's, One Sweet Whirled, a pun on a popular song, and Magic Brownies.
• On some pressings of the CD release titled "Under the Table and Dreaming", the song "#34" is the 34th track; tracks 12-33 are blank and one second apiece.
• Dave Matthews Band (with opening act Sheryl Crow) played the fourth concert ever to be held at Fenway Park.
• Dave Matthews Band played the inaugural concert at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI on July 5, 2000.
• July 9, 2005 marked the return of "#34." It was last played on March 23, 1993, for a total of 4491 days between times being played. It is the longest break and return from a song the band has taken.

Notes

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External links

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Official Sites

• davematthewsband.com official band site
• warehouse.davematthewsband.com official fan club
• dmbnewstudioalbum.com official studio site
• musictoday.com official dmb store

Fan Sites

• amidreaming.org unofficial fan site & news
• antsmarching.org unofficial fan message board
• dmbfansite.com unofficial fan site & newsletter
• dmbrr.com unofficial fan site & newsletter
• dreamingtree.org fan site dedicated to live audience recordings
• nancies.org unofficial fan site
• thesedayscontinue.org unofficial fan message board
• weeklydavespeak.com unofficial fan site & newsletter
• Dave Matthews Band Info unofficial DMB lyrics site

Tour Info, Media, Etc.

• davematthewsband.co.uk featuring dmb guitar tutorial videos, documentaries, media for the intrigued, and questioning the bands current lack of success in the UK
• dmbalmanac.com set lists & stats
• dmbtabs.com guitar tablature
• seekup.org live music reference

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