**Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King**

[GSR]

Tour in 9 days.

What are they doing? Are they going to have updates from the road or something for the new studio album website? They won't be in the studio to post clips.

[taparoo]

Tour in 9 days.

What are they doing? Are they going to have updates from the road or something for the new studio album website? They won't be in the studio to post clips.

D&T played a show yesterday for Microsoft employees. Tim's rockin the long hair and bandana. That's about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEu3OVDCMgc

[Easy E]

omg is that a new song???

[GSR]

WATCHTOWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[SimsUK]

Never mind me.

[Kahn]

Tim is the man

[fede]

Tim makes DMB more amazing.

Fede

[DJR]

wonder when that website will be up

[jsgksu]

Seeings how their tour starts on Friday, I doubt it will be anytime soon.

[Coldchillin]

Yeah, it's a traveshamockery.

[GSR]

I asked Stefan on his facebook. He hasn't responded.

[Nitro1515]

New Boyd article, now he is saying they will road test new songs this tour.

SPOILER

Charlottesville, Va., home of the Dave Matthews Band, sometime in the 1980s: Boyd Tinsley, the masterful violinist of the group, remembers rock groups jamming with bluegrass musicians, jazz cats sitting in with rock bands, the stray banjo player turning up anywhere and everywhere.

"Or me, a violin player sitting in with a jazz band or a rock band," Tinsley says. "For us, we kind of grew up with that, the different combinations of instruments and musicians playing together and making this music. I think we all recognized it was something very special, and it happens naturally with us because of where we're from."

The Dave Matthews Band, launching its 2008 tour Friday and Saturday at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown, embodies the cross-hybridization of music that was prevalent in its hometown. Since the release of "Remember Two Things" in 1993, the five-piece ensemble constantly has reinvented itself, exploring various strains of rock, jazz and world music.

To do otherwise, Tinsley says, would be pointless.

"We never feel like we have gotten to a place, or we never feel like 'here we are, this is how we will play from here on,'" he says. "Every night, we try to push ourselves to another level. As time goes by, we try to reach for new music that's challenging -- or maybe not so much challenging as different, although I think a lot of times it does become more intricate or challenging. It keeps us interested, it keeps the fans interested, and maybe that's one of the reasons we keep going."

While, nominally, Dave Matthews is the face of the band, Tinsley says the group dynamic would not work if Matthews were making all the decisions. Instead, the quintet is a band in the truest sense, even though it's unlike most others in instrumentation with Tinsley's violin, LeRoi Moore's horns and Matthews' acoustic guitar out front.

But the contributions of drummer Carter Beauford and bassist Stefan Lessard are equally important.

"Carter is just this amazing, more or less jazz drummer, this fusion drummer," Tinsley says, "who also plays everything that's coming from a whole new place. Then there's Stefan, who can bring the bottom to anything and is a creative and free-playing bass player. So this band can go in many different directions with the songs we play and the music we can make. It's just infinite."

The Dave Matthews Band is in the midst of sessions for a new album that is expected to be finished later this year. The band is working with producer Rob Cavallo, best known for working with Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

Some might see Cavallo as a curious choice, but Tinsley says it's not always prudent to judge a person by his track record.

"Rob's a very open, very creative guy," Tinsley says, "and that's the kind of vibe in the sessions we're in right now. From the very beginning, it's been very open. There's been no idea to make this album sound any kind of way, or to go in any direction. It's pretty much been how we feel at the time. We came up with a lot of ideas just jamming, just playing. We're finding really cool ideas that we like and are building on that. And Rob's been very open to letting the process unfold."

While the songs still are being shaped in the studio, some of them could be trotted out and road-tested this summer. Tinsley admits that gives the tour extra energy.

"One of the things everybody is excited about is getting to the new music," he says, "even though we're not going to record it until the fall. It's so fresh, the experience of songwriting, and there's a whole new excitement about the band and about where we go from here. I think that definitely will be carried on this summer."

But where does a band that has sold millions of albums, and sells out shows at outdoor venues across the country, do for an encore? It would be so easy for the Dave Matthews Band to trot out a greatest-hits show every summer, to put the whole thing on automatic pilot and coast for another 10 to 20 years.

That goes against the band's philosophy of always "discovering ourselves musically, to discover more music and just keep having fun."

So the goal, if there is one, is simple:

"To keep playing," Tinsley says with a laugh. "To keep playing longer. I think that's the thing. It's not so much collecting these notches of 'we've done this, we've done that,' but it's more about musically finding that place, that potential, as a band."

[Nitro1515]

And another new article just came out
http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/musi ... 8895.story

[fede]

Thanks KOAM.

I still don;t like this carvallo bloke.

Fede

[Mikey]

New Boyd article, now he is saying they will road test new songs this tour.

SPOILER

Charlottesville, Va., home of the Dave Matthews Band, sometime in the 1980s: Boyd Tinsley, the masterful violinist of the group, remembers rock groups jamming with bluegrass musicians, jazz cats sitting in with rock bands, the stray banjo player turning up anywhere and everywhere.

"Or me, a violin player sitting in with a jazz band or a rock band," Tinsley says. "For us, we kind of grew up with that, the different combinations of instruments and musicians playing together and making this music. I think we all recognized it was something very special, and it happens naturally with us because of where we're from."

The Dave Matthews Band, launching its 2008 tour Friday and Saturday at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown, embodies the cross-hybridization of music that was prevalent in its hometown. Since the release of "Remember Two Things" in 1993, the five-piece ensemble constantly has reinvented itself, exploring various strains of rock, jazz and world music.

To do otherwise, Tinsley says, would be pointless.

"We never feel like we have gotten to a place, or we never feel like 'here we are, this is how we will play from here on,'" he says. "Every night, we try to push ourselves to another level. As time goes by, we try to reach for new music that's challenging -- or maybe not so much challenging as different, although I think a lot of times it does become more intricate or challenging. It keeps us interested, it keeps the fans interested, and maybe that's one of the reasons we keep going."

While, nominally, Dave Matthews is the face of the band, Tinsley says the group dynamic would not work if Matthews were making all the decisions. Instead, the quintet is a band in the truest sense, even though it's unlike most others in instrumentation with Tinsley's violin, LeRoi Moore's horns and Matthews' acoustic guitar out front.

But the contributions of drummer Carter Beauford and bassist Stefan Lessard are equally important.

"Carter is just this amazing, more or less jazz drummer, this fusion drummer," Tinsley says, "who also plays everything that's coming from a whole new place. Then there's Stefan, who can bring the bottom to anything and is a creative and free-playing bass player. So this band can go in many different directions with the songs we play and the music we can make. It's just infinite."

The Dave Matthews Band is in the midst of sessions for a new album that is expected to be finished later this year. The band is working with producer Rob Cavallo, best known for working with Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

Some might see Cavallo as a curious choice, but Tinsley says it's not always prudent to judge a person by his track record.

"Rob's a very open, very creative guy," Tinsley says, "and that's the kind of vibe in the sessions we're in right now. From the very beginning, it's been very open. There's been no idea to make this album sound any kind of way, or to go in any direction. It's pretty much been how we feel at the time. We came up with a lot of ideas just jamming, just playing. We're finding really cool ideas that we like and are building on that. And Rob's been very open to letting the process unfold."

While the songs still are being shaped in the studio, some of them could be trotted out and road-tested this summer. Tinsley admits that gives the tour extra energy.

"One of the things everybody is excited about is getting to the new music," he says, "even though we're not going to record it until the fall. It's so fresh, the experience of songwriting, and there's a whole new excitement about the band and about where we go from here. I think that definitely will be carried on this summer."

But where does a band that has sold millions of albums, and sells out shows at outdoor venues across the country, do for an encore? It would be so easy for the Dave Matthews Band to trot out a greatest-hits show every summer, to put the whole thing on automatic pilot and coast for another 10 to 20 years.

That goes against the band's philosophy of always "discovering ourselves musically, to discover more music and just keep having fun."

So the goal, if there is one, is simple:

"To keep playing," Tinsley says with a laugh. "To keep playing longer. I think that's the thing. It's not so much collecting these notches of 'we've done this, we've done that,' but it's more about musically finding that place, that potential, as a band."

i read this today in the tribune review today and was gonna post it. you're too quick koam