why do people hate dmb music?

max · Unread post by **max** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:08 am

I was at a bar the other night and they started playing DMB and everyone was like "oh boy, Dave Matthews". I mean they don't really hate it, but they definitely don't give it respect like they will Phish or Greatful Dead. It really pisses me off. DMB has this image of being a frat band and maybe closer to pop than those other bands, but that's not exactly why they don't get respect. Even in reviews I've read, sometimes they shit all over Dave. It's like people respect their record sales, but they're not considered a serious rock band. Walk into any Guitar Center and ask anyone who works there what they think of DMB and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I really feel like I'm missing something, because there is no denying that, regardless of your musical tastes, DMB music is good. Dave has good vocal range, the band incorporates a variety of styles including funk, jazz and blues, they combine instruments not typically found in a rock band to produce a sound that is umistakably unique. Dave is also an undeniably charismatic leader with no pretentious bullshit.

I'm not trying to rant and I know we all love DMB, but I'm just pissed off that I even have to defend the band at all.

gumbomadness · Unread post by **gumbomadness** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:52 am

to each his own. as long as you respect the band thats all you can ask.
i hate slipknots music, but i respect there musical talent.

TaylorGuy110 · Unread post by **TaylorGuy110** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:09 pm

people that don't play an instument don't have any idea of what it takes to create music like dave! or even try to play his music. after all if it wasn't for daves music i probably wouldn't be playing the guitar today. it's extremely challeging (to me anyways) as far as respect, i respect anyone for there music talents, there style of music is up to them! " People like that will always be out there and they will never learn how to respect until they understand music!

Mjazk26 · Unread post by **Mjazk26** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:26 pm

I think DMB has two sides to them as far as fan base. They have the people that know them from Crash, Satellite, and other songs played on the radio and base their opinion on this (which is most of the population) then there is the fans that actually know the music. People that are not really familiar with the band have no clue regarding the Jamming tallent and are not familiar with the more complex songs.

Another thing is DMB is not the type of band I have heard played in many bars. Unless you find a chill place its probably not going to happen very often.

I have alot of friends that make fun of me for being such a huge fan of DMB because they only know the popular songs and don't see anything past that. For those that are interested I try to play some stuff for them that may explain why Im a fan and if they don't like it thats cool. To all their own.

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:34 pm

yeah for the most part my friends that have heard 1 dave matthews song, think im a freak, i say freinds loosly because they think were friends i think there dipshit asspirates for various other reasons. but the friends that are into good music like phish dmb, all that stuff, they arent as big a fan as me, but tend to be the ones starting talks about dave.

Maldito`Tuelho · Unread post by **Maldito`Tuelho** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:01 pm

Down here in Brazil things are a little different from up here. Most of the people, and by most I means 90% of the population haven't even heard about DMB. This leaves tu us, fans, a great amount of space to discuss why the hell does this happends.
We all know that DMB doesn't have the hugest marketing strategies except for Canada-USA block.
It's really hard to make someone meet what is DMB music and what it represent to us.
I personally found to be quite amusing that you bother about such thing, because in your situation I would just laugh, since I would be just some hours away from any show.
Actually I really envy you people oO
=P

gumbomadness · Unread post by **gumbomadness** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:14 pm

Maldito`Tuelho wrote:Down here in Brazil things are a little different from up here. Most of the people, and by most I means 90% of the population haven't even heard about DMB. This leaves tu us, fans, a great amount of space to discuss why the hell does this happends.
We all know that DMB doesn't have the hugest marketing strategies except for Canada-USA block.
It's really hard to make someone meet what is DMB music and what it represent to us.
I personally found to be quite amusing that you bother about such thing, because in your situation I would just laugh, since I would be just some hours away from any show.
Actually I really envy you people oO
=P

..your sentence structure seems to be a little weird. i dont totally understand what you just posted. Do you speak portugese?

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:52 pm

gumbomadness wrote:
Maldito`Tuelho wrote:Down here in Brazil things are a little different from up here. Most of the people, and by most I means 90% of the population haven't even heard about DMB. This leaves tu us, fans, a great amount of space to discuss why the hell does this happends.
We all know that DMB doesn't have the hugest marketing strategies except for Canada-USA block.
It's really hard to make someone meet what is DMB music and what it represent to us.
I personally found to be quite amusing that you bother about such thing, because in your situation I would just laugh, since I would be just some hours away from any show.
Actually I really envy you people oO
=P
..your sentence structure seems to be a little weird. i dont totally understand what you just posted. Do you speak portugese?

he just said that what u said is weird for him. u are discussing about why ppl dont like dmb, but ppl in brazil (and italy and the whole europe

) dont even know wtf is DMB!!! and yeah, it's sooooo hard to make some1 understand what Dave & Co.'s music represent to us...i can understand ur situation Maldito`Tuelho....

Davy28 · Unread post by **Davy28** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:35 pm

Their loss

onid41 · Unread post by **onid41** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:09 pm

i dont know why everyone keeps saying dmb has this image of a frat band...maybe in the 90's, but today i dont think any frats like dmb...i dunno thats just me

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:24 pm

what do u mean w/ "frat", guys?

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:43 pm

frat guys, or fraternaty brothers is a thing big in america, where you pay a lot of extra money a year in college to live in a house with other guys that paid to do so. theyre greek organizions technically... i dont knock them, but id never join one...

they call DMB a frat band because back when they were starting and had moved out of the c-ville venues of coffee houses and such, they played frat houses all over the country. mostly in virginia and that area, and the southeast united states...

i dont get how thats something to make fun of, those are great venues... lots of guys in a fraternaty, and frat parties are huge on college campuses so you get a large portion of a universities population at a show.

id do it.

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:44 pm

ok got it. thx!

onid41 · Unread post by **onid41** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:49 pm

frats can eat my ass

hmm69 · Unread post by **hmm69** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:56 pm

onid41 wrote:frats can eat my ass

isnt MOPAC a frat :lol:

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