DMBLive Series

[d.m.b41]

Live Release » LiveTrax » DMBLive added on 12/19/2008
When Dave Matthews Band was first starting out in Virginia in the early nineties, they encouraged fans to record their shows and trade them with friends and fellow fans. After a few years, once the band made it big, they were forced to disallow soundboard patches because bootlegging had become such a problem.

In an effort to drive these higher-priced, lower-quality bootlegs off the market, they also released the first in a long, ever-evolving series of live releases, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95. After releasing a concert about once a year in stores from 1997-2003, the band began another series of releases, available only through their official website and known as LiveTrax.

DMB has now joined the ranks of Phish, Pearl Jam, Metallica, et al in offering digital, soundboard-sourced, live concert recordings online at www.dmblive.com. After scrapping such plans several years ago in favor of the LiveTrax series, there are now five full-length concerts available for purchase in either MP3 (compressed) or FLAC (lossless) format.

This first batch includes the following shows:
4.22.93 (Dave and Tim) - Prism Coffeehouse - Charlottesville, VA
4.26.94 (Dave Matthews Band) - Town Point Park - Norfolk, VA
10.22.94 (Dave Matthews Band) - Blue Note - Columbia, MO
10.24.02 (Dave solo) - Benaroya Hall - Seattle, WA
3.29.03 (Dave and Tim) - Appalachian State University - Boone, NC

The two full-band shows are the oldest full-length shows released to date, and the latter of the two has never seen a full recording in circulation; in fact, the full setlist wasn't even known until Minarets archive was unearthed a few years ago. The April show features a ten minute version of Rhyme and Reason that is unique to those two weeks in DMB's history. The two Dave and Tim shows are among the best the duo has performed. The Charlottesville show is one of the very first gigs the two played together, and the Boone show is widely considered the best of their 2003 tour. Finally, the Dave solo show is one of the few full-length gigs Dave has done by himself, and it features a few rarities, most notably an acoustic Raven.

One noteworthy attribute of these releases is that they appear to be completely uncut—all of Dave's speaking between songs is included, which hasn't been the case with most shows released until now. These shows are also mastered from their original soundboard recordings, so they will theoretically sound better than their fan-recorded counterparts.

This batch of shows features three live-release debuts: Get in Line, Angel from Montgomery, and Funny How Time Slips Away. Also being released for the first time are two Tim Reynolds solos: a Neil Young Medley (After the Gold Rush and Ohio) and Stranger in a Strained Land.

There is also a slew of songs that had seen fewer than five releases until now: Fool to Think, Stream, You Are My Sanity and a partial Blue Water are being released for the second time; Raven is seeing its third release; Stay or Leave, The Long Black Veil, and Loving Wings are being released for the fourth time; and we now have five versions of #36, Help Myself, Cry Freedom, and Christmas Song, six versions of Minarets and The Song That Jane Likes, and seven versions of The Best of What's Around and Pay for What You Get.

Based on other bands' similar programs, it is likely (though unconfirmed) that the vast majority of future shows will be released on dmblive.com. It is remains to be seen what the onset of this new series means for the current LiveTrax series.

I have a question about this: Is it clearly a bootleg, or can you compare it to official live recordings?

[jsgksu]

Wait, is this site affiliated with the band? If so and there are fucking soundboards of 4/22/93, 10/24/02 and 3/29/03 I'm gonna flip.

[GSR]

Is that an official announcement?

[d.m.b41]

http://davematthewsband.shop.musictoday ... 755&page=0

So... I think it is

[d.m.b41]

I downloaded 4/26/94 and the 10/24/02 show (not from the DMB shop site but from Demonoid and the Pirate Bay) and I can't decide whether or not it's a professionally mastered recording, but the Beneroya Hall show sound better than the Town Point Park show

PS

I've checked many websites --> the Town Point Park has silence gaps regardless of the format you download

[d.m.b41]

This is final --> I've done some thorough research and here it is:

So far there are still 3 up-for-grabs releases: the Dave's solo Beneroya Hall concert, the Prism Coffeehouse, Charlottesville, VA 4/22/1993 concert, and the D&T's George M. Holmes Convention Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 3/29/2003
concert

There were two other releases but they removed it because of some serious errors (so far I've noticed that during one song, it starts repeating)...

Here's what I've got so far --> It's a HTML playlist which I created in Winamp

1. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Introduction (2:54)
2. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Recently (8:32)
3. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Dialogue (0:45)
4. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Best of What's Around (5:45)
5. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Warehouse (9:10)
6. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Pay for What You Get (7:10)
7. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Song That Jane Likes (4:32)
8. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Tripping Billies (4:56)
9. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Two Step (8:52)
10. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Ants Marching (7:16)
11. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Satellite (6:16)
12. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Rhyme and Reason (10:52)
13. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - Minarets (7:56)
14. DMBLive, Vol. 1 (Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA - April 26th, 1994) - All Along the Watchtower (9:08)
15. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Seek Up (15:02)
16. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Dancing Nancies (8:05)
17. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Dialogue (1:17)
18. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Best of What's Around (5:59)
19. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Satellite (5:14)
20. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - What Would You Say? (5:02)
21. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Get in Line (5:29)
22. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Rhyme & Reason (5:52)
23. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Lover Lay Down (6:07)
24. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Jimi Thing (11:50)
25. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Tripping Billies (5:30)
26. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Say Goodbye (8:07)
27. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Recently (7:42)
28. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Warehouse (8:08)
29. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - #36 (8:16)
30. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Ants Marching (6:55)
31. DMBLive, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, Columbia, MO - October 22nd, 1994) - Halloween (5:37)
32. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - The Stone (11:04)
33. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Grace Is Gone (4:49)
34. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Crush (8:06)
35. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Loving Wings (3:54)
36. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Fool to Think (4:03)
37. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - The Maker (5:05)
38. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Dancing Nancies (7:23)
39. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Where Are You Going? (6:34)
40. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Too Much (6:07)
41. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - The Space Between (4:35)
42. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Bartender (8:50)
43. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Gravedigger (5:02)
44. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Raven (4:49)
45. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Stay (Wasting Time) (5:59)
46. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - I'll Back You Up (4:17)
47. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - The Song That Jane Likes (5:05)
48. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away (3:36)
49. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - Dialogue (13:12)
50. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - #41 (5:15)
51. DMBLive, Vol. 3 (Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA - October 24th, 2002) - All Along the Watchtower (6:29)

(volumes 1 and 2 are no longer available)

The Beneroya Hall concert recording sounds AWESOME, not at all like a bootleg, no errors what-so-ever and NO SILENCE GAPS!!

Can't wait to (download )hear the D&T 9/23/03 recording

[Evan]

I wonder if 1 and 2 will go become available again? I;m curious to hear the ten minute R&R, Minarets, Get in Line, #36, etc.

[taparoo]

here's an email that was sent out

DMBLIVE - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SHOWS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD!

We are excited to announce DMBlive, the new home for all Dave Matthews Band Music & Media! To celebrate the launch of DMBlive, we are offering 3 previously unreleased shows (more coming soon!) which have been digitally mastered and are now available as digital downloads. Every format is available as a full album; singles tracks are available in 128 and 256 Kbps format. All digital downloads are iPod compatible (FLACs must be converted to MP3s before transferring to iPods).

* 10.22.1994 Dave Matthews Band / Blue Note / Columbia, MO
* 10.24.2002 Dave Matthews solo / Bullitt Foundation Benefit / Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
* 01.09.2004 Dave Matthews solo / China Club / New York, New York

DMBlive is the beginning of a new era for us and we hope that fans are excited about the opportunity to obtain mastered live shows. Features of DMB include:

* Ability to purchase single tracks (128 and 256 Kbps)
* Selection of multiple digital formats to choose from
* Ability to preview tracks

Still trying to determine the best present to give your favorite DMB fan? Electronic gift certificates and gift cards may be used to purchase single tracks or full albums in the DMBlive store.

[fede]

dmb41 you bought all that? meaning all 3 shows?

Fede

[d.m.b41]

bought them?? that's a laugh... No self-respecting Croat would buy something if he could get it for free
like I said - i downloaded torrents of them from demonoid and the pirate bay

PS

i listened to the boone concert - It's great, but it has gaps (it's also unavailable, but i think it will be - once they fix it)

[d.m.b41]

[Blake]

bought them?? that's a laugh... No self-respecting Croat would buy something if he could get it for free
like I said - i downloaded torrents of them from demonoid and the pirate bay

PS

i listened to the boone concert - It's great, but it has gaps (it's also unavailable, but i think it will be - once they fix it)

you're right...why would i pay for a beej when i could just get it from your mom for free?

PS

i hope the riaa rapes you

[d.m.b41]

what - that insults you? never got anything for free? wow, then you're the first, for sure

[Evan]

My downloading policy is that I'll only download something for free if it is absolutely not available for purchase. I don't want to spark the whole download: Right or Wrong? debate because it;ll go on forever. But that's how I feel, and I especially wouldn't steal music for bands that I really love. IMO, if you like it and its worth the listen then its worth the 99cents on iTunes or where ever else.

[markTR]

None of us here at DMBTabs.com support illegal trading or downloading of music or any other media. At all.

P.S. I would like some info on all of those shows, PM me