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Originally Posted by Milenk
They had not put a foot wrong and their shows felt like you were seeing the cutting edge of seeing the greatest thing ever. When they would rip into Grey Street in the summer of 2000, you were like: "I am fucking witnessing the greatest music ever created, how am I even this lucky."
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Originally Posted by coldengrey12
This is the single thing which has changed the most, imo, in all the years I've followed DMB.
Before Everyday, there was the feeling that everything the band touched would turn into gold, that they were capable of doing whatever they wanted and making it incredible.
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This is wrong. It's a myth.
Surely some people felt that way (I may have been one of them), but far from everyone did. Among the topics that generated considerable moaning in the fan community at the time:
- The lovely ladies. Disliked in general, and downright hated for the unforgivable things they did to Granny, BOWA, and others.
- Long Black Veil. It's a nice Dave solo tune. Live, full band, with the ladies? Huge yawner.
- The new ones were very uneven. Grey Street was a beast, and everyone loved it. But the reaction on GIG was mixed and SUAD got kind of weird as the tour went along, ultimately being dropped from setlists entirely after 7/25.
- Plenty of people just really hated the stadium shows, on principle.
Look, like every band on the planet, there's always been backlash. Other than the official site, the first DMB web site I can remember stumbling upon (circa 96) was one with a prominently posted scathing review of how terrible Crash (the album) was, how terrible Tim Reynolds was, and lamenting that the band's best days of Trax and FloodZone were behind them, never to be recovered.
In retrospect, I absolutely agree, 2000 is a marvelous tour and it's certainly true that things shifted significantly after Everyday. But to say "they had never put a foot wrong"? Not true.