Next Live Release Confirmed: Live@ MHMF

2009 DMB Calendar

As was suspected, the next official Live@ album release will be Live at Mile High Music Festival. The concert took place on 7/20/08 outside Denver, CO. The release follows the Live Trax 13 2008 release from Bush Stadium - 6/7/08. While also from 2008, the MHMF show incorporates over a months worth of changes to the songs with 20 shows between the two concerts. Additionally the show has Jeff Coffin as a guest filling in for LeRoi Moore. The setlist features a couple new songs to the official release world which include Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel cover), and a full-band Gravedigger.

What’s interesting about this Live@ release is that it lacks the accompanying DVD of the show. A video recording of the show was webcast live from the concert, yet it doesn’t make a DVD release. This is the first time there has been a Live@ release without a DVD since Live@ Chicago released in 2001. The Live@ Chicago concert was also webcast and caused eyebrows to rise when the album was released. This was because when you play the Live@ Chicago audio release up with the webcast from the show there are parts that don’t match. Most notably Boyd solos are edited with different ones. Might this Live@ MHMF recording be edited in the same way and one of the possible reasons why a video release is not being made? We’ll have to wait to find out when the album is released on Tuesday December 16, 2008, just over a week before the Christmas holiday. Also surprising is the official DMB store isn’t offering any incentive to purchase the album through them with the additional shipping costs as opposed to your local retail outlet. Usually a bonus disk or contest of some kind is in order, much like last years Live@ Piedmont release which featured a 4 or 8 track bonus disk. The album is however available in a couple of bundles with other merchandise. Visit here to preorder.

Also available for preorder is the 2009 DMB Calendar featuring Dave Matthews Band photographs from the 2008 summer tour.

If you’re planning on ordering either online as a gift be sure to pick the Express shipping as the others don’t always make it to you when you want.

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