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A Look At Past Tours: Spring 1993

Posted by Jake Vigliotti in Tour News at 5:28am on Monday, Jan 17th, 2011

The Spring 1993 tour began with the departure of the Dave Matthews Band keyboardist and harmonica player, Peter Griesar. His departure happened to coincide with a large tour of the southeast and New York. For most bands, this would result in a major shift of sounds. The band played a few shows with Doug Wanamaker, keyboardist for the band Indecision, but decided to radically change the sound of the band by going without keys. It is this sound, the "original five" as fans sometimes refer to them, that most fans first heard from DMB.

The band traveled as far south as Athens, GA, and back up north in New York, including a stop at the infamous Wetlands Preserve. A new song emerged during this time period, #36. Dave says he wrote it in sound check the day the inspiration for the song Chris Hani was killed (which would be April 10, a show, by the way, that is available from DMBLive), however it did not debut until the 14th.

Losing a crucial member of the band certainly wasn't easy, but the band fine-tuned their sound during the spring of 1993, and continued to spread the music throughout the southeast. The Spring season wrapped up with a show we first learned about from the book Step Into The Light. It was an odd booking, but not uncommon for the band back then. DMB performed at a Debutante Party in the back yard of a house in Lawrenceville, GA.