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A Hard Core Fan Sums Up the State of DMB
Posted by AntsMarching.org Staff in Columns on 5/22/15 7:25am
The term "Hardcore" fan is loosely defined. The reality is that you are a hardcore fans if you consider yourself one. If you'd asked me in 2003-4 how many hardcore fans are at every show I'd say around 10%. In 2013 we learned that the actual number was closer to 25%. We realized that when we noticed a down-tick in attendance in correlation with fans specifically saying they were traveling less.
But is that 25% too low? Look around at a show. If there are 100 people surrounding you how many are singing along to Black and Blue Bird? Wouldn't you have to be pretty hard core to have that one down? Is 25% too low? A number bandied about this week is 40%, and honestly it's not a stretch to think that at a given show with 15,000 people there are about 6000 there than consider themselves "hardcore".
Not every hardcore fan feels the same way about the present state of the band, but we did invite feedback. And we got it. A fan with a lot of traveling under his belt has taken the time to write an 'open letter' style message to the Dave Matthews Band, and certain DMB members that are more vocal socially. Give Mark's open letter a read
here. You might not agree with all of it, or any of it, but then again you might think you wrote it yourself. But it's the voice of a fan who is willing to spend his hard earned money to follow a band around the country. Or at least he did.
UPDATE: We are all about balance and someone wanted to provide a counter to the thoughts of Mark. Ryan thinks that it's the hardcore fan over-analyzing DMB. Read his take here
The 2015 DMB Tour Begins
Posted by Jake Vigliotti in Tour News on 5/14/15 12:03am
The Dave Matthews Band 2015 tour kicked off. To the surprise of some (most) {pretty much everyone}, the #2sets were similar to the 2014 #2sets. Making an appearance was the new song Black and Blue Bird. Also of note were Raven which only had 3 plays in 2014 and Water Into Wine which had 4 plays in 2014. Incidentally, we refer to that song as Water/Wine Jam in Tour Central because we're old school like that.
The tour continues in Texas on Friday and Saturday in Dallas and Houston, respectively.
2015 Tour Will Feature Guests
Posted by Jake Vigliotti in Tour News on 4/29/15 8:20pm
With not a lot of time before the 2015 tour, the official site
announced that there will be special guests appearing during the 2015 Dave Matthews Band tour. Unlike the 2014 tour where people popped up randomly (and not randomly eventually), this time around it appears that guests will be announced ahead of the shows. The first guest is long time fan favorite Bela Fleck. The banjo virtuoso will appear at SPAC and in Colorado. So if you're not planning on those shows and you haven't seen Bela with the boys now is your chance to plan ahead.
a flier says that "DMB has invited a few of their favorite guests" to pop in this summer. So if they are announced ahead of time as Bela is, that's great. If not we can think of 3 reasons that could be bad. So keep an eye out and look for more guests to be announced. And we can hope they'll be of the Bela caliber.
The New Tour Dates Are Here The New Tour Dates Are Here!
Posted by Jake Vigliotti in on 1/13/15 5:22pm
The Warehouse announced the 2015 Dave Matthews Band tour. The
dates are a wee bit different than the past 8 or so tours. Of note, Hartford is down to 1 night (not surprisingly), and the deep south gets some DMB Love.
For the first time since 1994 Tuscaloosa, AL gets a show. Believe it or not, that will make the 9th
full-band show in T-Town. Tuscaloosa was part of the college-town run the band did in the early days. Iowa gets a DMB show for the first time since
2009, and Rogers, AR is a new stop for the band. This will be only the 3rd DMB show
in Arkansas, but the other two were in Little Rock and this one is way the heck up near Feyettenam.
Canada gets 3 shows, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. SPAC gets the coveted 4th of July run and Alpine is back, passing over Chicago (woo hoo!). Warehouse Tickets go on sale January 15, the rest of you slugs have to wait around. See you out on the road!
2015 DMB Tour to be 2 Sets
Posted by Jake Vigliotti in Tour News on 1/2/15 7:14am
In case you missed the New Year's Day email from
The Warehouse, the Dave Matthews Band is indeed touring in 2015 (duh). And as was the case in 2014, the band will play 2 sets. If you need a refresher course - in 2014 the band played an acoustic opener and took a little (long) break and played an electric set. Fans were eager for the opportunity to catch some tunes in a new environment, but as the best laid plans of mice and men go, that didn't exactly work out.
Of course, the announcement is simply "2 sets" - not specifying one acoustic and one electric, so it's premature to completely bash the 2015 tour as a good idea on paper that shan't execute live (although that hasn't stopped
some). Until there's a bit more defining of "2 sets", fans can only speculate if it'll be Stolen Away acoustic, Minarets opener, and Good Good Time in the encore or if the mold shall be shattered.
Tour dates - if the trend holds - should arrive in the middle of January. So be on the lookout for that.
