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Dave Matthews Band July 9, 2016 First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA Ants Rating: |
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User: AndersenE27
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Sisters first show.
User: bfree2364
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Boyd went off at this show what great energy! Loved Bob Law at this show! And Seek up was great Crowd really got it going when Crush played!
User: bigbadbizzy
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Great set with amazing jams. Crush and Nancies were fantastic. Wish we had a better Encore than You Could Die Trying.
User: boydFNtinsley
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Awesome show. Great flow. High energy. If planned encore of sister granny billies ants and ymdt was played it would have been a 5 star all time great show.
User: bphawks24
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After not seeing DMB for several years, I remember why I enjoyed seeing him so much. Great atmosphere with friends and a cool set list.
User: bradperoney
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Agree that this was the best PGH show since 2012 N1. Well-attended show, wish they would get back to two-night stands here in my hometown.
Show started strong with OSW, Minarets, and Grace is Gone. The run from DDTW to Warehouse kept my group going full-steam. We thought for sure there was going to be a dud but that stretch of tunes rocked. Seek Up was sublime. Bob Law sucked the energy out of the place, but it sounds like it has some potential.
Encore = bleh. Sister is OK, but followed by YMDT produced a lackluster encore. YMDT is OK as an opener, but not a strong choice for encore. Two Step would have pushed this to a 5.
User: carter=pimp
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DMB loves da \'Burgh
User: Courtnaepaige
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Thomas McAnallen, Greg Gore, Grinder Josh
User: DC Greg
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Show is a solid 4 for me. Right in the middle of the road of the 6 Ive seen so far this tour. Most of the set was very solid, but the encore left a little to be desired. YMDT didnt get the job done there.
Boyd was audible, present, and accounted for last night. Really enjoyed when he came to the center of the stage and it was the original 4 remaining members there jamming front and center for awhile. Nancies was best part of the night for me.
User: deviant0666
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It was my 1o year old's first concert, and of course everyone around us was really drunk and trying to fight everyone, which makes for an oh so pleasant experience. When did a DMB show go from hanging out and enjoying the night to lets get hammered and fight to show off, or hey lets not enjoy the concert and record it on our cell phones? Anyway, I have been to many DMB shows but this one was different. Lots of old songs, which I did and did not like. It kept the flow kinda slow. I saw the set list from the night before and thought wow, that is the show I should have gone too but hey, what can you do. The highlights for me were warehouse, crush and seek up. Would have loved to here tripping billies,too much or kill the king (love that song) for the encore instead of you might die trying, but the show was very consistent.
User: DMB Tommy
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I got sick.....
User: DMBlunts
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Pretty good setlist really, called the opener which is always fun. DIDO, Grace and Fool To Think were fun and Seek Up was simply ridiculous. DMB loves playing Sister as an encore song at Btown, I think I have seen that 3 times there now. After Riverbend this year where bizarrely there was no encore, I can\'t complain about last night. Although reading some of these reviews, I\'m not sure what people go to the show for. Don\'t bring a 3rd grader to a show, don\'t complain about 1 song when 16 of them were fantastic, don\'t fret that they didn\'t play a song they don\'t play at 99% of shows and if you would have rather heard Snow Outside than Minarets, you need to seek medical attention. Like they have said time and again they will play what they want and if you don\'t like it...tough.
User: DMBoilerFan
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Always a great evening with Dave and the band. The atmosphere here was one of the better ones I've seen in recent years.
User: DMBurgh
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Great show. The band was gellin. Seek Up was perfectly executed and Grace is Gone was a nice addition. Boyd was on top of it all night as usual, but his mix was at times hard to hear. 4 starts due to short encore. Always sit in right field at Star Lake. If you get out fast enough, security holds you out front for the buses to exit. It\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s pretty awesome to see the guys waving and honking the bus horns when they pull out.
User: dottiejsaylor
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At show with Alex, Jay & Sam in the lawn. Gave up my pit ticket
User: erol24
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Would be 5 stars if not for lackluster encore. Energy and song selection was amazing.
User: FreeCandy
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Great set. Average encore. Set broke the mold of the tour.
User: GFord
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Solid show
User: JTR&PIG
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Decent show but Nationwide Arena was much more intense.
User: krkoeller
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Great show. Even the encores could not take away from the main set.
User: ksdpgh#41
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5-star performance and set list (except for Die Trying encore). Best Pgh show since night 1 in 2012.
User: mariocarton
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One of the better shows this tour. Great run at the end of the show with the exception of Bob Law. Encore was a bummer too. Crush was excellent.
User: mattroscia
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Very different stylist, but for my 45th, I love the variation!!
User: Mattymoe13
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Solid show. Nothing mind blowing. Miles better than last years debacle.
User: mc_thomas
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Very nice show, high energy. Band was having fun all night. No dull spots. Not too many repeats from Friday in Columbus.
User: mkkline55
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Another great night in Burgettstown. The band seems to never disappoint at this venue. When they opened up with One Sweet World, you knew it was going to be a good night with lots of jamming. Was hoping for a stronger finish for the encore, but that doesn't take away from it being a solid 5 star show!
User: Nick_Cacc
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Fool to think! Great set variety compared to most shows this summer so far
User: pesarchickr
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Great energy
User: plpnick
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First row behind pit, no bathroom songs, nothing to complain about
User: RazBarry
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It was my first show in a few years and I thought it was awesome. My favorite song they played was Crush which seemed to go on forever but I still did not want it to end. I also really dug Dive In, Dive Out and Seek Up. I loved when Dave joked "well the show was going fine, then he just drove the fuck off". So funny.
User: RobynDiakite
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What an amazing show and set list
User: Sdharris16
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Overall the show was great. What makes this a 4 star show was the limp dick encore. I personally think sister is a huge buzz kill and would have been happy with anything other that YMDT. The energy was great all show especially with a stay tour debut and a watchtower closer. In my opinion, if watchtower and YMDT were switched I would not have left the show with such a bad taste in my mouth. Great show just could of ended better.
User: smmik
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Great show! I attended with my brother and DMB played "Sister" it made my night!!
User: sparky3j
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this was my 54th show and I love walking away from a show grinning ear to ear. The energy from the band and the crowd set the tone for a fantastic it show. you would be hard pressed to to find a better opening run on this tour, even most tours this day and age. even after that the show and the energy still stayed high thought the entire set. DDTW>Warehouse was 30 mins pure classic DMB heaven. I don\'t even mind Bob Law as it too is more upbeat and given the strength of the set as a whole I don\'t think t killed the show. Certainly given the option on the set list the Encore could have been way better. With that being said this show at this point in time of the band was off the hook. it felt more like DMB of old then any show I have been to in a long time. Thank you DMB and Pittsbugh for a great night and a fantastic show
User: Strokjl
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What started as a promising show crashed and burned with Bob Law. The band preformed well most of the night. Any criticisms with sound is minor(Boyd and Tim were not balanced well). And while I don\\\'t have a problem with the last four songs in particular, Bob Law took the crowd out of it and the show never really recovered.
Seek Up was far and away the highlight of the night, and only reason to download the set.
Nothing was unexpected or exceptional otherwise.
Part of my negativity must be laid at the feet of the venue itself. Parking and crowd control was a miserable failure. The bathroom situation is about as bad as I\\\'ve seen. Getting to the car or getting out of the lot is about as bad a situation as I\\\'ve seen as well. I can\\\'t imagine ever bothering to go back again. Even the stage and pavilion isn\\\'t anything interesting or unique. Sound was adequate.
The crowd was pretty good and there was a ton of dancing in the pavilion.
The lesson I\\\'ve learned after Blossom this year vs Starlake. Crappy sets with a great encore will always beat out a good set with a bad encore.
User: Super Fan
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My wife and I were in the pit last night for this and I thought the show was great with the song selection and the band's energy. The only thing that kept me from five stars was the YMDT encore. I can't seem to get away from that song ever. I had expectations of a two step though, so it's kind of my fault for the let down. Overall good times were had. Peace.
User: texasbobby
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70 shows and my first review. With that said, here goes. This was an encore away from being bar none the best show of the tour. Had the written (Granny, Billies, Ants) been swamped for Sister/Die Trying, start the pre-order. I\'ve seen enough shows to be able to tell right away what kind of night it\'s going to be and post Roi you\'d be hard pressed to find a better 7 song run to start a show. Some of these reviews are hilarious to read. If you want a mellow jazzy feel ill power up the way back machine and set the date for 1999. Sorry you missed out dude. You had to know the new songs were coming, I mean come on. Be grateful it wasn\'t Death on the High Seas and Plastic Girl, talk about sucking the life out of a venue! Finally I\'m thinking the review should focus more on the band and the show, not parking, how drunk you were, the a-holes around you, venue management ect. That being said, we were treated to a gem! Yes the encore could have been better, it can always be better and we can all sit and look at the setlist and go, I would have played this instead of that. But that\'s why we buy tickets and they play the music. This show kicked ass from start to finish. The jams out of Crush, Seek Up and Nancies were un real. That might be the best Seek Up I\'ve ever heard, the horns weren\'t a CF and it was tight! That\'s saying a lot, just take a listen to the 6-15-97 Seek Up with Bela. Enough said. Why I am was flanked perfectly, Samurai Cop and Belly Belly was ok when it launched into a completely haunting intro to Don\'t Drink, a surprising Drive and a smoking Nancies-Warehouse. Come on that was 30 minutes of classic DMB and along with the first 90 min of the show, we got treated. Bob Law needs to be placed earlier in the show. It doesn\'t have enough juice to be the pre-nultimate closer. Watchtower was solid and then the encore happened.
User: TheLastPig
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Very solid show. Set speaks for itself. Fell off after Warehouse. Dave has horrible choices of encore songs. Throw Billies in there at the end instead of Die Trying and everyone goes home happy.
User: TrippingKyle
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What a great show. From the opening of One Sweet World >> Minarets and Grace is Gone, you knew this was going to be a good one. One pleasant surprise was how well Samurai Cop was received by the crowd. Many people were singing along and it brought a good vibe to the set. Bob Law did not have either of those two things going for it.
The highlight for me was the four song stretch of Don't Drink the Water to Warehouse. It's a run like that that keeps me coming back year after year. Watchtower was a nice set-ender (not Jimi! Woo hoo!), but like many have said they really ended on a thud with You Might Die Trying.
Special thanks to Joe M. for getting us into the front left lot to park!
User: yaeyooo
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great venue. great tailgating scene, no one is out of control, very chill