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I knew who Dave was because I had seen him perform solo at Trax before, but I did not realize he had a band. We were also also all tripping on shrooms...
Wow! That's awesome you got to see them so early on! Did you collect/still have a collection of tapes or just this show? I've actually been on a bit of a hunt trying to track down 91/92/93 shows that were passed around on cassette in the early years that didn't get digitized. If you still have a set and could ever snap a quick photo I'd love to check em for rarities. Thanks for the comment either way!!
@@Copperpot5 you are amazing for doing that! I just have the one cassette from that day. We were SO SPOILED because we got to see them EVERY SINGLE WEDNESDAY! Those were some EPIC times!
@@Copperpot5 I also have a DMB T-Shirt from a Brown’s Island concert in 1993 on which Dave wrote to “keep swallowing, but only the good stuff” (or something like that). 😂
I saw him at JMU about a month before. I didn’t make this show :( I just remember thinking how tight this band was. The sound was amazing. Back in Tennessee, no one really knew this band at this point. I have been hooked ever since
Best musicians, best fans, best origin story, best ongoing continuing unfettered brilliance. Dave, he is only the most unique and down to earth talented and determined artist ever. My sons name is Carter. My daughters name is Charlotte (hmmmmm.....wonder why?). I was hooked in 1995 when I was sitting in LA traffic and Ants Marching came on the radio. I was immediately in a trance and in musical love, until I realized all the honking was at me because I had literally forgotten I was driving and was air drumming and dancing like a crazy person. Tried to shout out my window, but didn’t want to miss the DJ say who the band was. He didn’t, I raced home, made about 5 phone calls about a song called “Ants Marching” and found out it was DMB. Have been a die hard fan since. The soundtrack of my life, and lucky enough to meet a girl who felt same way. Of course, “You and Me” was our first dance at our wedding, and she walked down the aisle to “Dreamgirl”. Thank you so much ChesterCopperpot. My life was changed forever when I discovered Dave and the guys. Amen. Keep doin it guys, you just get better and better. So much to say about how much I love them. Ok, back to listening to this amazing concert. Just thought I’d share.
I’m so jealous, I was born in 2004 and was only exposed to this when I was a freshman in high school through my mom who was a huge fan in the 90s. It’s my favorite band and inspired me to become a musician myself. They have simply saved my life in more ways than one and I only wish I was able to experience their journey along with them back in your day. Thank you for sharing this story, you give me hope. Just like Dave and company did!
Gosh. Leroi, shredding. It’s crazy how talented they ALL were at their individual discipline. To this day carter is considered one of the better drummers around. Steph was a prodigy when he joined and still slaps with the best and who ever heard of a 6’2 ish black dude that looks like an NFL wide receiver strait SLAAAAAAYING the fiddle/violin. Love this band. Their live shows are borderline religious experiences.
The fidelity of this live show is amazing. This sounds very close to a studio recording. What a great band. The first time I heard DMB I was hooked. This guy is seriously loaded with talent (along with his bandmates).
Considering that just 2 months before this (the date of the earliest recording of Ants, 2/13/92) the recording was very warbly, this quality is just top tier
The experience of a DMB concert live is similar to what a spiritual experience would be like. Can't describe it. It's an amazing feeling and no drugs needed.
I graduated that year !! I didn’t know about DMB till 2001 when my wife and I saw him live in our hometown SA Tx the outside venue. Amphitheater which is no longer open and DMB never returned I miss the 90’s It’s 2024 and now I play most of his music on guitar Thank you Dave !! Hope to see you live one day
Can’t get my mind around the fact that these songs will be played in front of 20k+ audiences for the next 30 years. Shows that there’s not always a correlation between a small audience and venue and the quality of the music.
Yeah, I was there selling beer for the Nelson County Education Foundation. 30 years ago. In 2019 I got to thank Dave for his foundation, Bama Works, ongoing support of so many local charities and causes. The band has been so generous in giving back. Bless them all and all those early fans wearing dem ugly sweaters!
It blows my mind that we have access to bands early years like this. I used to call and hope the radio would just play a song I liked so I could hear it
I was there! I knew who Dave was because I had seen him perform solo at Trax before, but I did not realize he had a band. We were also also all tripping on shrooms...
Heard! I snuck in that one carrying an empty bass guitar case! Ended up living as the crow flies about 600 yd away killed my first grouse in the parking lot by the lake which they filled in unfortunately. Of course like everyone else I was day hammered and they had the nitrous balloons and whatnot but I'm so glad that somebody put that on here because it's so cool being at that show and him saying this is by far the biggest venue like you I've seen them at tracks and at Miller's and across the street the old Monticello dairy. But a lot of people don't remember widespread panic was there new potato caboose there was a there was some good damn talent there that day!
So weird to actually see myself in this video. That was a good day! I still have the ticket stub. Blues Traveler was the headliner. Other bands were Indecision, Dave Matthews, and Wolves in the kitchen.
@@Copperpot5 I went to college in DC, but my good friends went to UVA so we drove down there a lot and went to a couple of Van Riper's fests. I didn't tape, sadly. Went to a ton of Dead shows during college- including the Hampton Warlocks shows... those were fun!
@@richtysarczyk8702 you could see it from the actual venue they moved it around a lot because that was the first year they started having a beer garden so instead of like buying beer going back to the front of the stage where you you know your crew was that all changed and because of insurance they drained that lake so drunk people wouldn't get up in it because it happened before and other the vets so they actually drained it then they actually filled it in but I always wondered this guy that's right when it begins I snuck in because I lived around the area and I just I knew the guys from tracks and Millers in Charlottesville downtown,
So if you watch the first opening song of the first set watch Carter look to his left and he takes this black bag and moves it from his left side to his right side because I was acting for I was really dayhammered and everybody had mushrooms that day and I took that guitar case and a battery for some reason and acted like I was doing something like I was part of the crew and Carter said Steve what the f*** are you doing I said I'll trade this battery with what you got in that black bag he goes up and he went over like that and then he start looking at his you know getting his s*** together and right before he starts playing you watch him look to the left he goes you crazy as s*** you are crazy as hell and he laughed and then he just started in it it was awesome and I forgot about indecision being there I thought I'd watch a different one but anyway if you want to finish this book Stephen King's The stand going on here this guy if you watch him at the beginning it's just a cup like four girls dancing and my boy man in the blue I mean purple you can see and he turns totally is back to the band and he was like oh f*** and I heard him say that stuff with him later on whatever you do man I've got to get back to school and he went to Hampton Sydney and so we got this damn case of beer unfolded it and I didn't have a pen of course and this girl cuz I have lipstick and we just laid him up the closest at the edge of when you leave van drivers which is 250 and I put Hampton on there and I forgot to write Sydney so he probably was like I don't know oh no I shouldn't have left him like that we just propped it up to him he would he was not responsive he just laid there I mean he wasn't like narcan thing like that he was just way drunk mushroomed out man 3-day b**** all right anyway bye I'm sure you got there I didn't see him on any milk cartons
Amazing footage and audio for 1992. The best part is seeing all the beautiful ladies gettin down in the front row. Makes me miss the 90's and just going to live concerts period. This 2020 and its Coronavirus quarantine rules can go to hell. I'm so glad I got to go see Dave in the 1990's.
Why would he deserve a Rock and roll Hall of Fame for a thirty people in the audience early 90s band..they don't give them out to just any old band and some poverty stricken festival in the middle of the woods outside Charlottsville, VA aka the District of Podunk Sticksville
@@coletanner5193 Have you ever been to a Dave Matthews concert you idiot he sells out 20,000+ one of the best performers yes And yes he loves playing personal venues small venues also he’s great and yes he deserves the Hall of Fame get your facts straight idiot
@@bengardner3696 I recognize that song at 24 with the harmonica..he's with all those harmonica 90s bands Blue Traveling Bare Naked Ladies all those VA outside the beltway bands
Sound Is Incredible! Especially around/after the 4:30 part of the video, you really hear it. Many people at the festival were well aware of who Dave Matthews was, as he was a local star by then, as well as the musicians in his band. Afton, is basically in Charlottesville’s backyard, so to speak. Thanks for sharing and what a treasure, and a awesome view into the early career of the Dave Matthews Band.
carter and dave were a match made in heaven carter was made for dave’s kind of writing he knows exaclty when to emphasize certain beats and all the stops he creates in between dave’s crazy arrangements. he was perfect for this band
Im really happy to come by the video. Its astonishing. I was 12 when this happened, and lived in Arizona. I was given a bootleg to listen to by a friend of a friend in 1993, listened to it and my friends made fun of me for liking it because it had a violin and a sax. So after listening for a week i made a copy and gave it back. Lost the copy within a few months and then watched as they hit it big. I thought fir years I was early to hear them, yet I wasnt even close! Jealous of the memories of these people in attendance.
Thanks for posting this! Sure took me back! This is when DMB was truly great. I saw them live for the first time on NYE 1994 in Hampton, VA at a Marriott hotel ballroom with about 200 people, and it was the best show I’ve ever been to. I love every song from those early albumns, Remember 2 Things, Under the Table and Beyond These Crowded Streets. Every time I hear one of those songs, it takes me back to my college days! Thanks again for the stroll down memory lane.
Amazing! I have a few UVA friends who were able to catch them back in the day. Is there any chance you collected audio tapes of shows? Longshot, but I'm a big DMB media collector - I'm still trying to track down some lost 91/92/93 show recordings. Thx for the comment either way!
@@Copperpot5 I used to have some back in the day, but they're long since gone. I have the Live Trax #37 from the Trax show in November '92, but anyone can get that.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. That was my first DMB show by default. I was there to see Guster. It was am awesome festival. I have not missed a DMB show since that day
16:16 it was so great to see him face the moment he felt comfortable on stage. He’s talked about his stage anxiety. I’d never seen it. I was like oh no what happened to the band, I didn’t see but I see them now. His anxiety is coming out of his quirky words. Two step was rough. But I feel like I saw the shift in him and as soon as he relaxed the rest of the band did to. This was fantastic. His shows are over done and dry we all sing. I realized it when I was listening with my daughter in the car. At the end I said why’d they cut the applause short? She said there’s no applause. That’s when I realized I hear the live versions whether they play or not. The concerts are only interesting for his covers. Hes doing let’s dance, and its amazing
What was I doing in 1992? I was about 15 y/o, oblivious of this amazing band. I can’t remember when or how I became a fan, but I’m so glad I got to see them I’m my generation.
What would you pay to go back in time - attending this with the appreciation we currently have for this amazing band. I’d be front and center, waiting for the setlist! 😂
I saw them in 1994 at the TLA in Philly, friend had an extra ticket and I had no idea who they were. But became a fan after that.- Only regret perhaps is I was right up against the stage, no camera..never thought to bring on at any concert back then And at the time.. there were certainly no camera / video phones! But this is incredible. Just imagine the lucky ones who were at this - tiny venue, [looks like a ] small park atmosphere, small crowd..pretty damn intimate. Many perhaps not knowing who this guy, the band is like myself . Sure not knowing that they would end up playing big venues in 3 years, massive stadiums in front of 60, 70K people by the end of the decade. And STILL selling out big shows in 2018.
chestercopperpot, thanks for sharing so many video clips of this amazing band over the years. this was about 3 years before I ever heard or saw this band. now 27 years later, I still can't get enough of their music on a daily basis and live in concert. Videos like this are very special, thank you.
I knew it was Chester Copperpot when I saw the yellow text at the beginning. These guys were born to play together. Wonder if they would consider Van Ripers in the future 😁Thank you so much for this awesome video!!!!
It’s amazing to me that when the music industry tells us all what is great, it’s then that we come out in droves to observe and dance and love our bands. But until then, it’s a party with two people dancing. Not a negative comment, just an observation. This is one of my favorite songs by DMB…but I wonder if I love it because I heard it after they were one of the most popular bands in America. Had I of heard it prior, who knows. I’d like to think it would have made the same impression. The industry certainly allows some of the best kept secrets to be unveiled to the masses.
Was super fortunate to see DMB a year later for $5.00 from the rooftop of our frat house. Still awesome to see today, but this brings back incredible memories
I always pass up open bands, open plays etc. Who knows where they'll be in the future. Like this. I'm going to stop and just hang for a bit because if they do, it will be a memory to remember. 1992, I was 11.
But when they said something about the hat to me and what I thought cuz everybody had an opinion I said I think it's just too cheap to get a damn haircut and man everybody rolled even Boyd! he just sold that damn joint he had over in Virginia
35:36 We all know he messed up the lyrics, timing and measures, yet still kept his cool and Carter kept in it to make sure everyone came in at the right time. That's how you keep composure and not sweat it. Especially back the, no one would have known the miss steps.
I lived just around the corner from Van Riper's. This was the day before my 10th birthday and I distinctly remember all the cars pouring in that day and the music. Was feeling nostalgic so I drove by Van Riper's on Saturday. It's a long shot but I really hope Boyd makes an appearance at the Virginia shows.
Like maybe its me being bias but if I had seen these dudes perform you could tell there was something different about stage presence, musical talent and lyrical talent that would make me think they could be big. They were just different
A rock band with a sax and violin. There was nothing like that mainstream at the time. It did exist in Nashville, St Louis, New Orleans and a few other cities but there was no national stage for more strings and winds except the typical 5 piece rock band - singer, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, and sometimes keyboard.