We've posted the part one of our two-part deep dive into @davematthewsbnd on New Year's Eve to our Facebook site as it's a bit longer.
Today we look at 1991 - 1993 including newspaper advertisements. Tomorrow we look at 1994 - 1996.
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December 20 through the years:
2002 - MSG n1 - Jane, Christmas song released on LT40 bonus
2003 - Dave Friends Rochester - 1st Fire & Butterfly - check out this Trouble, btw!
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30yrs since #phish 12/2/94 UC-Davis Recreation Hall - their only @ucdavis show - with DMB opening and Cosmic Country Horns (Grippo, Gerhard, Harvey, Apfelbaum, Ray) in set II including ‘A Live One’ Gumbo.
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We are starting to post more on Threads. We’ve wanted to start posting more frequently about random stuff like the post linked here from yesterday and it’s a good opportunity to do something different.
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Most interesting date of the brief Fall Tour is the opener in Pittsburgh. This is DMB's first indoor show in the city since March 5, 1995 at the Palumbo Center (Duquesne U).
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Dave did a rally at Stage AE for John Fetterman in 2022.
If we were tracking the times on the spoken intros as part of the song in the beginning, it would be consistent to use the segue here.
Generally we side with consistency over feeling. The split vote on the team on this is whether it's an exception.
We could revisit it.
It might be an interesting listen back:
Two of the three longest versions one week in 2012, then the shortest version a week later - 3 minutes shorter than the prior week, then not again until tonight.