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Dave Matthews Band - Listener Supported Audio CD

A fair review of the Dave Matthews Band "Listener Supported" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Dave Matthews Band reviews here, or go back to the Dave Matthews Band tabs.

Dave Matthews Band Band: Dave Matthews Band
Title: Listener Supported
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Release Date: 1999-11-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Intro 2: Pantala Naga Pampa 3: Rapunzel 4: Rhyme & Reason 5: Stone 6: #41 7: Crash into Me 8: Jimi Thing 9: #36 10: Warehouse 11: Too Much 12: True Reflections 13: Two Step 14: Granny 15: Stay (Wasting Time) 16: #40 17: Long Black Veil 18: Don't Drink the Water 19: Intro to... 20: All Along the Watchtower

Classic show for any DMB fan
"Listener Supported" remains one of the best "mixes" released to-date. This release contains one of my favorite all-time versions of my favorite song, #41. All the members of this very talented and diverse band are featured throughout while never drowning out any one instrument. Don't miss the DVD either. If you know of a Dave Matthews Band fan who DOESN'T have this release, I guarantee it would be one of the greatest Christmas gifts you could give them!

If you haven't witnessed one of the greatest drummers of the modern era, Carter Beauford, get this DVD or pop these CD's in your CD changer!

For those of you who are NOT fans of Dave Matthews Band, you too can appreciate the raw musicianship displayed on a nightly basis!.


too much audience noise
Spend your money an another live CD by DMB. A nice compilation of tunes, but so much crowd noise, that the intro (song 1) is not even heard. The annoying applause and screaming crowd are heard throughout the 2-CD set.


The best Dave Matthews live CD to date


Dave Matthews Band is one of the best bands to come out of the 1990's and their concerts are always fun. THIS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A DVD. But, Matthews has yet to release a very good live CD.

Like all Matthews live CD's, this one suffers from the same problems: poor sound, too much audience noise, repetitive set list and not enough editing.

Dave Matthews insists on releasing complete concerts. All the truly great, classic live albums have had material come from several different shows, like Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East; Derek and the Dominoes Live; Grateful Dead, Live/Dead, etc. That way the best performances of each song are chosen.

Although the Dave Matthews Band is somewhat of a jam band, the group plays mostly the same songs night after night and year after year. Many of the songs here also show up on three or four other live CD's. So, you constantly get repeats. By including the whole show, you get songs that you don't really need to hear one more time.

What makes this CD better than other Matthews live CD's is that there is a little more variety in the song selection.

And Matthews includes the WHOLE show, right down to the clapping for an encore. You get lots of spaces where there is now music. Do you really want to waste your life hearing that over and over again?

Like all Matthews live CD's, the audience noise is cranked up way to loud. The audience overwhelms the band during some of the groups best playing. There is no need for this. You have to do this on purpose. You need to have audience microphones and then mix in the audience louder than the band. I don't consider audience noise to be art and don't need to constantly hear it. Also, I don't need cheering to tell me when something is good. All of the great, classic live albums have very little audience noise.

All of Matthews live CD's have poor sound. This CD set is actually the best. It isn't great, but it is much better than Red Rocks or Chicago.

The only other downside is that Boyd Tinsley is featured more on this CD than others. He has got to be the worst rock/jazz violinist of all time. The only time he really adds anything to the songs is when he plucks the strings. He shouldn't be allowed to touch a bow. All he does it scratch it back and forth over the strings. Note that on the studio albums, there are always guest violinists to handle any of the serious playing.

The back up singer, Tuwatha Agee, used to do backup for Roxy Music.


Jazzy
I have never heard Leroi so good in any other live cd. This is my favorite Live Dave cd because of how jazzy it is. Every song is so instrumental and huge solos from many instruments. The jazzy solos from the flute, saxaphone, clarinet, piano, and violin are out of this world. Not to mention Carter and Dave busting out in a couple songs. Sure Red Rocks was the first which to some people automatically makes it the best live cd but instrumentally which is why I love DMB this is the best live album.


start my obsession
they sound so damn good and original. my first DMB live cd, also the album that start my obsession with the band for years. be sure to check #41, very jazzy and chill but also the show of an amazing musicianship and improvisational skill. the most precious gem on the cds IMHO. .


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