Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band was the idea that South African vocalist and guitarist Dave Matthews created and realized in the early nineties. The new group’s music was built on pop foundation with the additions of jazz and funk. Apart from Dave, the lineup also included Virginia-based instruments Boyd Tinsley, Leroy Moore, Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard and a short-time participant Peter Greasar. The musicians focused on the massive concert activities, which appeared a wise policy. The fresher’s impressive shows all over the country delighted music lovers who spread the good news of the stars emerging amazingly fast. In 1993, Greasar quit Dave Matthews Band, which did not prevent the group from following the confirmed schedule and releasing the live record Remember Two Things the same year. Having considered lots of proposals, the musicians chose to sing a contract with RCA. In September 1994, Dave Matthews Band issued their debut studio effort named Under the Table and Dreaming. Backed by the major hit What Would You Say, this record sold over a million copies.

A solid start like that one required a solid continuation that followed in 1996 with the release of Crash, a record to become platinum in shortest possible terms. The same year, Dave Matthews Band launched a large-scale campaign fighting bootleggers that offered their semi-legal records. As a result, American authorities assigned considerable fines to numerous foreign stores involved in such unlawful business. In the autumn of 1997, Dave Matthews Band delivered to the market the double CD Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95. It took the new product only five months to sell more than a million copies, which granted the band sold out concerts for the tours to come. In April 1998, the group released arguably their most mature and creative album, Before These Crowded Streets, to be followed in a year by the release of another live record, Listener Supported.

Dave Matthews Band hailed the new millennium working hard in the studio. 2001 saw them prepare the first album with wide application of electric guitar, Everyday. A year later, the band issued a compilation of unreleased stuff, Busted Stuff. In 2003, Dave Matthews tried to work apart from his band and made a solo album under the title Some Devil. The musician gave a streak of concerts to promote it, supported by the instrumentalist who had never played with him before. Boyd Tinsley also launched his own project. Shortly afterwards, Dave Matthews Band summoned again to go on another nationwide tour and released two more live albums, The Central Park Concert и The Gorge. In 2005, the group prepared their first in four years studio long player, Stand Up. Just like its predecessors, this one topped the charts, which made Dave Matthews Band the third performer after U2, and Metallica to have four number one albums in a row. In 2006, the group added to their discography a collection of studio and unreleased live versions of their top songs, The Best of What's Around, Vol. 1. In a year, Dave Matthews Band presented their listeners with another concert record, Live at Piedmont Park. Addicted to the stage life, the musicians suddenly shifted from the launched preparations of the new studio album to touring and postponed the release of the fresh material to 2009. Called Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, this album arrived after Leroy Moore’s death caused by a severe ATV accident. The group dedicated this effort to the memory of their deceased friend. In 2010 the band released two concert albums in a row: Live In Las Vegas and Live In New York City. Both records were performed in the highest level and demonstrated the incredible energy of Dave Matthews Band’s show. There is no doubt that these new albums turned out to be a great present to the group’s fans who could enjoy the atmosphere of their favourite musicians’ gig.