Dave Matthews Band

42,000 fans witnessed Dave Matthews Band brave the elements for this outdoor show in Boulder, Colorado in 2001, and now you can join them from the comfort of your own home. A huge electrical storm threatened to pull the show to a halt before it had even started, but nevertheless the show went ahead, and saw the band perform electric version of songs from the "Everyday" album, as well as thunderous hits like "The Space Between" and "What You Are."

In the Fall of 1998, Dave Matthews Band was nearing the end of a months-long tour in support of their new album, Before These Crowded Streets. This show from Boise State University Pavilion on November 2nd, which is also Carter’s Birthday, includes long-time collaborator, Tim Reynolds, onstage for inspired versions of Rapunzel, Stay (Wasting Time), Crush, as well as extended jams on Lie In Our Graves and Jimi Thing.

Tragedy has a way of putting everything into perspective, a truism that's brought into sharp relief by the Dave Matthews Band. LeRoi Moore, the group's saxophonist, died in 2008, something that shook the DMB to their core and they've responded as any working band does: by carrying on, playing gigs – including one on the day of his passing – and finishing the album they were recording at the time of his death, turning Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King into a tribute to their fallen comrade. By saluting his spirit, DMB wind up returning to their roots, jettisoning any of the well-manicured crossover pop of Stand Up and reviving the loose-limbed jams that were their '90s specialty, a sound they've largely abandoned – at least on record – since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. During that long, long decade between Before and Big Whiskey, DMB remained one of America's biggest bands even though much of those ten years found Matthews working through various existential crises – things got too big so he pulled away from the band, turned out a dark solo record, then came back – and his namesake band drifted along with him. Here, everything snaps back into focus: what was glossy is now clean and unvarnished; there is no avoidance of their rangy, loping rhythms or predilection for elastic solos; and these signatures – shunned on record, not on-stage – are embraced warmly, given muscle, and married to the dark undercurrents that have flowed throughout Matthews' new-millennium writing.

Dave Matthews has masterminded his way to the top of the jam band mountain. With his meandering compositions and happy-go-lucky lyrics, Matthews and his back-up band have kids dancing in the aisles of his sold-out performances. Much like his predecessor Jerry Garcia, Matthews stirs awe in his followers. It may be his dimples more than his guitar playing that captivates audiences, or possibly his quirky dancing and jigging that hypnotize; whatever it is, he takes the crowd for a ride.