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The Rise of The Dave Matthews Band [Highlight From Episode 305] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on
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  Speaker 1: Rock Talk with Mike Ayers is the author of Sharing
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  Speaker 1: the Groove, the untold story of the nineties jam band
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  Speaker 1: explosion and the scene that followed. Dave Matthew's band. Their
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  Speaker 1: story starts in Charlottesville, Virginia. He said that they did
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  Speaker 1: something revolutionary right out of the gate musically. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in their rise to prominence.
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  Speaker 2: They essentially were They came together organically in Charlottesville, which
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  Speaker 2: was not necessarily known as a music mecca, just really
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  Speaker 2: started playing out around town, but also like widespread panic,
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of these acts got on the road
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly. They're interesting because they had a saxophone, they
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  Speaker 2: had a violin. You know, Dave's voice is not your
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  Speaker 2: typical voice on radio at the time. It was different.
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  Speaker 2: The way he would sing, the way he would phrase
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  Speaker 2: notes was unique. And we've been talking about how this
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  Speaker 2: scene values uniqueness. I was at school in Virginia, Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Tech in nineteen ninety four and his remember two Things
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  Speaker 2: had just come out. The record stores there could not
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  Speaker 2: stop that. That was a word of mouth record.
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  Speaker 1: That was the pre major label, that was pre.
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  Speaker 2: Pre major label that had the three d art thing
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  Speaker 2: on the front that was super popular back then. That
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  Speaker 2: was the record cover, so it was super distinct in
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  Speaker 2: that realm, and most of the tracks on it were
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  Speaker 2: live if I'm remembering correctly, or it could be the
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  Speaker 2: flip side. Regardless, it was a mix of studio and
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  Speaker 2: live tracks, which was also just different. And everybody could
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  Speaker 2: not stop talking about Dave Matthews at Virginia Tech in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four, but mainly because he was essentially a
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  Speaker 2: hometown hero. He had played fraternities at Virginia Tech in
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  Speaker 2: the early nineties. He was just very adamant about going
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  Speaker 2: around the state to cities and just bringing their thing.
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  Speaker 1: As marching tripping billies said lights on there. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that ended up on under the table and dreaming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So he you know, he he embodied the same
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  Speaker 2: path and live ethos that everyone else did and would
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  Speaker 2: open for these acts in places that he had never
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  Speaker 2: been before. Crazy Hustle