Re: New Album Coming Soon?
The whole concept of "road testing" is pure fan fiction.
DMB wrote prolifically for a couple years and played the songs they wrote live. By the time they signed a record deal, they already had a ton of songs in the pipeline. Some were allocated to the first record, others to the second. At one point, their rate of record production outpaced their ability to write new songs to perform live (due to their record contract), thus necessitating in-studio composition. This also coincided with becoming an even more commercially successful band from a sales perspective, which ushered in a new era of expectations, process changes, and scrutiny. They had to write even faster to keep up with demand, and radio-friendly tunes/hit singles were the price of admission to maintain their level of stardom. All of this put a ton of pressure on Dave as a songwriter and I think it wore on them—eventually culminating in the LWS blowup and further manifesting in the 2007 near-breakup. I know there were a ton of other interpersonal variables at play here, but the point is this: there was never a golden era in which Dave wrote songs to perform live for the purpose of tweaking for an album. In fact, I think Dave would scoff at that thought because I bet that he would claim that he just writes songs with no other purpose than to write a song. Sometimes they wind up on an album, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they evolve live, sometimes they don't. But we sure do place a lot of emphasis on a songwriting process that, from I can tell, was never intentional and exists entirely in our minds.
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