DMB Release Chronology: A Listening Adventure

[DMBlunts]

Cptn. Monkeyman and I have been talking about putting together a list of official releases that is a timeline of the band, and then listening to the sound evolution through the releases. So instead of listening to the Live Trax series in order, you would start from 1991 and go through 2018. Sure you can do this already with your library of tapings but we admittedly got bored and put this list together just for shits and giggles.

I included a couple important dates/shows for you to listen to the tapings/recordings because they aren't official releases.

If you notice something missing that got released via some third party then feel free to fill in the gap. I did not include any various webcast rips but that can be something to be added as well.

If you want the word doc. with the list message me and I will email you, it was too large to attach here.

Without further adieu, enjoy!



Dave Matthews Official Release Chronology

1991
$ Trax Nightclub, Charlottesville, VA 3/14/91 “Recently” from first proper gig

1992
DMBLive Trax Nightclub, Charlottesville, VA 7/28/1992

Live Trax Vol. 37 Charlottesville, VA 11/11/1992

DMBLive The Bayou, Washington, DC 12/21/1992

1993
DMBLive The Flood Zone, Richmond, VA 01/27/1993

$ Trax, Charlottesville, VA 3/23/1993 “Big League Chew” **Peter’s Last Show**

DMBLive The Bayou, Washington, DC 4/10/1993

Live Trax Vol. 30 Nantucket, MA 8/16-18/1993

Live Trax Vol. 20 New York City, NY 8/19/1993

1994
DMBLive Trax, Charlottesville, VA 02/22/1994

DMBLive Masquerade Nightclub, Tampa, FL 3/2/1994

DMBLive Irving Plaza, New York, NY 3/26/1994

DMBLive Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA 04/06/1994

DMBLive Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA 4/26/1994

DMBLive Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA 10/14/1994

DMBLive Backstage Theatre, Seattle, WA 11/26/1994


1995
Live Trax Vol. 33 Providence, RI 1/31/1995

DMBLive Palace Theatre, Albany, NY 2/8/1995

DMBLive Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2/25/1995

DMBLive The Revolver Club, Madrid, Spain 3/25/1995

DMBLive The Academy, New York, NY 4/5/1995

DMBLive Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, NC 4/7/1995

Live Trax Vol. 12 Salem, OR 5/5/1995

DMBLive Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA 5/10/1995

DMBLive Des Eurockeennes, Lac de Malsaucy, France 07/09/1995

DMBLive Mud Island Amphitheatre, Memphis, TN 07/20/1995

Live Trax Vol. 21 San Diego, CA 8/4/1995

Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95

Live Trax Vol. 5 Rochester Hills, MI 8/23/1995

1996
Live Trax Vol. 4 Richmond, VA 4/30/1996

Live Trax Vol. 18 Virginia Beach, VA 6/4/1996

Live Trax Vol. 38 Saratoga Springs, NY 6/8/1996

DMBLive Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, AL 09/09/1996

DMBLive Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 10/03/1996

DMBLive Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 10/24/1996

1996
Live Trax Vol. 7 Hampton, VA 12/31/1996

1997
Live Trax Vol. 47 Hartford, CT 6/8/1997

Live Trax Vol. 17 Mountain View, CA 7/6/1997

1998
Live Trax Vol. 39, Oakland, CA 10/31/1998

DMBLive First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA 11/30/1998

Live Trax Vol. 1 Worcester, MA 12/8/1998

Live in Chicago 12.19.98 at the United Center

1999
DMBLive J.T. Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 3/3/1999

Live Trax Vol. 34 Noblesville, IN 6/24/1999

Listener Supported 11/11/1999

2000
Live Trax Vol. 16 Cincinnati, OH 6/26/2000

Live Trax Vol. 3 Hartford, CT 8/27/2000

Live Trax Vol. 11 Saratoga Springs, NY 8/29/2000

2001
Live Trax Vol. 31 Camden, NJ 6/23/2001

Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado 7/11/2001

2002
The Gorge 9/6-8/2002

Live Trax Vol. 40 New York City, NY 12/21/2002

2003
Live Trax Vol. 26 Marysville, CA 7/30/2003

The Central Park Concert 9/23/2003

2004
Live Trax Vol. 43 Atlanta, GA 7/27/2004

Live Trax Vol. 8 Troy, WI 8/7/2004

Live Trax Vol. 2 San Francisco, CA 9/12/2004

2005
Weekend on the Rocks 9/9-12/2005

2006
Live Trax Vol. 25 Maryland Heights, MO 5/30/2006

Live Trax Vol. 6 Boston, MA 7/7-8/2006

2007
Live Trax Vol. 9 Las Vegas, NV 3/23-24/2007

Live Trax Vol. 10 Lisbon, Portugal 5/25/2007

Live at Piedmont Park 9/8/2007

Live Trax Vol. 42 West Palm Beach, FL 9/14/2007

2008
Live Trax Vol. 13 St. Louis, MO 6/7/2008

Live Trax Vol. 14 Bristow, VA 6/28/2008 **LeRoi’s Last Show**

Live at Mile High Music Festival 7/20/2008

Live Trax Vol. 15 Troy, WI 8/9/2008

Live Trax Vol. 19 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 9/30/2008

2009
Live Trax Vol. 35 Burgettstown, PA 6/20/2009

Europe 2009 July, 2009


2010
Live Trax Vol. 22 Scranton, PA 7/14/2010

Live in New York City 7/17/2010

Live at Wrigley Field 9/17-18/2010

Live Trax Vol. 27 Buenos Aires, Argentina 10/14/2010

Live Trax Vol. 28 Charlottesville, VA 11/19/2010


2011
Live in Atlantic City 6/26/2011

Live on Lakeside 7/10/11

2012

2013
Live Trax Vol. 29 Cuyahoga Falls, OH 6/1/2013

Live Trax Vol. 45 Camden, NJ 6/29/2013

2014
Live Trax Vol. 32 Berkeley, CA 8/23/2014

2015
Live Trax Vol. 36 Troy, WI 7/26/2015

2016
Live Trax Vol. 44 George, WA 9/4/2016

2017
Charlottesville, VA 9/24/17 **Boyd’s Last Show**

2018
Live Trax Vol. 46 Noblesville, IN 7/7/2018


$ = Not an official release

** = Denotes Member activity

[RSSR]

I wouldn't call 9/24/17 an official release no matter how good quality the captured stream was.

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by RSSR

I wouldn't call 9/24/17 an official release no matter how good quality the captured stream was.

No no you're right, that should have had a $ next to it.

[coldengrey12]

One user here, Chumlee67, keeps a pretty extensive list of everything officially released:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...fV2ATFtEU/edit

[Bmwm3oz]

What would be really cool is if people listened to each of these and wrote some kind of review for each one while including their opinions/observations of the 'evolution' they are noticing. In other words, Boyd started to fall off in 2000, etc. Or Stefan really started to improve on X song in year X.

[prdstmnky36]

DMBLive J.T. Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 3/3/1999

Thats a D&T show I believe

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by prdstmnky36

DMBLive J.T. Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 3/3/1999

Thats a D&T show I believe

Good call, I was putting this together at 2 a.m. and going off the Wikipedia list of official releases. Sorry about that!

I will check out our fellow Ants' list in the future!

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by Bmwm3oz

What would be really cool is if people listened to each of these and wrote some kind of review for each one while including their opinions/observations of the 'evolution' they are noticing. In other words, Boyd started to fall off in 2000, etc. Or Stefan really started to improve on X song in year X.

That's what I was kind of hoping for out of this, when do you first start noticing changes in songs/jams/lyrics/playing style/quality.

[TrippinNancies1]

Attempted something like this a few days ago coincidentally. Thanks OP

[Bmwm3oz]

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

That's what I was kind of hoping for out of this, when do you first start noticing changes in songs/jams/lyrics/playing style/quality.

Would love this.

I would participate but I don't own any LT that I'm aware of.. Embarrassing to say that but yeah.

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by Bmwm3oz

Would love this.

I would participate but I don't own any LT that I'm aware of.. Embarrassing to say that but yeah.

Through Spotify you have the first 20 LTs alone.

[Cptn. Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by Bmwm3oz

What would be really cool is if people listened to each of these and wrote some kind of review for each one while including their opinions/observations of the 'evolution' they are noticing. In other words, Boyd started to fall off in 2000, etc. Or Stefan really started to improve on X song in year X.

Yeah, this is kind of the idea. I wasn't planning on doing any write ups, more just mental notes.

[MOWJO8185]

I tried listening this way once, and while it is cool to hear the evolution over time in that way, I got major fatigue from 1995-1996. All great releases on their own but there's not close to enough diversity in those sets to listen to them all in a row, for me at least.

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by MOWJO8185

I tried listening this way once, and while it is cool to hear the evolution over time in that way, I got major fatigue from 1995-1996. All great releases on their own but there's not close to enough diversity in those sets to listen to them all in a row, for me at least.

Very true, that's over 50 hours of music which is being played in pretty much the same manor.

[snow1868]

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

That's what I was kind of hoping for out of this, when do you first start noticing changes in songs/jams/lyrics/playing style/quality.

Listen to the Warehouse stop-time intro evolution between Live Trax 21, Live at Red Rocks, and Live Trax 5.

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by snow1868

Listen to the Warehouse stop-time intro evolution between Live Trax 21, Live at Red Rocks, and Live Trax 5.

This might be cool — pick a song like Two Step, #41, LIOG, Warehouse, etc., something long that has been around since the first few years, and see its evolution over time.

[snow1868]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

This might be cool — pick a song like Two Step, #41, LIOG, Warehouse, etc., something long that has been around since the first few years, and see its evolution over time.

The Warehouse one is more interesting to me because it's an evolution of the intro in over three weeks.

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

This might be cool — pick a song like Two Step, #41, LIOG, Warehouse, etc., something long that has been around since the first few years, and see its evolution over time.

Just look at Two Step...those Griesar renditions were phenomenal...a little all over the place on the back end but that's the beauty of it.

I also like to see how songs pick up some lyrics that stick and would eventually be a part of the studio edition.

[Cptn. Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by snow1868

Listen to the Warehouse stop-time intro evolution between Live Trax 21, Live at Red Rocks, and Live Trax 5.

[Route_2]

I did this a couple years ago and inserted Warehouse disc tracks in their chronological order. I have a big spreadsheet to track the order and I added notes about particular songs/shows that stood out to me.

Was a fun project.

I started back at the beginning last fall w/o the Warehouse tracks this time, just LT and DMBLive. It's a fun way to listen to the band.

[spiza]

This is a very cool thread. Back in about 2003 i downloaded and listened to every one of there live recorded shows from 91-2002. It was an amazing experience, My heavy listening has dwindled down throughout the last few years, i will just listen to the shows i attended mostly. My favorite years from 1991-2002 were 1993,1995,1998,2000.

[DMBlunts]

Anyone else notice the odd things from Boyd in the first 2 shows on here from 1992? In the 7.28 show Boyd says something like "I love Dave Matthews passionately and I don't care who the fuck knows" and Dave basically shrugs it off...then in the 11.11 show you hear Dave jokingly yell at him between songs "Get the hell out of here/off me Boyd" as if he was grabbing/hugging/humping him...never noticed it until today, seems about right by modern standards.

[Chumlee67]

I went through your list and I actually caught a few errors in my list, so thank you for doing this, the bolded below are either comments or missign shows.

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

Cptn. Monkeyman and I have been talking about putting together a list of official releases that is a timeline of the band, and then listening to the sound evolution through the releases. So instead of listening to the Live Trax series in order, you would start from 1991 and go through 2018. Sure you can do this already with your library of tapings but we admittedly got bored and put this list together just for shits and giggles.

I included a couple important dates/shows for you to listen to the tapings/recordings because they aren't official releases.

If you notice something missing that got released via some third party then feel free to fill in the gap. I did not include any various webcast rips but that can be something to be added as well.

If you want the word doc. with the list message me and I will email you, it was too large to attach here.

Without further adieu, enjoy!



Dave Matthews Official Release Chronology

1991
$ Trax Nightclub, Charlottesville, VA 3/14/91 “Recently” from first proper gig

1992
DMBLive Trax Nightclub, Charlottesville, VA 7/28/1992

Live Trax Vol. 37 Charlottesville, VA 11/11/1992

DMBLive The Bayou, Washington, DC 12/21/1992

1993
DMBLive The Flood Zone, Richmond, VA 01/27/1993

$ Trax, Charlottesville, VA 3/23/1993 “Big League Chew” **Peter’s Last Show**

DMBLive The Bayou, Washington, DC 4/10/1993

Live Trax Vol. 30 Nantucket, MA 8/16-18/1993

Live Trax Vol. 20 New York City, NY 8/19/1993

1994
DMBLive Trax, Charlottesville, VA 02/22/1994

DMBLive Masquerade Nightclub, Tampa, FL 3/2/1994

DMBLive Irving Plaza, New York, NY 3/26/1994

DMBLive Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA 04/06/1994

DMBLive Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA 4/26/1994

DMBLive Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA 10/14/1994

DMBLive Blue Note, Columbia, MO 10/22/1994

DMBLive Backstage Theatre, Seattle, WA 11/26/1994


1995
Live Trax Vol. 33 Providence, RI 1/31/1995

DMBLive Palace Theatre, Albany, NY 2/8/1995

DMBLive Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2/25/1995

DMBLive The Revolver Club, Madrid, Spain 3/25/1995

DMBLive The Academy, New York, NY 4/5/1995

DMBLive Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, NC 4/7/1995

Live Trax Vol. 12 Salem, OR 5/5/1995

DMBLive Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA 5/10/1995

DMBLive Des Eurockeennes, Lac de Malsaucy, France 07/09/1995

DMBLive Mud Island Amphitheatre, Memphis, TN 07/20/1995

Live Trax Vol. 21 San Diego, CA 8/4/1995

Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95

Live Trax Vol. 5 Rochester Hills, MI 8/23/1995

1996
Live Trax Vol. 4 Richmond, VA 4/30/1996

Live Trax Vol. 18 Virginia Beach, VA 6/4/1996

Live Trax Vol. 38 Saratoga Springs, NY 6/8/1996

DMBLive Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, AL 09/09/1996

DMBLive Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 10/03/1996

DMBLive Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 10/24/1996

1996
Live Trax Vol. 7 Hampton, VA 12/31/1996

1997
Live Trax Vol. 47 Hartford, CT 6/8/1997

Live Trax Vol. 17 Mountain View, CA 7/6/1997

1998
Live Trax Vol. 39, Oakland, CA 10/31/1998

DMBLive First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA 11/30/1998

Live Trax Vol. 1 Worcester, MA 12/8/1998

Live in Chicago 12.19.98 at the United Center

1999
DMBLive J.T. Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 3/3/1999 Should this be here if other Dave and Tim Releases aren't?

Live Trax Vol. 34 Noblesville, IN 6/24/1999

Listener Supported 11/11/1999

2000
Live Trax Vol. 16 Cincinnati, OH 6/26/2000

Wolfgang’s Vault: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL 6/30/2000

Live Trax Vol. 3 Hartford, CT 8/27/2000

Live Trax Vol. 11 Saratoga Springs, NY 8/29/2000

2001
Live Trax Vol. 31 Camden, NJ 6/23/2001

Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado 7/11/2001

2002
The Gorge 9/6-8/2002

Live Trax Vol. 40 New York City, NY 12/21/2002

2003
Live Trax Vol. 26 Marysville, CA 7/30/2003

The Central Park Concert 9/23/2003

2004
Live Trax Vol. 43 Atlanta, GA 7/27/2004

Live Trax Vol. 8 Troy, WI 8/7/2004

Live Trax Vol. 2 San Francisco, CA 9/12/2004

2005
Weekend on the Rocks 9/9-12/2005

2006
Live Trax Vol. 25 Maryland Heights, MO 5/30/2006

Live Trax Vol. 6 Boston, MA 7/7-8/2006

2007
Live Trax Vol. 9 Las Vegas, NV 3/23-24/2007

Live Trax Vol. 10 Lisbon, Portugal 5/25/2007

Live at Piedmont Park 9/8/2007

Live Trax Vol. 42 West Palm Beach, FL 9/14/2007

2008
Live Trax Vol. 13 St. Louis, MO 6/7/2008

Live Trax Vol. 14 Bristow, VA 6/28/2008 **LeRoi’s Last Show**

Live at Mile High Music Festival 7/20/2008

Live Trax Vol. 15 Troy, WI 8/9/2008

Live Trax Vol. 19 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 9/30/2008

2009
Live Trax Vol. 35 Burgettstown, PA 6/20/2009

Europe 2009 July, 2009


2010
Live Trax Vol. 22 Scranton, PA 7/14/2010

Live in New York City 7/17/2010

Live at Wrigley Field 9/17-18/2010

Live Trax Vol. 27 Buenos Aires, Argentina 10/14/2010

Live Trax Vol. 28 Charlottesville, VA 11/19/2010


2011
Live in Atlantic City 6/26/2011

Live on Lakeside 7/10/11

2012

2013
Live Trax Vol. 29 Cuyahoga Falls, OH 6/1/2013

Live Trax Vol. 45 Camden, NJ 6/29/2013

2014
Live Trax Vol. 32 Berkeley, CA 8/23/2014

2015
Live Trax Vol. 36 Troy, WI 7/26/2015

2016
Live Trax Vol. 44 George, WA 9/4/2016

2017
Charlottesville, VA 9/24/17 **Boyd’s Last Show** Should this count? If for significance sake then yes

2018
Live Trax Vol. 46 Noblesville, IN 7/7/2018


$ = Not an official release

** = Denotes Member activity

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by Chumlee67

I went through your list and I actually caught a few errors in my list, so thank you for doing this, the bolded below are either comments or missign shows.

Yeah I flubbed on a couple of things, the Boyd show should have been marked as "not official," and that D&T show should not have been in there.

IDK how I missed Blue Note because that is one of my fav Dmblive releases.

And thank you for your master list, that thing is a real treasure.

[Chumlee67]

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

Yeah I flubbed on a couple of things, the Boyd show should have been marked as "not official," and that D&T show should not have been in there.

IDK how I missed Blue Note because that is one of my fav Dmblive releases.

And thank you for your master list, that thing is a real treasure.

It happens, but lists like this help everyone out and keep everything in check.

Since you're thanking me, I need to thank ZackR for starting the list, I have simply taken over. Happy to keep it going though!

[Cptn. Monkeyman]

I'd like to give a shout out to chumlee and zackr as well. Ya'lls list helped me track down my collection and I really appreciate it. This list that Blunts has put together has a bit of a different purpose, it's more of a listening guide, a compact reference. Not as much of a complete collection database like your list. Both lists are very helpful and appreciated.

Thanks for the work guys, Chumlee67, ZackR, DMBlunts

[spiza]

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

Anyone else notice the odd things from Boyd in the first 2 shows on here from 1992? In the 7.28 show Boyd says something like "I love Dave Matthews passionately and I don't care who the fuck knows" and Dave basically shrugs it off...then in the 11.11 show you hear Dave jokingly yell at him between songs "Get the hell out of here/off me Boyd" as if he was grabbing/hugging/humping him...never noticed it until today, seems about right by modern standards.

The early shows are quite funny Dave, Roi, and Boyd are very vocal and funny on the microphones between songs. The 93 show from Winston Salem college is epic. they have some great banter on that one. The show itself is very very good.

[spiza]

http://www.dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSe...=60&where=1993

[DMBlunts]

Originally Posted by spiza

http://www.dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSe...=60&where=1993

Showin some love for all the mamis in attendance.

[spiza]

Originally Posted by DMBlunts

Showin some love for all the mamis in attendance.

You know it, Great show give it a spin. Cheers