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Originally Posted by HonestDenver1
I don't think there as bad blood in 03/04 was there? Unless you're saying the Dave solo, D&F stuff sparked it... I thought the band was made post 05... They released their worst album to date and immediately tried to get back to new material in 06, by the end of that tour it could have been over is my understanding. They got roped in to play the Vegas shows in March 07 in an attempt to save the band... But then cancelled their Australian spring tour... The Vegas shows must have worked because they announced the summer tour shortly thereafter... But it was way later than usual and they didn't seem like they'd enjoyed it all that much. 07 has a handful of good shows but definitely lacked the normal energy that a DMB show would provide. I think this was due to songs like Eh Hee, Cornbread, Sister, YMDT, Hunger For The Great light filling up setlists and the band/fans not into it. Yet every single fucking show these turds showed up on the set... I'd be mad too.
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I’ve never went to much in digging into this part of DMB history, the “post STAND UP crisis”, and don’t know if there is a specific thread about it.
For sure it is an important part, and it is interesting to know what had happened at that time.
The guys were really thinking of splitting up, Dave and Fonz talk about it from min 8 of ep.4 of this beautiful documentary “the Road to Big Whiskey“.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9xUEovuYV7I
Apparently they have reached a bottom, made up of anger and difficulty to communicate each other.
Vegas 07 (April 22, 2007) show, immediately followed by the European tour, was the point when they, somehow, found new energy.
The first time that I saw DMB live, imagine that, was on may 25, 2007 at Pavilhao Atlantico, Lisbon (Live Trax), and I couldn’t notice anything of that. The band put an incredible energy on stage, the crowd was so loud and enthusiastic, that Portugal 2007 turned out to be the greatest show I’ve seen so far.
I like to rewatch all of that, years later, as a turning point for the band, that maybe the guys were changing their mind also because of the amazing amount of energy and affection of that short European tour (consider that it was the first in ten years, you can imagine the impatience) and those amazing nights. Maybe they said “what the hell, look at these guys, we cannot just quit and disappear”. Probably it is not true, but I like to think like that.