Dave Matthews and His Band

I know I just recently posted a whole weeks worth of boy band music videos which to most is probably considered one of the biggest stains on music history.  And then there is Dave Matthews.  A lot of people have this “too cool for school,” “that’s so college” attitude about the Dave Matthews Band which apparently makes it bad music.  I have to totally disagree.  Yes, he appeals to a wide audience.  Yes, he has had some chart topping hits but that does not mean he sucks.  It’s that irony of becoming a huge music star and have your song played over and over and over (and over) on the radio that makes me giggle sometimes.  Oh, don’t worry I am totally guilty of it too but only with music that truly does suck. 

Some of the best memories I have were at a Dave Matthews Band concert.  I honestly think it might have been my first concert at the Coca Cola Starplex (which I think is still called the Smirnoff Center).  I was a junior in high-school and I was with a pretty big group of friends.  It was the first time I got a whiff of marijuana.  Yes, I was a super late bloomer.  We were not only smelling grass but sitting on grass.  One of the greatest things about the Starplex was that half of the amphitheater was lawn seating.  At this concert it started to rain which made it even more memorable.  People were dancing all of the place all high and shit.  It was awesome.

My girl friends and I even traveled to the Woodlands just north of Houston to see him.  Come to think of it, it rained at that show too.  There was this amazing lightening show going on behind the concert.  The venue in the Woodlands was also an amphitheater and we were sitting on the lawn.  My friends and I were dancing in the mud getting all dirty and high and shit.  Wait!  We weren’t high, but tons of other people were.  It must be something about the venue.  Outside lawn seating.  Who would’ve thought it was lend itself to some serious smoking?  

I love it when he comes on over my speakers.  He even says my name in one song.  Well it’s not one of his songs but he did a cover of the Allman Brothers’ song, “Melissa.”  Sends chills down my back when I hear him sing that song.  Also, who wouldn’t love a guy who is quoted as saying, “I am a lover of women.”  I think I read that in Rolling Stone Magazine.  I never skip through a song and sometimes I even purposely hit play on one of his songs as I sit down to my computer.  While I may retrospectively have some shame on liking boys bands so much, such is NOT the case with Dave Matthews and his band.

#CurrentlyListeningTo a straight and heavy dose of Dave Matthews Band