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Jam On ( Sirius radio) has been playing a 16-17 minute version of Lie ii Our Graves, with a wonderful extended solo by Butch. What show was this? Is a CD available ?

I don’t know for sure which you’re hearing, but I can give you all the possible candidates. The following versions of Lie in Our Graves are ~16 minutes, have Butch solos, and have been officially released:

1. The Gorge (this is probably the one)2. Live Trax, Vol. 23. Live Trax, Vol. 104. Live Trax, Vol. 115. Weekend on the Rocks

As I said, The Gorge is the best bet, since that’s the only one that had an in-store release (Weekend on the Rocks had a retail release, but LIOG wasn’t on the in-store version.) Hope that helps!

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Jeremy, Vine has been stopped. You did it.

This is super late, but I have to publish it just to take a victory lap.

All the years

all the pain

all the times I was finished with life because of a six-second video

it was all gearing up to this moment

I STOPPED VINE. I KILLED THE BEAST.

(just to prove my victory, there’s a vine on my dash right now but it won’t load lmao)

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hi

i didn’t mean to disappear, i just kinda forgot about tumblr tbh

hope everyone’s still alive

hope no one was worried i was dead

if you sent me a message or s/t, i’m really sorry for not replying, i’ll get on that now

so yeah

<insert donald trump joke here>

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there’s a cute lil fox poking around my front yard <3

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Get a new phone my ass.

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Don’t trust anyone… Chloe Price by me

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trying to download music from the dmb shop is the worst shit i’ve ever seen

three times now i’ve ordered a dmblive album. the download link they gave me was either completely nonfunctional, or the download aborted halfway through, or the download finished but the files were corrupted - no matter what, i didn’t get my music. the first time i sent a message to customer service and got no reply, so i sucked it up and bought it again, and miraculously it worked.

i just tried to download two more shows, it got all screwed up, and i’m not gonna hand them more money just so they can not deliver a product, so i had to go illegally download the music i LEGALLY BOUGHT just to be able to hear it. nonsensical.

(on the other hand, i’ve ordered a ton of physical discs - live traxes - from the store and i’ve had zero problems, so at least some of the people there know what they’re doing.)

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Got a wife in Chino, babe And one in Cherokee First one says she got my child But it don’t look like me

Friend of the Devil (ft. Bela Fleck), 7.4.15

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The folks over at Ants are losing their minds over Plastic Girl, like it’s the second coming of Be Yourself. I don’t think it’s nearly that bad. I kinda like it, actually. Nice groove. The lyrics are pretty dopey (the chorus is frighteningly close to that Barbie Girl song, whatever it’s called,) but they are far from the worst lines Dave has ever written. The bridge is a disaster: I can’t tell if the transition to and from the bridge is supposed to sound that awkward, or they just messed it up twice. It needs real lyrics, too. I like the horn line at the end. Can’t tell what Boyd’s doing. Tim is a little too obtrusive.

Bottom line: it’s a decent song, and I don’t get why Ants is freaking out so much over it. It wasn’t even the worst song in tonight’s set.

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Dave Matthews Band - Plastic Girl, 6/24/16 (song debut)

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naturally i stepped away from the periscope right as DMB debuted Plastic Girl, so i missed it

a buncha people on Ants are saying it’s horrifyingly bad

can’t wait to hear the tape lmao

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so I saw DMB in Bristow last night~~~

It was...a bad show. Maybe that’s unfair. It started out pretty good, but then the set just fell off a cliff, and since the end of a show tends to stick with you more than the beginning, I walked away thinking, “that wasn’t so great.” Moreover, it was a short show: they took the stage a little later than usual, I think, and it ended 10 minutes before curfew. That sort of thing irritates me. I know the band doesn’t promise to play a certain amount of time, but when the show doesn’t start for 20-30 minutes after the time advertised, there’s really no excuse for ending the show early. If you start late, and the curfew is 11:00, then play until 11. 

Let’s get into this thing (for reference, here’s the full set: http://dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSet.aspx?id=453065409&tid=2154&where=2016)

Squirm opened the show. People seem pretty divided on Squirm: some like it, some don’t, some hate it as an opener. I love Squirm. I think it’s one of the few songs from Big Whiskey that really came into its own live, and I think it’s a great opener, so no problems here. Then Dave announced Jon D’Earth, and I was filled with despair because I figured Jimi Thing was a lock. But then, lo, Seek Up! It was pretty great. I could nitpick and complain that it went on for a little too long - they should’ve just given D’Earth the solo in the beginning rather than have D’Earth solo and then have Jeff and Rashawn do their horn duel - but Seek Up running a little long is hardly a tragedy.

The show stayed pretty good all the way through Samurai Cop. Then Joe Lawlor came out and I thought, “huh, he just played on Rhyme and Reason last night. I guess they’ll do it again.” I’ve heard R&R twice before, and once with Lawlor, but it’s a solid song, so I’d have been fine with that. Then they started playing Cornbread and I was like “oh ffs” because I hate Cornbread. I like Joe, but Cornbread is not a song that needs to be jammed out, much less ten whole minutes. Joe’s solo was fine, I guess. This song sucks.

The set never really recovered from that. Grey Street and The Space Between are okay, but they’re pretty generic. Sugar Will is great, but it just wasn’t enough to save the set. D’Earth came back out to play - Recently, maybe? - no, of course not! Jimi Thing >> Sexy MF. It was bad. Then the band walked off stage and I thought, “damn, that seemed like a really short set.”  Dive In/Warehouse is a fine encore, but, again, it wasn’t enough to save the show. We needed a really great encore here, and instead, we got a merely good one. And, as aforementioned, the band left ten minutes early.

When I got home, I saw the printed setlist and noticed there were four songs cut: Bob Law, Drive In Drive Out, Rapunzel, and Dancing Nancies.

Think about that for a sec.

Those would have been four of the best songs played, and they all got cut. The original encore was Dive In/Nancies>>Warehouse. Since they ended with 10 minutes to spare, there was totally enough time to play that; no reason whatsoever to cut Nancies. As for the other three, I have no idea why they cut those. Was it really so important to play Grey Street for the millionth time that they just had to cut Drive In Drive Out? They couldn’t shelf The Space Between for Rapunzel? I swear, this band...

So, all in all, a pretty weak show. I’d say the only reason to download the tape is Seek Up. That being said, I think I, personally, had more fun than the show really warranted. Bristow is the only show I go to all tour - hell, it’s the only concert I go to, period - so I’m kinda guaranteed to enjoy myself. I definitely had more fun in ‘13 and ‘14, which were great shows, but I don’t regret going or anything.

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heading out to bristow

prayer circle for the setlist guys

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the second season of twin peaks is so hard to watch it’s unbelievable

not even david duchovny in a wig and lipstick can save this shit