Month: February 1994

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Blind Melon was huge at the time thanks to constant MTV rotation of “No Rain”, so I headed up to the UMBC Fieldhouse to see them. I don’t remember Alice Donut, but I knew Meat Puppets from Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” performance & “Too High to Die”. I had definitely bought Blind Melon’s self titled album, and knew all of it (proving concert rule #1: the more songs you know, the more you enjoy the show). Since they only had the one album, they tossed in tasty covers by The Allman Brothers Band, The Velvet Underground, Social Distortion & Led Zeppelin (the latter cover would eventually end up on 1995’s Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin). A great show, and one of the first I would pick up a video of at one of the Tyson’s record shows at the Best Western.
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Having become a Dave Matthews Band fan, it only made sense to see Dave play acoustic with a guitarist I hadn’t heard of: Tim Reynolds. I wished I’d paid more attention to opener Jeff Buckley, but at the time I had no idea who he was. I only had eyes for Dave, and he was mesmerizing. T-Bone Burnett was a nice guest, but I also had no idea who he was. This show was significant for me in that 2 songs were included on the Dave Matthews Band’s Recently EP later that year: “Dancing Nancies” & “Warehouse”. Being in the audience for a live album was a fantasy of mine, and eventually I’d make it happen for Rush.

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