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Blind Melon with Alice Donut & Meat Puppets at UMBC Fieldhouse, Baltimore, MD, USA

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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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Meat Puppets Setlist UMBC Fieldhouse, Baltimore, MD, USA 1994, Too High to Die

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Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds with Jeff Buckley at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA

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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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Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Setlist The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA 1994

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Paul Westerberg at Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, MD, USA

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Paul Westerberg put out a stunning album called 14 Songs in 1993. You’d be forgiven if you went to the show because he was the guiding force behind The Replacements, but if you liked them both, this show gave you the best of both worlds as the band had just disbanded. Went with Karen.

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Paul Westerberg Setlist Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, MD, USA 1993

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Dave Matthews Band at The Bayou, Washington, DC, USA

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My first show at The Bayou and my first Dave Matthews Band show. It was a rainy night and my sister was going to school at the University of Virginia at the time, and she was telling me about this great band I had to see. So we went down there with a couple friends (Karen and Michelle) without tickets, only to find it was sold out. We waited outside as the rain came down off the Whitehurst Freeway onto us while Sharon begged for spare tickets in her UVA hat. Eventually we got enough tickets to get in, and we worked our way to the side. We only caught half the show, but it didn’t matter as I just fell in love with the band. It didn’t hurt that they covered “All Along The Watchtower” with guest Warren Haynes.

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Dave Matthews Band Setlist The Bayou, Washington, DC, USA 1993

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