??/??/92-----*Boyd(in a nerdy voice: "Before I met Dave, I was shy, introverted person with no friends, and now I'm a rock star in Charlottesville. Thank you Dave, thank you Dave, thank you Dave. *Dave: "It only makes me happy that I could be of assistance."
(6/7/98)----dave during too much..."I eat too much....I drink too much....I don't smoke enough
05/26/92, Trax-----Boyd: "Crunchberries, crunchberries, crunchberries."
07/21/92, Trax-----(some guy in the audience): "Hey Dave, you're showing a little muscle tonight, I see." * Dave: " I just thought, as he's pointed out here tonight, I'm showing a little bit of muscle tonight...because, I'm so massively strong that I felt it was unkind of me, unkind of me, selfish of me, to only admire my huge biceps in the mirror at home...when I'm doing what I shouldn't be doing, at home...according to those hairy hand seekers".
08/04/92-----(before One Sweet World)----"I wrote a pretty straightforward song when me and Carter and Stefan and Leroi were in my basement a few months ago-and was a really mellow song and then Carter took it and turned it into the funk, this weird Virginia funk Thing, and so it means well in sensitivity but...it'll pump ya butt pretty good!"
09/11/92, DKE House---"Could I have been.. a beachfront property"
11/17/92---"I was feeling the possibility of a cold, a head cold, starting this morning. Because you have to be a very stupid, stupid man to shave your head when winter's coming, and I fit the necessary categories. The characteristics are mine, I'll shave my head in the arctic if necessary, just to be a nu-nu, as my mom would say. "You're a nu-nu, David." But more likely she'd say (Daves voice gets high) "nu-nu!" This song is also kind of new.....new."
01/30/93, W&L University----"It's a nice farm animal atmosphere in here...I just talked to the owner Mrs....?? she's in charge of the fires."
03/17/93---- "Thank You! Just in a moment I'm gonna be joined by all my friends up here and then we're gonna funk it hard until midnight and then a little afterwards, so we hope you all stay hope that your bar-hopping doesn't necessarily drag you away. You could hop away then hop back or just pretend you hopped away and not hop away at all." ----- "So because it's St. Patrick's Day implies that we should be in loud and crazy moods I thought I'd play a love song there's no better reason, no better time for a love song then when everyone wants to scream so I'll play one now and we can get it over and done with and then we'll funk." -------"Thank you, and Stefan Lessard on the bass guitar, born and bred in France, discovered in the streets of Amsterdam."
03/23/93---BLC----"Hello and welcome to this evening's thrilling entertainment...thrill a minute...ah chick!...that intimate vocal sound, hey...how's everybody doin...I hope you can understand what I'm saying...cause I know what i'm saying...as per usual, I'm gonna play a little bit by myself, which I like doing a lot, cause I know what I like and I treat myself well, and I know i'll respect myself in the morning..."
04/18/93, Brown's Island (after introduction, and in redneck accent)--- "Well, here I was just takin' a piss not ten seconds ago. Thank you very much, we're the Dave Matthews band."
07/06/93, Trax----"I'm gonna do another song by myself and then my friend Carter is going to come out and (in a wierd accent) 'funk it up de back beat'. Cha ba ba cha ba ba ba, eeeek! 'cause...Carter does it like that." ---- "That's Leroi Moore on the saxaphone and (wierd accent again) de Carter Beaufod-be-bo-be-bo-boo!!"
10/26/93, Trax---(before Say Goodbye)"...um, ah ... I didn't take a shower today. But I haven't even gotten out of my pajamas yet, but um it's not because I just woke up, it's not that either. I just was up in DC, just screwing around but I didn't have time to wash myself before I went up there, so I'm wearing the shirt that I wore last night. So I'm a little funky, look a little disheveled," (In the perfect Monty Python voice) "but I've got a heart of gold. He smells a lot, but he's got a heart of gold."
12/02/93, Virgnia Tech------"Excuse me...(now in a southern hick voice) ah shouldn't a had that chickin curry tonite...ahm on FIIIIIRE!"
1994(several shows)---There is a story about the roadie who was just puzzled because everyone brought cheese for Dave and tried to give it to the roadie to give to Dave. "what is it with you guys and cheese??"
07/30/94----"Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese."
08/01/94, Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC---"I just lay down for a second a couple minutes ago and then I got all grrrogggy. So I'm gonna take a little time to wake up cuz it's all grrrrogggy... (Random bass and sax from Stefan and Roi)...I got a little sister named Jane and this is The Song That JaneLikes." ----- "Are any uh ya all goin' to the HORDE shows, the HORDE tour, or is it done for most of you? Is it over for most of you? Well we're gonna be on it from the 15th on so maybe if you're around you could come see us a little bit, but come early, 'cause we're gonna be the coffee show, we're gonna be the after lunch show so be sure you get there bright and early, 'cause (weird, low accent) We ain't no Allman Brothers, we ain't no Blues Traveler, we ain't no Big Head Todd, we the little ole Dave Matthews Band...Ha."
09/28/94--What Would You Say---"This song's about a fat goose!"
10/21/94, Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MO.---(before Recently)---" this is a song about somebody thatI really liked a lot....maybe, I don't know...and I happened to be at the same time that I really enjoyed this person.. -----(Before #36)---- "Thank you very much, leroi moore, stefan lessard on the bass guitar. Uh, uh, I guess last year sometime last year, Chris Hani, i don't know if you're famillar with him but he uh, he was the the the leader of the military wing of the ANC and was fighting for a little bit of liberation in South Africa, and he walked outside i guess after breakfast one morning and caught a bullet in the side of his head, and he died soon after that. So anyway, on that day, after hearing that bad news, we came up with this kinda happy groove, and the song's kinda about [weird low accent] love and huggin' and kissin' and dancin' and gettin' babies, and makin' babies, and makin' LOOOOOVE [normal dave voice] It's called number thirty-six." -----(intro to Rhyme and Reason): "This is a song about too much of nothing...it's about Peter, Paul, and Mary..."
12/31/94----Song that Jane Likes---- " (before True Reflections)--"and so...it's one year later...and i'm one year older...and one year closer to being dead...but that....that's ok...it's all a part of growing up...."
01/26/95---"So...we haven't played for a little while, so we're kind of fresh and out of the box and smell like plastic..."
02/23/95---intro to Dancing Nancies----"so ahh, i know that someone come up to you and say man you're all messed up, you get pissed off. You say listen man, i am what i am. Sometimes i wonder if maybe when somebody tells me i'm all screwed up, maybe they got a point or something."
02/24/95----" ...we always have a great time when we come to New York. It's kinda like comin' home in a way. It's closer to the east coast than a lot of things. -----"He could fry an egg back there and play the baddest drums you ever heard." 02/26/95, Rochester Auditorium-----Dave said that the name 'Under the Table and Dreaming' referred to "when you're so drunk you fall down and can't get up".
04/07/95, Durham NC--- "So sometimes I wander around a place as beautiful as Duke here, all the nice stone buildings and all the cool people hangin' out... I wonder if, maybe I'd been slightly different, if maybe I could have ended up here, or somewhere like here, and not been a high-school dropout the way I was, but...uhh..but that's okay; we're all different, but we're not all _that_ different..."
05/05/95, Salem, OR------(After Dave did some of his classic mumble between songs) some guy in the front row - "I can't understand a damn word you're saying!" Dave being sarcastic in the most normal, generic, American news anchor voice of I've ever heard, said "A gentleman in the front row has kindly alerted me to the fact that I'm not speaking clearly. I sincerely apologize to everybody in the building for not speaking clearly enough!!"
07/08/95, Germany----(before WWYS) "We come from a part of America where we talk to pigs. You got a lot of pigs out here but in America we talk to them. We say SOOOUUUUUUEEEEE EEEAAA HAH AHA HA!"
07/31/95, Austin----"I hope you don't mind if we screw around a little bit, that's what were best at." -----"So when your starin up at the sky and dreamin, cause when your dreamin that's the only real free place, is in your head, everywhere else there's someone else tellin' you what to do then you stare up at the stars and maybe once and a while some of them move."
08/25/95-----"So if you've ever seen those Time Life books and you see that picture of those monkeys, and they call it the picture of evolution, and they start off with the little monkey and they end up with the people. That's not too long a walk, across that page I don't think. This song is about that monkey."
12/28/95--- "I ain't promoting drinking or nothing. But whiskey comes from plants. And ya know, whatever comes from the ground has got to be good for you."
12/29/95, Patriot Center---"The Energizer bunny, he just keeps goin' and goin' and goin'... one day a giant hammer is gonna fall out of the sky and knock the out of him..."
12/31/95, Hampton Coliseum---(before nancies)---"One thing that wouldn't change... when the new year comes...when you get a couple of beers or a couple of pipes in you, you're feeling okay..."
06/07/96, Great Woods Ampitheater, Boston, MA----"Sometimes, when you watch CNN... if you sit in front of CNN and watch all that stuff on CNN... your Headline News, or you watch Party of Five, or... or you watch Friends... or you watch bombs blowing up in Bhagdad, or you watch people shootin' each other or people goin' hungry 'cause other people eat too much or drink too much... people standin' on top of the White House, there's people standin' up on Capitol Hill... i don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats, I'm gonna tell you anything; they stand up there, sound like they know something... they all still wake up in the morning, drink a cup of coffee and take a shit, they ain't no better than i am... an' they dance around the problem... say this, talk about the economic implications... but their grandfather, great-great grandfather was just like my great-great grandfather- just a bunch of monkeys swingin' up in the trees, sittin' there. if someone tells you they know what's going on... immediately... question them... yeah... especially the government, i don't care where the government is, it could be in Moscow, it could be in Washington DC. don't... just think we got it made. just remember that we're all monkeys and that's the first thing that keeps us together..."
06/11/96---"This is one of my best friends...it took me a little while to know him, but once you do know him, he never leaves, this is my friend Jack Daniels." 06/14/96 (someone throws a joint onto the stage)---"I'll smoke it later, thanks." -------(when Dave comes back on stage for the encore)----"I've got to get back to the bus, my friend Jack Daniels is in there. He's a hard man to get rid of."
06/18/96-- Polaris Ampitheater, Columbus, OH ---"Y'all two in the second row there...Y'all are just goofy."
06/19/96, Deer Creek, IN---(into to nancies) "So, there was this one time i was walking from this place called Port Elizabeth in South Africa.. to a place called hurden(?) and it was a long way. Well, I was actually hitchiking, which you can do sometimes there, and be successfull. And I was unfortunately not successfull, and I walked my skinny chicken legs off, and I thought to myself.. I thought, what the am I going to do with my life? Walking around in the middle of Africa, with nothing to do. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I said, well, hey I could be an accountant, I could be a explorer, I could be myself. could I be, somebody else.. Don't you ever wonder, could you have been.. don't you ever wonder..." -----(before What Would You Say)---"This next song.. we haven't played this, till a couple days ago, we haven't played this song in a couple years, 'cos, uhh, we kind of heard it a lot, but uh, now that it's not played that much on the radio, we kinda figured we could start playing it again. so.."
06/23/96, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI----"Sometimes you know, I don't know if you get this way, but I just wanna say something. I don't know if you're driving down the road, you got the radio playin, you see the headlines, and you see the McDonalds, and you see the Burger King, Another Citgo, and then you got 7-11, and then you got the radio telling you to turn it up and rip the knob off, and the television keeps changing channels...I say it's TOO MUCH!!" ------(Before Lie In Our Graves) "Hey, this is a song that sings about the hopes that when we all got to the end of our lives that we'll feel, we'll feel pretty good about what we did; so don't comprimise yourself-- if you want to go to a island and sit there in the sand for the rest of your life, _go_ to the island! And if you want to go to the moon, _go_ to the god damn moon! And if you want to sit at home, _sit_ the at home!"
07/05/96, Utrecht---(After someone said boo to Dave--as in booing the band)----"The only boo your going to be giving me tonite is bootie!" ------(To the crowd)"Has anyone tried that Mustard soup?" (crowed says yeah!) "Was is good?" "Yeah, but it tasted like hot dogs!"
09/08/96----"If the guy who threw that shoe is man enough to come up here and admit it to my face.........I'll shake your hand!"
09/27/96, East Lansing-----"We have Greenpeace tables set up in
the concourse tonight. Stop by and see what you can do to keep the grass
blue, and the skies green..".
09/27/96, East Lansing-----"We have Greenpeace tables set up in
the concourse tonight. Stop by and see what you can do to keep the grass
blue, and the skies green..".
09/29/96, Hershey Park Stadium---(paraphrased) "I think a good philosophy is...instead of 'Just say no'....'Just say yes, at least once "
10/01/96, Fleetcenter, Boston, MA----New line in DIDO----"God has all but left me behind so I'll make up my own God and invite him to a tea party." ------"There's a flu thing goin round up here...I don't know if you all got it but I do...I can't sing so good...I have a bullfrog down my throat and if I open up wide enough you can see him!"
10/02/96--- "Last night it was a bullfrog in my throat, tonight its a horse, and i hope tomorrow its not a elephant!"
10/04/96, Madison Square Garden---"Elephants eat their own fecal matter..."
10/26/96, Dallas---(before Help Myself)----"This next song is a song we haven't recorded...but I believe it's floating around on some cassettes out there somewhere..."
11/07/96, Seattle----"Drank too much coffee, and now I'm all freaked out!"
11/09/96----" ----(some girl in the very front center got up on someone's shoulders and flashed Dave. He kind of went crazy and made some really goofy remarks like:) "this pretty little girl in the front just showed me her pretty little boobs!" ----- "Gotta get a prescription for 420 here in California. Prescription for the KIND." [ referring to passing of prop. 215 in CA, legalizing pot if prescribed by a doctor]
??/??/??, Modern Rock Live----"Five years for now, i'm going to be a squid, i'll be a squid in five years". ---------
??/??/??-----"I feel like crap tonight so here's the remix.........could I have been the King of Diarrhea."
??/??/93---"This goes out to all of you who see the image and to those who seek to see the image."
??/??/??----*Boyd: " 'Cause if it weren't for Dave we'd all be working at McDonalds saying, "Can I take your order please?" *Dave: "I'd be managing fries."
??/??/??----(after some fool wouldn't stop yelling)---" ...Or else ninjas will come to your house and kick your ass!"
??/??/??----(before Jimi Thing)---"I'm sorry for seeming a little crazy, I kinda hurt my hand, and the doctor gave me a bunch of steroids that got me all crazy. Then I smoked a lot of pot and that got me REALLY crazy. Here's a song about getting HIIIIIIIIIIIIGH!"
??/??/??----"Your Jimi thing can be anything you want it to be. Boyd has a big Jimi Thing. Mine is not as big as Boyd's."
??/??/??, Crashing The Quarter----"Look at me, I'm sweating like a pig, look at my pants, I swear to God I didn't piss in my pants, I swear, I used to wet by bed up until I was 11, but not anymore, I swear I didn't piss my pants...."
??/??/??, Vail, CO--- I didn't tell many people this, but this is Vodka!"