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Dave Matthews Band
Best of the Summer 1999 Tour


Disc 1 (68.38)

1. Davespeak - "The Beginning of the Tour" (0.17)
2. What Would You Say (5.00)
     (May 1, 1999 - Tampa Ice Palace - Tampa, Florida)
     Source info: AT 853 > SP p/s > M1 (David Eisenberg)

3. The Stone (8.04)
     (July 17, 1999 - The Gorge - Quincy, Washington)
     Source info: Earthworks SR-77 > Lunatec V2 > ADC-20 > DA-P1 (Craig Willoughby)

4. Rhyme and Reason (6.06)
     (August 4, 1999 - Hersheypark Stadium - Hershey, Pennsylvania)
     Source info: (1) Microtech Geffell SMS2000/200 (card) -> Oade M148 -> Sony SBM-1 -> D8
                  (2) Nakamichi 300's (2 cards, 1 omni) -> Nak 3 channel mixer -> D100 
	          (Bill Lakenan and Lee Schusterman)

5. Introduction of the Flecktones (0.37)
6. Carter Beaufort and Futureman Jam Intro -----> (2.54) *
7. #41 (Sojourn of Arjuna) (16.13) *
     (May 30, 1999 - Foxboro Stadium - Foxboro, Massachusetts)
     Source info: earthworks sr-77 > audiomagic X-Stream XLR > Lunatec V2 > 
                  audiomagic Excalibur RCA > DA-P1 (Mike Vernal)

8. Bartender -----> (3.26) ^
9. Don't Drink the Water (This Land Is Your Land) (6.29) ^
     (July 15, 1999 - Dead Aunt Thelma's Radio Show - Portland, Oregon)
     Source info: Digital PRE-FM

10. Cry Freedom (6.07)
     (June 28, 1999 - Marcus Amphitheatre - Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
     Source info: earthworks SR-77 > Lunatec V2 > Tascam DA-P1 (Matt Edlhuber)

11. Long Black Veil (6.57)
     (May 12, 1999 - Gund Arena - Cleveland, Ohio)
     Source info: AT853 (Hyper-Carbs)->Sony M-1 (Brian Rentschler)

12. Drive In Drive Out (6.20)
     (June 24, 1999 - Deer Creek Music Center - Noblesville, Indiana)
     Source info: SoundPro AT853 > BrBox > Sharp MD 702 (Jason Goodin)

* - with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and Butch Taylor on piano
^ - Dave Matthews solo

LINER NOTES:

	What Would You Say - really odd song to kick of the new tour.  I believe Dave
has always claimed to not like playing it, and it has been a rarity over the past couple
of years before bringing it back when Maceo Parker guested with them in December.  This
version of this song kicks off the set as it kicked off the tour.

	The Stone - really windy show with some of it bleeding into the recording.
However, the key to this version is that Carter absolutely opens a can of whoop-ass during
the middle segments.  Plus, Boyd stays in tune for the majority of the outro, which is
amazing enough in itself.

	Rhyme and Reason - the key to this version is how obnoxious the crowd is the entire
show.  Possibly this is the cause for a somewhat lackluster show that included a single
song Tripping Billies encore.  However it pays off as he takes out his frusterations in
this version.  "...of this terrorrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!..."

	Intro --> #41 - even if this version didn't kick as much ass as it does, it would've
been chosen due to the one and only appearance of the Flecktones all tour.  However, the
version does absolutely rock with the seamless transition into Sojourn of Arjuna.

	Bartender --> Don't Drink the Water - the first of three appearances for Don't Drink 
the Water on the set.  Taped from a radio show late in the tour, Bartender was slightly more 
evolved from the original versions during the accoustic tour earlier in the year.

	Cry Freedom - absolute shock when this was brought back at Polaris.  The girl sitting
the row in front of me literally was crying in the middle telling anyone who would listen and
many who wouldn't that it was her favorite song and what the last date was that they played it.
My only thought was that anyone who cares when it was last played knows the date.  Excellent
version from Milwaukee, the third of four times played this Summer, with some of the cinks
from Polaris and Deer Creek ironed out.

	Long Black Veil - intensely passionate version from Cleveland.

	Drive In Drive Out - at first the consensus at the amphitheatre was that it was a lame
song to end the three night Deer Creek stand with.  However, we all were completely blinded
by biased, hopeless, tendency to pray for Halloween.  The key to this version is Dave's 
screaming and yelling during the bridge.  Vastly intense when you make out the muttered 
syllables that he screams, turn it up and scream with him.  The most intense closer I've 
ever heard closes disc 1.

Enjoy.
--Rob