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Dave Matthews Band @ SPAC: 6/9/12
Sunday, 10 June 2012 01:14I daresay that these two concerts I've seen this weekend of the Dave Matthews Band might have been the best yet. The place was packed; much, much more so than last night. Last night Danielle and I had spots of open grass around us. Not tonight. Tonight, had it been Danielle and I, our spot would've been completely surrounded. The crowd spilled above and beyond the top of the hill, stretching way, way back.
Tonight, Annie and I picked a spot near where I was yesterday, but a bit further down the hill. Didn't matter where you went; by the time the concert began, you weren't moving. Period. This was not a place for the easily claustrophobic. This is what I'm accustomed to going to a DMB concert--a complete and total sellout, with a vast sea of humanity stretching out for miles.
The fact that this was the band's first time back here in 2 years was easily prevalent, as I felt such an energy from the crowd that had been majorly missing in last night's concert. While I really enjoyed last night's concert, tonight was much more intense; and both the band and the crowd played off each other. When Dave himself performed the song "Sister," it was a very moving scene seeing the entire SPAC lawn illuminated in a slowly moving ocean of lit lighters. When the band launched into "Jimi Thing," the entire audience sang the entire first two verses with the band providing just the music.
And as the band jammed the final few minutes of "Two Step," the crowd was fit to bursting with amazing energy as the band seemed to just give it all they had, culminating in Carter reminding us once again why he's the best drummer ever. End of story. An electrifying finish to a great concert, to say the very least. For the curious, here was tonight's setlist:
Saturday Jun 9 2012
SPAC - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Eh Hee
You Might Die Trying
Sweet
The Stone
Everyday
Everybody Wake Up
Crush
Spaceman
Squirm
Alligator Pie
Pantala Naga Pampa
Rapunzel
Sister
So Much To Say
Anyone Seen The Bridge
Too Much
Rhyme And Reason (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Jimi Thing (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Stay (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Encores:
Gaucho
Two Step
See you next year, DMB. Thanks for an awesome two shows.
Tonight, Annie and I picked a spot near where I was yesterday, but a bit further down the hill. Didn't matter where you went; by the time the concert began, you weren't moving. Period. This was not a place for the easily claustrophobic. This is what I'm accustomed to going to a DMB concert--a complete and total sellout, with a vast sea of humanity stretching out for miles.
The fact that this was the band's first time back here in 2 years was easily prevalent, as I felt such an energy from the crowd that had been majorly missing in last night's concert. While I really enjoyed last night's concert, tonight was much more intense; and both the band and the crowd played off each other. When Dave himself performed the song "Sister," it was a very moving scene seeing the entire SPAC lawn illuminated in a slowly moving ocean of lit lighters. When the band launched into "Jimi Thing," the entire audience sang the entire first two verses with the band providing just the music.
And as the band jammed the final few minutes of "Two Step," the crowd was fit to bursting with amazing energy as the band seemed to just give it all they had, culminating in Carter reminding us once again why he's the best drummer ever. End of story. An electrifying finish to a great concert, to say the very least. For the curious, here was tonight's setlist:
Saturday Jun 9 2012
SPAC - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Eh Hee
You Might Die Trying
Sweet
The Stone
Everyday
Everybody Wake Up
Crush
Spaceman
Squirm
Alligator Pie
Pantala Naga Pampa
Rapunzel
Sister
So Much To Say
Anyone Seen The Bridge
Too Much
Rhyme And Reason (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Jimi Thing (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Stay (performed with the support band, Lettuce)
Encores:
Gaucho
Two Step
See you next year, DMB. Thanks for an awesome two shows.
