Literary HackDave Matthews Band: The Road to Big Whiskey Vol. 2
June 24th 2009 08:07
The second volume of the documentary begins in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dave Matthews met Carter Beauford and Leroi Moore at Miller's, a restaurant in Charlottesville. Dave asked to work there as a bartender after he heard Tim Reynolds play there. The band's birth took place upstairs at Miller's when Dave asked Carter and Leroi to listen to a couple of his songs. From there Dave picked up Boyd from his band, The Boyd Tinsley Band. Stefan Lessard was added when his father, who had played in the past with Carter, asked Carter to let his son audition for bass. That's how the band got together.
From there the documentary goes on, showing the band traveling all over the east coast playing shows for several years. They basically lived in a van full of about a dozen men. Dave Matthews Band would play in places where college kids would converge during holidays. This explains why the band became such a huge band of that age group. The rest of volume two chronicles the first three RCA CD's released by the band: Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before these Crowded Streets.
Under the Table and Dreaming was produced by Woodstock in New York. Steve Lillywhite, who was the producer of the album, came up with the idea to use two acoustic guitars for the album. He also encouraged the band to have Tim Reynolds there for the duration of album recording.
Crash was the second album by Dave Matthews Band and the music was more powerful and songy than their first album. A big addition was the baritone saxophone by Leroi Moore. Often, a band's second album will fall short of expectations, but Crash outsold Dave Matthews Band's first album, Under the Table and Dreaming. Crash is the band's highest selling album to this day.
The band's third album, Before These Crowded Streets, was recorded at The Plant, the famous studio in San Francisco. This album was more artistically creative than they had dared to go in the past. There were guest appearances like Bella Fleck and Alanis Morrisette. Lillywhite mentioned that this CD was far more darker than the first two.
Volume 2 ends with the band talking about the attitude of the band after the third CD. Patience was wearing thin with the band because as Dave says, the band was together a lot more and they were working really hard; Lillywhite says the clouds began to appear overhead during this period.
From there the documentary goes on, showing the band traveling all over the east coast playing shows for several years. They basically lived in a van full of about a dozen men. Dave Matthews Band would play in places where college kids would converge during holidays. This explains why the band became such a huge band of that age group. The rest of volume two chronicles the first three RCA CD's released by the band: Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before these Crowded Streets.
Under the Table and Dreaming was produced by Woodstock in New York. Steve Lillywhite, who was the producer of the album, came up with the idea to use two acoustic guitars for the album. He also encouraged the band to have Tim Reynolds there for the duration of album recording.
Crash was the second album by Dave Matthews Band and the music was more powerful and songy than their first album. A big addition was the baritone saxophone by Leroi Moore. Often, a band's second album will fall short of expectations, but Crash outsold Dave Matthews Band's first album, Under the Table and Dreaming. Crash is the band's highest selling album to this day.
The band's third album, Before These Crowded Streets, was recorded at The Plant, the famous studio in San Francisco. This album was more artistically creative than they had dared to go in the past. There were guest appearances like Bella Fleck and Alanis Morrisette. Lillywhite mentioned that this CD was far more darker than the first two.
Volume 2 ends with the band talking about the attitude of the band after the third CD. Patience was wearing thin with the band because as Dave says, the band was together a lot more and they were working really hard; Lillywhite says the clouds began to appear overhead during this period.
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