So I have been a huge Dave fan since around 95, and I have seen this band grow from underground kings to a full blown product. For years, I would travel to see this band, no place too far, averaging 15 shows a year. They were the band that opened me up to so many different genres of music and I'm not ashamed to admit that I would have never been into the amazing music styling of John Denver or even the master John Coltrane. My life from 95 to about 2000 can be set to the songs off of their earlier works (Under the table and Dreaming, Crash, even up to Before these Crowded Streets) but as the band got bigger and I got older, I started to drift away from the band while they crept towards the commercial masses in the shitty music industry. I had always had a couple of tunes here and there off of the albums that came to follow, with the exception of Busted Stuff (which will always fall in comparison to the famed "Lillywhite Sessions") but for the most part, I was disgusted with what the band (machine) was churning out. That all changed the other night when I listened to Big Whisky and the Groogrux King. For the first time in years, the band sent goosebumps up my spine with an album that has reconfirmed what I had thought all throughout my late teens and early twenties, This is the greatest American rock and roll band to date.... I know many will argue that, but instrument for instrument, I challenge you to show me a better musician at their position... As much as I hate the Yankees, I will compare DMB to them, When you have the money and an All star at every position, the only result can be greatness....... Check out the new record ....................
