Dead C
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the first concert i remember was my parents taking us to a Loretta Lynn/Dolly Parton show at Dollywood in the late 80s
the first concert I attended with my friends was this sick DMB show in 1996. Soul Coughing opened.
Dave Matthews Band Setlist at Gund Arena, Cleveland
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My first concert was also DMB on this same tour (11/02/96)! Wish I could've seen Soul Coughing as well, but it was a great show and I've seen them a few more times since then
I hitch-hiked up to the Gorge in Eastern Washington to see Dave Matthews Band in 1999, because Jimmy Cliff was opening. That may have been my only time seeing him perform. I can't remember.
I did meet him several times here in Seattle, though. I used to work at the Essential Bakery cafe in the Wallingford area and he used to come in. He'd bring his two blonde twin daughters and get them grilled cheese sandwiches. He was one of the least entitled customers that we had. He'd always bus his table and clean everything up really well, forever amending for the Chicago bus incident. This was probably 16 years ago. I remember he was wearing a Morphine shirt the first time I met him.
We had a setup where you'd come up to place orders at one end of the counter -- coffee drinks, food, etc -- and then work your way down to the cash register if you wanted bread or pastries or whatever. One day, I was at the end where you order and my friend Josh was speaking to Dave while he made his coffee at the other end. Somehow Dave's fancy jeans came up and he said he didn't know what kind they were, because his wife bought them. Josh told him that I would know, because I had been listing vintage and designer shit on Ebay for a friend of mine at the time. "I don't know what they are." Dave turned around and pointed his butt at me. "I don't know what they are. Stop pointing your ass at me." It was dragged out and kind of weird, so we laughed it off. Within the next couple of days -- maybe even the next day -- I was off work and crossing the street after leaving a record store. I looked up and saw Dave Matthews walking directly toward me ass-first to where he kind of drove me out of the crosswalk laughing. I went over to this place called Fremont coffee after that and while I was reading and sipping my drink on the back deck, I hear a voice whisper in my ear, "I'm following you." It was Dave Matthews.
Weirdly surreal interactions, in a sense, since he's a pretty famous dude, but overall a really nice guy and hard not to like.
