{"id":541,"date":"2010-08-10T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=541"},"modified":"2010-08-10T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:05:04","slug":"dave-matthews-band-europe-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/dave-matthews-band-europe-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Matthews Band + Europe 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/a>BOX SET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave Matthews Band
\nEurope 2009<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Bama Rags\/RCA]<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are my obsession!\u201d Dave Matthews sings during \u201cSeven\u201d\u2014no doubt taking the worshipful words right out of his one-track-minded audience\u2019s mouths. It will indeed take a certain kind of obsessive to spring for Europe 2009<\/em>, a not-inexpensive four-disc set that uses one DVD to present a nearly three-hour London show from last summer, then spreads an even longer Italian gig across three CDs. It\u2019s a DMB devotee\u2019s dream and a jam-band hater\u2019s night terror. Or is it? This might actually be the set you\u2019d put on\u2014in small doses\u2014to convince unbelievers. The group was touring behind (and playing nearly every track off) their best album to date, Big Whiskey <\/em>and the GrooGrux King<\/em>, a collection of extremely accessible, electric guitar-oriented, horn section-driven songs whose relative succinctness is maintained in these punchy arrangements. The economy of those pop-funk tunes is balanced out here, of course, by jams as un-succinct as a 21-minute expansion of oldie \u201c#41.\u201d This might be considered heresy by acolytes of the core combo, but it\u2019s the supplementary members\u2014guitar electrician Tim Reynolds, trumpeter Rashawn Ross, and the late LeRoi Moore\u2019s replacement on sax, Jeff Coffin\u2014who push these shows into overdrive, especially at the all-but-orgasmic climax of \u201cSo Damn Lucky.\u201d It doesn\u2019t hurt that Matthews has progressed as a songwriter since trademarking his deceptively happy-go-lucky sound of the mid-\u201990s, adding more tension, sensuality and genuine celebration to the recent material emphasized in these epic sets. \u2013CW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOX SET Dave Matthews Band Europe 2009 [Bama Rags\/RCA] \u201cYou are my obsession!\u201d Dave Matthews sings during \u201cSeven\u201d\u2014no doubt taking the worshipful words right out of his one-track-minded audience\u2019s mouths. It will indeed take a certain kind of obsessive to spring for Europe 2009, a not-inexpensive four-disc set that uses one DVD to present a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,222,219,220,221,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}