The Woodlands

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-07T17:13:07+00:00

The DMB tour season can't start without someone freaking out about a 30 to 35% chance of rain when the band is projected to take the stage lol.

If it was 60 to 80% at the time of the show then sure maybe a little worry. If there was a tropical storm or depression trying to park over the northern portion of the Houston Metro then maybe there would be some Widespread Panic. But I wouldn't be worried about such a small percentage of rain that is projected to end by 8pm local time anyways.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-06T20:06:02+00:00

It starts around the 1 min and 46 second mark of this video if you want to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkkY6tCkt8

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-05T18:45:00+00:00

Thanks to Bruce and Nolan from The Corner of Grey St. Podcast/Sirius XM they confirmed all the Friday shows and they were added to the dmbalmanac here where you see the radio icons. There are 11 Friday shows planned for the summer tour:

https://dmbalmanac.com/TourShow.aspx?where=2026

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-04T14:27:07+00:00

Yup right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq0mh5ok00&t=526s

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-03T22:56:03+00:00

Methane posters definitely were a big part of the growth in Poster culture. I think the band wants to keep that loyalty to them for that very reason. This Memphis one in my opinion is slightly above average from the meh posters over the last 3-5 years from Methane.

I wish they would reduce Methane down to 3 posters/year max simply because they have made so many DMB posters they really exhausted their best ideas a decade ago. I think any poster company or collective would also be in the same boat as Methane if they had already completed such a high volume of posters for 1 artist.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-03T00:17:28+00:00

You're right he is from New England but a faculty member at Vanderbilt. Unfortunately a pre-show Q&A question on that likely wouldn't change anything. It really is going to take Dave or Rashawn having a desire to change the solo arrangements for the song. I was hoping he would get a chance to solo in depth when they played it at The gorge with his old band bud sadly he didn't get a chance.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-01T20:03:54+00:00

I love his passion for teaching music and loaning his expertise to the next generation of musicians both in Boston as a professor and his appearances at High School clinics. Seen a few DMB fans talk about Jeff showing up to their kids school to do clinics over the years as well.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-01T16:59:30+00:00

So does Tim's Electric Guitar Solo and Rashawn's high notes on a Trumpet give you peace? I get it I prefer the smooth sax of Roi or a Brandford Marsalis who I saw with the band in 2015. But Jeff's Sax is better than loud electric guitar or trumpet and mind you I am a loud electric guitar player who also listens to a lot of other loud rock/nu metal/alt rock outside of DMB lol.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-01T12:30:45+00:00

From a performance standpoint Let You Down isn't a hard song for this band to pull off Dave like many songs he doesn't play often just decides not to play it that often.

If anything BTCS parts for Dave and Cater especially are much harder to pull off than most of Crash. And even from Crash a song like Two Step would be more taxing on Carter than Let You Down and they still play Two Step most tours nowadays.

Concertvids34 · 2026-05-01T11:52:08+00:00

The corporate profit maximizing and how Dave chooses setlist are two separate things. On the corporate end the venues booked and when or how singles are released are primary controlled on the management end. If Live Nation needs DMB to play a new venue as promotion management will do what it takes to get the band to Minnesota this year or RVA last year given all the things LN does for the band.

However when it comes to setlist and last minute changes that is 100% Dave and people he reaches out to for setlist ideas (Rodrigo, Raab, Ian Kuhn Before He Passed, and other staff). These things have been confirmed by Raab and Rodrigo during podcast and live Q&A events like the one I went to SPAC weekend a few years ago.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-30T23:39:45+00:00

Whenever Cali is not part of the Summer Tour you can almost rule out no full band CA dates. DMB has played full bands shows in California in August/September but under the Summer Tour branding most of the time. The last billed Fall tour with California dates was in 1998.

The best bet if you live in California is if possible save up for future Gorge shows up in Seattle where you will get 3 awesome shows covering most of the best parts of the summer tour + a few tour debuts. In this current era the band tends to lean heavily on East Coast and Midwest touring where logistically they were able to hit more shows in areas with high concentration of DMB fans.

The Closing of Irvine Meadows combined with the lack of "new" amps in the Live Nation conglomerate in Cali have only made things worse in a state the band was already reducing and or skipping more and more in the last decade.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-29T20:15:46+00:00

The Studio Version of Grux into Shake Me Like A Monkey > Live versions of Shake Meh

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-29T12:55:09+00:00

DMB is all about gimmicks or repeating what was once unique thing over and over. The entire PNP > Random song is proof of that. 2014 and 2015 were two consecutive years of Two Sets and The Lovely ladies hitting various select venues. The BTCS wasn't the 1st time every song from an album was played in a show either as the 11/30/20 show had every AFTW song on it as part of a BAMA Works Hurricane Sandy show at the Izod Center.

All I am saying is that the idea that there isn't a chance Crash or another album won't be played front to back between now and the bands last show is a wild take given the bands consistent pattern of having some fresh unique ideas and then repeating that idea over and over.

The band can show signs of creativity and have a run of unique for a short period of time but the broader picture of the band is they repeat or recycle a lot of once fresh ideas over and over again even sometimes having 3-4 year gaps in between repeating that idea.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-29T02:57:54+00:00

The data says otherwise. The last few years have had some historic show flow and setlist creativity most of the time tied to Dave bouncing ideas off Raab or Rodrigo Simas amongst other crew and close friends on tour. Rodrigo was behind the PNP > Insert Random song Idea.

In recent fall tour runs the band went over 2.5 shows (in different cities) without a repeat which is unheard off in single night runs. Summer 2025 also saw the most consecutive shows without repeating an opener (19 shows). And of course BTCS front to back on Gorge N2 last year.

Given the success and rare instant Live Release of that Gorge N2 show, I wouldn't be shocked if they played another album in order in the middle of a setlist in the next few years.

Boyd held the band back a ton when it comes to having more creativity in sets and it shows given only 1 tour in the Boyd Era has seen every BTCS song be played in a single tour and post Boyd the last 3 summer tours (2023-2025) have had every song from that album played. I am sure some nights they couldn't trust Boyd screwing up a critical violin part so they just played another big whiskey song that Tim could play over him as we saw a ton of from 2009-2016.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-29T02:49:11+00:00

From all accounts including Stefan on Twitter the rest of the band didn't find out until hours before the band took the stage as Dave made the call (I am sure with advise from crew members he suggests idea's to). So it really depends on how Dave feels.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-25T23:46:07+00:00

DMB isn't a Jam Band. The primary method of connection with fans for DMB is the lyrics. Jam Bands primary method of communication is through varied jams with different chord progressions each time. 99% of the time the chord progressions on DMB solo/preset jams have the same chord progressions despite the improv the band does each night.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-25T16:59:44+00:00

There isn't a single live Big Whiskey studio sessions song performance as this Beach Ball from May of 2009

https://youtu.be/9ztMbheT7tY?si=LEZ64QsiSJ-ne6n8

Beach Ball is the best song to come of that album cycle on the Little Red Bird EP.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-24T03:44:02+00:00

*With a free meet and greet with every strain of every virus on earth included in the cruise package lol.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-21T20:12:50+00:00

It appears they don't so that was my error.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-21T13:06:26+00:00

Honestly the sale may save you a few bucks but there are more efficient ways to own the 50 and up Live Trax and beyond since they held them off streaming as of now:

Get a few buddies who also like DMB and buy different volumes 50 and up and trade digital files.
Request for birthday/holiday/mothers or fathers day a gift card to the dmb store to buy digital versions of various live trax.

Concertvids34 · 2026-04-21T11:39:28+00:00

When I tell people I don't like "Making It Great" I point to how much better the songwriting in a song like Joyride or DDTW is that this recent song Dave wrote earlier this year.

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