Dave Matthews Band’s final show at the Gorge featured some of the band’s most adventurous playing of this long summer tour, mixing in bustouts as well as special guests.
The acoustic portion of the show started with Matthews performing “All Along the Watchtower,” the first time the DMB-live staple cover has opened show since 6/21/93. The eight-song set would feature “Watchtower” along with four originals from the band’s first two records as well as a cover of Paul Simon’s “Slip Slidin’ Away.” The Under the Table and Dreaming cut “Typical Situation” served as a set closer for the first time since 9/3/94.
As they have at various points in the tour, The Lovely Ladies joined the band for the opening song of the second set, “The Best of What’s Around.” Guitarist David Ryan Harris, who performed earlier in the day on a side stage, came out with the band for “Corn Bread” and “Jimi Thing.” Harris is a longtime collaborator with the band and toured with them for a portion of their 1995 summer tour. He also appears on the group’s Live Trax: Volume 5 recorded at the Meadow Brook Music Festival that year.
Towards the end of the set, Rashawn Ross took to the piano to lead the group through one of the biggest bustouts of the summer in “Steady As We Go.” The 2005 Stand Up cut has not seen a play since 8/6/06, or 618 shows. The three-song encore to close the show included “The Stone,” which appeared in the encore for the first time since 10/2/04.
Next up for DMB is a show at Sleep Train Amphitheater in Chula Vista, CA.
Here’s a look at the setlist as it appears in our Box Scores section:
Dave Matthews Band
Gorge Amphitheatre George, Washington
Set I: All Along the Watchtower*, Grace Is Gone^, Slip Slidin’ Away^, Tripping Billies, Loving Wings, Rhyme & Reason, Crash Into Me, Typical Situation
Set II: The Best of What’s Around^^, When the World Ends, Squirm, Lover Lay Down, Cornbread%, Jimi Thing%, Grey Street, Steady as We Go$, Drunken Soldier^^, Can’t Stop^^, You & Me^^, Sledgehammer^^
Enc: Some Devil*, The Stone, Shake Me Like a Monkey
Notes:
*Dave Solo
^Carter, Dave, Rashawn, Stefan and Tim
^^with The Lovely Ladies
%with David Ryan Harris
$last time played 8/6/06
Source: Dmband.com
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