Dave at Fenway review....

Have been an ardent fan of Dave Matthews since my senior year in college and have been making it a "guy outing" every year. The last few have been at Great Woods, so it's been a fun tailgating type event. This year however, they're doing the double at Fenway, so the tailgate turned into a mini pub crawl. We decided to start up in Allston at some old hangouts and make our way down to Kenmore Square, keeping in mind that pretty much everything right around Kenmore would be mobbed. The plan worked out really well - we had a beer and food at the Sunset Grill, then stopped at the White Horse.

Then moved further down the road to the other place that Sunset owns near BU (forget the name)...Hugh had joined us at this point making for a quartet of silliness for the afternoon. Steve decided that we ought to start exploring 10% beer in a can (all set for this kid, thanks!), which laid the foundation for...well, for nothing good frankly.

then finally shot down to the House of Blues across the street from Fenway (that's it in the background). Though there was a bit of a line, we had a good time hanging out and revelling with other Lansdowne partiers...

Then we went into the park to see the show....we weren't exactly sure where our seats were at first, but got pretty excited, pretty quickly!

5th row, pretty much center!!!

What a Setlist these guys threw down:

Nanta

Rapunzel

Alligator Pie

Don't Drink...Seven

Gravedigger

So Damn Lucky

Funny the Way it is...

Nancies

Why I am

Spaceman

41

R and R

Squirm

Crush

Time Bomb

Two Step

Encore: Dirty Water and Stay

Simply an AMAZING SHOW!

After the show we decided on some late night eats (definitely due in part to the aforementioned canned beer silliness....). This one is after Guy consumed the biggest double burger concoction I've ever seen....must have been two lbs of meat alone!

Steve followed that "show" up with this lovely display...

I know everyone has an opinion when it comes to music, but as a lifelong fan of the "Jam Band" genre, there aren't many that I enjoy as much as DMB. The Allman Bros. are probably my all-time favorite closely followed by the Dead, Phish, and Widespread. Then there are the "not as commercially well-known offerings from moe., Stringcheese, Dispatch, etc. But Dave is just a fantastic feel good show and the crowd is generally really cool. The only shows that I can think of that I'd classify as somewhat dissappointing were the two that I traveled to in Charlottesville, VA. My brother and sister-in-law were there for her MBA at UVa, so the trip was fun nonetheless. And considering that DMB got their start there, we figured it would be a lights out show. They weren't, and in fact the band seemed pretty tired and ready for a break. But other than that, I guess I'd consider myself pretty lucky.