Dave Matthews Band
Best of the Summer 1999 Tour
Disc 1 (68.38)

1.    Davespeak - "The Beginning of the tour." (0.17)

2.    What Would You Say  (5.00)
(May 1, 1999 - Tampa Ice Palace - Tampa, Flordia)
Source info: AT 853 > SP p/s > M1  (David Eisenburg)

3.    The Stone (8.04)
(July 17, 1999 - The Gorge - Quincy, Washington)
Source info:  Earthworks SR-77 > Lunatec V2 > ADC-20 > DA-P1  (Craig Willoughby)

4.    Rhyme and Reason (6.06)
(August 4, 1999 - Hershypark Stadium - Hershy, Pennsylvania)
Source info:  (1) Microtech Geffell SMS2000/200 (card) ->Oade M148 ->Sony SBM-1 ->D8
                    (2)Nakamichi 300's (2 cards, 1 omni) -> Nak 3 channel mixer -> D100 (Bill Lakenan and Lee Schusterman)

5.    Introduction of the Flecktones (0.37)

6.    Carter Beauford and Futureman Jam Intro-------> (2.54) *

7.    #41 (Sojourn of Arjuna)  (16.13) *
(May 30, 1999 - Foxboro Stadium - Foxboro, Massachusetts)
Source info:  Earthworks SR-77 > audiomajic X-Stream > Lunatec V2 > audiomajic Excalibur RCA > DA-P1  (Mike Vernal)

8.    Bartender ---->  (3.26) ^
9.    Don't Drink The Water (This Land Is Your Land)  (6.29) ^
(July 15, 1999 - Dead Aunt Thelma's Radio Show - Portland, Oregon)
Source info:  Digital PRE-FM

10.    Cry Freedom  (6.07)
(June 28, 1999 - Marcus Ampitheatre - Milliwakee, WI)
Source info:  Earthworks SR77 > Lunatec V2 > Tascum DA-P1  (Matt Edlhuber)

11.    Long Black Veil  (6.57)
(May 12, 1999 - Gund Arena - Cleavland, Ohio)
Source info:  AT853 (Hyper-carbs) -> Sony M-1 (Brian Rentschler)

12.    Drive In Drive Out  (6.20)
(June 24, 1999 - Deer Creek Music Theatre - Noblesville, Indiana)
Source info:  Soundpro AT853 > BrBox > Sharp MD 702 (Jason Goodin)

* - With Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and Butch Taylor on Piano
^ - Dave Matthews Solo

LINER NOTES:

What Would You Say - really odd song to kick of the new tour.
I believe Dave has always claimed to not like playing it, and it has been a
rarity over the past couple of years before bringing it back when Maceo Parker
guested with them in December.  This version of this song kicks off the set
as it kicked off the tour.

The Stone - really windy show with some of it bleeding into the recording.
However, the key to this version is that Carter absolutely opens a can of
whoop-ass during the middle segments.  Plus, Boyd stays in tune for the
majority of the outro, which is amazing enough in itself.

Rhyme and Reason - the key to this version is how obnoxious the crowd is the
entire show.  Possibly this is the cause for a somewhat lackluster show that
included a single song Tripping Billies encore.  However it pays off as he
takes out his frusterations in this version.  "...of this terrorrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!..."

Intro --> #41 - even if this version didn't kick as much ass as it does, it
would've been chosen due to the one and only appearance of the Flecktones all
tour.  However, the version does absolutely rock with the seamless transition
into Sojourn of Arjuna.

Bartender --> Don't Drink the Water - the first of three appearances for
Don't Drink the Water on the set.  Taped from a radio show late in the tour,
Bartender was slightly more evolved from the original versions during the
accoustic tour earlier in the year.

Cry Freedom - absolute shock when this was brought back at Polaris.  The
girl sitting the row in front of me literally was crying in the middle telling
anyone who would listen and many who wouldn't that it was her favorite song
and what the last date was that they played it.  My only thought was that
anyone who cares when it was last played knows the date.  Excellent version
from Milwaukee, the third of four times played this Summer, with some of the
cinks from Polaris and Deer Creek ironed out.

Long Black Veil - intensely passionate version from Cleveland.

Drive In Drive Out - at first the consensus at the amphitheatre was that it
was a lame song to end the three night Deer Creek stand with.  However, we all
were completely blinded by biased, hopeless, tendency to pray for Halloween.
The key to this version is Dave's screaming and yelling during the bridge.
Vastly intense when you make out the muttered syllables that he screams, turn
it up and scream with him.  The most intense closer I've ever heard closes
disc 1.