Dave Matthews Band
The Best of the Summer 1999 Tour
Disc 4 (72.14)
1. Too Much tease -----> Ants Marching (7.28)
(July 9, 1999 - Irvine Meadows - Irvine, California)
Source info: DAUD (Unknown)

2. Seek Up (19.52)
(May 11, 1999 - Marine Midland Arena - Buffalo, New York)
Source info: schoeps mk4> schoeps VMS > DA-P1 (unknown)

3. Linus and Lucy Jam (7.54) *
(May 22, 1999 - Veteran's Stadium - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Source info: schoeps mk4> schoepsVMS > sbm-1> D10 pro (Jeff Travitz)

4. Digging a Ditch -----> (2.34) ^
5. Recently (3.53) ^
(June 15, 1999 - Chicago Recording Company Studios - Chicago, Illinois)
Source info: Studio Master DAT > CDR (unknown)

6. Introduction of Alanis Morrisette (0.56)
7. Prelude to... -----> (1.03)
8. Don't Drink the Water (7.16) @
(July 20, 1999 - Mile High Stadium - Denver, Colorado)
Source info: Earthworks sr77 > audio magic cables > lunatec v2 >
             audio magic cables>da-p1 (Craig Willoughby)

9. Tripping Billies (Nature) (5.58)
(July 10, 1999 - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, California)
Source info: earthworks sr-77 > audiomagic X-Stream XLR > Lunatec V2 >
             audiomagic > presto II XLR > ADC-20 > PCM-M1
             (Mike Vernal and Craig Willoughby)

10. True Reflections (7.11)
(May 5, 1999 - Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center - Birmingham, Alabama)
Source info: DAUD (unknown)

11. Introduction of Warren Haynes (0.25)
12. All Along the Watchtower (7.44) %
(June 14, 1999 - The World Amphitheatre - Tinley Park, Illinois)
Source info: Schoeps > DAT (unknown)

* - with Butch Taylor on keyboards
^ - Dave Matthews solo
@ - with Alanis Morrisette on backup vocals
% - with Warren Haynes on electric guitar

LINER NOTES:

Too Much > Ants - this was the only time I believe Too Much has ever been teased
into Ants.  After they had been teasing Warehouse into it, this was a sign of
more possible surprises and twists, but they pretty much ended here.  The better
source of this show is faunt with digi-noise on the original DAT, so a lesser
quality show with no source info had to be chosen. The sound is still very good,
but not pristine.

Seek Up - this was the first time this was played the Summer, and it kicked off
the encore, maybe for the first time ever.  Musically, the version is amazing.
Clocking in at almost twenty minutes, the normal Boyd then Leroi solo into the
fade out is extended by several minutes and Leroi absolutely wails at the end.

Linus and Lucy - the longest version of the tour with an extended Carter and
Butch jam at the end.

Digging a Ditch > Recently - from an unreleased radio show in Chicago, it shows
some of the metamorphosis that Ditch has gone through.  Played maybe only one
other time on the tour, Dave improvs the transition between the two songs during
the soundcheck, commenting "a little death, then a little life."

Don't Drink the Water - Unfortunately, Alanis only guested on this song the
entire tour, and it wasn't Spoon.  Then at Woodstock she went on right after the
boys, and again did nothing.  Even though the house speakers didn't bring her
voice out during the song, (you can hardly hear her at all), and DDTW makes its
second of three appearances, the song is essential to the set for her guesting.

Tripping Billies - I'm of the opinion that you've heard one, you've heard them
all.  A somewhat speedy version compared to other 99's, Boyd stays in tune, and
Dave remembers all the words, so this version makes the set.

True Reflections - This song was overplayed when the ladies were guesting, so I
thought it'd be nice to include one the only versions in 1999 that was just the
band.

Watchtower - I'm of the opinion that in general, the song is overplayed as a
finisher, but this version makes me alter my opinion.  I listened to this short
somewhat lame show, and was disappointed after waiting forever to get a copy of
it.  This Watchtower makes amends for the entire show before the Band makes
amends for it the next night.