Review: Dave Matthews Band's "Live At Red Rocks 8.15.95" captures an unfinished, raw early performance
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A review of Dave Matthews Band's first official live album "Live At Red Rocks 8.15.95," noting that during the performance of "Drive In, Drive Out," singer Dave Matthews appears to have forgotten the lyrics — likely because the song hadn't been fully written yet at the time of the 1995 concert. The piece captures the raw, unpolished nature of the early live recording.
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· 3 pulledAn hour into the first official live release from the Dave Matthews Band, it seems like the singer has forgotten the words to his own song.
Matthews, though, sounds lost, mostly slurring syllables until he finds the occasional word or line and reaches the chorus like a life raft.
But in all likelihood, Matthews had not yet written the lyrics to 'Drive In, Drive Out' when his band drove into Red Rocks Amphitheatre in August 1995.
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