The band’s five longest shows all now have some sort of release ( Live Trax 36, like this, contains a full show and a bonus disc of music from night 1). Aided by five songs that reach or surpass the 13-minute mark, this show was the longest ever played at the time (now second to 7.25.15, another Alpine show), and it is one of only four shows ever that is known to contain over three hours of music. Guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan guests on Rhyme & Reason, The Dreaming Tree, and Thank You, all for the first time. It begins with the first Little Thing opener played by DMB since 4.30.96 (also released as Live Trax 4), which segues directly into Funny the Way It Is with an extended intro (they opened two of the following three shows again with Little Thing, then haven’t played it full-band since). It has the highest average song rarity of the entire tour: the average song was played once every 4.026 shows on the tour, with six songs played fewer than five times on the tour. While the 2012 Summer Tour hadn’t had any full show releases until now, the deluxe editions of Away From the World contained bonus live tracks from the first half of the tour.īeyond the tour as a whole, this particular show itself also stands out. Those three songs were the backbone of the early tour before live debuts of The Riff and If Only in June and Belly Belly Nice, Rooftop, and Snow Outside later in the summer (the remaining two songs from the album, Belly Full and Drunken Soldier, debuted the first show of the Fall Tour). Sweet was the first song from the album to debut, having already been played by Dave solo the prior summer during the Caravan Tour Dave debuted Mercy on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon before the tour and DMB gifted the mailing list with a download of Gaucho a few hours before the tour kicked off in The Woodlands (this version is an early mix and is different from the studio version-perhaps this is Steve Lillywhite's mix he has referred to in podcasts?). Away From the World itself wasn’t announced until June 27 and not released until September 12, the last day of the tour. It was somewhat of an album tour however, all that fans knew at the start of the tour was that a new album was coming later in the year. After a finale in Charlottesville that had a "last show for a while" vibe to it, there were no DMB shows on the schedule for less than five months, when they announced the band would host a series of three-night festivals called the Caravan Tour in the summer of 2011.Īfter this “year off,” DMB hit the road in their traditional fashion in May 2012, kicking off the Summer Tour in Texas for the first time, starting a tradition that has carried forward to 2023 with few exceptions. On May 19, 2010-two weeks before the 2010 Summer Tour kicked off-DMB announced in an email that after their upcoming 53-show summer tour and extending into the fall, the band would take 2011 off. Whether this leads to the first break in the usual four-Live-Trax-per-year cycle since 2011 – a year the band planned to take a break and only Live Trax 20 ( 8.19.93) was released – remains to be seen. This ties for the second longest gap between releases, with Live Trax 45 ( 6.29.13) being released a few months after Come Tomorrow and after a period of uncertainty following Boyd Tinsley's departure from the band. While not formally explained, it’s clear that DMB didn’t want a Live Trax release interfering with the release of Walk Around the Moon in May. The release of Live Trax 63 comes 245 days after the previous entry, from Blossom Music Center ( 6.25.10). Two other venues, The Gorge and Red Rocks, have had just as many or more full shows released, but their numbers are padded by box sets containing full multi-night runs from 20, respectively, and therefore have had only two distinct releases each. In return, this is the first time that a filler disc has taken a show past three discs and not been a pre-order bonus.Īfter Live Trax 8, 15, and 36, this is the fourth live release recorded at Alpine Valley, the most for any venue. The other two times a Live Trax release was named after multiple dates- Live Trax 6 and 9-both complete shows were released in the package. While Live Trax 30 was named for the three partial shows it comprises ( 8.16, 8.17, and 8.18.93), these other Live Trax with filler discs had all been named after the full show only. The title implies that it includes both shows in full however, the release contains the full 7.7.12 concert and a disc of selections from the previous night, in similar fashion to Live Trax 31 ( 6.23.01), 33 ( 1.31.95), and 34 ( 6.24.99). One of DMB fans' most frequently-requested shows has been officially released just over 11 years after it took place: Live Trax 63: 7.6.12–7.7.12 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre - East Troy, WI is now available for purchase from DMB's web store.
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