There’s a certain kind of crowd that shows up for Dave Matthews Band, and Nashville knows it well. Equal parts longtime DMB loyalist jam-band devotees and people who have had these songs in their lives for as long as they can remember, Bridgestone Arena was ready for a night that had no interest in sticking to the script. On Friday, Matthews brought the band, a few very special friends, and plenty of room for things to get interesting.
The night opened with “Grux,” and those first few notes were all it took. Blue lights hit the stage, the crowd picked up immediately, and the arena was moving before things had really gotten started. Even better, this marked only the second time the song had ever been played live. From there, the band moved through “Shake Me Like A Monkey,” “You Might Die Trying,” “I Did It,” and “Stay or Leave,” settling into the kind of groove that makes a DMB show its own thing.
Making the walk around the venue, leaving the press pit, the smell of weed was hard to miss. Neither was the energy. There was something infectious about watching a room full of people completely locked into the music. Matthews was dancing, grinning, and giving each song the space to go wherever it wanted. Nothing felt rushed. The piano pulled you in, the horns added their own color, and the guitars kept finding new ways to build on what was already happening. This wasn’t a band running through a greatest-hits checklist. They were having a genuinely good time, and it showed.
Then Stephen Wilson Jr. entered the picture. Before bringing him out, Matthews told the crowd about meeting someone and realizing they didn’t mind each other, which, according to Dave, is usually a pretty good sign. He went on to explain that Wilson Jr. had played a show in Norway just 20 hours earlier, caught a flight, and made his way to Nashville. Not exactly a casual evening.
If not one of the better-known. Turning down a gig fronting Led Zeppelin will do that. But Graham Nash put it best when he said Reid should have been a “gigantic star.” He had a voice that gained him the nickname “Superlungs.” Think of a cross between Steve Marriott, Robert Plant, and, well, Melanie again, because he was definitely in touch with his feminine side. And he possessed a voice supple and flexible enough to do things Marriott, Plant, and Melanie never could. And at his best, which unfortunately wasn’t often enough for him to join the ranks of the superstars, he was a superb songwriter and interpreter of other people’s material.
David formed Bauhaus in Northampton in 1978 with his brother Kevin Haskins, Daniel Ash, and Peter Murphy. “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” came out the following year and pretty much drew the map for everything goth that followed. When Bauhaus split, David, Daniel, and Kevin went on as Love and Rockets. Alongside the bands, he has built a long solo career, sixteen albums deep. He also wrote the memoir Who Killed Mister Moonlight? and has made theatre and visual art alongside his prolific musical career. We talk about all of it.
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