Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming

What happens when five incredibly talented musicians from diverse backgrounds come together by chance? Join us as we uncover the serendipitous formation of Dave Matthews Band and explore their iconic debut album, "Under the Table and Dreaming." Tim's unmatched enthusiasm and expert knowledge guide us through hits like "What Would You Say," "Satellite," "34," and "Jimmy Thing," as we dissect the rich, multi-layered sound that defines this timeless record. Every element, from strings to percussion and woodwinds, is meticulously examined, offering you a comprehensive understanding of their unique style.

Step into the world of Carter Beauford, LeRoi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Boyd Tinsley as we highlight their individual contributions and the band's evolution from local bars to significant venues. With personal anecdotes about the band's impact on our lives, from road trips to beach outings, we paint a vivid picture of their journey. We also shine a spotlight on Tim Reynolds' role in the studio and during live performances, adding another layer to the band's dynamic, versatile nature. This chapter serves as a testament to the lasting impression they've left on their fans.

Our conversation meanders through the intriguing lyrics and cultural references that permeate the band's music. From nostalgic nods to "Jack and Jill" and "The Simpsons" to humorous asides and lighthearted topics like fantasy football picks and public displays of affection at concerts, our discussion blends sentimentality with comedy. Culminating in a passionate debate over our top tracks from the album, we celebrate the creativity and complexity of songs like "Dancing Nancies" and "Warehouse," promising to leave you with a renewed appreciation for Dave Matthews Band and their groundbreaking debut album.

Transcript

Deep Dive Into Dave Matthews Band

Speaker 1 0:00

Same five people that started the band and we just do our best, and when we're up there we don't know how to do it any other way. Then we're nervous, so we got to play hard and be a little weird.

Speaker 2 0:11

I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 3 0:23

Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Nine Hits. I'm Chris and playing a mashup is my co-host, tim. The mashup I'll describe is this what would you say if you're 34 and you have a satellite on your Jimmy thing? Well, if you break that down, it's a mashup of the song. What Would you Say With the other song, 34. And satellite, and then Jimmy thing. So the album that we're going to be covering today is Dave Matthews Band Under the Table and Dreaming, from debut album 1994. And some of the songs three of those songs that I just name checked are hits. There's, what would you say, satellite.

Speaker 3 1:16

And actually Ants Marching is on this one too. So those are good. I those are gonna be the non-hits. I'll clarify that with tim um a little bit later on. But um, yeah, let's dig into this one. This is a. This is a blast from the past, uh, from a band that seems to be like super serendipitous in a way, and what I mean by that is it seems like it's five really talented musicians that happened to come together at a like a point in time in the early 90s and they just sort of found each other and, you know, built a band over time and experimented with a lot of different sounds and came up with something incredible. This is funny because they're not necessarily a band that I've really latched on to. It's more so, tim. But whenever I dig deep and I do these shows which are kind of like in the spirit of a book club or a music club, kind of a thing I always learn so much more about, like a band that I've not really dismissed.

Speaker 3 2:29

But we're just sort of not what I was into when, you know, this all came out and when I, you know, listen to these albums, like from beginning to end, way later. You know this is now I get it. I, you know, just learning more about the background of Dave Matthews, the person and the musicality Of all the other members and their lives and their backgrounds. It's really incredible. You can really kind of see it For yourself when you see them on stage or on TV. You can kind of tell that these are people with unique personalities and and uh, from different, like I said, different backgrounds.

Speaker 3 3:12

Dave Matthews, uh from originated in South Africa, traveled all over uh. Lessard, the bassist, uh, originating in Anaheim, but you know, traveling to, you know, you know journeying with his family to different locations. He started, you know, in the band when he was 16 incredible musicians by the use parents were musicians, from what I've read, but nevertheless, the point is, is this is a really uh, unique band with a lot of, you know, a great musicianship on all parts. A great musicianship on all parts and the way they incorporate different sounds strings, percussion yeah, the woodwind instruments it's uh and the acoustic guitar, you know, with Dave Matthews and, uh, uh, one of the what was his name?

Speaker 3 4:03

Well, we'll get to him later, but there was another acoustic guitar player who played alongside him. They faced each other in a room and kind of, uh, you know, with the music played together and it was it shows in the recording to give it a richer sound, and, uh, the other guy overdubbed a couple of other parts into it. But that's where they get a rich sound, really creative, really good stuff. And Tim is kind of killing it. Man, I can hear and feel the progress that he's made in his playing. You can tell he's super comfortable with this music.

Speaker 1 4:45

I think this is one of his go-tos back in the day for him.

Band Member Overview and Album Analysis

Speaker 3 4:50

So he's much more versed in the album than I am. Knows it by heart, that kind of thing. So, he's going to wrap up in a minute. What else can we say? I mean we can go through some of the band members. Let's see who we have here. There's Carter Buford, who was the first edition.

Speaker 3 5:17

They, I think, then met Leroy Moore. He came into the fold and then uh, tinsley came in, or, I'm sorry, uh, uh, stephan Lessard, and then I think eventually it was rounded out with, uh, with Tinsley, boyd, yeah, it was the fifth yeah, so the triumvirate was really Matthews Buford, moore, uh, carter B bruce being the drummer, stefan lessard, as I mentioned, his bass. Roy moore plays, I think, the woodwind instruments. Boyd tinsley violins, vocals. There's drama. I know. You know if you're a big fan, you're listening. Yeah, there's a whole thing with boy tinsley. I don't really want to go down that road. It's uh, because there's a lot yeah, and I don't know what's going on with that. But, uh, we're digging the music. There's a definitely some, some good stuff, and this is one of their first albums.

Speaker 3 6:24

I think, yeah, the first album let's see. Yeah, Charlottesville Miller's Bar it started there, Dave Matthews was the bartender. He knew a lawyer friend who forwarded a demo to our man Buford. They joined up with Roy Moore and the rest is history.

Speaker 1 6:56

Alright.

Speaker 3 7:05

That was nice. So, all right, that was nice. So we've got a bunch of cool sound effects. We're going to yuck it up. We're going to have fun. Tim is excited. He's got it all planned out. He's been waiting for this one. This is his baby. He's getting it. Baby, he's getting it all. He's getting it together. Whoa, alright, I don't know where he's going. There we go. Oh, okay, there he is. He's got to just take a swig. Alright, there you go, get settled in there. Buddy, how you doing man.

Speaker 5 7:45

Oh, I'm so pitted, you're pitted, so pitted it's been. Yeah, this is DMB UTTAD Same five people that started the band. Yeah, these guys were besties and they were a little bit like virtuosos were besties and they were a little bit like virtuosos. Uh, I'm surprised dave got the. Yeah, dave got the, the nod for the dave matthews band. But it could be, it could have been any any of these guys's band. They're a group, you know right.

Speaker 3 8:17

Yeah, he kind of. He positioned it that way too in those early interviews especially yeah because it was just for lack of not having a name.

Speaker 5 8:27

That was the best fit, but they were like a jam band. But they're such a rehearsed and segmented in their compositional play. So you think that differentiates them. I think they'll do another verse of the same sort of jam when you see them live in a different kind of way and they'll do the soloing a little bass solo, a little drum solo.

Speaker 3 8:51

Okay.

Speaker 5 8:52

Uh, they get, you know, the best barrels.

Speaker 4 8:58

You got the best barrels ever, dude.

Speaker 5 9:01

Yeah, the drummer. Who's the drummer again? Gosh Carter Buford amazing drummer I've seen. I've seen them live maybe three times and it was quite, oh my gosh carter, yeah well, yeah, he's they have a lot of different variety of genres and somebody who understands?

Speaker 3 9:20

you know how to. How to do that proficiently in all the different genres probably makes you so versatile, and maybe that's yeah, he's really the backbone behind that I never really thought about it that way. Yeah, and tim reynolds, yeah, doing the overdub oh yeah, that he was the one who was doing the he's who face to face with dave matthews when they were recording the acoustic parts, right, yeah?

Speaker 5 9:45

He was never on the stage when they played live, I don't think, though. So it was kind of interesting. I think the other band members sort of hit a variety of fills based on what chord they're jamming on, kind of thing. Oh, okay, that's good. Um, but the wetlands preserve was one of the nightclubs in New York City that opened in 1989, closed in 2001. But it was in the Tribeca area in Manhattan, but it was a lot of jam bands Blues Traveler, dmb Phish played there, I want to say Blind Melon maybe, and all those sort of up and come and all of them got really big all at the same time or around the same time in that 90s.

Speaker 3 10:32

Yeah, it seemed to be like a wave. I remember that, and John Popper plays the harmonica on what Would you Say?

Speaker 5 10:40

Yeah, my mom loved this album.

Speaker 6 10:42

Mom, mom, mommy, mommy. Yeah, she would loved this album. Mom Mom, mommy, mommy.

Speaker 5 10:47

Yeah, she, we would have this album playing on road trips. I know my girlfriend's parents had it on road trips as well, going to the beach. This album reminds her of going to the beach.

Speaker 3 11:01

Oh, it's very whimsical. Yes, satellite, it's got a lot that it's got a lot.

Speaker 5 11:07

It's got a lot going on ups and downs, the uh what is it? Yeah, it's got a lot of ups and downs and good stuff gotcha it rips right on, let's get into it.

Speaker 3 11:21

Man, yeah, starts off with uh this, let's get this also. You have, like really big eyes what you say you're feeling, low feeling here the best of what's around, the best of what's around.

Speaker 5 11:50

It was a dream. Most can dream.

Speaker 1 12:03

They go around the block, they come back. They go around again. They just go around the block, they come back.

Speaker 4 12:06

They go around again.

Speaker 2 12:08

They just go around and around.

Speaker 5 12:15

It's not the company. What's that, the yogi? It's not the journey or the destination, it's the company, right?

Speaker 3 12:21

Is it I like that? Yeah, it's not the journey or the destination, it's the company, right, is it I like?

Speaker 2 12:28

that yeah, it's not a journey, or?

Speaker 1 12:30

a destination, it's the company. Yeah.

Speaker 3 12:38

Is it just some yogi or general? You just were hearing it from a yogi and it was just a general.

Speaker 5 12:46

It was like a enlightenment cartoon or something with a turtle and a rabbit or something with a quote thing that I saw somewhere, maybe Instagram or something.

Speaker 3 12:58

Oh, okay, gotcha Alright. So it's like maybe even a meme, you know yeah.

Speaker 4 13:05

It's the best meme so pitted you got the best barrels ever, dude jimmy loves this song oh, we can't wait for jimmy thing.

Speaker 6 13:24

That's the guy who sidelined Jimmy.

Speaker 5 13:30

Excellent saxophone.

Speaker 3 13:31

Yeah, I was going to say that's Leroy.

Speaker 5 13:40

Best saxophone.

Speaker 3 13:42

The best Jerry.

Speaker 5 13:44

The best Jerry.

Speaker 1 13:44

Awesome.

Speaker 3 13:50

Shout out to Banya.

Speaker 5 13:53

This is like a date song. I feel like it definitely is. It seems like Kind of lyrics that Natalie, what's her name? 10,000 Maniacs would sing.

Speaker 3 14:12

Natalie Merchant.

Speaker 5 14:13

Merchant. It sounds like Natalie Merchant lyrics here.

Speaker 3 14:17

Maybe, Yo, oh, hey, lad, that's sort of.

Speaker 2 14:25

We'll see you around.

Speaker 5 14:33

Oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 4 14:36

To what I say.

Speaker 5 14:37

How about I just go eat some hay? I can make things out of clay and lay by the bay. I just may.

Speaker 3 14:49

Be showing him my oh face, oh oh, tim, with the assist, be showing him my oh face.

Speaker 4 15:04

They go around.

Speaker 5 15:08

Extended outro here. Oh, I'll be alive. So we have the up. It starts very optimistic here.

Speaker 2 15:20

They go around again.

Speaker 5 15:21

Which I like.

Speaker 2 15:21

They just go around and around.

Speaker 6 15:24

You know, I invited Rita and Marlon for a barbecue on Sunday. I'm going to make my potato salad.

Speaker 3 15:29

Okay, that was not. Okay, I don't know what that was. That was fun.

Speaker 5 15:36

Oh man, what do we got the next one? So what would you say? This is a hit.

Speaker 4 15:45

To what I say.

Speaker 3 15:55

I'm going to get into the lyrics. I've never really Okay. Yeah, let's do it?

Speaker 5 15:58

Look closely, john Popper, yeah of course, pop it up.

Speaker 3 16:03

Shout out to the pop band.

Speaker 5 16:05

These are some of the best lyrics on the album, for sure.

Speaker 3 16:11

I remember Jack and Jill up the hill.

Speaker 5 16:15

It's the front line.

Speaker 3 16:19

Okay because of original.

Speaker 1 16:21

Yes, after, after, yeah, yeah, oh Way down.

Speaker 5 17:02

Drop the beat. Oh a candy. Was it a Babe Ruth? Baby Ruth, We'll get there. We'll get there. You're sniffing dear. Who's it there? Knock, knock, Wait just a minute. Missed opportunity I missed it.

Speaker 3 17:16

I missed it. I didn't know you butt hooked me. I didn't know you were going to butt hook me. We've got to rehearse this, but I like where you're going.

Speaker 1 17:46

Huh.

Speaker 6 17:53

Mom, mom, right now, which one of you is mom?

Speaker 3 17:59

Shout out to Dr.

Speaker 6 18:01

Detroit. Mom, I am going to rip off your head and shit down your neck, it was a great jam, great jam.

Speaker 1 18:14

You got the best Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mama, mama All right now Mama, ma Mom, ma, Ma, ma Mama.

Speaker 6 18:24

All right now Mama Ma Mom, ma, mom, ma Mom Ma.

Speaker 2 18:30

Mom Mom, let's see you around, mom Mom.

Speaker 6 18:35

Mommy, mom, mommy, mama, mom, mama. I am going to the best, hi, yes.

Speaker 1 18:40

That was good oh.

Speaker 5 18:49

Coming at you with the harmonica Fast and loose. Shout out to the candy eaters out there.

Speaker 3 18:57

Oh, I love candy.

Speaker 1 18:58

There's nobody in here looking in the mirror, my friend, I don't understand that.

Speaker 2 19:06

You're there Just cannot speak for all the rest.

Speaker 5 19:11

No lies.

Speaker 3 19:16

Lifetime's passed me by. What would you say?

Speaker 5 19:21

All right, give it a pause here real quick. Oh yeah, okay, let's take a breath yeah, it's okay, ah, moment of sin.

Speaker 4 19:31

Realize all that shit is fucking bullshit all right okay all right, all right, party on this is satellite.

Speaker 3 19:54

Shout to the Simpsons. Shout to the episode where, like Bart was on Focus In yeah, mark McGuire took a little too much and figured out that Mark McGuire was spying on him by satellite, something like that. Well, this piece is called uh, lick my love pump. This is very lick my love pumpy, up to this point peeping tom with a mother station.

Speaker 5 20:46

Exactly what?

Speaker 1 20:49

springtime.

Speaker 5 20:54

I'm calm. What's wrong Calm?

Speaker 1 21:27

Oh, he's a little guy, kind of funny looking.

Speaker 2 21:34

Let's have a look at the weather, Louise.

Speaker 1 21:40

You're probably wondering it, it's cold.

Speaker 3 21:52

Spring erases. Yes, ooh, there's a high note there.

Speaker 5 22:00

It's a whimsical little horn here.

Speaker 3 22:03

Yeah, it is very good.

Speaker 5 22:07

But also did you hear that bass drum there? It's like a heavy soft. Did you hear that bass drum there? It's like a heavy soft.

Speaker 1 22:22

The drums are amazing in this.

Speaker 3 22:25

Yeah, it's kind of like jazz, like the drumming style.

Speaker 5 22:36

You're Tim Reynolds doing the plucking Acoustic plucking there.

Speaker 3 22:40

Yeah, it's sort of like a yeah.

Speaker 2 22:48

Way down. My eyes Like a diamond Also.

Speaker 1 23:08

You have like really big eyes.

Speaker 5 23:15

This song is real dinger. It's real dinger.

Speaker 3 23:21

Beeping Tom. Now for the mother station.

Speaker 5 23:26

Beeping instead of peeping, wasn't it peeping? It was peeping earlier. Peeping and beeping. Yeah, we're peeping and beeping here.

Speaker 2 23:39

Look everywhere.

Speaker 6 23:42

You're probably wondering about the coat hangers.

Speaker 4 23:46

They're to block the satellite that it's been spying on me.

Speaker 1 23:52

I love the clouds.

Speaker 5 23:55

No restrictions. Television waves, wow, simpsons, yeah Hours by the TV.

Speaker 3 24:09

Could it be possible this song in some way Inspired some of inspired? Some?

Speaker 2 24:16

of the writing. Some of the weather Maybe yeah.

Speaker 3 24:19

From the Simpsons episode. That's a long shot. I don't know.

Speaker 2 24:26

Give you a little time alone here.

Speaker 5 24:28

Okay. Let's do a palate cleanser here we got a little Nine-inch snail's satellite. Come on, satellite, I'm watching you.

Speaker 3 24:41

I'm on step ahead. Okay, that was a little funky. All right, ready.

Speaker 2 24:55

Ooh.

Speaker 4 25:00

Way down.

Speaker 3 25:09

I don't know what's going on here.

Speaker 5 25:13

Stand for nothing, Dave. All of a sudden it was so optimistic. Now you're down in the going on here. Stand for nothing, Dave. All of a sudden it was so optimistic, now you're down in the gutter here.

Speaker 1 25:17

Yeah, I did it. I need to kill this pain and my bed won't even get longer. I don't need it.

Speaker 3 25:38

Well, Just let me out. This kind of sounds like what's the name of the band I can't remember. Turn your head now, baby. Just let me out.

Speaker 5 25:53

This is a world where nothing is solved. Turn your head now, baby. Just let me out. This is a world where nothing is solved.

Speaker 6 26:04

Why I'm taking the hot horns. Oh, I'm hang gliding. Honey, take a good picture, I'm hang gliding Honey.

Speaker 1 26:16

Take a good picture I'm dead. How long I'm tired of my money and nuts Concerned about what I might do or what.

Speaker 5 26:25

I've done Whoa what. Don't live, in fear, don't live in fear.

Speaker 3 26:35

This is Leroy right yeah, Playing in the back.

Speaker 4 26:49

Knock, knock. Who's there?

Speaker 1 26:53

Knock, knock. Who's there?

Speaker 4 26:56

Knock, knock. Who's there? You're there.

Speaker 1 27:01

Bam, bam, pow, wow, up the backside, knock your dead, rock your socks off, get.

Speaker 6 27:17

Get it, I'm hang gliding honey. Take a good picture, I'm dead.

Speaker 3 27:24

Okay, shout out to Will Ferrell.

Speaker 6 27:29

Wedding Crashers.

Speaker 4 27:32

Who did thunk it? Young Bart here was right we are spying on you.

Speaker 3 27:38

Shout out to Martin McGuire Pretty much around the clock.

Speaker 5 27:46

Don't talk to yourself, not in public anyway. It's a bad look, dave. The TV again. This song also mentions the TV Drinks he smokes to reason with his head. Gosh, get it together, dave.

Speaker 6 28:05

I don't think you understand something, Dave.

Speaker 5 28:33

Shut the fuck up. This is dark yeah.

Speaker 2 28:36

Yeah.

Speaker 6 28:38

I don't know.

Speaker 1 28:41

Yeah, I'm not that blind.

Speaker 3 28:44

I don't know. Maybe we should bring up the fact that his sister died. Yeah, yeah, she was murdered in a murder-suicide with her husband prior to this album and dedicated it to her so sorry man. No it's. It's a new value out of all time. Are you crying? Am I crying? No, I'm not crying.

Speaker 5 29:09

I seem caught in time, no it's yeah, it's tough. I hope if solitude in the next life or whatever.

Speaker 4 29:22

Yeah, was this a.

Speaker 3 29:23

did he write this before or after? That's pretty timely, you know.

Speaker 5 29:33

I am dead inside, okay, jesus.

Speaker 3 29:36

That was Tim man. I had nothing to do with that, but anyway.

Speaker 5 29:40

Have some laughs with peeps. Yeah, if you're feeling lonely, call somebody, get some laughs. It doesn't have to be the television.

Speaker 2 29:48

Okay, I don't know. Give you a little time alone here, okay.

Speaker 3 29:56

All right, rhy rhyme and reason man, that was, uh, we got past it. It was a good song though.

Speaker 5 30:09

That was good.

Speaker 3 30:16

Typical situation. That's good, typical situation. This has, like a soap opera kind of a vibe to it two fingers counting, we have each nine planets around the sun.

Speaker 1 30:27

Repeat eight ball will last if you triumphant be. Seven oceans, pummel the shores of the sea. Stephen's getting it. Yeah, oh yeah. Soft bass effects, okay, and the boy, uh-huh.

Speaker 3 31:09

Okay, okay, what's his name? Tim?

Speaker 5 31:12

Reynolds too. Oh yeah, amazing guitarist yeah me, I'm making people happy shout out to.

Speaker 1 31:39

Mr Plow, what Seats open? Yeah, what is that?

Speaker 3 31:53

We need some filler here. Why don't we do that? Three corners from this corner.

Speaker 5 31:57

Big door open. Oh, you gotta wear the ribbon, gotta wear the ribbon.

Speaker 1 32:12

I'm the magical man.

Speaker 3 32:18

That was a Kramer thing, wasn't it? It's like oh, I gotta wear the ribbon. Yes, I don't wanna wear the ribbon. Who does not want to wear the ribbon?

Speaker 5 32:25

You gotta wear the ribbon and you don't have to wear the ribbon people.

Speaker 6 32:33

You have other plans.

Speaker 5 32:40

Shout out to those that bail on social occasions. Yeah, typical Old times, called them seven times. Today I'll go. I'll go, I'll go.

Speaker 3 32:58

I, like you're really into the music right now. I don't know why. What did you say?

Speaker 5 33:04

Oh, Just I'll just sit a couple plays out here, yeah.

Speaker 1 33:12

Maybe not talk. Take a little nap. Maybe not talk for a little while.

Speaker 6 33:21

Maybe you can take some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy. Oh, look at me.

Speaker 3 33:38

The strings are really filling it out too.

Speaker 5 33:40

It's symphonic. Yeah, it is, it's classy.

Speaker 3 33:44

Yeah, it is classy.

Speaker 5 33:53

I can Hear it being played in a restaurant with Don Knotts. He's ordering. Well, we'll start out with these escargots. No, this isn't raga. This is the jazz raga. Yeah, this is a little freeform. This is totally Raga. Are you afraid of jazz?

Speaker 1 34:20

A little skiddy bop.

Speaker 3 34:26

I am a little afraid of skiddy bop.

Speaker 1 34:35

Bye.

Speaker 6 34:49

It's no big deal, no.

Speaker 5 34:54

I'm feeling this, Dave.

Speaker 1 34:59

Affirmative, Dave.

Speaker 6 35:01

I read you I'm sorry, dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Speaker 5 35:23

Wow, this is a six minute song and it's just Flying by A little harmonics.

Speaker 3 35:34

Wow.

Speaker 5 35:35

Wow.

Speaker 3 35:44

Is it like 5 and 7 for it?

Speaker 5 35:46

I can't remember 5, 7, and 12 usually 5, 7, and 12,.

Speaker 3 35:50

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 35:55

All right, very nice.

Speaker 3 35:55

7 and 12 usually okay, alright very nice dancing Nancy's Nancy, nancy, nancy just say no. I'm Nancy Reagan somewhere in Paris.

Speaker 5 36:14

Shout out to the little brothers out there.

Speaker 3 36:28

Shout out to the Parisians.

Speaker 1 36:32

No To the.

Speaker 5 36:33

Parisians, now, now.

Speaker 3 36:45

I'm liking this transition here. It's gaining momentum.

Speaker 1 36:55

Two, three, 23 and so tired of life. Such a shame to throw it all away. The images grow darker and still Could I have been living well another than me in the night. I look up at the sky.

Speaker 4 37:18

Like love and hope and trust and confidence.

Speaker 3 37:23

This is about him on drugs, isn't it, though? Could it be that? Is there any drug?

Speaker 5 37:31

connection here. Rhyme and Reason was one about the perils of drugs. Yeah, this one I don't know.

Speaker 3 37:39

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put you on the spot.

Speaker 4 37:43

Because drug criminals are ingenious.

Speaker 3 37:48

That is true, no it isn't Shout out to all our drug dealers from the past?

Speaker 5 38:00

This one's for you and the dumpsters Deal and buy. It's about thinking about all the roads in life. Okay, Flight attendant billionaire A flight attendant Millionaire. He's hitchhiking Okay, Not successful Walking his skinny chicken legs off. Thought to myself what the fuck am I going to do with my life? Walk around the middle of Africa with nothing to do Interesting?

Speaker 3 39:03

It is interesting. This is an interesting song too. I kind of like this.

Speaker 5 39:07

Could be an accountant, could be an explorer, could be myself, could be someone else.

Speaker 3 39:12

It's Dave Matthews, yeah, that else Is it Dave Matthews, yeah that's a quote from Dave Matthews Gotcha.

Speaker 2 39:17

Interesting.

Speaker 4 39:23

Just say no.

Speaker 3 39:24

We're doing like way too many Nancy Reagans. We need another Nancy in here. I don't know. What do you think?

Speaker 1 39:44

Why.

Speaker 3 39:47

Okay, that was a little cheap. It's a classy song and an unclassy clip to go along with it.

Speaker 5 39:52

Dancing Nancy was a slang term for a cross-dressing prostitute.

Speaker 3 39:56

Okay, there we go. I knew it was going to be something weird.

Speaker 5 40:00

Features backing vocals from Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.

Speaker 3 40:07

Everybody loves sampling Michael Like, oh hey, michael McDonald would be great. In this little part there's a lot of that Stealing. Dad used to do that all the time.

Speaker 5 40:17

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:19

It's funny.

Speaker 4 40:24

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Speaker 3 40:27

It's just a little turnabout. Right on point, right on point right on point.

Speaker 5 40:41

It's jazz, fusion, indie rock instrumental. This is one of my favorite parts of the whole album, right here.

Speaker 3 40:56

Yeah, okay, now it's starting to click. For me they're starting to duel.

Speaker 5 41:01

Yeah, and when you see them live, they get into these little bits.

Speaker 2 41:12

This is.

Speaker 5 41:15

This is Crescendo here. Yeah, like and then release. They're really good at that. Yeah, it just took the drums out.

Speaker 2 41:29

Yeah.

Speaker 5 41:32

They've got the acoustic guitars sounds like a fiddle, a song that could be in, like Lawrence of Arabia now yeah, this isn't a hit.

Speaker 3 41:45

No joke, man. This is good. Why isn't this not a hit? It is for the fans, right, like the hardcore. There was that ant that stood up to me. Yeah, oh, that's a nice segue. We know what's coming next it's ants marching.

Speaker 2 42:13

Those puny little ants.

Speaker 5 42:25

Oh my gosh, Shout out to those who wake up in the morning Cheers Al this is a good song for Wednesdays. Right in the middle of the week yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 42:54

Tuesday it's kind of country a little bit.

Speaker 5 43:03

Yeah, very country. Yeah, similar to what would you say, actually that sort of like Riff. I could have melded this song and what Would you Say together?

Speaker 3 43:29

Oh really. Yeah, Okay for next time. I don't know what that's happening. I'm sorry. I don't know what the fuck that is.

Speaker 5 43:43

I'll do it All right, place those ants in the box Right.

Speaker 6 43:51

Bing those ants in line.

Speaker 2 43:53

the box right being those ants in line. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one, and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life.

Speaker 6 44:10

What was that from?

Speaker 3 44:17

Ants? No, it was one or two. How many ants are there? Is there a sequel to ants?

Speaker 5 44:21

There's millions of ants. No, I think there should just be one. Okay, power to the people. What's up? Power to the people. Sup, got some ants in my car. Actually, something sweet got in there. Yeah, the candy man. They call me the candy man. This is a little rap here. The fence can never fall. They call me the Candyman. This is a little rap here. That was kind of cool.

Speaker 3 45:03

It's too bad we didn't have Sammy Davis III on this one.

Speaker 2 45:07

Ah, damn it.

Speaker 3 45:09

The Candyman It'd be like. Who can build a rainbow?

Speaker 2 45:19

Ooh beat the candy.

Speaker 3 45:28

What's that beef? It's what's for dinner.

Speaker 6 45:32

It's not about food. It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line.

Speaker 4 45:43

What's down, you up and die gave all these hippies permission to be here there's a lot of hippie stuff going on right now this is some hippie stuff and it's a very country is some hippie stuff and it's a very country.

Speaker 6 46:19

Oh, I'm hang gliding, honey. Take a good picture. I'm dead. I am dead inside, okay deeper and deeper way down.

Speaker 3 46:33

Alright, this is Lover. Lay Down what the hell was that? It's just. It feels the awkwardness of two bros listening to a song like this and, correct, it's like aww, correct, it fills the awkwardness of two bros listening to a song like this Correct.

Speaker 5 46:56

It's like aw Correct.

Speaker 1 46:59

Class clownery.

Speaker 5 47:01

No hand-holding here, yeah.

Speaker 1 47:04

Okay.

Speaker 3 47:11

My love pump, et cetera.

Musical Exploration and Emotional Connection

Speaker 1 47:19

You just gotta make it weird, don't you? Dave has a new girlfriend. Are you crying? I will wait for no one, but you, oh, please love, let me down. Spend the time being completely honest.

Speaker 3 47:42

I'm getting a little chipped up.

Speaker 5 47:45

I'm getting a little perplexed. Let me just talk about this.

Speaker 6 47:48

Give me everyone Sex Now that I have your attention.

Speaker 1 47:52

Excuse me, everyone.

Speaker 5 47:59

Sex, now that I have your attention, my hands, your hands, oh God.

Speaker 3 48:06

This is so. How about the Ravens this year?

Speaker 5 48:23

All right, that was very good. I'm liking the alto sax or whatever this is.

Speaker 3 48:34

I have this feeling this is going to be your number one, because it makes you so. It just makes you curl up in a ball, are?

Speaker 1 48:41

you crying?

Speaker 5 48:47

It's sad and happy.

Speaker 4 48:53

You already figured the street out.

Speaker 6 48:55

Yeah, well, well, it's all about smiles and cries and I was like was that training day?

Speaker 5 49:09

they play this song on the streets just so uncomfortable that you have to play that. I mean, yes, we have the clips. Say love, love Are you crying, I am crying a little bit.

Speaker 1 49:31

Are you crying, crying?

Speaker 3 49:45

Whoa, you go to the concert and the people with their boyfriends and girlfriends, everybody's just making out.

Speaker 5 50:05

Exactly All right, I'm sitting in this couple plays, let me go get some snacks from the concession stand here, yeah.

Speaker 3 50:16

Where's the gym? That's okay.

Speaker 1 50:22

I'll find it. I love lamb.

Speaker 3 50:29

I drafted Laporta in my fantasy football league.

Speaker 5 50:32

Oh yeah, let's go over our fantasy drafts yeah, I got CJ's draft Around.

Speaker 3 50:38

Around in circles, qb, yeah, around around.

Speaker 2 50:40

Let's see your rock. Let's see your rock.

Speaker 3 50:46

Are they on loop? This is just so sublime. I'm sorry, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 51:03

Yeah, I was trying anything I can to derail this song.

Speaker 1 51:09

Deep purple yeah.

Speaker 5 51:13

Good drumming, very good by Mr Carter Buford. Really shines here. Tim Reynolds there.

Speaker 3 51:43

That's good. I wonder what the last song was like, when they played their Chicago gig and they subsequently got on the bus and dumped all that. Oh yeah, it's like the Kinsey Bridge incident.

Speaker 5 52:01

Shout out to the Kinsey Bridge incident here. Yeah, poop again.

Speaker 3 52:11

Oh, here we go, jimmy thing Shout out to our Seinfeld listeners.

Speaker 4 52:21

Jimmy's been watching you.

Speaker 1 52:30

It doesn't matter if you're sidelined.

Speaker 5 52:53

You'll get on the field soon.

Speaker 3 52:56

Yeah, you just gotta make the most of your opportunities, champ Jimmy.

Speaker 4 53:05

Jimmy's been watching you.

Speaker 1 53:08

You can keep me floating. Mom, mom, mom, that's the guy who sidelined?

Speaker 2 53:28

Jimmy, what that's the guy who took the bread out of Jimmy's mouth.

Speaker 5 53:34

Just keep swinging, jimmy. I love this part. It's almost like hard rock at that point, and then he breaks it back out. Yeah, take a bus, I take a bus. Oh man, you gotta empty the tank, brother, come on.

Speaker 3 54:01

Wouldn't that be something else if it were Jimmy Thing? They're like alright, jimmy Thing. Thank you very much, chicago. We love you. Goodbye, alright, let's turn right on this bridge here.

Speaker 5 54:16

He's gotta smoke his mind to make feel better about the situation.

Speaker 3 54:21

Yeah, I'm sure there was a lot of that going on.

Speaker 5 54:23

What I want is not poop on my head.

Speaker 6 54:26

He called the shit poop.

Speaker 3 54:30

Shout out to Billy Madison. To what?

Speaker 5 54:34

I say I'll get back to you. Okay, Dave's got a beeper. He's jamming with the bros right now.

Speaker 1 55:04

Bam bam.

Speaker 5 55:12

Brother Chaos, like what Brother Chaos, brother chaos like what brother chaos rules, rules, all about. Some of these lyrics are kind of weird. They just it's just like filling the gaps. It's ad hoc sort of thing. Yeah, don't you agree yeah, it's very god knows. Sometimes I take a bus there. I shouldn't care, bereaved as I'm feeling All of a sudden he's sad. Oh geez, Feel your feelings, Dave.

Speaker 3 55:51

Well, with all the heaviness that was going on in their lives at the time, it must have been.

Speaker 1 55:55

Ah, that feels, that feels better.

Speaker 3 55:59

I'm sure it did. I mean, it's probably music is a good way to cope grieve. There's other people going through things. This is what bonds everybody. This is what bonds everybody is the generality of these emotions and how people come together and feel the same thing without the same details behind the feeling.

Speaker 5 56:24

Dang, was that deep. That was. Yeah, say it louder for the back.

Speaker 1 56:28

That was good, that was good.

Speaker 5 56:33

Okay, wow.

Speaker 1 56:37

Bam, bam, Bam bam.

Speaker 5 56:51

Brother chaos.

Speaker 1 57:06

Brother of chaos, oh.

Speaker 3 57:11

Oh that was a nice little vignette.

Speaker 6 57:19

I kind of look a little silly and my feelings are hurt.

Speaker 5 57:21

Thank you, Saul.

Speaker 3 57:22

Yeah, maybe Dave and Saul can bond over there for evening. I'm feeling something.

Speaker 4 57:44

I'm feeling naughty.

Speaker 1 57:45

I thought I saw a booty cow. Oh.

Speaker 3 57:56

All right Beautiful.

Speaker 5 57:57

Fleeting horns. That's good, pretty wild stuff.

Speaker 4 58:03

It is wild.

Speaker 5 58:04

They just keep to the chords. They kind of change them slightly.

Speaker 2 58:08

Oh.

Speaker 5 58:12

Hmm, this is Warehouse, this is warehouse. Shout out to all the amazon and teamu workers out there.

Speaker 3 58:23

Anybody in a warehouse take a couple sick days yeah get out our packages can wait yeah, get off the forklift, go home, hug your, hug your loved ones, shout out. Get off the forklift, go home, hug your loved ones, shout out Tied up in knots.

Speaker 5 58:46

I wonder if they have escargot in a warehouse for.

Speaker 1 58:53

Don Don, I'm slipping slow away About to find something better Than got to be safe in the room when the warehouse slips away.

Speaker 5 59:09

Well, we'll start out with these escargots.

Speaker 6 59:19

Hippies all around me Hippies, mammy, hippies. The problem is, if you see one hippie, there's probably a whole lot more. You're not seeing.

Speaker 3 59:33

They're in the warehouses. Oh, hippies live in warehouses. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 5 59:37

Oh my, gosh, they just retrofit it yeah.

Speaker 6 59:45

It's like that's the way to do it. There's no big deal.

Speaker 1 59:52

Oh.

Speaker 3 59:53

Shout out to Mrsrs smales playful beginnings are foul endings changing colors gives you bad luck doesn't it?

Speaker 4 1:00:18

I think it does yeah they go around, they come back they go around the block. They come back.

Speaker 1 1:00:39

They go around again.

Speaker 2 1:00:44

The gap in the sidewalk.

Speaker 4 1:00:49

They just go around and around Red Red. You know, I invited Rita and Marlon for a barbecue.

Speaker 2 1:00:59

We'll see you around On.

Speaker 4 1:01:02

Sunday, I'm going to make my potato salad.

Speaker 5 1:01:05

TV set. We just ended Truman Clips.

Speaker 1 1:01:08

Yeah, I saw it coming.

Speaker 5 1:01:09

That was good. I'll fade away. I fade away.

Speaker 3 1:01:21

You need more cowbell.

Speaker 1 1:01:22

Is that?

Speaker 3 1:01:25

cowbell. There's no cowbell there, that's a cowbell. It sounds like a little bit.

Speaker 6 1:01:33

Yeah, mommy, hope let's have our new year, mommy, mommy.

Speaker 1 1:01:48

Shut up, mom, mom Shut up.

Speaker 6 1:02:04

And say anything.

Speaker 1 1:02:06

Oh.

Speaker 5 1:02:09

A black cat changing colors. Black cat changing colors. What do you think about this one?

Speaker 3 1:02:24

You're on the fence. Well, I like these transitions too. Is this like merengue or samba? What is this? Yeah, I would say, yeah, okay. Well, I would say Lipsa, yeah, okay well I just like how it goes into that from jazzy to tropical or Caribbean it is.

Speaker 5 1:02:46

It's very ad hoc and mixed. It's kind of cool. The walls have disappeared, dave. They've disappeared. I'm sorry, dave, the pod bay door walls have disappeared.

Speaker 3 1:03:27

They kind of even blend jazz with yeah, with I don't know what I'd call this. Well, calypso would imply like steel drums kind of a thing. Right, maybe Caribbean, but you can play it on a regular drum set.

Speaker 5 1:03:45

Yeah, listen to the bassist right here.

Speaker 3 1:03:51

Yeah, the bass plays on the sax too, right here. Yeah, the bass plays On the sax too. Leroy's crushing it.

Speaker 5 1:04:05

Stefan just plays it up and down, though he really does Lows and highs on the bass.

Speaker 3 1:04:15

How all these guys met at the same time and came together. It's hard to get five musicians on yeah.

Speaker 1 1:04:25

Consistently.

Speaker 3 1:04:44

I really give it to him.

Speaker 5 1:04:47

It's snuck down here. This is a 7 minute track and it's snuck down here.

Speaker 3 1:04:57

Oh, that was nice.

Speaker 5 1:04:58

All sneakily Like. This music will never be repeated. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 1:05:06

Oh, I like that end man. That was good.

Speaker 5 1:05:08

It's just so unique.

Speaker 3 1:05:14

This is pay for what you get. This sounds like Layla right now Like a bad Layla.

Speaker 1 1:05:28

I got a nickel.

Speaker 5 1:05:34

Thank you, Spicoli God.

Speaker 1 1:05:49

Get a job, lose and your debts. Pay, your respects. Everybody tells you you pay for what you get. You pay for what you get.

Speaker 5 1:06:35

Interesting, interesting.

Speaker 3 1:06:39

Do they perform this song a lot I don't know. This must be a difficult one for him to have performed after learning about the fate of his sister.

Speaker 1 1:06:50

Yeah, I hate it.

Speaker 3 1:06:56

To bring it down.

Speaker 5 1:06:57

Fly away. No I mean he's Awesome, buddy Close, Doesn't know what to say.

Speaker 1 1:07:15

Probably Everybody asks me how she's doing. Is she really all she says? Everybody asks me how she's doing. Since she went away, I said I couldn't tell one more thing.

Speaker 3 1:07:37

I'm a man yeah, by the way, these chords are. They sound kind of familiar to what you played you were playing earlier.

Speaker 5 1:07:50

Oh yeah, a jazzy added. Seventh added yeah. That's true, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:08:16

Everybody asks me how she's doing and she really lost her. Everybody asks me how she's doing. Okay, dave, since she went away.

Speaker 5 1:08:30

Getting that vocal range. I said that I couldn't tell you I'm okay Getting that vocal range. How are you?

Speaker 3 1:08:56

How are you, dave? He went up high. That was like Sting. It's like Sting high. Yeah, there's a little bit of a vibe of Sting's solo album. The first one came out like 88, I think Hearing a little bit of that here, this is better. Super vibey that was better than I thought it would. Be alright, here's your, here's your deal. And the very final song. This is number 34 another symphony type piece.

Speaker 5 1:10:22

The bass almost plays the same riff.

Speaker 3 1:10:52

I feel like I have to ask a question that's on the minds of listeners right now. How many times has Tim taken a bubble bath with this song? You know this one pretty good because you played.

Speaker 5 1:11:08

I just learned this one this week actually.

Speaker 3 1:11:10

Oh okay.

Speaker 5 1:11:12

I was just thinking. This is like your kenny g, this is kenny g-esque. Yeah, uh, this is my careless whisper, if you must know uh, there's no lyrics, and that this is what makes it a jam band, right? Yeah, this is the last album, I mean the last song of the album, and I've got no lyrics here. They just go, you know, go instrumental.

Speaker 3 1:11:43

It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 1:11:44

You know, Well, this piece is called Lick my Love Pump pump, Sort of a call and response.

Speaker 5 1:12:04

I'm pretty sure Tim Reynolds is probably on the nylon string guitar. It sounds like Okay, so emotional.

Speaker 3 1:12:52

I mean, you know, get some eno in there. Yeah I, I drafted tyreek hill. I drafted Tyreek Hill last night.

Speaker 5 1:12:55

Oh, nice yeah.

Speaker 3 1:12:57

Number one wide receiver Wow, cj Stroud.

Speaker 5 1:13:03

I mean, I pick it up, kevin Shada, oh you're on the fantasy premier league.

Speaker 3 1:13:09

Brantford, come on, brantford. Okay, yeah, shout out to Brantford. Yeah, the bees, the fantasy premier league brenford.

Speaker 5 1:13:12

Come on, brenford. Okay, yeah, shout out to brenford. Yeah, the bees. And uh, I don't know if harvey barnes is gonna start, so is he?

Speaker 3 1:13:24

questionable is he for the newcastle, for the?

Speaker 5 1:13:26

tineside team of newcastle here, I got you.

Speaker 3 1:13:34

Yeah, he's sort of like the. He's sort of like the Brandon Ayuk of Newcastle Okay. Like the X receiver. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 5 1:13:47

What position does he play? Left wing? Okay yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 1:13:52

Left wing. It's sort of like the weak side, isn't it? Yeah, that's a Brandon Iuke kind of position, all right.

Speaker 5 1:14:19

It's getting up into the upper gears. Here it's chromaticness.

Speaker 3 1:14:25

Yeah, they're all playing the same notes.

Speaker 5 1:14:28

It's in sync.

Speaker 3 1:14:32

This is probably one of those that's much more challenging to play than you would think uh, no, once you get the riff, you can get it okay, well, they were just playing, so in synchronicity, that well, lots of practice.

Speaker 5 1:14:48

I mean, yeah, they're pros, they're freaking pros well, that was a dozen tracks. I listened to all of them. It was great. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 1:14:58

Um, we're looking at them and I'm thinking we got to do our top three and let's just recap what we believe the hits to be, which I'm thinking? Satellite, what would you say? Ants marching for sure, yeah, and that's it.

Speaker 5 1:15:15

That's it.

Speaker 3 1:15:15

Okay.

Speaker 5 1:15:16

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:15:16

If you agree on that, what would you? Where do you put your number three?

Speaker 5 1:15:20

What would I say would be my, my number three yeah.

Speaker 3 1:15:26

Oh geez. What would you say?

Speaker 5 1:15:32

Oh, this is tough. I'm going to go rhyme and reason. It's got that just dark underbelly of raw emotional, like negative emotion.

Speaker 3 1:15:47

Um yeah, it is the one of the most raw of them. Like lyrically it goes there, but the music was really good. Yeah, it was yeah it, was it really?

Speaker 5 1:15:56

juxtapositions and helps the album with the ants marching, dancing, nancy's typical situations lay down, lover, all that. That whole, like four songs are very, you know, and satellite are pretty happy, I would say. Right, unless you and oh Unless you ambiguously dissect the lyrics in which they're kind of more melancholy. But anyway, yeah, yeah, rhyme and reason number three for me.

Speaker 3 1:16:25

Wow okay. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah, that's good. I'm going to say my number three Dancing Nancys. I thought that there was a lot of music in there. I like the violin in it, especially at the end. It was really cool. I just really enjoyed listening to it. I think it's going to be one of those where I'm just going to start. I don't know. Yeah, I'm going to play it over and over. You know, just after hearing that that's my number.

Speaker 5 1:17:04

Yeah, it's very catchy. What's your number two? Oh, jimmy thing.

Speaker 2 1:17:13

Lately.

Speaker 5 1:17:14

I've been feeling low. Smoke my mind, make me feel better for a small time. I mean, yeah, jimmy Thing is so good. Yeah, it goes back into the chord progression back into the riff has a sort of like darker, weird side and then it goes back to happy. Right, it's got a lot of releases.

Speaker 3 1:17:39

yeah, it's, it's very good right very good song um, just before I give my number two, just going back to number three, that's the dancing nancy's, that's the one where there's sort of like that duel between yes yeah, exactly, I just wanted to bring that up too.

Speaker 3 1:17:54

But my number two was also Jimmy Thing. Okay, yeah, and it just seemed like it took you to a whole other level because it has like different, like it's such an abstract and open-ended kind of a Jimmy thing. It could apply to a lot of different situations. Yeah, so there was that and it was an overall jam. And again, I mean, everybody, all the musicians are just in lockstep and that's another example. So that's my number two, okay, yeah for my number one.

Speaker 5 1:18:31

Before I say my number one, I want to shout out to number 34, Pay For what you Get. The Warehouse Typical Situation, best Of what's Around. All those songs could be potentially, you know, this whole album's a hit for me, I guess.

Speaker 3 1:18:50

Even Lover Lay Down.

Top Tracks Discussion

Speaker 5 1:18:54

I mean, yeah, we'll throw it on there because just this album all together, you need need one of those uh songs. But yeah, my number one, it's got to be dancing nancy's. I mean it's just, that's such a like a jazzed up song. You put that on at a party. How can anybody be having a frown on their face? I know it's such a good, you wake up in the morning, he wakes up in the morning. You can put it in the morning, it doesn't matter. Okay, put it on the afternoon.

Speaker 3 1:19:32

Yep.

Speaker 5 1:19:34

Get a little creeped out with the horns and violin dueling.

Speaker 3 1:19:39

Mm-hmm. Yeah, All three of mine were super close and I'm going to say number one is Warehouse.

Speaker 5 1:19:49

Oh wow, for me Okay.

Speaker 3 1:19:50

Well, because they took it. Wow. I liked how they went between different genres and they had that Caribbean kind of a thing going.

Speaker 5 1:20:01

Yes, okay, wow, that's on Warehouse, right yeah.

Speaker 3 1:20:04

Yeah, and it had the cowbell and it had, but there was like a jazz Underneath. All of it was like this it was like the drums, the bass, the acoustic guitars. I loved the way that the different genres fused and how they changed up time signatures, I think, a couple of times they just fused a lot of different things and I thought it was just really creative and it was. It was a long song and it deserves props.

Speaker 2 1:20:40

So yeah, this whole warehouse, yeah it is glad we did this album yeah, that was.

Speaker 3 1:20:45

That was all you yeah, thanks for choosing it, we'll come up with something good next week. Yeah, rock on, all right. Thanks folks.