Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

[DeathFromAbove1979]

I guess I got it when he had popular songs on the radio... Not gonna lie, I learned a few songs on guitar. They're fun to play. I never bought any albums or cared to see them live. I can't believe they've stayed SO popular without having a big radio hit in what.... 15 years? More?

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

DMB really sidled up to the pot smoking, "let's go to one concert every summer and play hackysack" contingency really well, which is why they stay so popular with no hit in 15 years. The music is absolutely secondary to the social experience of "seeing Dave, man".

To some extent Pearl Jam -- a band I like infinitely more -- has done this as well.

[hutch]

I've said it before..but i thought they would be crap but at the vote for change 2004 dc show they got the longest set of the night..maybe an hour.. and they were really really good... i was shocked..

[DeathFromAbove1979]

DMB really sidled up to the pot smoking, "let's go to one concert every summer and play hackysack" contingency really well, which is why they stay so popular with no hit in 15 years. The music is absolutely secondary to the social experience of "seeing Dave, man".

To some extent Pearl Jam -- a band I like infinitely more -- has done this as well.

I was never a huge Pearl Jam fan but their fans got super offended whenever I said I didn't like them. I always lumped them into the "Why does DC101 still play this" category of 90s rock.

[i am gay and i like cats]

who knows why these people listen and like this, and why those people listen and like that.  but, isn't it nice that way?  I don't want people liking the music I like; I want it all to myself.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

who knows why these people listen and like this, and why those people listen and like that.  but, isn't it nice that way?  I don't want people liking the music I like; I want it all to myself.

311 on vinyl

[K8teebug]

Worst concert experience ever. I went to the DMB Hershey Park show with some friends thinking it would be more the hacky sack crowd, and it was nothing but a drunken frat guy/girl horror show. People wouldn't stop moshing at the front. I went because I liked them well enough, but also because Soul Coughing was opening. We were at the front. No one was there for Soul Coughing because they were too busy drinking in the parking lot. Then they wouldn't stop moshing to the songs, my friend had a panic attack, and no one moved to let her out until I swung my arm and accidentally clocked someone in the face...

The concert was also terrible. I could not really listen to them after that.

[K8teebug]

This was 1996, I think...

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

...until I swung my arm and accidentally clocked someone in the face...

man, I don't even know you, but I'd love to see if this was on youtube or something
not your friend having her attack...but you clocking some drunk frat boy in the face

[Yada]

This was 1996, I think...

It was... I think that was around the last time I saw them as well.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

This was 1996, I think...

ok, pre camera phone era

[ggw]

This was 1996, I think...

The peak of the "kids will mosh to anything" era.

Remember the Cranberries show at the Washington Monument that got curtailed mid-set due to moshing?

[grateful]

Yep.  I was there.  Not moshing.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Remember the Cranberries show at the Washington Monument that got curtailed mid-set due to moshing?

Cranberries seem less weird to mosh to, respectively. Zombie or Salvation don't seem totally out of the realm of moshing. Way heavier than anything DMB ever put out.

[vansmack]

Great.  Now I will be singing "Step outside, and let the man go through" all day.

Thanks a lot.