I started listening to the Dave Matthews Band during college about the time I was learning to play the guitar. One of the main draws was the acoustic guitar playing such a heavy role in the band. I also love the horn section and the role the violin has played in the band. I started attending shows in 2002. We recently have attended shows 31 and 32 in West Palm Beach, FL. These shows are always unique and while looking at previous sets may give you a clue as to what is going to be played you just never know what is going to be played. When you go to two shows back to back in the same venue, you are going to get two completely different shows and may not even hear one repeat song performance.
One of the other fun things about attending these shows are the posters. When they first started doing posters they would often repeat the design during the tour but for a while now, they have unique posters at each show. There is a community which has developed around this where people collect different posters. For the most part, we just collect posters for shows we’ve been to (and like) but on occasion we pick up a poster that is not a show we’ve been to because we like it.
We have over twenty posters at this point. Not all them are hanging up, but we do have some of them hanging around the house. Here are some of our favorite posters from the shows we’ve seen:
These posters are the earliest posters I have. I have been going to shows since 2002, but I didn’t really get into collecting the posters until later. In fact, I only recently got these posters because I loved these shows and I love how they work together for one scene.
This was the poster from Virginia Beach in 2013 when we attended. This poster is by Chuck Sperry and is a pretty in demand poster.
This poster is by Miles Tsang. This is one of the posters from a show we did not actually attend. This is from a show that took place in Tampa just about the time we moved back to Florida. Because of all of the Florida references, we felt like it needed to be in our collection, so this is one of the few posters we have from a show we did not actually attend.
Finally this poster is by M.I.D. Goods. We got this during our trip to Nashville in 2017 to see Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds and was such a great representation of the city and our trip to Nashville that we just adore this poster.