During DMB's June 29 concert at Brixton Academy in London, the band played parts of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" during "All Along the Watchtower," and Tim Reynolds played the guitar riff of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" during "Anyone Seen the Bridge."
Both interpolations were edited out of the Across the Pond DVD, which captured that concert for the Europe 2009 box set. Dave Matthews also played the first verse of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" as a tribute to Michael Jackson during that concert, and that song didn't make the DVD either.
And during the July 5 concert in Lucca, DMB played Prince's "Sexy M.F." during the end jam of "Jimi Thing." Live from Lucca, the CD portion of the box set, omits that part of the song as well.
Europe 2009 features two other cover songs -- Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" and the traditional "Rye Whiskey" -- and features interpolations of several others, including Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken," "Also Sprach Zarathustra," Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' "Sojourn of Arjuna," "Down by the Riverside," Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" and the themes from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "The Six Million Dollar Man."
DMB has never edited cover songs out of its live releases before, so it's very odd to have four such instances in one release. It's unclear why the band's management couldn't -- or wouldn't -- get the rights to these four songs.
Here's fan video of Dave playing "I'll Be There" in London:
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2 comments:
another great example of how the crowd needs to STFU :)
What does this news have to do with crowd noise at all?
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