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Backstage with Acoustic Rock's Power Duo

microphone.jpgAcoustic Guitar 1999

davetimguitar.gif On this crisp spring afternoon outside the Berkeley Community Theater, there's no mistaking the preparations for the ritual called the Big Rock Show. Roadies are unloading a truckful of gear through the closely guarded stage door, and teen- and college-age fans—some of whom have traveled from several states away—are milling around, hoping for a glance, an autograph, or a photo op with the Big Rock Star known as Dave Matthews.

The show tonight marks the end of Matthews' and Reynolds' latest acoustic tour, following the release of their double CD Live at Luther College, recorded in 1996. With two acoustic guitars and Matthews' alternately wailing/whispering voice, this duo brings to life the knotty, intense songs that have made the Dave Matthews Band such a compelling and surprising force in contemporary rock.

As Matthews and Reynolds grab guitars and sit down with me to talk and play music, it's immediately clear that despite their surface differences, these are very close friends and partners in crime. Reynolds has played on all the DMB albums and frequently joins the band on stage, in addition to pursuing his own projects in freewheeling solo guitar improv, rock, and funk. In conversation, Reynolds and Matthews feed off each other's kinetic energy and quick humor (sly and urbane one moment, locker-room adolescent the next), and when Matthews starts playing something on guitar, Reynolds locks in with him in a microbeat.

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Dave Matthews Band '98

By Mike Rafone

a010199.jpgFollowing two enormously successful albums, Under the Table and Crash, the Dave Matthews Band has been touring arenas in support of their latest, Before These Crowded Streets. Compounding the interest of their second-generation, post-Garcia audience, Matthews is advancing the new alternative acoustic-pop. It's fitting that they've also inherited a portion of the Dead's Meyer sound system through the services of Ultrasound, a vanguard of innovative design and quality concert sound.

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