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Originally Posted by Greg McCoy
(By the way, The Central Park Concert is awesome...I've got the 3 CDs and the 2 DVDs and I like it better than any DMB studio album...The quality and technology behind live performances now is just amazing.)
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The central park show in general was amazing - I was there that night ;-) I'm just disapointed they didn't play Tripping Billies - thats one of my favorite DMB songs. The version I have from the August 25th show this past summer (to which my tickets were a birthday present for my sister ;-)) has so much energy - Carter went insane with the rhythms and the drums. PM me and I'll send it to you or you can get it off of antsmarching.org
Anyways, more on-topic - I think that artists can be divided into two groups. There are the plain songwriter types that are more mainstream (like the origional subject of this post), and then there are the musician types like DMB or Phish. I love to see the musician types perform because they often improvise their songs or change them around, add parts, extend parts, put parts of other songs into their songs... you know, put some creativity and energy into the concert. I'm probably exagerating this a bit, but the point remains - some bands, like DMB, if you just know them from their studio release stuff, if you were to go to one of their concerts, it will seem like a completely new band.