June 20, 1997
Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC
Opening Band: Los Lobos

Setlist
Tripping Billies
The Song That Jane Likes
Dancing Nancies
Warehouse
Crash into Me
Jimi Thing
Two Step
Let You Down
Best of What's Around
Beauty of Wynona
Drive In, Drive Out
#41
Say Goodbye
So Much to Say (Anyone Seen the Bridge?) -->
Too Much
Encore:
Leave Me Praying
Ants Marching


Koury Hicks

Awesome show. Even though I was far from the stage, the music was amazing this night. Starting with Tripping Billies, and ranging from songs such as The Song that Jane Likes and Let you Down, closing with an encore of a new unnamed song and Ants Marching. Much better than two nights before in Charlotte.


Gray Gainor

This is only my second Dave Matthews show that I have been able to attend, but I loved it. These guys are my favorite band and seeing them live just makes it so much better! The show started at 8:00, which seemed really early to me. They kicked off the show with Tripping Billies, and it got everyone dancing, singing, and having a good time. They then moved in some slower songs, and then jammed on Warehouse. Boyd was really sawing away on the violin and it made me wonder how someone can dance, bang their head all over the place and play the violin at the same time. He is truely awesome! They placed a great version of Crash and then picked up the tempo for a while. Dave played an incredible solo of Lover Lay Down. Carter was truely awesome as he jammed on his solos in both DIDO and Say Goodbye. His Say Goodbye solo seemed to last forever with the flute harmony floating in the air. The closed their set with Say Goodbye/ Too Much combo, and it was awesome. In between the two Dave did some little funky rap sounds and then the kicked in Too Much. Everyone knew they would come back out because they had not played Ants Marching. So the encore opened with a new song. It was real slow and in the end Dave did some serious moaning and yelling. He did not mention the name of it but it was not too bad. And to top the whole evening off, they ended with Ants Marching. It was a great number with a big jam session at the beginning. The concert was a great one and one that I really enjoyed. My only regrets is that it started so early that it was over by 10:30. I wish he would have played Minarets, Satellite, or One Sweet World, but he can not play every song that everyone likes so I am not disappointed. If you have the chance to see Dave this summer I highly recommend it, and if you have an extra ticket I would love to use it.


Daiva

the show was really awesome. i wanted more unreleased songs, but the cover Beauty of Wynona and the song Leave Me Praying were enough. Overall i thought that the show was really, really good.


Matt Schnabel

Great: Say Goodbye, Jimi Thing, Two Step, incredible solos by Leroi Moore on the sax.



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