Last year I was lucky enough to attend the Dave Matthews Band´s gig in Lucca on the 5th of July, and I have to admit it was something quite unique. Marco and I already sang its praises in the September issue of Buscadero. After 6 months, in hindsight, I have no choice but to confirm the feelings I had on the spot: it was a tremendous, powerful, overwhelming and exciting concert, where ecstasy and skill, technical virtuosity and good vibes, energy and creativity, individual talent and team symbiosis blend into each other in equal parts, thus creating an unstoppable flow of pure music which is difficult to resist and where it´s hard to tell where rock ends and jazz begins, where funky gives way to pop, where Dave´s lyrical songwriting and dreamy singing joins the instrumental ...

The essence of the reborn Dave Matthews Band in a live performance: the 2009 concert in Lucca in 3 CDs, the live DVD at the Brixton Academy, and a photobook.Overwhelming There is no doubt that Italy holds a special place in Dave Matthews´ heart. After giving its Italian fans the privilege of experiencing the longest concert of its history in Lucca last July 5, the Dave Matthews Band announced a new European tour with three dates in Italy at the end of February. Moreover, 3 CDs with the Lucca concert are part of the elegant box set DMB Europe 2009 , together with the DVD Across the Pond and the beautiful photobook by C. Taylor Crothers – the band´s official photographer. The concert in Lucca got an in-depth review in the 162 issue of JAM: three ...

Lucca July 5, 2009. After a long chase, we finally got to have a meeting with the most uncatchable drummer around. We´re talking about Carter Beauford, the engine marvellously driving one of the most inventive and genuine bands in the music scene: The Dave Matthews Band. The occasion comes with the highly awaited gig in Lucca, which brought the band back to Italy after about 11 years, with a tour promoting their amazing latest release Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King,. The meeting is set for 5 p.m. on the side of the stage . I am taken into an ancient building´s astonishing room where, besides the unbearable heat, we have the chance to meet the band leader Dave Matthews, who´s politely answering a few journalists (who actually hardly manage to boost the conversation). Just ...

LUCCA, 5 LUGLIO 2009; DOPO UN LUNGO INSEGUIMENTO, CHE DURAVA ORMAI DA DIVERSI ANNI, SIAMO FINALMENTE RIUSCITI A ORGANIZZARE UN INCONTRO SEGRETO CON IL BATTERISTA PIU´ IMPRENDIBILE DEL MOMENTO. STIAMO PARLANDO DI CARTER BEAUFORD, IL MOTORE CHE SPINGE IN MODO MERAVIGLIOSO UNA DELLE BAND PIU´ ORIGINALI E AUTENTICHE DELL´INTERO PANORAMA MUSICALE: LA DAVE MATTHEWS BAND. L´OCCASIONE E´ QUELLA DELL´ATTESISSIMO CONCERTO A LUCCA, CHE HA SEGNATO IL RITORNO IN ITALIA DELLA BAND DI CHARLOTTESVILLE, DOPO CIRCA UNDICI ANNI DI ATTESA, CON UN TOUR A SUPPORTO DI BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING, IL NUOVO BELLISSIMO CD DI MATTHEWS E SOCI. L´appuntamento é per le cinque del pomeriggio, a lato del palco: vengo preso e portato in una bellissima sala di un antico ...

An exclusive meeting with the brilliant rock star of South African descent, currently in Italy with the Dave Matthews Band, eleven years after the last concert of the band that, in the US, was the only one to gather a bigger audience than the Rolling Stones, between the late 90s and the new Millennium ´Come, I´ll introduce you to Dylan…´, I proposed to Dave right outside of the elevator that brought us into the Cortile degli Svizzeri, in the heart of Lucca, who was called this way because it hosted the barracks of the Swiss guard, the mercenary army, that was called in defense of the town in the 17th century. ´And this should be Dylan? It´s beautiful…´, Dave told me, frankly amazed. For the record, the Dylan we are talking about is ...