An Audio History Of Phish & Dave Matthews Band’s Past Collaborations
Love both bands, love one & hate the other, tolerate one & swear by the other, regardless of your allegiances there’s no denying the long history that Phish and the Dave Matthews Band share. Clearly the band members enjoy playing together as displayed by Dave’s choice of words and delivery of this quote that my friend Chris and I have always been huge fans of…
“It’s always a massive honor to come and share the stage with Trey Anastasio”. – Dave Matthews, 2/28/2001.
[Photo from Phish.com's TMIPH]
The history between the two bands continues this weekend when DMB takes the stage for two shows at Fenway Park with Willie Nelson opening up both performances before Phish plays a Fenway show of their own on Sunday. Then, both bands head to the Big Apple early next week for Phish’s three shows at Jones Beach and DMB’s special intimate show at the Beacon Theatre on Monday celebrating the release of their new album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
With that in mind, we’re taking this opportunity to look back with a special audio history detailing the numerous collaborations there have been between the two bands over the years…
1994-04-20 Virginia Horse Center, Lexington VA (Phish)
You Enjoy Myself (w/Dave Matthews Band)
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READ ON to hear the rest of the DMB/Phish collaborations…
1994-04-21 Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem NC (Phish)
Drums Jam > Jam > All Along The Watchtower (w/Dave Matthews Band)
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1994-10-15 Oak Mt. Amphitheater, Pelham AL (Phish)
Drums Jam > Jam> The Maker (w/Dave Matthews Band)
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1995-01-26 Memorial Auditorium, Burlington VT (DMB)
Jimi Thing, Recently > Water/Wine Jam > Ants Marching (w/Trey Anastasio)
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1995-02-24 Roseland Ballroom, New York NY (DMB)
All Along The Watchtower (w/Trey Anastasio & John Popper)
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1995-06-16 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh NC (Phish)
You Enjoy Myself (w/Boyd Tinsley)
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1995-06-17 Nissan Pavillion at Stone Ridge, Gainseville VA (Phish)
Three Little Birds (w/Dave Matthews & Leroi Moore)
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1997-07-21 Virginia Beach Ampitheatre, Virginia Beach VA (Phish)
Theme From The Bottom > Jam, Funky Bitch (w/LeRoi Moore)
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2001-02-28 Landmark Theatre, Richmond VA (Trey Anastasio Band)
Everyday, Three Little Birds, Whatever Gets You Through The Night
E: I Want To Take You Higher (w/Dave Matthews)
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2001-05-19 Pacific Bell Park, San Francisco CA (DMB)
Lie In Our Graves (w/Trey Anastasio)
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2005-07-13 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta GA (DMB)
Jimi Thing, Louisiana Bayou (w/Trey Anastasio)
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2005-07-30 Randall’s Island, New York NY (DMB)
Jimi Thing (w/Trey Anastasio)
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2007-08-14 SPAC, Saratoga Spring NY (DMB)
Lie In Our Graves (w/Trey Anastasio)
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Is that every single one of them? No. Dave also joined Trey for a trip to Senegal as well as a Superjam performance in New Orleans back in 2005. Dave & Trey also played together at From the Big Apple to the Big Easy at Radio City Music Hall later in 2005 as well. Touring saxophonist of the Dave Matthews Band Jeff Coffin has also joined Phish once, during the second Bela Fleck & The Flecktones full-band sit in on 7/9/1997 (You Enjoy Myself > Ghost > Poor Heart). Tim Reynolds on the other hand, also currently touring with DMB, has yet to make it to a Phish stage – though Tim and Trey dueled many times throughout the Dave Matthews & Friends tours in 2003 and 2004.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 6:10 am
I heart trey
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 7:18 am
Heady. Not looking to start controversy… I will say I miss Dave from ’95 though…
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 9:19 am
will always remember that Roseland Ballroom Trey sit in in ’95…solely because I had to leave 10 minutes before it happened. We had to catch our ride back to NJ (we were like 16), and woke up the next day only to see that the next tune after we left was All Along the Watchtower with Trey. That sucked.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 9:42 am
DMB is also playing two nights @ Star Lake in Pitt starting the night after Phish.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:11 am
That 1-26-95 show is a huge throwback. My freshman college roomate had a bootleg of that show and we used to play that thing incessantly. Trey lets loose a bunch of times. Still sounds great.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:13 am
it’s interesting to hear the sound of these recordings and of the band progress over the years.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:30 am
This is great. I have always loved the Little Birds with Dave and Roi and also that beautiful beautiful Maker from ’94. I’d love to see Phish release some of these, we were lucky enough to get that YEM with Boyd on the last Walnut Creek release
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:54 am
I heart this!!
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Great work DaveO!
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Well done. The ’94 sit-ins and the Watchtower with Trey and Popper are both so epic. I expect Trey to sit-in with DMB this weekend, but am not expecting anyone in DMB to sit in with Phish (they’re recording for CBS Sunday Morning in NYC that morning and it’d be a bit strange to go back to Boston that night when they’re also playing the Beacon the next night). Unless Coffin just sticks around and the DMB performance is just without sax on CBS……
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I think the interview for CBS is already recorded and just airing on Sunday morning.
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/46384712.html
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Monday, June 1, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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Friday, June 12, 2009 at 11:10 am
Are we going to see Trey or Dave playing together as they cross paths in St. Louis and Burgettstown?
Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 1:03 am
This is a great post!
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 9:44 pm
It’s a shame that Trey was backstage all weekend at the 3 day DMB/PHISH Fenway 09 stint and Dave never bothered to ask him to come out and jam…He was probably afraid Trey would make his homosexual friend Tim Reynolds look like the second rate guitarist stuck in the 80′s that he is…Funny this “collaboration” collage starts with the showsDMb used to open for Phish at and at fenway DMB opened two nights in a row for them. This is coming from a die-hard Davehead from 95…first show was 1-30-95 but they have lost it…Roi is gone and they play the same songs every night. Phish made them look real bad at Fenway and continues to do so night after night.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Dave and Friends was one of the best shows I have ever been to. Two of my favorite bands (and artists) that have such a friendship is truly awesome.
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 11:06 am
Their first (known) collaboration was actually at the Ritz Power Jam in NY, NY on Feb 5, 1993: http://www.bluestraveler.net/info/projects/other/ritz.html
All Along the Watchtower
vocals: Dave Matthews and John Popper
w/ the Dave Matthews Band and Trey Anastasio.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 8:49 am
RAD!!!!!! Pioneers