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So Much To Say: Dave Matthews Band--20 Years On The Road (2000)

by Nikki Van Noy(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: This book may be more popular with bigger fans of the band. I picked it up on an impulse because it was marked way down, and I thought it would be fun to go back through some of the DMB stuff I used to listen to in high school and college while I am traveling. Pretty fun to listen to those songs again for the first time in a while. My dissatisfaction with the book rests mostly in that the author didn't conduct any of her own interviews with any of the band members and instead relied on fan accounts to create the history. I learned some things, but there's only so many times you can read about how amazing a certain concert was or how passionate the fanbase is.
review 2: This book is well organized and tells the story of DMB largely from the perspective of a ... morefew of the many fans of this two-decade old band. After a brief note about the band's planned 2011 'break' from touring (which is not quite going to come to pass, and was later clarifed by the author) the band's biography progresses chronologically from their roots in Virginia through the end of the 2010 fall arena tour. Information about studio albums is plentiful and information about the many live releases is mixed in, with emphasis on the more widely distributed albums. Fan reaction and experiences are the foundation of Van Noy's storytelling and while I regretably discovered DMB relatively recently, I was able to completely relate to the experiences noted throughout the book. The book reminded me that I never was able to see Roi live in concert...and never will. Van Noy's handling of this delicate part of the band's history brought tears to my eyes. It was also striking how much of the last three (3) years of the band's history I've paid close attention to - I can't compete with those who have many more years of additional fan experience, but I feel like this book helped me to better understand the 17 years when I wasn't quite paying attention. less

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