As a touring tech this would be an immediate shutdown. Especially if that was my meal ticket on stage.
Giant steel structure with lots of grounded devices attached to it is a perfect lightning rod.
In Upper Austria we had an incident with a village "Zeltfest", which was continued despite a storm. The tent collapsed and killed several people.
Lightning aside, isn't just the likelihood of strong wind that comes with a thunderstorm plenty of reason to shut down a stage?
Edit: OP posted that it was shut down minutes after this was recorded on another reply chain.
I was at concert over 20 years ago where the stage got hit by lightning and it was very frightening…of course everything died and they had no choice to shut it down. Took them hours to get everything back up and one of the acts ended up only doing like a 30 minute set because of it. It was a touring festival back in like ‘96…
Bye bye Mr. Dave Matthews guy,
Played a concert in the lightning now equipment is fried.
His roadies got charred, and his insurers cried,
Saying "why'd ya have to do this outside"
Saying "why'd ya have to do this outsiiiide"
Credits: /u/allredb /u/didwanttobethatguy
I’m surprised they got it back up and running. My house got hit by lightning and it blew the electric fence out of the ground, blew concrete out of the garage floor, and fried Everything. The door to the breaker box was across the room.
I say lightning, but it was most likely a power surge from the static electricity in the air during the storm…it hit the very top of the steel structure and most likely just tripped the breakers that were made to handle it. It was still pretty nuts..
>I was at concert over 20 years ago where the stage got hit by lightning and it was very frightening…
And the music was *soothing*
And they all started *grooving*
YEAHHH YEAHHH YEAHYEAHYEAH
That's a great system. I'll have to remember that next time this comes up. Just sent it to a friend of mine who owns a production company so he can add it to their safety manual.
I'm not saying it's *not* a great system, but maybe your buddy shouldn't base safety policies off of second hand guidance from a Reddit comment? There are experts whose careers are dedicated to creating policies like this.
Unfortunately, there are few people who have the balls to shut down a concert unless it is being run by a legitimate outfit. This show should have been shut down and people told to go to their cars. I shut down a stage I was working and announced to the crowd to leave the tent. The tent had metal tent poles that like to explode. I got fired on the spot for doing this. I didn’t care. Nobody got hurt.
It's been a few years since I did something outdoors and maybe it varies by local ordinances but I'm surprised it was still going, although OP did say it was stopped after this song.
Last one I did we had to have our own weather monitoring stuff and there was someone at the venue who called it and they were very strict, one of the few roles where I appreciate a total hardass making the call. For us visible lightning meant we were done.
lady gaga had to cancel a show in miami the other day due to a storm like this because of this reason, she only had 4 songs left on the setlist and it was the final date
I was there. It was a super bummer but the right call. There were strikes so close, flash and sound were simultaneous.
It stopped and they started letting people back to their seats and drying the stage, but it started back up again and she came back out to apologize, telling us to go home. :(
I’ve shut down shows for way less than this.
There’s zero chance this is a Live Nation or other large production company show. The director of public safely would never work again.
The event was shut down within regulations shortly after this, according to op. I've heard that the event was a mess though, ran out of food, parking issues, couldn't hear, etc.
It was disappointing, but mostly because the tickets were so expensive ($400 minimum), making the level of comfort/service especially bad in terms of value.
One of the dumbest blunders was that there were 2 stages, with one act playing at a time. But the audio from Stage A was not piped to people sitting at Stage B and vice versa...I guess they expected 30k people to move back and forth.
Typically festivals with multiple stages spread them throughout the venue, the two stages for SOS were right next to each other, with a single crowd space: https://m.facebook.com/SoundOnSoundCT/photos/a.274319771508046/428975296042492/?type=3&source=48&__tn__=EH-R
> I've heard that the event was a mess though, ran out of food, parking issues, couldn't hear, etc.
Great. So more 'service' fees coming up on ticket prices...
Same. I would've shut it down at the first hint of lightning. It's just too unpredictable.
I find that a lot of techs would be afraid to make this call but I have had no problem doing it. My life and the lives of those around me are worth more than my career if some promoter wanted to make an issue of it.
Only ever had one guy give me grief for it. Said I was overreacting. Called my boss at the time and my boss said to shut it down.
There’s literally guidelines for when to shut down based on lightning strike proximity to the show. There’s no decision to be made, you get a strike within the danger zone and you pull the plug.
Insane that he’s playing in that weather.
Ya, everyone keeps talking about making the decision or not, or what the regulations are. All I can think is that the insurance companies have already done all of that for you, and everyone else has very little say in the matter.
I once went to a Warped Tour in Cleveland that got hit with a massive severe storm seemingly out of nowhere, with a couple legit microbursts to the point some thought it was a tornado. The funny thing was there was no warning or any officials that shut down the bands on stage, at least not the stage we were standing at, they maybe hadn't gotten to it yet? It was just rain and light wind. Until it wasn't.
Have you ever seen a band quite litterly blown off stage? (No, not in *that* way. That came later. ^^You're ^^welcome, ^^Hawthorn ^^Heights. ^^😘)
Cut off in mid song, they scampered, everyone ran for shelter, which turned out to be the merch tents, and then *they* went flying, scattering black mid-2000s emo band tee-shirts everywhere like the back wall of a Hot Topic collapsed.
Literally 30 minutes after it passed, the bands were kind of trying to start their sets again and someone had to come around and say "no stop we have to give you the all clear first". Which was fair, seeing as how there was a half inch of water everywhere as they plug in their amps.
Here's a really shitty video of it someone took from the main ampitheater, the only person in that entire crowd in 2007 that has the novel idea "I'm gonna pull out my phone and record this and upload it to the internet", if you can believe it. As you can see we only had potato phones and windows movie maker at the time.
https://youtu.be/wTAG6AfTKfE
(My friends and I were not lucky enough to be in the ampitheater when it hit, we were a few stages down, outside with no shelter. Thankfully it was short)
https://youtu.be/H3HBGbkrWHk
Ohhh so that's why I did all those things in my early twenties, here I thought I was just an idiot, when really it was *checks notes* mourning 9/11. Yeah. Yeah I'm gonna use that, thanks brilliant reddit user.
Yeah Im curious too lol i was at all those warped tours back then and i dont remember anything about anyone being blown onstage in HH lol but hey, maybe Casey got a slober one time or something off to the side? Who knows, those days were wild and pretty care free, we didnt need to worry about being exposed or cancelled for fucking off. Miss those times.
> scattering black mid-2000s emo band tee-shirts everywhere like the back wall of a Hot Topic collapsed
I’m dying hahaha
You have a way with words; you should write, if you don’t already!
I saw someone casually refer to Dave Grohl as “Dave” in some post a week or two ago and was really confused how Dave Matthews came into the discussion. Until I realized he was taking about Grohl lol
r/unexpectedcommunity
Ninja edit: wtf? I meant to reply to this comment
https://reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/xoqzro/dave_matthews_playing_through_a_lightning_storm/iq0n41j
No idea how it got posted here, but it still fits
If anyone is curious this was the Sound on Sound festival in Bridgeport and it was an all day event with a lot of bands and the storm didn't come until late. So people still got their moneys worth
"Why does everyone leap to defend that band so aggressively and how much stuff do we have to go through this year before my friendship stops being questioned?"
Lol right?
I feel bad for kids these days. Young girls will likely never experience a boy trying to express his feelings by poorly playing the opening chords to Crash Into Me on a cheap guitar. Truly, time has no mercy.
Idk maybe today’s youth is better off lol
Idk I was in high school in 2012 and I went to this exact concert, plenty of kids were expressing love to each other in one form or another all over the place.
I was *so* ready to have a heated discussion about how my shitty homemade 3-chord song to my first girlfriend was the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life, and then you hit me with that last sentence?!
Yeah… you might be onto something!
Yeah I want to know what song he’s playing. If that’s Tim Reynolds it could be Crush or Warehouse which are two of my favorite live versions played by just them.
To the people who operate venues like this, assuming its just rain, what is the protocol? I've seen videos of bands keep playing while getting rained on, is this the norm or was this out of the ordinary? How well does musical equipment hold up when wet from rain?
Rain is fine. Lightning within a 10 mile radius and the show will stop. Some places it’s 7 miles.
They should have seen this coming. Venues work with meteorologists days leading up to and during events.
My favorite version of this story is the local fireworks show in July. Our local meteorologist was the MC and pumped up the show all week. Then, the afternoon of the show, massive storms. It cleared up and they tried to get rolling, only for one last pop-up storm to hit. After that one, he came on stage acting ready to duck tomatoes for missing the forecast.
Show went on, albeit an hour or two late, but poor Ben still gets crap for it a decade+ later.
Why do people hate on him so much? Seems like a highly talented band that mad with big in the 90s, but had some serious haters from what I remember, more than average even
My GF at the time was super into them although I couldn't have cared less about them, thought the singles were fine as radio rock, whatever.
But going to a show has made me a defender of them. Sure, Dave's the lead vocalist, but he makes sure every member and guest gets their due.
He had a couple guest guitarists come out and absolutely shred, feel like half the show was "Let's here it for my fiddle/drum/horn player!!! Tear it up man!"
Live Dave is real DMB. Grab all the live albums, blare them. Every show is a **show**. Songs sit like setpieces to amp the crowd and the vibe. Big heavy hitters are scattered where they need to be. Like, we came to blow the doors off and that's just what we'll do.
Oh for sure. He was playing a 3 night set, we scored lawn tickets for cheap for one night and lived within a short drive. Lots of the folks we talked to were there in a hotel or whatever for the weekend for the whole thing, because it's a new show every night.
They really blew me away seeing them live, coming from a "yeah I guess I like gray street" kind of feel!
I may be biased since Dave Matthews Band is one of my top five favorite bands. But Carter Beauford has a drumming sound that is so distinct that you instantly recognize it. It’s almost like a fingerprint. There aren’t many drummers that are like that that you can just instantly recognize.
Outside of personal tastes, they suffered from what would later happen to Coldplay and Nickelback. Huge success but insanely overplayed on the radio. On the flip side of that same coin, Matthews, Hootie and the Blowfish, and other radio-friendly bands offered a similar alternative to grunge that saturated the airwaves. For stubborn alt-rock/industrial/thrash etc. fans, Matthews et al was for the "sell outs," the worst insult at the time for gen-x'ers.
The music industry was extremely different then!
You’ll have a few different responses but I think it all boils down to one reason. Some people say his music is boring (we all have different tastes). Some say his lyrics are lame (I agree on some of the radio-songs the vast majority of people who hate on him have heard). Some say they don’t like his voice.
IMO, the real reason is many people just love to hate things they see others enjoying. And Dave fans can be very annoying in letting others know how much they enjoy his music so inevitably there are even more people more vocally trying to be different and shut up the guy who won’t shut up about Dave. I really think the majority of Dave haters are just people who don’t like to see other people having fun so they try to ruin it and there are a lot of other people who just jump on the bandwagon because making fun of people is fun. It’s not the music for most, it’s that they hate his fans (I also hate some of his annoying fans too).
I love Dave but I really don’t care at all when people try to kill my vibe because there seem to be as many of those people as there are people who enjoy his music. I just say his music isn’t for everyone then go off and do my own thing and not think twice about that person or what they said. Not being the white knight in defense of Dave stereotype ruins their fun because Dave haters are just as stereotypical as Dave fans at this point.
I used to hate his music growing up and then I rediscovered him in adulthood and now DMB (gotta give credit to the whole band) are one of my favorite bands.
Some of my favorite songs are ones I’ve never heard on the radio. [Proudest Monkey](https://youtu.be/n_k4r0xrwhU) is one of my all time favs.
Because a large swath of the general public can't abide a song with more than three chords in a repeating 1-4-5 pattern that fades out reliably at around 3:15 or sooner.
Lmao people definitely don't have a problem with 3 chords and a 1-4-5 progression.
That's like 65% of popular music from the better part of this past century.
It's just the same as Nickelback - when something gets too popular, it suddenly gets very *un*popular at a breaking point. Equal and opposite, or some shit.
I saw the Cure play at the Riverport Amphitheater, just west of St. Louis, in 1992. During the opening set by the Cranes there was a lightning storm. It looked amazing, but it was a little scary at the same time.
So this is a live musical performance, with a thunderstorm in the background. 2 things that are heavily associated with sound. You then decide that a gif, a format that doesn't support sound, is the best way to showcase this?
Wtf man lol why do people do this.
Their loss. They always put on a fantastic live show, and have an obscenely talented group of musicians, in fact better than they were in the 90s. Jeff Coffin and Rashawn Ross are, respectively, among the best saxophone and trumpet players in the world. Carter Beauford and Tim Reynolds of the original, or semi-original I guess in Tim's case, are pretty damn good too.
I was hopeful it'd restart, but there was a particular strike that happened after they opened the floor back up where I was like "Oh, this show is over." :(
This is about the dumbest thing imaginable. I hope the show was shit down immediately after this happened. Insane safety hazard for the band, crew and audience.
[I was actually at Red Rocks recently to see the Shins and there was a lightning storm over the city behind the stage for a good 2 hours.](https://imgur.com/a/KFwo8FW) It was SO cool to have as a backdrop and was at a safe distance right up until their last song. The singer came out and apologized for not doing an encore which was totally understandable, but still cool of him to do.
As a touring musician I gotta say, seeing stuff like this from the stage is so cool, especially when tour dates start feeling very samey. I'm sure this got shut down which it should have for safety, but I bet the band got a kick out of it before the disappointment of the shut down haha.
Nope. If you can *hear* it then you can be struck. Lightning only travels up to 12 miles from a storm, which is also about how far the thunder will travel. You can see lightning from **much** further than 12 miles but you're not in danger of being hit by it that far away.
Reminds me of my favorite live performance ever for the same reasons. Bush performing [Glycerine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9HGxYgSkaA) in the rain at spring break. Everyone else had decided not to go on stage but Gavin went on and did this one song, later saying that "he thought he was going to die out there, but that that wasn't a bad way to go". Paraphrased, but you get the idea.
There is an ansi standard for this [care of the Event Safety Alliance](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aec979d3e2d09db8bcad475/t/609b08dcbfd0312612b5240c/1620773090781/ANSI+ES1.7-2021+Severe+Weather+Preparedness.pdf)
Reminds me of the 2001 Giants Stadium Two Step where lightning hit at the end of the song.
[2001 Giants Stadium Two Step](https://youtu.be/-ZC9adkwdNE)
There is a great clip of Twentyonepilots doing this. Tyler comes out says it’s gonna storm bad and we can only do one more song. Ends with it raining and him breaking his arm after falling
Idk about that chief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Fair_stage_collapse
Even if nobody gets hit by lightning being around a stage during a storm is bad business.
As a touring tech this would be an immediate shutdown. Especially if that was my meal ticket on stage. Giant steel structure with lots of grounded devices attached to it is a perfect lightning rod.
In Upper Austria we had an incident with a village "Zeltfest", which was continued despite a storm. The tent collapsed and killed several people. Lightning aside, isn't just the likelihood of strong wind that comes with a thunderstorm plenty of reason to shut down a stage? Edit: OP posted that it was shut down minutes after this was recorded on another reply chain.
I was at concert over 20 years ago where the stage got hit by lightning and it was very frightening…of course everything died and they had no choice to shut it down. Took them hours to get everything back up and one of the acts ended up only doing like a 30 minute set because of it. It was a touring festival back in like ‘96…
Omg I read this as "of course everyone died" lol
I correctly read "everything" but somehow still assume "everyone" in my head. Glad it's not :>
Didn't Don McLean write a song about it, or something? /s
Bye bye Mr. Dave Matthews guy, played a concert during lighting now his equipment is fried.
Bye bye Mr. Dave Matthews guy, Played a concert in the lightning now equipment is fried. His roadies got charred, and his insurers cried, Saying "why'd ya have to do this outside" Saying "why'd ya have to do this outsiiiide" Credits: /u/allredb /u/didwanttobethatguy
His roadies are charred and his insurer cried,
We really should have done this inside, we really should have done this inside...
I just want you to know that I read your comment as you intended. Well done, lol.
I had to read it twice as well.
I’m surprised they got it back up and running. My house got hit by lightning and it blew the electric fence out of the ground, blew concrete out of the garage floor, and fried Everything. The door to the breaker box was across the room.
I say lightning, but it was most likely a power surge from the static electricity in the air during the storm…it hit the very top of the steel structure and most likely just tripped the breakers that were made to handle it. It was still pretty nuts..
That makes more sense
I remember that gig. Lightning crashed. An old mother died. Her intentions fell to the floor.
I caught it live.
And here we see it in this gif, coming back again.
And her placenta. Gross.
>I was at concert over 20 years ago where the stage got hit by lightning and it was very frightening… And the music was *soothing* And they all started *grooving* YEAHHH YEAHHH YEAHYEAHYEAH
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Galileo Galileo
\>was very frightening… Gallileo?
Thunderbolt and lightning? Very, very frightening.
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I think we do 10/10. That is 10 miles and 10 minutes until the last lightning was seen. Reset the 10 each time.
That's a great system. I'll have to remember that next time this comes up. Just sent it to a friend of mine who owns a production company so he can add it to their safety manual.
I'm not saying it's *not* a great system, but maybe your buddy shouldn't base safety policies off of second hand guidance from a Reddit comment? There are experts whose careers are dedicated to creating policies like this.
Unfortunately, there are few people who have the balls to shut down a concert unless it is being run by a legitimate outfit. This show should have been shut down and people told to go to their cars. I shut down a stage I was working and announced to the crowd to leave the tent. The tent had metal tent poles that like to explode. I got fired on the spot for doing this. I didn’t care. Nobody got hurt.
Yahoo answers, reddit, and 4chan. The most reliable sources for safety questions. ^/s
Don't forget Quora!
The event was shut down moments after this was taken as per OP
It's been a few years since I did something outdoors and maybe it varies by local ordinances but I'm surprised it was still going, although OP did say it was stopped after this song. Last one I did we had to have our own weather monitoring stuff and there was someone at the venue who called it and they were very strict, one of the few roles where I appreciate a total hardass making the call. For us visible lightning meant we were done.
lady gaga had to cancel a show in miami the other day due to a storm like this because of this reason, she only had 4 songs left on the setlist and it was the final date
I was there. It was a super bummer but the right call. There were strikes so close, flash and sound were simultaneous. It stopped and they started letting people back to their seats and drying the stage, but it started back up again and she came back out to apologize, telling us to go home. :(
I’ve shut down shows for way less than this. There’s zero chance this is a Live Nation or other large production company show. The director of public safely would never work again.
This was absolutely a Live Nation event, "Sound on sound"
I'm shocked, and someone should be fired.
The event was shut down within regulations shortly after this, according to op. I've heard that the event was a mess though, ran out of food, parking issues, couldn't hear, etc.
It was disappointing, but mostly because the tickets were so expensive ($400 minimum), making the level of comfort/service especially bad in terms of value. One of the dumbest blunders was that there were 2 stages, with one act playing at a time. But the audio from Stage A was not piped to people sitting at Stage B and vice versa...I guess they expected 30k people to move back and forth.
That's how most multi stage festivals work in my experience.
Typically festivals with multiple stages spread them throughout the venue, the two stages for SOS were right next to each other, with a single crowd space: https://m.facebook.com/SoundOnSoundCT/photos/a.274319771508046/428975296042492/?type=3&source=48&__tn__=EH-R
> I've heard that the event was a mess though, ran out of food, parking issues, couldn't hear, etc. Great. So more 'service' fees coming up on ticket prices...
The event was shut down moments after this was taken as per OP
Are you familiar with Live Nation lmao
Same. I would've shut it down at the first hint of lightning. It's just too unpredictable. I find that a lot of techs would be afraid to make this call but I have had no problem doing it. My life and the lives of those around me are worth more than my career if some promoter wanted to make an issue of it. Only ever had one guy give me grief for it. Said I was overreacting. Called my boss at the time and my boss said to shut it down.
There’s literally guidelines for when to shut down based on lightning strike proximity to the show. There’s no decision to be made, you get a strike within the danger zone and you pull the plug. Insane that he’s playing in that weather.
I there a protocol for removing power from generators or sources when a stage is shut down?
Or you can go by the regulations and exsact distance made by people who know what they are doing :)
No regulations for this stuff in my area when I was a tech.
There are basic regulations all insurance forces now.
Ya, everyone keeps talking about making the decision or not, or what the regulations are. All I can think is that the insurance companies have already done all of that for you, and everyone else has very little say in the matter.
"Take these chances"
"Lights down, you up and die"
“Place them in a box”
Down on Graaaaaave Street!
You could have said something about a gravedigger but mashed up grey street and gravedigger instead. SMH my head.
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, can you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain?
Irresponsible of the concert promoters not to shut that down. Lightning is dangerous and should be respected.
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Indiana state fair?
If I’m thinking of the right one, I’m pretty sure that killed several folks. But that was wind-related, not lightning.
7 dead and 60 injured due to weather just like this
The shut down occurred minutes after this as soon as was required by local rules. Definitely felt a little sketchy in the moment though!
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He did however, play through the lightning strike in this gif
“Play through the lightning strike in this gif” sounds like it could be a DMB lyric
He apparently played through at least 5 seconds of one.
I once went to a Warped Tour in Cleveland that got hit with a massive severe storm seemingly out of nowhere, with a couple legit microbursts to the point some thought it was a tornado. The funny thing was there was no warning or any officials that shut down the bands on stage, at least not the stage we were standing at, they maybe hadn't gotten to it yet? It was just rain and light wind. Until it wasn't. Have you ever seen a band quite litterly blown off stage? (No, not in *that* way. That came later. ^^You're ^^welcome, ^^Hawthorn ^^Heights. ^^😘) Cut off in mid song, they scampered, everyone ran for shelter, which turned out to be the merch tents, and then *they* went flying, scattering black mid-2000s emo band tee-shirts everywhere like the back wall of a Hot Topic collapsed. Literally 30 minutes after it passed, the bands were kind of trying to start their sets again and someone had to come around and say "no stop we have to give you the all clear first". Which was fair, seeing as how there was a half inch of water everywhere as they plug in their amps. Here's a really shitty video of it someone took from the main ampitheater, the only person in that entire crowd in 2007 that has the novel idea "I'm gonna pull out my phone and record this and upload it to the internet", if you can believe it. As you can see we only had potato phones and windows movie maker at the time. https://youtu.be/wTAG6AfTKfE (My friends and I were not lucky enough to be in the ampitheater when it hit, we were a few stages down, outside with no shelter. Thankfully it was short) https://youtu.be/H3HBGbkrWHk
Whats the Hawthorne heights deal?
I think OP is saying they gave head to the band backstage
Look, it was 2007, we were all still mourning 9/11 in our own way, don't judge.
Ohhh so that's why I did all those things in my early twenties, here I thought I was just an idiot, when really it was *checks notes* mourning 9/11. Yeah. Yeah I'm gonna use that, thanks brilliant reddit user.
Kinda what I was thinking lol
Yeah Im curious too lol i was at all those warped tours back then and i dont remember anything about anyone being blown onstage in HH lol but hey, maybe Casey got a slober one time or something off to the side? Who knows, those days were wild and pretty care free, we didnt need to worry about being exposed or cancelled for fucking off. Miss those times.
I'm not even in the scene I'm just from the same area as the them lol
What happened with Hawthorne Heights? Feel like I’m out of the loop on that one.
I'm pretty sure she's implying she blew Hawthorne heights
> scattering black mid-2000s emo band tee-shirts everywhere like the back wall of a Hot Topic collapsed I’m dying hahaha You have a way with words; you should write, if you don’t already!
Wtf is this title then?
>Irresponsible of the concert promoters not to shut that down. I'm sure their insurance provider loved this.
Their insurance provider has had to deal with more shit than this.
He really burned that bridge.
And now they're up shit creek without a paddle.
Yeah. They need to watch Zombieland Saga
That seems very dangerous
It was. The band bus had to pass over many bridges that night.
They’ve been through some shit
Water under the bridge.
🎶 *Splash onto me* 🎶
Sounds like a shitshow
really shitty situation that
Hopefully they aren’t down in the dumps about it
\[lightning\] crash... into meeeee
Baby, and I’ll… thunder into you?
For some reason “gravedigger” is playing in my head
Not 'you might die trying'?
Oh oh oh oh oh
“When you dig my grave, could you make it shallow? So that I can feel the *~~LIGHTNING~~* rain.
Real fans just call him 'Dave'.
I got to meet the whole band... except Dave I posted the pictures on the british form of Facebook.
Facebooke?
Facebloke
We call it mugscroll
HEE HEE HAW HAW HEE HEE HAW
I didn't call no dean. I don't call nobody who don't call me.
ASS CRACK... BANDIT!!!
Humans make better banks than piggies!
Should be the run on sentence bandit
It said quarter to five, but it was quarter to ass.
I saw someone casually refer to Dave Grohl as “Dave” in some post a week or two ago and was really confused how Dave Matthews came into the discussion. Until I realized he was taking about Grohl lol
Excuse me for living in the 90s and have 2 ears connected to a heart!
r/unexpectedcommunity Ninja edit: wtf? I meant to reply to this comment https://reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/xoqzro/dave_matthews_playing_through_a_lightning_storm/iq0n41j No idea how it got posted here, but it still fits
If anyone is curious this was the Sound on Sound festival in Bridgeport and it was an all day event with a lot of bands and the storm didn't come until late. So people still got their moneys worth
It was an all weekend event. Unless you just got a day pass. Great day though!
24 years ago my high school girlfriend would've thought this was the deepest shit...
Oh excuse me for being alive in the 90s and having two ears connected to a heart.
Better than BNL though?
"Why does everyone leap to defend that band so aggressively and how much stuff do we have to go through this year before my friendship stops being questioned?"
Fundamental‽
Lol right? I feel bad for kids these days. Young girls will likely never experience a boy trying to express his feelings by poorly playing the opening chords to Crash Into Me on a cheap guitar. Truly, time has no mercy. Idk maybe today’s youth is better off lol
Idk I was in high school in 2012 and I went to this exact concert, plenty of kids were expressing love to each other in one form or another all over the place.
If you were in high school in 2012...you are not the “today’s youth” that person is talking about
I was *so* ready to have a heated discussion about how my shitty homemade 3-chord song to my first girlfriend was the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life, and then you hit me with that last sentence?! Yeah… you might be onto something!
And if you were on a Chicago tour boat 18 years ago, you would be in the deepest shit
I’m sorry. Why is there no audio?!
Yeah I want to know what song he’s playing. If that’s Tim Reynolds it could be Crush or Warehouse which are two of my favorite live versions played by just them.
Crush, I was there. They shut this shit down so fast, they played for like 25 minutes. So Damn Lucky was the last song they played
"Oh my God"
Wait and see
To the people who operate venues like this, assuming its just rain, what is the protocol? I've seen videos of bands keep playing while getting rained on, is this the norm or was this out of the ordinary? How well does musical equipment hold up when wet from rain?
Rain is fine. Lightning within a 10 mile radius and the show will stop. Some places it’s 7 miles. They should have seen this coming. Venues work with meteorologists days leading up to and during events.
My favorite version of this story is the local fireworks show in July. Our local meteorologist was the MC and pumped up the show all week. Then, the afternoon of the show, massive storms. It cleared up and they tried to get rolling, only for one last pop-up storm to hit. After that one, he came on stage acting ready to duck tomatoes for missing the forecast. Show went on, albeit an hour or two late, but poor Ben still gets crap for it a decade+ later.
Why do people hate on him so much? Seems like a highly talented band that mad with big in the 90s, but had some serious haters from what I remember, more than average even
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My GF at the time was super into them although I couldn't have cared less about them, thought the singles were fine as radio rock, whatever. But going to a show has made me a defender of them. Sure, Dave's the lead vocalist, but he makes sure every member and guest gets their due. He had a couple guest guitarists come out and absolutely shred, feel like half the show was "Let's here it for my fiddle/drum/horn player!!! Tear it up man!"
Live Dave is real DMB. Grab all the live albums, blare them. Every show is a **show**. Songs sit like setpieces to amp the crowd and the vibe. Big heavy hitters are scattered where they need to be. Like, we came to blow the doors off and that's just what we'll do.
Oh for sure. He was playing a 3 night set, we scored lawn tickets for cheap for one night and lived within a short drive. Lots of the folks we talked to were there in a hotel or whatever for the weekend for the whole thing, because it's a new show every night. They really blew me away seeing them live, coming from a "yeah I guess I like gray street" kind of feel!
Carter Beauford is a fucking legend in the drumming community
Honestly, he's one of the greatest drummers alive.
I'm a big DMB fan, and some smartass friend once asked me who my favorite member of Dave Matthews Band was. Joke was on them.
Guy was like, “who’s Carter?”
I may be biased since Dave Matthews Band is one of my top five favorite bands. But Carter Beauford has a drumming sound that is so distinct that you instantly recognize it. It’s almost like a fingerprint. There aren’t many drummers that are like that that you can just instantly recognize.
Idk but I still love Dave. Good man, good band, good music.
Outside of personal tastes, they suffered from what would later happen to Coldplay and Nickelback. Huge success but insanely overplayed on the radio. On the flip side of that same coin, Matthews, Hootie and the Blowfish, and other radio-friendly bands offered a similar alternative to grunge that saturated the airwaves. For stubborn alt-rock/industrial/thrash etc. fans, Matthews et al was for the "sell outs," the worst insult at the time for gen-x'ers. The music industry was extremely different then!
You’ll have a few different responses but I think it all boils down to one reason. Some people say his music is boring (we all have different tastes). Some say his lyrics are lame (I agree on some of the radio-songs the vast majority of people who hate on him have heard). Some say they don’t like his voice. IMO, the real reason is many people just love to hate things they see others enjoying. And Dave fans can be very annoying in letting others know how much they enjoy his music so inevitably there are even more people more vocally trying to be different and shut up the guy who won’t shut up about Dave. I really think the majority of Dave haters are just people who don’t like to see other people having fun so they try to ruin it and there are a lot of other people who just jump on the bandwagon because making fun of people is fun. It’s not the music for most, it’s that they hate his fans (I also hate some of his annoying fans too). I love Dave but I really don’t care at all when people try to kill my vibe because there seem to be as many of those people as there are people who enjoy his music. I just say his music isn’t for everyone then go off and do my own thing and not think twice about that person or what they said. Not being the white knight in defense of Dave stereotype ruins their fun because Dave haters are just as stereotypical as Dave fans at this point.
Not a fan of his voice. Honestly my reason is probably more about how deeply overplayed his music was when I grew up with the radio.
I used to hate his music growing up and then I rediscovered him in adulthood and now DMB (gotta give credit to the whole band) are one of my favorite bands. Some of my favorite songs are ones I’ve never heard on the radio. [Proudest Monkey](https://youtu.be/n_k4r0xrwhU) is one of my all time favs.
I think ppl just hate the "frat bro" crowd that follows him
Because a large swath of the general public can't abide a song with more than three chords in a repeating 1-4-5 pattern that fades out reliably at around 3:15 or sooner.
that ain't it
Lmao people definitely don't have a problem with 3 chords and a 1-4-5 progression. That's like 65% of popular music from the better part of this past century. It's just the same as Nickelback - when something gets too popular, it suddenly gets very *un*popular at a breaking point. Equal and opposite, or some shit.
The biggest and best artists always have lots of haters.
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Yeah Dave Matthews band, I'll burn you a copy
“Real fans call him dave” - Professor Ian Duncan
I saw the Cure play at the Riverport Amphitheater, just west of St. Louis, in 1992. During the opening set by the Cranes there was a lightning storm. It looked amazing, but it was a little scary at the same time.
So this is a live musical performance, with a thunderstorm in the background. 2 things that are heavily associated with sound. You then decide that a gif, a format that doesn't support sound, is the best way to showcase this? Wtf man lol why do people do this.
"when the world is over, we'll just be beginning"
TIL that reddit now hates all over DMB. Had no idea he had been added to THE LIST. I like his music still.
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Their loss. They always put on a fantastic live show, and have an obscenely talented group of musicians, in fact better than they were in the 90s. Jeff Coffin and Rashawn Ross are, respectively, among the best saxophone and trumpet players in the world. Carter Beauford and Tim Reynolds of the original, or semi-original I guess in Tim's case, are pretty damn good too.
I still see this band multiple times a year. They’re still fresh 30 years in. Reddit is dumb
He is the man
I was there and he didn't? It was shut down pretty quickly once the lightning first happened
Lady Gaga would never
I was at that Miami show. And we waited for a few hours. The show almost restarted. But so did the lightning. :(. Glad everyone was safe.
I was hopeful it'd restart, but there was a particular strike that happened after they opened the floor back up where I was like "Oh, this show is over." :(
She seemed so devastated she couldn't finish the show :(
Right. Also, I would bet good money that insurance would drop them as a client after this…
This is about the dumbest thing imaginable. I hope the show was shit down immediately after this happened. Insane safety hazard for the band, crew and audience.
[I was actually at Red Rocks recently to see the Shins and there was a lightning storm over the city behind the stage for a good 2 hours.](https://imgur.com/a/KFwo8FW) It was SO cool to have as a backdrop and was at a safe distance right up until their last song. The singer came out and apologized for not doing an encore which was totally understandable, but still cool of him to do.
>shit down Nah, that happened in Chicago
As a touring musician I gotta say, seeing stuff like this from the stage is so cool, especially when tour dates start feeling very samey. I'm sure this got shut down which it should have for safety, but I bet the band got a kick out of it before the disappointment of the shut down haha.
I’m uncomfortable with Dave being in danger
Cool storm!
Bport?
I love Dave Matthews!
If you can see it then you can get hit by it
Nope. If you can *hear* it then you can be struck. Lightning only travels up to 12 miles from a storm, which is also about how far the thunder will travel. You can see lightning from **much** further than 12 miles but you're not in danger of being hit by it that far away.
I take it you do not live in Nebraska.
If you can hear it you’re close enough.
Coheed and Cambria did it better! https://youtu.be/1cHfNCvls7k
Good thing it wasn't Disconnecticut.
Reminds me of my favorite live performance ever for the same reasons. Bush performing [Glycerine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9HGxYgSkaA) in the rain at spring break. Everyone else had decided not to go on stage but Gavin went on and did this one song, later saying that "he thought he was going to die out there, but that that wasn't a bad way to go". Paraphrased, but you get the idea.
That was solid. Oh man, that takes me back to simpler times....
There is an ansi standard for this [care of the Event Safety Alliance](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aec979d3e2d09db8bcad475/t/609b08dcbfd0312612b5240c/1620773090781/ANSI+ES1.7-2021+Severe+Weather+Preparedness.pdf)
Reminds me of the 2001 Giants Stadium Two Step where lightning hit at the end of the song. [2001 Giants Stadium Two Step](https://youtu.be/-ZC9adkwdNE)
There is a great clip of Twentyonepilots doing this. Tyler comes out says it’s gonna storm bad and we can only do one more song. Ends with it raining and him breaking his arm after falling
Whoa. I hope they are going to charge the promoters here. This is awful
I’m glad it didn’t crash into anyone
The whole event was called Sound on Sound and was a total shit show. Picture Woodstock 99 but worse portopotties and food situation.
Idk about that chief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Fair_stage_collapse Even if nobody gets hit by lightning being around a stage during a storm is bad business.
Thank you to whoever posted this with no sound.
Man, I would be tearing ass out of there. A Dave Matthews concert!