DMB to Release Park Show

The Dave Matthews Band's September 24th show at the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park will be released as The Central Park Concert, a three-CD set and a double DVD on November 18th.

The performance was attended by more than 80,000 fans, and the DMB ran through three hours of favorites, primarily drawn from their first three albums. Among the evening's highlights was a guest appearance by Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, who joined the DMB for "Jimi Thing" and a cover of "Cortez the Killer Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" was also among the band's covers for the evening.

Fans who pre-order the CD through davematthewsband.com before November 14th will also receive a commemorative sticker and a seven-song live EP from the band's summer tour.

The DVD was recorded in stereo and 5.1 audio and filmed with more than thirty cameras in high definition video.

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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