![]() ![]() ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: The Earnest Intimacy of Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me”Īs a bartender at a lively place called Miller’s near the University of Virginia in the late ’80s, Matthews had operated, for a time, as a kind of professional stranger: that guy with the towel over his shoulder and his eye on it all that worker tasked with divining when to strike up a back-slapping, sweaty new friendship and when to maintain a dignified, nod-if-you-need-ice remove. ![]() In that sense, it’s an unusual place to be, where you’re not as much of a stranger as you were.” “You lose the watcher, because you become watched, so that’s about the most difficult thing. ![]() “He said the strangest part is that you sort of stop being a witness to the people around you,” Matthews remarked to the Dispatch-News that April about what Carrey had told him. It had more gravity: They talked about the consequences of fame. All in all, not a bad little run for a 20-something singer-songwriter!īut Matthews and Carrey’s chat wasn’t just two dudes congratulating one another. And now the band was at Saturday Night Live, its second visit in a year, to play the first two singles from Crash: the plucky “So Much to Say” ( a-little-baaaay-by!) and the funky “Too Much.” Around the same time, the Richmond Dispatch-News reported, Matthews found himself having one of those pinch-yourself moments: a conversation with the red-hot Jim Carrey, just two flexi-faced, silly-voiced savants talking shop about their ascendence into the mid-’90s zeitgeist. By 1994 the band was opening for Blues Traveler and Phish. A few years earlier DMB had been available for gigs at Charlottesville bars, fraternities, and debutante balls. Twenty-five years ago, in the whirlwind days before the late April 1996 release of Dave Matthews Band’s sophomore studio album, Crash, Dave Matthews the man was both savoring and confronting what it meant to be truly hitting the big time. ![]()
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