On Monday night, Dave Matthews Band capped off their ongoing summer tour with a sold-out performance at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl. After standout shows at Lake Tahoe and Shoreline Amphitheater over the weekend, Dave Matthews and company pulled out all the stops for their final show of the tour, inviting a number of special guests—including a string section and an additional horn section—to join them across the evening.
As has been tradition this past tour, Dave Matthews Band offered up a healthy mix of older classics, fan-favorite covers, and new tunes off the group’s recently released studio album, Come Tomorrow. Dave Matthews and special guest keyboardist Mark Batson (who also helped produce the new album) live debuted Come Tomorrow’s “When I’m Weary” early on in the performance, with Batson staying on stage and joining the full band for a take on “Louisiana Bayou” before leaving the group to perform an energized rendition of Peter Gabriel‘s “Sledgehammer”.
“When I’m Weary”
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After classics “Crash Into Me” and “What Would You Say”, Dave invited out the next special guests of the evening, a full string section, for “Here On Out”, with the strings sticking around for “Come On Come On”. For the next song, “Squirm”, Dave Matthews Band also invited out additional horns for the number, with the sound of the string section and added horn players creating a larger-than-life sound. The string section departed, and the additional horns stayed on for a run through “Jimi Thing”, “Sexy M.F.”, and “Shake Me Like A Monkey”.
“What Would You Say”
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“Jimi Thing” > “Sexy M.F.”
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To close out the show, the various guests departed, leaving Dave Matthews Band to end their tour solo with renditions of “Everyday”, “She”, and “Ants Marching”. The group returned for encore with a rendition of “Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)” before closing their summer tour in full with a cover of Bob Dylan‘s “All Along The Watchtower”.
“Everyday”
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Setlist: Dave Matthews Band | Hollywood Bowl | Los Angeles, CA | 9/10/2018
Set: One Sweet World, That Girl Is You, #41, Don’t Drink The Water, Again & Again, When I’m Weary (Dave & Mark Batson), Louisiana Bayou (w/ Mark Batson), Sledgehammer, Crash Into Me, What Would You Say, Here On Out (Dave w/ string section), Come On Come On (w/ string section), Squirm (w/ string section and additional horns), Jimi Thing (w/ additional horns) > Sexy M.F. (w/ additional horns), Shake Me Like A Monkey (w/ additional horns), Everyday, She, Ants Marching
Encore: Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin), Why I Am, All Along The Watchtower