Dave Matthews Band Dusts Off 'Dive In' At Gexa Energy Pavilion In Dallas [Watch]

Last night, Dave Matthews Band made its way to Dallas’s Gexa Energy Pavilion for the fourth stop on their ongoing summer tour. For the second night in a row, the band treated their Texas faithful to a high-energy set featuring bust-outs and tour debuts.

The show opened with live staples “The Song That Jane Likes” and “Big Eyed Fish.” Next, as they have at each stop on this tour, the band jumped into “Bismarck,” the upbeat new original they premiered at their 25th anniversary celebration in Charlottesville, VA earlier this month. “Bismarck” was followed by fan-favorite “Satellite,” which led into the first full-band rendition of “Dive In”, from 2009’s Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, since September 2011 (300 shows).

The rest of night featured performances of two other recently-debuted originals, “Samurai Cop” and “Bob Law”, as well as the tour debuts of “Dancing Nancies”, “Corn Bread”, “So Much To Say”, and “Anyone Seen the Bridge”, which was followed by a tease of the “Too Much” intro that instead dropped into “Tripping Billies” to round out the set. The band returned to the stage for a brief encore, including the tour debut of “Digging a Ditch” (for the first time in the encore slot since 6/5/12) and the always satisfying pairing of “Pantala Naga Pampa” > “Rapunzel”.

You can watch fan-shot footage of “Dive In”, “Bismarck”, and more from the Dallas show below, thanks to YouTube user Andrew Pope.

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