It’s early on a Friday night, we’ve got a town to paint, and Tex recommends we go to a Corner bar that shall remain unnamed. I put down my Tröegs Hopback Amber Ale in protest.
Enough. No more drinking just to get drunk, no more dubiously mixed drinks, and definitelyâdefinitelyâno more discussions of Pinot Noir…
Dear Ace: As I drive up 29N, I always see people trying to hoof it across those eight lanes of high-speed traffic. I can’t believe that there’s not a single crosswalk anywhere on this stretch of highway! Are there any plans to remedy this alarming situation?
I didn’t want to like the Dave Matthews Band. In fact I tried hard not to. It was late 1991, I was 16 and a friend of mine told me about a friend of hers, Stefan, who went to Tandem and was in this band and we should seriously go see them. Right. Like I was going to go see a high school band
Remember Two Things (Released 12/16/93)
This collection of live and studio tracks may have a regrettably dated “magic eye effect” album cover, but that didn’t stop it from tearing up the charts. Though independently released (on the band’s own Bama Rags label), it eventually went gold (and later platinum, following its 1997 re-release by RCA). With such unprecedented sales, it wasn’t long before major labels came calling and DMB was signed to RCA.
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