{"id":1367,"date":"2021-11-15T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/11\/15\/dave-matthews-band-and-dumpstaphunk-funk-up-the-garden-on-2021-tour-closer\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:02:00","slug":"dave-matthews-band-and-dumpstaphunk-funk-up-the-garden-on-2021-tour-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/11\/15\/dave-matthews-band-and-dumpstaphunk-funk-up-the-garden-on-2021-tour-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Matthews Band and Dumpstaphunk Funk up The Garden on 2021 tour closer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prior to the tour closing performance of Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, November 13, frontman Dave Matthews introduced Dumpstaphunk<\/a>, who would open the evening’s festivities. Sharing with the sold out New York City audience that he was so damn lucky<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got to listen to sound check yesterday with Dumpstaphunk and then I got to listen to them last night, then at sound check again today. So you guys only got two, by the end of this set I’ll have four. This is one of my favorite bands in the world. This band also saved my life but that’s a different story anyway have a good time with my friends Dumpstaphunk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Matthews’ story was referring to his sold out Labor Day weekend shows at The Gorge where Tony Hall of Dumpstaphunk and company<\/a> helped sit in to perform three nights of Dave’s music on the spot. DMB keyboardist Buddy Strong sat behind the drums and Tony Hall held the low end down on bass & backing vocals. It was as an alternate format to help the shows go on without Carter Beauford and Stefan Lessard’s rhythm section for the first time in thirty years.

A similar situation of musical chairs unfolded at Madison Square Garden as saxophonist Jeff Coffin was forced to sit out the two-night run. Rashawn Ross opened Leroi Moore\u2019s<\/a> original brass section to Ben Golder-Novick, Alex Wasily and Ashlin Parker to the 7th Avenue stage. The Dumpstaphunk horns sat in on \u201cCornbread\u201d and a \u201cJimi Thing\u201d that led to a cover of Sly Stone\u2019s \u201cI Want To Take You Higher.\u201d <\/a>

Ben Golder-Novick, who was only a guest at New York’s Irving Plaza for a Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds acoustic set in January of 2018<\/a>, was on saxophone for every song. Dave kept the big door open by calling him a day before the weekend shows to send the invite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim Reynolds sat in during Dumpstaphunk\u2019s MSG debut set for their cover of Buddy Miles \u201cUnited Nations Stomp<\/a>\u201d on Friday night. The song has been considered for the 2022 Best American Roots Performance Grammy. Saturday night’s set included a special guest spot by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds for Led Zeppelin’s \u201cRamble On.\u201d Tony and Dave traded howls on Robert Plant’s words…I gotta keep on searching for my baby.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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