That song was their biggest hit, “Crash into Me,” a song I didn’t like all that much then and don’t really care much for today. Hell, I’ll cop to this I rocked a DMB poster freshman year, despite having heard only one of the band’s songs to that point.

Odds are decent you’ll find a DMB poster in many of them, alongside the 'College' T-shirt poster of John Belushi from Animal House and likely something from the Quentin Tarantino catalog (probably Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction). Take a look at any college dorm room between 19. In fact, many DMB “fans” aren’t really fans at all. A number of DMB fans attend the band’s shows not because they dig the music, but because the shows are viewed by some as events or experiences worth celebrating. Rather, many don’t care for the band simply because they don’t care for the fans who sing his praises at every turn. The reason many don’t like DMB has nothing to do with Matthews or his bandmates at all. The first question is answered fairly simply.

With Matthews coming to Smart Financial Centre for an intimate gig on Wednesday with long-time friend and collaborator Tim Reynolds, now seemed as good a time as any to ask, why exactly is Dave Matthews such a polarizing figure? More important, is Dave Matthews good? In short, when compared to polarizing artists like Kanye West and Luke Bryan, he's about as non-controversial a figure as you’ll find in mainstream music today.Īnd yet, Dave Matthews – and, more important, Dave Matthews Band – remains a divisive figure some 20-plus years after he and his band broke into the mainstream with their 1994 debut, Under the Table and Dreaming. He lives a quiet life with his family in the Pacific Northwest, rarely gets political, puts out a new record every so often and tours - whether solo or with his eponymous band - when the mood strikes him. Dave Matthews is an inoffensive guy in an inoffensive band, one who appears to keep a pretty low profile.

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