{"id":10212,"date":"2018-03-21T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:56:23","slug":"and-now-some-26-year-old-footage-of-dave-matthews-at-pc-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10212","title":{"rendered":"And Now Some 26 Year Old Footage of Dave Matthews at PC Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">March 20, 1992 -[26yrs]- Dave Matthews Band at James Madison University. One of the earliest videos of DMB. Peter Griesar on keys &amp; w\/o Boyd who was a regular guest but hadn&#8217;t officially joined DMB.<\/p>\n<p>Via footage shared by Terry Harrison on YT: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pFYYgMutcb\">https:\/\/t.co\/pFYYgMutcb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WPtOH8Pauo\">pic.twitter.com\/WPtOH8Pauo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chester Copperpot5 (@Copperpot5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Copperpot5\/status\/975968252764418048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This video is from way back in the day. It&#8217;s from so far back that it predates even my time at JMU (by mere months, but technically true). And boy does it send us back. First off, it&#8217;s actual footage of a Dave Matthews Band show live from the concert mecca known as the PC Ballroom. If you were at JMU in the 90s, you&#8217;ll probably find it rather familiar. The baggy clothes and the &#8220;dancing&#8221; are perfectly representative of what you&#8217;d see if you walked into any JMU party roughly between 1992 and 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves to mock the more outlandish styles of the 70s and 80s, but as you can tell from this video, 90s fashion was a special kind of awful. There was nothing too glaring or over the top about things, but more just a general lack of fit. People didn&#8217;t really wear clothes, as much as they hung them around in loose proximity to their bodies. And I bet if we were able to zoom in, we&#8217;d spot more than a few folks in heavy wool socks and Birkenstocks. Or a pair of just plain ugly, &#8220;party shoes,&#8221; which were basically the oldest, rattiest shoes folks had, worn specifically to splash in puddles of Beast Lite. Functional, yes. Stylish, no.<\/p>\n<p>And those weird movements that folks in the crowd were making? Those weren&#8217;t involuntary spasms, they were carefully crafted dance moves. Seriously. We&#8217;d mock everyone in the crowd, save for the fact that there is very likely footage somewhere of us doing the exact same thing. Or worse, of us doing the &#8220;pretzel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D10212&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20, 1992 -[26yrs]- Dave Matthews Band at James Madison University. One of the earliest videos of DMB. Peter Griesar on keys &amp; w\/o Boyd who was a regular guest but hadn&#8217;t officially joined DMB. Via footage shared by Terry Harrison on YT: https:\/\/t.co\/pFYYgMutcb pic.twitter.com\/WPtOH8Pauo \u2014 Chester Copperpot5 (@Copperpot5) March 20, 2018 This video is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2619,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2619","url_meta":{"origin":10212,"position":0},"title":"Bands Bracket: Final Four","date":"June 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We're almost there folks. After starting with 16 bands, we're down to the last four. And unlike this year's NCAA tournament, there aren't any Cinderalla stories. All four bands were also based out of Virginia, with 3 of the 4 having ties directly to our great alma matter. 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