Hear The 1st Known Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Live Recording

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds‘ 1999 album, Live at Luther College, was an initiation for many fans to the duo and undoubtedly even led some to Dave Matthews Band, although the group had already achieved stardom by the time Live at Luther arrived.

But Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds’ documented live performance history started with the first-known live recording of the duo, which was captured at The Prism Coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 22, 1993. This edition of Full Show Friday takes a look at the intimate concert in honor of Tim Reynolds‘ birthday today.

Founded in 1966 by students from the University of Virginia, The Prism Coffeehouse became a well-known folk spot throughout the ‘70s and ’80s. In 1993, Dave Matthews, former bartender at Charlottesville bar Miller’s, was a local legend and quickly rising to national stardom with the group he founded in the Virginia college town in 1991, Dave Matthews Band.

Before DMB got going, Dave was keen to join his friend Tim Reynolds’ TR3. Tim, however, encouraged Dave to form his own group. But the pair would remain close collaborators with Tim contributing to DMB records and eventually joining the band full time.

Back to to the early ’90s, it appears Dave & Tim performed as a duo on October 1, 1992 (the MC at the Prism show notes he saw the duo “back in the fall”) although no recording exists making the April 22, 1993 performance the first-known live Dave & Tim recording later released in 2008 as Prism Coffeehouse Charlottesville, VA 4/22/1993 in the DMBLive series.

The show in front of roughly 150 lucky fans began with “Satellite” and the setlist is not dissimilar to Live at Luther with Dave Matthews classics like “Typical Situation,” “One Sweet World,” “Warehouse,” “Ants Marching,” “Tripping Billies” and “Two Step” along with Reynolds’ “You Are My Sanity” and “Stream,” the latter appearing on Luther. It’s interesting to note, however, that none of the Dave Matthews songs were released at the time but several would appear on DMB’s debut studio album, 1994’s Under the Table and Dreaming, and their sophomore LP, 1996’s Crash. Many also were fit into the live/studio hybrid Remember Two Things later in 1993.

The Prism concert saw Tim switching from six-string guitar to 12-string with both Dave and Tim picking up 12-string axes for the rousing “Ants Marching.” The duo close the two-set, 23-song performance with “So Much To Say” and John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.”

To celebrate Tim Reynolds birthday today, listen to the first known recording of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds below via DMB Discography or purchase FLAC/MP3 downloads through the DMB Store:

Setlist (via DMBAlmanac)

Set One: Satellite, Typical Situation, Recently, One Sweet World, Minarets, You Are My Sanity, Granny, Warehouse, The Best of What’s Around, Pay for What You Get

Set Two: Dancing Nancies, I’ll Back You Up, Lie in Our Graves, Ants Marching, The Song That Jane Likes, Stream, Help Myself, Tripping Billies, Two Step, Christmas Song, All Along the Watchtower

Encore: So Much to Say, Angel From Montgomery

Up next for Dave & Tim is their annual Riviera Maya destination event in Mexico. Check out their itinerary along with DMB’s below: