We played two shows at the same venue in Indiana. The first night we were invited to follow the Dave Matthews Band police escorted convoy of buses out of the venue to an after party at their hotel. The convoy itself was sooooo much fun. Thousands of people standing on the side of the road waving and screaming and wondering “Who are the people in THAT bus?! They’re not in the Dave Matthews Band!”
The second night, things did not go quite as well. We decided to join the convoy again but for some reason the police didn’t know or just decided not to back us up. We were trailing behind the convoy and eventually got too far behind them. The security guards, not knowing that we were coming, let all the thousands of people go into the street that we were about to drive through. Robert, our bus driver, didn’t seem to think it was dangerous at all to plow through the crowd at 30 mph. At one point I put the camera down because I was genuinely concerned that we were going to run over the concert goers. The footage is above.
3 months ago