Well, since I couldn't get inside to see dbs, I stood outside on
the sidewalk in front of Tom Foolery's during the show. Sounds bummer? Actually I could see them playing through the windows AND I could hear them because they had speakers outside as well! It was SOOOOOOOOOO cool. They played old stuff, old old stuff, and new stuff I'd never heard off the new album, Byzantium.I can't wait till it comes out. I got a poster advertising the concert that a local cd store gave me that is now on my wall. Todd has big curly hair now. A nice waitress felt pity on me stuck
outside andsent members of the band- Buck Jones(who opened for deep blue something- and who also happened to be very good) to come outside and say hello to me. They gave me a napkin they all signed and a signed poster as well! During the whole concert I was jumping up and down and waving my arms around and singing along etc. the concert was over at close to 1 am but I waited around their tour bus and I MET TODD AND CLAY and Todd, Clay, and Toby SIGNED MY CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Anyways, I had a
really good time and I just wish I'd had my Camera with me...oh well. Well, my devotion to dbs as my favorite band is even stronger now and hopefully I'll get to see them again some time!
-Ashley Krystinik
The Fall and Winter of '96..
What was happening to the band? They were touring the globe! That's right.. they played concerts all over Europe, in Thailand,
the Philipines, and many more. They even went to such surreal places as Shanghai where they couldn't even advertise for the gig.
"It was very, very wierd," said Toby Pipes in a interview at the Q102 bringing in the weekend party at
the Tipperary Inn in Dallas on February 28, 1997.
One story the band shared at the same interview was about a gig in Holland. This festival had about 400,000 people attending and the band's
instruments were accidently sent to England instead!! So, they had to borrow other bands' equipement. Throughout the entire first half of their show,
they were preoccupied, messing around with the amps and such trying to get the sound right. They weren't paying attention and thought they were totally
bombing, but the audience thought they did it on purpose and that it was cool. "We thought we were all dorking out and they were
like 'Hey! That's pretty cool!'" contributed John on the concert.
