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Artist:Dave Matthews Band [ more ]
Song:Bartender
Album:Lillywhite Sessions
Released:2001
Last Played:Feb 25, 2008 - 02:24
Avg. Rating:6  (Total Ratings: 144)
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1 votes: 23 (16%)2 votes: 8 (5.6%)3 votes: 9 (6.3%)4 votes: 6 (4.2%)5 votes: 8 (5.6%)6 votes: 5 (3.5%)7 votes: 27 (19%)8 votes: 23 (16%)9 votes: 21 (15%)10 votes: 14 (9.7%)
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Penelopa
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Posted: Feb 25, 2008 - 03:09 

Two more seconds of this and I go punch our accountant. Or someone.
Ballzak
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:25 

joshfm wrote:
Call me crazy, but I really like this.


You're crazy.
strange_brew00
(houston, tx)
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:20 

i have this on mute cause it was driving me crazy, so i keep flipping back to see if something different is on. WHEN DOES THIS SONG END?
joshfm
(Laramie)
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:18 

Call me crazy, but I really like this.
auburntigerrich
(Edge of the 'Verse)
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:15 

Brilliant improvisational work by Carter on this one. I prefer the album version, but still tasty.

I could do with less Dave scat and more Boyd, as usual. Quite likable.

billbangert
(Cincinnati)
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:13 

One of Dave's most under rated songs. Great song live as most of his are. The haters can go listen to Simon and Garfunkel and wish it was still the sixties.
dcdog
(washington dc)
Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 17:13 

soon to be heard over the loudspeakers in guantanamo.
Bakaretsu
(South Burlington. VT)
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 10:58 

Bad_Art wrote:
It just won't friggin' quit. Cripes!!

REALLY! ENOUGH ALREADY
Tagish_girl
(happily seeking hammock)
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 10:58 

make it stop, already!
Bad_Art
(EVE-Online)
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 10:57 

Gave it a 3 since it does actually sound a touch better than a cat being strangled but man, it just won't friggin' quit. Cripes!!
crockydile
(The swamps of Houston)
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 10:54 

not a fan...
MonkeyPod
(Florida)
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 10:50 

Don't sing about Jesus! You know what that will get you...
lattalo
(Montana)
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 - 15:54 

I saw the Dave Matthews Band at Red Rocks in Denver, and they were $%$^^&%$# awsome, best god damn live band I have heard in a long time. Carter the drummer blew me away.
Krow_Pie
(Venice, California)
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 - 15:51 

mgkiwi wrote:
This is an awful song - not sure where they're trying to go with this. Hate it :puke:


100% agree...Please don't play this again!
mgkiwi
(French Alps)
Posted: Jul 20, 2007 - 04:02 

This is an awful song - not sure where they're trying to go with this. Hate it :puke:
trekhead
(Oooh, I could just give you SUCH a Pinch!)
Posted: Jul 20, 2007 - 04:00 

One of his better, rambling pieces.
It speaks to me.
9.
bokey
(Wastin' away in Filialdutyville)
Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 18:06 

Maybe if I didn't already have a headache before this song started I'd have one now anyway.
Dianyla
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 18:01 


thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: May 18, 2007 - 10:00 

that goddamnawful whining kennyg style sax; make it stop.
sunnysoul03
(Huntington Beach, CA)
Posted: May 18, 2007 - 09:56 

Tayto wrote:
Looking forward to this gig! Haven't seen the full band play live since the Shoreline Theatre in San Francisco in '96.

He's in Wembley this year in case anyone is around?


'96! I feel for you. I saw a show the end of last year with the full band. Makes for an unbelievable evening.
Tayto
(London)
Posted: May 18, 2007 - 09:54 

Looking forward to this gig! Haven't seen the full band play live since the Shoreline Theatre in San Francisco in '96.

He's in Wembley this year in case anyone is around?
gypsy222
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Jun 18, 2002 - 11:52 

Just one more post from me on this song....

I caught VH1's Storytellers with Dave and Tim Reynolds and heard a rough version of this song with a slightly differnt chorus and a much different tempo. The lyrics went something like:

Bartender please, fill my glass for me, with the wine you gave Jesus that set him free after 3 days down.
Bartender please, roll one up for me, with the kind you gave Jesus that set him free after three days down.

It was interesting to hear how the song has evolved and it will be more interesting (to me) to hear what it sounds like on Busted Stuff. :)
gypsy222
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: May 14, 2002 - 06:50 

Originally Posted by camarkim:
Do you know which songs are going to be ont he forthcoming album? From the Lillywhite Sessions, I hope 'Grace is Gone', 'Bartender', 'Digging a Ditch' and 'Kit Kat Jam' are on it. Any ideas? Also, who will produce? Will it be Glen Ballard again? (I take it Steve Lillywhite won't be, which is a shame.)


Yep, it's Glen Ballard. Ditch, Grace, Bartender, Busted and many others from Lillywhites will be on the new album. I don't know about Kit Kat...

Also, you can now go to www.davematthewsband.com and listen to the new single, Where are you Going. It's a wonderful song. Check it out!! It will also be on the new album.
:)
gypsy222
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: May 14, 2002 - 06:46 

Originally Posted by (8?»:


I was just trying to locate the source of this song, (and hopefully replace this one with it). It is credited to "Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds" but it isn't listed on the Live at Luther College, CD. Maybe it is a bootleg.





yep, it probably is. Bartender has not been released yet, but DMB has been playing it live for about a year or more. It will be officially released in July, on Busted Stuff.
:D
camarkim
(So Cal, CA)
Posted: May 13, 2002 - 14:31 

Do you know which songs are going to be ont he forthcoming album? From the Lillywhite Sessions, I hope 'Grace is Gone', 'Bartender', 'Digging a Ditch' and 'Kit Kat Jam' are on it. Any ideas? Also, who will produce? Will it be Glen Ballard again? (I take it Steve Lillywhite won't be, which is a shame.)
(8?»
((+2 RPT, bioload) Columbia, MO)
Posted: May 13, 2002 - 14:31 

Originally Posted by gypsy222:



Let me try...
Yes, there are many live versions out there of this tune. I think this (recorded/studio) version is very good, but any live cut you can find will be better. I just heard Dave play this one live and it was FANTASTIC!
Now, another note... this song and many others found on the "Lilywhite Sessions" have been redone, reproduced, resung, re-everything and will be released on July 16 on the bands upcoming new album "Busted Stuff". So, once we get to hear that version, you may like a studio version. Does that answer your question? Please let me know if I can help with any other questions or if I have completly missed the mark here...
;) :)


I was just trying to locate the source of this song, (and hopefully replace this one with it). It is credited to "Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds" but it isn't listed on the Live at Luther College, CD. Maybe it is a bootleg.
gypsy222
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: May 13, 2002 - 14:17 

Originally Posted by (8?»:
Serendipity strikes once again. I just discovered an awesome live version of this?? (I had never noticed this version before, it is lifeless and truly sucks in comparison.)

Gypsy, can you help me out here?



Let me try...
Yes, there are many live versions out there of this tune. I think this (recorded/studio) version is very good, but any live cut you can find will be better. I just heard Dave play this one live and it was FANTASTIC!
Now, another note... this song and many others found on the "Lilywhite Sessions" have been redone, reproduced, resung, re-everything and will be released on July 16 on the bands upcoming new album "Busted Stuff". So, once we get to hear that version, you may like a studio version. Does that answer your question? Please let me know if I can help with any other questions or if I have completly missed the mark here...
;) :)
camarkim
(So Cal, CA)
Posted: May 13, 2002 - 14:16 

Carter is, as usual, EXCELLENT on this. Much better, in fact, than on Everyday. Great 'New Orleans'-style snare work, which would not normally work with a tension-filled song, but it does.

Plus, since he plays left-handed on a right-handed set, he can do "impossible" stuff like play a pattern on the ride with his left hand while doing a one-handed single stroke roll down on the snare and the toms with his right.

Us mere mortal right-handed drummers, even with years and years of practice/playing, can't.
(8?»
((+2 RPT, bioload) Columbia, MO)
Posted: May 13, 2002 - 14:11 

Serendipity strikes once again. I just discovered an awesome live version of this?? (I had never noticed this version before, it is lifeless and truly sucks in comparison.)

Gypsy, can you help me out here?
darcyc
(Ann Arbor, MI)
Posted: May 08, 2002 - 13:59 

i find the trend of the increasing amount of DMB being played here to be very worrying - "caterwauling" is how I describe his singing style :D :p
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