As you can see from the magazine page above, The Dave Matthews Band played The Whiskey in Los Angeles in January of 1995. Their debut album for RCA, Under the Table and Dreaming had just been released, and we at KSCA were the first to play in Los Angeles to play their music, starting with the lead single, “What Would You Say?”

No one had any idea just how huge they’d become, when Dave came in for his first Los Angeles radio interview with me. I don’t know the exact date, but it was January of 1995…

Four years later, I got to interview Dave Matthews again. This time, he was a huge star, and we invited a few listeners to join us in Studio C for the interview and performance. The date was March 8, 1999…

 

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