The H.O.R.D.E. Festival was a pretty cool traveling one day event that included the Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, Rusted Root, Screaming Cheetah Wheelies, and Big Head Todd & the Monsters during this incarnation. I am not sure if it was this show or another, but there was a small tent set up near the Jones Beach Theatre entrance for impromptu performances where John Popper and Dave Matthews supposedly played together before the show proper. I never missed a chance at going to an Allman Brothers Band concert and Blues Traveler was a pretty fun jam band with Popper on lead vocals and harmonica. Honestly, I had no idea who Dave Matthews was at the time and we only arrived at the venue after they had already been on. Go figure that it was DMB that would ascend to the heights it has, end up playing stadiums and headlining festivals for all of these years. For this one my wife and I had really good seats up front in front of the stage on the right side of the orchestra where I remember John Popper blowing me away with his harp play. Blues Traveler is on a 35th anniversary tour this year

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Rock on!

GQ