Dave Matthews Expertly Handles “Idiots” Tussling in the Crowd: “I Don’t Care If You Came From Timbuktu”

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With its eponymous frontman at the helm, the Dave Matthews Band embarked on a touring extravaganza in the ’90s. The Charlottesville, Virginia rock band worked their way through the college party circuit, eventually graduating to ridiculously successful arena and stadium tours. Known for meditative-sounding tunes like 1996’s “Crash Into Me,” a Dave Matthews concert is hardly the ideal backdrop for a drunken brawl. However, that’s exactly what happened during the Grammy winner’s recent set at Montana’s Wildlands Festival—and Matthews was having precisely none of it.

Taking the stage Saturday (Aug. 2) at Montana’s Big Sky Arena, Dave Matthews was playing an acoustic set of the band’s 1998 song “Pig” when he abruptly stopped.

“Hey, dudes, stop,” Matthews, 58, said to two men apparently fighting in the audience. “Hey, you guys, what are you doing, man? What are you, out of your minds? Good Lord, if you want to do that, go outside. Don’t do it in the crowd.”

Growing visibly frustrated, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer appears to address security. “Got some idiots fighting over here… Go do that somewhere else, man,” he said firmly.

Matthews then gestures to the exit, making it clear the show will not proceed until the offenders are removed. “I don’t want to play another note while you guys are there; I don’t care what he’s talking about,” the “Gravedigger” hitmaker said. “I don’t want to play one note if you guys are in here. Not one note.”

As Dave Matthews re-adjusts his guitar, the crowd takes up the mantle, chanting, “Get the f— out!”

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