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"Proudest Monkey"
Song by Dave Matthews Band
from the album Crash
Released	1995
Recorded	Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York & Green Street Recording Studios, New York City, New York
Genre	Rock
Length	9:11
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews, LeRoi Moore, Boyd Tinsley
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite

"Proudest Monkey" is a song by the Dave Matthews Band, featured on the 1996 album Crash.

Origins

"Proudest Monkey" has its roots in a soundcheck done before the audience at a concert at Williams College on December 11, 1993. The band arrived two hours late for the concert due to becoming lost on an alternate route they were forced to take when a snowstorm struck. As a result, the band jammed the music that would later become "Proudest Monkey" to test their equipment, with Matthews making up lyrics on the spot. This performance was labeled "Route 2" by tapers, after the road the band used to reach the gig.

Matthews kept that experience in mind when reworking the lyrics to the song, establishing the image of the monkey as a metaphor for the entrapment he and the band were feeling at the time (both the literal, in being trapped on a bus in the snowy mountains; and the symbolic, in being trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of repetitive performing, and thus feeling limited in their music). Matthews wrote about monkeys later in songs like "Big Eyed Fish", "Shake Me Like a Monkey" and the unreleased "Monkey Man".

Live performances

After a number of teases and partial performances, "Proudest Monkey" debuted proper on December 29, 1994 during a show at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, albeit with unfinished lyrics. The song would make appearances at shows throughout 1995, gradually evolving into the extended jam form that it would take when it was recorded for Crash.

While the song was a staple of Matthews's tours with Tim Reynolds until 1999, the song remained one of the rarer tracks to appear in concert with the full band after 1995, though it did see some play during the main tours by the band until 1999 as well. After that, it was played very sparingly, except for appearances at some shows in the summer of 2002. However, the addition of Rashawn Ross as a regular guest artist to the band's tours in 2006 resulted in the return to the touring rotation of a number of songs of which brass instruments were a key component; one of which was "Proudest Monkey", and the song enjoyed its most exposure in a full band setting since 1995.

Official live releases

Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95
- Summer 1995 concert
- features guest Tim Reynolds
Live Trax Vol. 5
- Summer 1995 concert (8.23.95)
- features guest David Ryan Harris
Live Trax Vol. 4
- Crash release show on April 30, 1996
Live Trax Vol. 6
- 2-night Summer 2006 stand at Boston's Fenway Park
- features guests Butch Taylor and Rashawn Ross
Live Trax 2008
Live at Mile High Music Festival
- features Tim Reynolds and Rashawn Ross on flugelhorn.
Live Trax Vol. 15
Live Trax Vol. 18
Live Trax Vol. 21
Live Trax Vol. 23
- acoustic version featuring Tim Reynolds
Live Trax Vol. 24
- acoustic version featuring Tim Reynolds
Live Trax Vol. 25
Live Trax Vol. 27
Live in New York City (Dave Matthews Band album)

References

Delancey, Morgan (2001). The Dave Matthews Band: Step Into the Light. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-443-3.

External links

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Carter Beauford Jeff Coffin Stefan Lessard Dave Matthews Tim Reynolds Rashawn Ross Buddy Strong Peter Griesar LeRoi Moore Butch Taylor Boyd Tinsley
Studio albums	Under the Table and Dreaming Crash Before These Crowded Streets Everyday Busted Stuff Stand Up Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King Away from the World Come Tomorrow Walk Around the Moon
Live releases	Remember Two Things Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 Listener Supported Live in Chicago 12.19.98 at the United Center Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado The Central Park Concert The Gorge Weekend on the Rocks Live at Piedmont Park Live at Mile High Music Festival Europe 2009 Live in New York City Live at Wrigley Field Live Trax series
Compilation albums	The Best of What's Around Vol. 1 Live Trax
Video albums	Listener Supported The Videos 1994–2001 Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado The Central Park Concert The Gorge Weekend on the Rocks Live at Piedmont Park Europe 2009 – Across the Pond
Extended plays	Recently
Singles	"What Would You Say" "Jimi Thing" "Typical Situation" "Ants Marching" "Satellite" "Too Much" "So Much to Say" "Two Step" "Crash into Me" "Tripping Billies" "Don't Drink the Water" "Stay (Wasting Time)" "Crush" "Rapunzel" "I Did It" "The Space Between" "Everyday" "Where Are You Going" "Grace Is Gone" "Grey Street" "American Baby" "Dreamgirl" "Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)" "Smooth Rider" "Funny the Way It Is" "Why I Am" "You and Me" "Mercy" "Madman's Eyes"
Featured singles	"Work It Out"
Other songs	"#34" "Warehouse" "#41" "Lie in Our Graves" "Proudest Monkey" "Say Goodbye" "Halloween" "The Last Stop" "Pantala Naga Pampa" "Pig" "Spoon" "The Stone" "Loving Wings" "Bartender" "Anyone Seen the Bridge?" "Granny" "JTR"
Side projects	Tribe of Heaven Dave Matthews & Friends Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College True Reflections Some Devil Live at Radio City Live in Las Vegas
Related articles	Discography Awards and nominations Coran Capshaw Musictoday The Lillywhite Sessions 2004 Chicago River incident The Lillywhite Sessions (Ryley Walker album)
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