These are the types of statements that instantly accost you when you tell your hippie friends that you haven't yet seen Dogs in a Pile. The band has clearly been making waves in the jam scene, stretching its fan base — affectionately labeled the Dog Pound — beyond its hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, throughout the East Coast and now into the West.are in Oklahoma sitting at a rest stop, one of the few somewhat quiet places where they can talk while on tour.
"It definitely feels like there's more of a flow and continuity going into this year," Law adds."Last year we played 140 shows, and this year we're set to play about 100. And the way we mapped our tour out — it's a little more spaced and more comfortable for us, so we can focus a little more on making better products...and there's a lot bigger and more exciting dates coming up this year."This isn't the band's first time in Denver.
That wasn't the only milestone the band crossed; Peach Festival was monumental for Dogs in a Pile."There were a lot of people there; it was pretty nuts," Babick recalls. "It was cool, because the year before we first played Peach, we all went together just as attendees, and we all watched Dopapod on the Mushroom Stage, which is the same stage we played," he adds."We thought it was the sickest shit ever.