I don't think it will hit me until I'm at Alpine next year (or whatever show I go to first next year), and Roi is not there. At this time I still don't want to believe he is gone. Any Alpiners here?
I don't think it will hit me until I'm at Alpine next year (or whatever show I go to first next year), and Roi is not there. At this time I still don't want to believe he is gone. Any Alpiners here?
Alpine Represent.
Missed it this year...first time in three I haven't been there.
Who know what next summer will bring..
PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
I don't think it will hit me until I'm at Alpine next year (or whatever show I go to first next year), and Roi is not there. At this time I still don't want to believe he is gone. Any Alpiners here?
I have gone the past 2 years - and I think it will be a yearly trip. That place is awesome - the fans create such a great atmosphere!
This year Alpine was my first show with no Roi - but it was different, it was like Roi was just out & I knew he'd be back.......now Berkeley & MSG are going to be really tough.
‘Tortured,’ ’shining’ Moore remembered by Dave
by Lindsay Barnes
As a soft but steady rain– the first in more than a month– fell on his hometown yesterday morning, friends and family of LeRoi Moore filed into Charlottesville’s biggest church to remember the late Dave Matthews Band saxophonist, who died August 19, from injuries suffered June 30 in an all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside of town.
Eulogizing Moore was the Rev. Dr. William Guthrie, the former rector of Moore’s family church, Trinity Episcopal. Guthrie revealed that the accident had put Moore into a coma, but that he would awaken to greet well-wishers, both in Charlottesville, and in Los Angeles where he had a second home and was to begin a long rehabilitation program.
“In Los Angeles,” said Guthrie, “he suffered a fatal embolism that would eventually take his life.”
Though the nearly 1,000 turned out to say goodbye to Moore, only the four men seated in the center, together for over 17 years, knew him as they did; and each member of Dave Matthews Band coped with grief in a way oddly metaphorical to his onstage role.
Drummer Carter Beauford was driving the rest of the band forward with ready smiles and handshakes. Bassist Stefan Lessard was steadily, stoically keeping from succumbing to his emotions. Violinist Boyd Tinsley, whose athleticism and onstage exuberance have become legendary, was freely expressive, holding onto friends in long embraces.
The only bandmate not wearing the white pallbearer’s gloves would be the one to voice their common message for their fallen brother.
“Roi loved people,” said Matthews, “but he had the hardest time loving himself, and that was the most difficult thing about being his friend for me, watching him torture himself.”
Matthews said the 46-year Moore was a “good soul, but he was a tortured soul. But he loved his family and he loved his friends,” said Matthews. “He was finding himself, finding the light inside himself,” Matthews said, “and it was shining more than it had for a very long time.”
Matthews credited Moore’s fiance Lisa Bean for such newfound happiness.
“I believe her unwavering love for him,” Matthews said, “and her willingness to stand in front of him, as he was reluctant to love himself, and insisted on it, caused him to eventually see the light.
“It was so bright,” Matthews continued, “that we could all see it so much all of the time, when he would put that horn in his mouth and make the most astonishingly honest music that could knock you over, and it would sink right to the middle of you.”
Matthews– no stranger to performing in stadiums for tens of thousands– appeared slightly nervous addressing the hundreds assembled in First Baptist Church on leafy Park Street. Swaying back and forth, he introduced himself as “Dave Matthews, a friend of Roi’s” and reeled off a pack of anecdotes, most of which centered on Moore’s propensity to fall asleep anywhere.
“I saw him fall asleep onstage,” said Matthews, to much laughter. “He was standing right there, and I’m not sure if I saw him fall asleep, but I definitely saw him wake up. He sort of caught himself, and then he thought he got away with it, but we have a little intercom system, and I said, ‘Did you just wake up?’”
Moore’s custom of wearing sunglasses, Matthews noted, sometimes made it hard hard to tell.
“He also fell asleep next to me in his old blue Volkswagen station wagon driving down 64 once,” recalled Matthews, “and I only realized it when he started snoring.”
However, not all of Moore’s humor was unintentional. While soft-spoken publicly, Matthews said that Moore’s ability to tell a joke was such that, “he could have done that for a living, though it may not have been as lucrative.”
“He told them with an honesty the same way he played,” said Matthews. “I would tell him jokes, just so I could hear him tell them after me.”
According to Rev. Guthrie, Moore didn’t just save his honesty for his friends in the band.
“LeRoi would engage me in animated conversation whenever I would encounter him at home or at church,” Guthrie said. “More often than not, he felt that the music in the Episcopal Church left a lot to be desired.”
Some of the men who most informed Moore’s early musical sensibilities were on hand to pay tribute with their instruments. Trumpeter and early mentor John D’earth performed along with the Trinity Episcopal choir throughout the service and led a trio in “Goodbye, Sweet King.”
Moore’s jazz theory teacher Roland Wiggins played a stirring, improvised piano rendition of the spiritual “Keep Me From Sinking Down.” Before playing, Wiggins shared his last encounter with Moore in the hospital.
“I stood up to leave, and he said, ‘Hang on a sec,’” said Wiggins. “He was in his wheelchair, and he took the better part of three or four minutes to get his wheels locked, and he wouldn’t let me leave until he stood up. He stood up and said, ‘Thanks for coming.’”
In a way, Moore got to say that to everyone assembled. Following Matthews’ remarks, a slide show chronicling Moore’s life from a baby to a bona fide star was accompanied by his gentle sax showcase “#34″ from DMB’s major label debut Under the Table and Dreaming.
Following the service, Jamie Dyer, whose Hogwaller Ramblers were as much a part of the Charlottesville music scene as DMB in the early ’90s, said the ceremony was in keeping with how he remembered Moore.
“Like all great musicians, he had great timing and a great ear,” said Dyer, “when you heard that piece from his teacher, you couldn’t help but think of that.”
According to Secileon Lewis, a family friend of drummer Beauford’s, she couldn’t help but laugh at Matthews’ recollections of a somnabulent Moore.
“When Dave was talking about how he always falls asleep,” said Lewis, “I thought, ‘He did me the same way!’”
As mourners left the the modern brick sanctuary, they formed an impromptu reception outside under the white-washed concrete loggia, none in a hurry to leave. They were of all ages, all colors, perhaps apropos of a man whose band has touched so many different kinds of people with his personality in the Charlottesville area, and with his horn throughout the world. They were drawn to Moore, because of his ability to convey in music and demeanor a fiery passion that Matthews described by quoting a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
“I burn my candle at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.”
Its pretty amazing how this band got a decent amount of hate. But now its just the opposite. DMB are great.
And this thread still deserves a damn sticky!
The thing is, there's no reason at all to hate on them. They are all very talented musicians and they are very good people. They give tons and tons to charities across the country, and they don't act like attention whore rock stars, they just walk out on stage and play the music.
I never understood the DMB hate either, but everyone is allowed to have their opinion. Even if you "hate" them, you should respect that they do a TON of charity work & fundraisers.
That last article posted was very moving.......miss ya Roi!!!!
In one week, I'll be celebrating Roi's life in Berkeley.
I think its just the fans that people hate which causes them to think the band sucks. And I also agree that there shouldn't be a reason to hate them. Their fans and entire website seems just as dedicated to the band as PJ. If not more. PJ and DMB seem to be the only bands that truly care for their fans.
I was watching it yesterday. I don't think I've ever heard him speak on a dvd untill that one. Great dvd. Hopefully DMB will release Leroi's last show. I think it was the June 28th show.
I was watching it yesterday. I don't think I've ever heard him speak on a dvd untill that one. Great dvd. Hopefully DMB will release Leroi's last show. I think it was the June 28th show.
yeah i haven't listened to that one yet....i've been listening to both staples shows....the emotions and tenor of those shows comes through pretty good on the boots and for me going to those shows helped ease the pain if you will.....to see these guys play after losing one of family members....i'm honored the band shared their grief with the fans
I never understood the DMB hate either, but everyone is allowed to have their opinion. Even if you "hate" them, you should respect that they do a TON of charity work & fundraisers.
That last article posted was very moving.......miss ya Roi!!!!
In one week, I'll be celebrating Roi's life in Berkeley.
It seems to me that at the very least, PJ fans should be indifferent. But there is a lot of hate for DMB here, and for the life of me I can't understand it. I just don't see how anyone that appreciates quality music can HATE DMB.
I just heard that! Is that true? A good friend of mine (and also a DMB fan) just told me that a few days ago.
I guess it would make sense, since I just read the interview that cutback posted, and it said LeRoi had a hard time finding the light in himself. Maybe he was uncomfortable knowing that the fans knew his solo was coming up, especially during #41. Maybe he felt he would disappoint...
I really love the Listener Supported version, that first note gave me chills years ago, and does so even more now.
He was definitely in the spotlight on that song... and I am so glad I got to see them so many times. It won't feel the same next tour.
"They said timing was everything, made him want to be everywhere,...there's a lot to be said for nowhere."
"Let them wash away,... all those yesterdays."
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But You Might Die Trying
i still can't beleive he's gone. =(
Very cool. Should be some great shows.
I still can't believe that Roi is gone.
it's good that you're going to berkeley....seeing the band live helps heal the feeling of loss
Roi was special and will be missed.
In a way small way, I wanted to keep his memory alive by keeping this thread alive.
In addition, tomorrow I'm giving final exams to my summer school classes; I believe I'll play some LeRoi for them during the post-test party.
You never know in what form "learning" will come.
"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill
"Mongo just a pawn in game of life." -- Mongo
Thanks for the reminder!
For those who may be reading this, that's how Dave introduced #41 on Tuesday (I think it was Tuesday, maybe Wednesday.)
"Roi HATED this song...he HAAAAAATED it." Everyone laughed.
That's when I felt one of those feelings that is completely unique in this world: laughing while grieving.
"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill
"Mongo just a pawn in game of life." -- Mongo
Alpine Represent.
Missed it this year...first time in three I haven't been there.
Who know what next summer will bring..
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
I have gone the past 2 years - and I think it will be a yearly trip. That place is awesome - the fans create such a great atmosphere!
This year Alpine was my first show with no Roi - but it was different, it was like Roi was just out & I knew he'd be back.......now Berkeley & MSG are going to be really tough.
MSG is going to be so bittersweet
R.I.P Leroi, thanks for the music..
2005 - 9/15, 9/16, 9/30, 10/1, 10/3
2006 - 5/5, 5/12, 5/13, 5/27, 5/28, 5/30, 6/1, 6/3, 6/23, 7/22, 7/23, 12/2
2007 - 6/27, 8/3
2008 - 6/14, 6/19, 6/20, 6/22, 6/24, 6/25, 6/27, 6/28, 6/30, 7/1
by Lindsay Barnes
As a soft but steady rain– the first in more than a month– fell on his hometown yesterday morning, friends and family of LeRoi Moore filed into Charlottesville’s biggest church to remember the late Dave Matthews Band saxophonist, who died August 19, from injuries suffered June 30 in an all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside of town.
Eulogizing Moore was the Rev. Dr. William Guthrie, the former rector of Moore’s family church, Trinity Episcopal. Guthrie revealed that the accident had put Moore into a coma, but that he would awaken to greet well-wishers, both in Charlottesville, and in Los Angeles where he had a second home and was to begin a long rehabilitation program.
“In Los Angeles,” said Guthrie, “he suffered a fatal embolism that would eventually take his life.”
Though the nearly 1,000 turned out to say goodbye to Moore, only the four men seated in the center, together for over 17 years, knew him as they did; and each member of Dave Matthews Band coped with grief in a way oddly metaphorical to his onstage role.
Drummer Carter Beauford was driving the rest of the band forward with ready smiles and handshakes. Bassist Stefan Lessard was steadily, stoically keeping from succumbing to his emotions. Violinist Boyd Tinsley, whose athleticism and onstage exuberance have become legendary, was freely expressive, holding onto friends in long embraces.
The only bandmate not wearing the white pallbearer’s gloves would be the one to voice their common message for their fallen brother.
“Roi loved people,” said Matthews, “but he had the hardest time loving himself, and that was the most difficult thing about being his friend for me, watching him torture himself.”
Matthews said the 46-year Moore was a “good soul, but he was a tortured soul. But he loved his family and he loved his friends,” said Matthews. “He was finding himself, finding the light inside himself,” Matthews said, “and it was shining more than it had for a very long time.”
Matthews credited Moore’s fiance Lisa Bean for such newfound happiness.
“I believe her unwavering love for him,” Matthews said, “and her willingness to stand in front of him, as he was reluctant to love himself, and insisted on it, caused him to eventually see the light.
“It was so bright,” Matthews continued, “that we could all see it so much all of the time, when he would put that horn in his mouth and make the most astonishingly honest music that could knock you over, and it would sink right to the middle of you.”
Matthews– no stranger to performing in stadiums for tens of thousands– appeared slightly nervous addressing the hundreds assembled in First Baptist Church on leafy Park Street. Swaying back and forth, he introduced himself as “Dave Matthews, a friend of Roi’s” and reeled off a pack of anecdotes, most of which centered on Moore’s propensity to fall asleep anywhere.
“I saw him fall asleep onstage,” said Matthews, to much laughter. “He was standing right there, and I’m not sure if I saw him fall asleep, but I definitely saw him wake up. He sort of caught himself, and then he thought he got away with it, but we have a little intercom system, and I said, ‘Did you just wake up?’”
Moore’s custom of wearing sunglasses, Matthews noted, sometimes made it hard hard to tell.
“He also fell asleep next to me in his old blue Volkswagen station wagon driving down 64 once,” recalled Matthews, “and I only realized it when he started snoring.”
However, not all of Moore’s humor was unintentional. While soft-spoken publicly, Matthews said that Moore’s ability to tell a joke was such that, “he could have done that for a living, though it may not have been as lucrative.”
“He told them with an honesty the same way he played,” said Matthews. “I would tell him jokes, just so I could hear him tell them after me.”
According to Rev. Guthrie, Moore didn’t just save his honesty for his friends in the band.
“LeRoi would engage me in animated conversation whenever I would encounter him at home or at church,” Guthrie said. “More often than not, he felt that the music in the Episcopal Church left a lot to be desired.”
Some of the men who most informed Moore’s early musical sensibilities were on hand to pay tribute with their instruments. Trumpeter and early mentor John D’earth performed along with the Trinity Episcopal choir throughout the service and led a trio in “Goodbye, Sweet King.”
Moore’s jazz theory teacher Roland Wiggins played a stirring, improvised piano rendition of the spiritual “Keep Me From Sinking Down.” Before playing, Wiggins shared his last encounter with Moore in the hospital.
“I stood up to leave, and he said, ‘Hang on a sec,’” said Wiggins. “He was in his wheelchair, and he took the better part of three or four minutes to get his wheels locked, and he wouldn’t let me leave until he stood up. He stood up and said, ‘Thanks for coming.’”
In a way, Moore got to say that to everyone assembled. Following Matthews’ remarks, a slide show chronicling Moore’s life from a baby to a bona fide star was accompanied by his gentle sax showcase “#34″ from DMB’s major label debut Under the Table and Dreaming.
Following the service, Jamie Dyer, whose Hogwaller Ramblers were as much a part of the Charlottesville music scene as DMB in the early ’90s, said the ceremony was in keeping with how he remembered Moore.
“Like all great musicians, he had great timing and a great ear,” said Dyer, “when you heard that piece from his teacher, you couldn’t help but think of that.”
According to Secileon Lewis, a family friend of drummer Beauford’s, she couldn’t help but laugh at Matthews’ recollections of a somnabulent Moore.
“When Dave was talking about how he always falls asleep,” said Lewis, “I thought, ‘He did me the same way!’”
As mourners left the the modern brick sanctuary, they formed an impromptu reception outside under the white-washed concrete loggia, none in a hurry to leave. They were of all ages, all colors, perhaps apropos of a man whose band has touched so many different kinds of people with his personality in the Charlottesville area, and with his horn throughout the world. They were drawn to Moore, because of his ability to convey in music and demeanor a fiery passion that Matthews described by quoting a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
“I burn my candle at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.”
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/28/tortured-shining-moore-remembered-by-dave
And this thread still deserves a damn sticky!
8/7/08, 6/9/09
The thing is, there's no reason at all to hate on them. They are all very talented musicians and they are very good people. They give tons and tons to charities across the country, and they don't act like attention whore rock stars, they just walk out on stage and play the music.
That last article posted was very moving.......miss ya Roi!!!!
In one week, I'll be celebrating Roi's life in Berkeley.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
But You Might Die Trying
it was roi's birthday
they sang happy birthday
damn
I was watching it yesterday. I don't think I've ever heard him speak on a dvd untill that one. Great dvd. Hopefully DMB will release Leroi's last show. I think it was the June 28th show.
But You Might Die Trying
yeah i haven't listened to that one yet....i've been listening to both staples shows....the emotions and tenor of those shows comes through pretty good on the boots and for me going to those shows helped ease the pain if you will.....to see these guys play after losing one of family members....i'm honored the band shared their grief with the fans
It seems to me that at the very least, PJ fans should be indifferent. But there is a lot of hate for DMB here, and for the life of me I can't understand it. I just don't see how anyone that appreciates quality music can HATE DMB.
I just heard that! Is that true? A good friend of mine (and also a DMB fan) just told me that a few days ago.
I guess it would make sense, since I just read the interview that cutback posted, and it said LeRoi had a hard time finding the light in himself. Maybe he was uncomfortable knowing that the fans knew his solo was coming up, especially during #41. Maybe he felt he would disappoint...
I really love the Listener Supported version, that first note gave me chills years ago, and does so even more now.
He was definitely in the spotlight on that song... and I am so glad I got to see them so many times. It won't feel the same next tour.
I still can't believe it either.
"They said timing was everything, made him want to be everywhere,...there's a lot to be said for nowhere."
"Let them wash away,... all those yesterdays."
09/10/98, 08/23/00, 08/24/00, 08/25/00, 04/30/03, 07/09/03, 07/14/03, 06/01/06, 06/03/06, 06/24/08, 06/25/08
I just watched their Storytellers - Roi has plenty to say on that one, cracking jokes even.