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[misterparadigm]

The Dave Matthews Band full illustration is complete.

[rollinrocksworld]

Watch "Dave Matthews Band - #41 (from Listener Supported)" on YouTube

[cbjustmusic]

Dave Matthews Band performing “Funny the Way It Is”. _____________________________________ Funny the Way It Is Songwriter(s): Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews, LeRoi Moore, Tim Reynolds, Boyd Tinsley

Lying in the park on a beautiful day Sunshine in the grass and the children play Sirens passing, fire engine red Someone's house is burning down on a day like this And evening comes, and we're hanging out On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down And that war song is playing, "Why can't we be friends" Someone is screaming crying in the apartment upstairs Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody's going hungry, someone else is eating out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's heart is broken, it becomes your favorite song The way your mouth feels in your lover's kiss Like a pretty bird on a breeze, or water to a fish The bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor Hear the laughter while the children play war Funny the way it is, if you think about it One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing underneath It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water Now the world is small, compared to how it used to be With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars Watch the sky, the jet plane so far out of my reach Is there someone up there looking down on me Boy chase a bird, so close but every time He'll never catch her, but he can't stop trying Funny the way it is, if you think about it One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's broken heart become your favorite song Funny the way it is, if you think about it One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing underneath It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water Now the world is small, compared to how it used to be With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

[wiredwithmusicco]

Leroi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, played his last show 11 years ago today in Bristow, Virginia.

Two days later, he was injured in an ATV accident on his farm outside of Charlottesville, which ultimately led to his passing almost two months later.

September 7, 1961 - August 19, 2008

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Dave Matthews Band - “Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)”

Attention fans who’ve spent the past 25 years wishing Dave Matthews Band sounded more like U2: today is the day you’ve been waiting for.

For the rest of us, the group’s new single is a letdown.

“Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)” has none of the things - no violin, no horns, no acoustic guitar, no acrobatic basslines, no wildly outrageous singing - that make DMB, DMB. In their place are a repetitive, shimmery guitar riff and relatively constrained vocals that owe more to Bono and the Edge than to Dave and Tim.

Let’s not forget these early days/ remember we begin the same, Matthews sings, injecting some social commentary into the poppy musical surroundings.

The track appears on Come Tomorrow, which features Brandi Carlile on the title track and reportedly contains music recorded by the late LeRoi Moore. It’s still unknown whether violinist Boyd Tinsley, who left the band last year, appears on the record, DMB’s first since 2012, due June 8.

Grade card: Dave Matthews Band - “Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)” - C

5/10/18

[myloversprayer]

[roilives]

The blog is returning, finally, with a change in format. This space will be devoted to discussion and analysis of LeRoi Moore’s massive musical output. It will begin its change with an in-depth look at Live Trax 14 - 6.28.08 - Nissan Pavilion. LeRoi’s last show with Dave Matthews Band.

After the dissertation was written I felt a great sense of relief, but disoriented. I had put a massive flag in the ground for his legacy, his place in history. Now what? How do we keep this thing churning, how do we keep preaching the gospel of Roi?

One such Herculean task is to rewrite the dissertation. That I plan to do, but now I have the luxury of time. This space will be my corner of the world to talk all things LeRoi, where I can take what I know about his musicality and how deeply I connect with his music on an emotional level and combine them into a digital homage. Un musée numérique pour le roi.

I will provide musical examples, historical context, and coherent analysis but I will not be citing sources. If you want citations, read the book. If you’re that interested in a source (and I will always have them) then ask, or dig yourself. This is where I will come to build a reservoir of knowledge beyond the book. It is where I will, over time, pay back the enormous debt owed to him.

After all, and I say this with more pride than you can imagine - it is my life’s work.

[roilives]

Come in from the cold for awhile...

This is a long overdue update. I am finished. The dissertation is finished, defended, and I graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies from the University of Nebraska. At the commencement, the program included my name and my dissertation. It was a shock to see my name next to LeRoi’s.

Below you will find a link to my website where you can download a PDF of my dissertation. Avoid the ProQuest upload, it was somehow mangled and they want money to reupload.

A few things about this dissertation:

- it is not exhaustive; there simply wasn’t time to include every little thing, leaving a lot of great stuff out of the interviews

- it is intended merely as a strong foundation into further research into his life and works

- the story is not finished; I will be researching him probably for as long as I live

So while this leg of the journey is over, for now I feel at peace with the nearly two years I spent with this document. The story of LeRoi Moore and his place in music is off to a good start, and I will resume it sometime in the future. But for now, a respite. For now, goodbye.

Roi lives!