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Dave Matthews Band (more info)
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  • Label: RCA
  • Label Type: major
  • About:
    Dave Matthews Band (also known by the acronym DMB) is a United States-based rock band, originally formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991 by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dave Matthews. Other band members include saxophonist LeRoi Moore, bassist Stefan Lessard, electric violinist Boyd Tinsley and drummer Carter Beauford. Since 1998, the band has performed most of their shows with keyboardist Butch Taylor who, while not officially named a member of the band, is a fixture on stage. For 2006 and 2007, the band added trumpet player Rashawn Ross — most noted as the live trumpet player for Soulive — to the stage. It is not yet known if his presence will be permanent. Moore, Beauford, Ross, Tinsley and Taylor also perform backing vocals.

    Songwriter David John Matthews, working in Charlottesville as a bartender at Miller's bar in November 1990, made friends with a lawyer named Ross Hoffman. Hoffman convinced Matthews, usually reserved and scared of playing in front of people, to lay down a demo of the few songs he had written. Hoffman hoped Matthews could shop the songs in order to find other musicians to perform on some studio work with him. Hoffman encouraged Dave to approach Carter Beauford, a local musician on the Charlottesville music scene. Beauford had been in several bands, and was currently playing on a jazz show on Black Entertainment Television (BET). After hearing the demo, Carter agreed to spend some time playing the drums, both inside and outside the studio. Dave also approached LeRoi Moore, another local jazz musician who often performed with the John D'Earth Quintet to join them. Moore would be famous later for always wearing sunglasses during shows because of his stage fright. Moore skeptically listened to the demo, but Moore liked what he heard and decided that he too would give the young South African a chance. These three began working on Matthews's songs in 1991
  • Members:
    Dave Matthews - Guitar, Vocals
    Carter Beauford - Drums
    LeRoi Moore - Saxophone
    Stefan Lessard - Bass
    Boyd Tinsley - Violin
  • Member Since: 2008-03-20

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