The Dave Matthews Band does one thing well. It jams.
So on Tuesday, just hours after scholarship that its saxophone histrion, LeRoi Moore, had died, the band jammed on. At a nearly three-hour show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the quaternion played tribute to its lost member.
�We got some bad news today,� Matthews told a muted crowd, according to a review in the Orange Country Register. �(He) gave up his ghost today and we will miss him forever and a day . . . We�re gonna raise our spirits up a small bit.�
Then the band launched into the intimate, fan-favorite �Proudest Monkey.� Later came �Satellite,� �Ants Marching,� Peter Gabriel�s �Sledgehammer,� the Talking Heads� �Burning Down the House� and a twelve more emotionally charged tunes.
A founding member of the band, Moore, 46, died Tuesday at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center from sudden complications stemming from injuries he free burning in an all-terrain-vehicle break up on his farm away Charlottesville, Va., in June. Moore was hospitalized afterward the accident, but of late returned to his Los Angeles home to begin rehabilitation. After taking an unexpected call on for the worse, he was hospitalized on July 17.
Online fan forums take been buzzing with sad but warm remembrances of the sporty reedman, world Health Organization was notable for wear dark sunglasses at the band�s shows. Many message-board posters have speculated that Moore�s dying will lead to the end of the band - Moore often helped arrange Matthews� tunes and was an integral piece of the group�s pop-jazz-world-beat blend - but there�s little evidence DMB will be breakage up.
Jeff Coffin, best known for his work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, is continuing to fill in for Moore, and no dates on the current tour give birth been canceled. The tour of duty continued Wednesday night at the Staples Center and is scheduled to ending Oct. 3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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