Dave Matthews Band

The Dave Matthews Band was formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Originally based off of Dave's song ideas, rather than recording himself and an acoustic guitar, he gathered some band members to join him. He got drummer Carter Beauford, saxophone player LeRoi Moore, 16 year old bassist Stephan Lessard, pianist Peter Griesar and violist Boyd Tinsley. After playing many celebrated local preformances, they started to record records, and was very popular, getting many platinum albums. After the death of LeRoi in 2008, the band stopped playing for some time, and started recording Big Whiskey and The Groogrux King, released in 2009, and are on tour now.

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