On June 30th, 2008, Dave Matthews Band’s saxophonist, LeRoi Moore got into an ATV accident that sent him to the University of Virginia hospital. He had left the hospital, only to return a few days later. His condition was not good and word was that things weren’t going well.
We do not know the details, but have verified from two independent sources that this is in fact true. I talked with Bruce Flohr, who confirmed his death several moments ago.
LeRoi, rest in peace and in your and Dave Matthews Band honor we won’t write anything on the site for tomorrow. LeRoi died at the young age of 46.
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LeRoi was a mentor of mine and we are heartbroken… speechless and crushed…
you can digg this here:
http://digg.com/music/Dave_Matthews_Band_Saxophonist_LeRoi_Moore_Has_Passed_Away
Not the biggest DMB fan, but nuff respect. Peaceful passing to you and yours.
/see ya soon.
we won’t write anything on the site for tomorrow
so it’s like a national blogging holiday?
/r.i.p.
very sad news indeed
we won’t write anything on the site for tomorrow
Um… lame. Why, because he’s famous?
I heard he passed away around 5 this evening, and the band will be performing as scheduled tonight.
Rest in Peace, LeRoi. My thoughts are with the family and the band.
Out of respect. And because he was a member of our community, one who contributed quite a bit–most likely a lot more than you, “belmot yo.” This is sad news. He was a good man who had a lot of talent. He will be missed. Condolences to his family and friends, including the rest of the band.
jeez…I was lucky enough to see him put on a crazy set at Nissan Pavillion…super talented. hats off.
RIP Roi. This is a very very sad day indeed.
Rest in Peace LeRoi Moore.
please god no. he was so talented. rest in peace
Cvillain is currently one of the first sources for the story in LeRoi’s Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoi_Moore
I am glad I got to see him perform at Nissan. This is a huge loss and my sympathies goes out to his family and the band.
“Um… lame. Why, because he’s famous?”
Probably because he is one of the most important people to come out of Charlottesville in many years. But that’s just a guess.
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OMG this is so sad
RIP Leroi, you were loved
and he was “famous” in Cville long before DMB came about. I was lucky enough to see him regularly with John D’earth at Miller’s back in the (Thurs)day, and I know he was involved in countless other amazing projects over the years, both before and after that time. DMB is only a part of why Cville has lost an amazingly talented member of its community…
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most likely a lot more than you, “belmot yo”
Fair and true enough. I meant no disrespect.
I just didnt understand how ‘no new posts’ would be a tribute, but if it is, then so be it, I will honor such. Peace, and my apologies if i offended anyone.
wow, i left the puter, like, for 30 minutes, and I come back to this. To that crazy talented dude who once graced my living room at some ungodly after closing hour, I salute you. Rest in peace, friend.
Not to worry, b’yo - I get you. There are many honorable ways to make a tribute - most of them privately. If you don’t have a personal connection, it makes no sense. I think embracing whatever is posted is a good way to deal with grief. However, I shall honor the request as made by Kyle.
His family and friends are in my prayers. Very, very sad.
RIP LeRoi, you were one of the funniest people I’ve ever known.
I’m sorry… I guess I got a little fired up. No disrespect to you either. Peace to you too and thanks.
I’m just really shocked right now. Last I heard, he was going to be fine.
[…] The news comes just six weeks after Moore was seriously injured in an ATV accident at his home outside of Charlottesville on June 30, 2008. In a statement from a Dave Matthews Band rep to TMZ.com, the cause of death resulted from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident. The statement goes on to say that Moore was in Los Angeles to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program. LeRoi Moore was 46 years old. [Read more at cVillain] […]
very sad and very awesome musician and dude…you will be missed…much love…rip
I just went on to mydeathspace.com and did a search using ‘ATV’…. 3 full pages of YOUNG people came up that have died recently in ATV accidents… I counted 63. That is just the ones that have found their way to this macabre but sobering website. Perhaps the tragic passing of LeRoi can be used to highlight this fact and at least get parents to stop their kids charging around on these deathtraps… there is no other word to describe them.
/Slan Leath fir go maith
@ all that hate me now…
Thanks for having pity on a non O.G. townie. I will never have the connections that you all seem to. This is not, and i guess, will never be my home. I should have learned by now to shut my pie hole when I know not of what Im speaking. I forget sometimes how personal some of the these names that I only ever see in the media are to you all. I am sorry again, truly and deeply.
/I will shut up and go away now.
let us not remember him for his DMB fame, but for his musicianship, sense of humor, intelligence, and humbleness… he shall never be forgotten
b’yo - do not go away - I know what it feels like to feel shunned - a comment or two does not a shun make, dude! Hang in with the rest of us and learn a little about how we felt about the man and his music. He was loved, you are too. I don’t hate you - I just love your mad sense of humor - you’ve got a lot of friends, man…
btw, b’yo, nice mention on cvillemuse, i guess i should get outta the house and come see you
in memory of LeRoi - Support Live Music Wherever You Can!
b/yo - are you there??
dang y’all
I am shocked and saddened by this news. Thanks, LeRoi for the music. You made the most of those 46 years. May you rest in peace.
Amen.
@6. Two guys that were 19 years old from Mashpee Mass died on the same day a few days ago in Iraq. One by small arms fire, the other by roadside bomb. Maybe we should never speak again..ever. To die is different than anyone supposed and luckier. Platitudes and the same the same the same RIP’s in perpetual motion. We are all going to kick it. the same amens…the same good luck to their families…so sick of this shit. This meaningless never ending bullshit of false hugs and hallmark cards. And no one really gives a shit. No thank you.. Just go fucking in the fields when I die and and it will be in a blaze. Don’t mourn for me. I’m not there. Yeah..sorry the dude died in such a stupid way at such a young age but it was his time apparently and he’s no different than Bill whoever who died at the same time in his life’s course and may have done as many great things but more quietly and without fans. Or really long bad jam band solos. Celebrity culture makes me ill. Sorry but I’m done being PC. Enough. A year of heartbreak and no more censor.
@39
Why don’t you write a positive blog about those who passed that you think were important rather than bring negativity to this post where people are affected by this loss?… There’s many places to do so, evenon this site I bet…
i have a lot of gratitude and love for musicians.
not a c-ville native, but i have lived here for 8 years…
le roi’s passing is not taken lightly. in the music community, it is a gigantic loss.
and in charotttesville, it is a truly sad happening.
and very unfortunate.
my heart goes out to all who were closer to him. and all my sympathies.
@39
i waited on a table the other night who just wanted to hang out. the guy told me while his lady was in the ‘loo that he was shipping out to iraq in a month and they were doing the best to \travel around virginia and have a good time.
i almost cried.
(okay, i did). i hope to any powers that is/be that he does not get broken and they get to grow old togtether.
really.
I saw DMB to night, they were great, you will be mist Leroi, It was a very very emotional show,
put up your drink and toast to the great Leroi Moore
I was at the concert tonight at the Staples Center and suffice it to say it was a sad affair - Dave said they completely changed tonight’s lineup of songs to be LeRoi’s favorites, and they certainly played their hearts out. It was ana amazing show and LeRoi will be missed dearly.
I just saw the Houston and Dallas shows and while they were strong performances it was not the same without
Roi……Now to hear this just a couple of days later breaks my heart. My wife was seeing the band for the first time ever. We came from Honduras to catch the shows and she asked me how Roi was doing and I said I thought he would be fine and return for next year’s tour……..God had other plans.
To all of you in Virginia who lost a friend, brother and all around great guy please accept my tearful condolences. To Roi……whom I am sure is in complete joy now……thanks for all the great shows in Texas over the years and thanks for the joy you brought me. Rest In Peace “Fuzzy Wuzzy”. You will be forever missed but not forgotten.
Just back from Dave’s show tonight…very sad stuff. He was so brave to go on…lots of ballads and tributes to his ‘dear friend’ (as he put it) and founding member Le Roy. The energy in the staples center was heavy and thick, and Dave was very sincere and obviously deeply pained. Told a good story or two about his buddy. The line up was pretty melancholic, as one would expect; he got through two step with gusto to close the show and thanked the audience for being there with him to celebrate Le Roy and to share the ‘bad news’ and get through it together…we’ll see if he plays tomorrow. Rumor has it that he has already cancelled Chula Vista and Arizona. Strange and profound show. My hats off to the band for playing to their fans and honoring Le Roy. Peace.
I can’t believe I’ll never see the original members of DMB play together again.
I didn’t foresee any circumstance where cVillain would get so awkwardly sincere, and then this happens. I loathe sincerity almost as much as I regret LeRoi’s passing.
He’s probably jamming with James Brown, Louis, Ray, Isaac, etc. And the band in heavan plays your favorite song.
First, I am saddened that he died.
Second, I want know what the hospital failed to diagnose.
Why not use “Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, Dead at 46″
Passed away does not convey the harsh reality of death.
“Why not use “Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, Dead at 46″
Passed away does not convey the harsh reality of death.” - Geraldo V.
That is irrelevant isn’t it?
I was surprised to see the news this morning - like someone else mentioned - I’m sad that I won’t be able to see the original band play live together again.
Did they have anyone replace LeRoi on sax last night?
Gary
http://www.festivalfriendly.com
I hope the best for his family and band. A family member lived in Ashcroft with carter when he gave me my first cd and i became a fan. i can’t tell you how sad this makes me i went to 3 performances within the last year
Back when the accident first happened, I believe I read (here?) that he checked out of UVa AMA. He returned to the hospital a week or two later. All of this can probably be found on various Cville new sites. I don’t have an answer to your question, though.
He hasn’t played with them since the accident in June. Jeff Coffin, an amazing sax player from The Flecktones, has been playing with them since.
That is so very sad to hear
Really makes me wonder what happened and if the doctors missed anything.
Rest in peace dear soul <3
I’m very sorry to hear about this, we’ve lost a really talented musician. From all the wonderful things I’ve heard people saying about him, it sounds like he was a really great person. My thoughts are with his friends and family.
does anyone know if there will be a memorial anywhere around town?
This is such sad news. What an amazing musician. RIP.
RIP Dude. Your music will be missed!
JJ
What is with cool black dudes dying lately? This is awful awful news… so sad.
My heartfelt condolences go out to his friends and family and the band. Man, I must be getting old…
May I suggest that we not speculate as to whether or not the hospital, doctors, etc. missed anything/did anything wrong, with so little information to go on? You could speculate all day and it doesn’t really get anyone anywhere, and insults doctors in the process.
Damn it……He is a talent I will miss personally……. My thoughts now shift to all his family, friends, and band mates who are left to deal with this tragedy.
@58: I know you’re hurting right now but Lisa means well.
i agree that it’s sad he’s gone, and it’s right to pay tribute to him.
but having a moratorium on posts for a whole day in his memory? is this the blog version of a black armband?
that’s kinda jumping the shark, don’t you think?
@ 61 I’d agree with you, but I would be… well vilified. And shouldn’t this all be over on muse anyway?
My apologies in advance for the digression.
RIP Leroi! You tore it up for years, and we’ll always be missing your solos!
@61 - um, cVillain has already jumped the shark. The cover story in the local print rag put the final nail in the coffin.
Too bad the band couldn’t have taken some time off from the road to be with their fellow bandmate in his time of need. Too late now…
R.I.P. LeRoi - a truly talented musician.
@64 i think they either thought he’d get better, or if the prognosis was bad, they already said their goodbyes.
Saw the band in the late 90`s at Penn State. His stye and musicianship will be shurely be missed buy all
@60: It wasn’t just her–I wasn’t trying to single anybody out. I guess I’m a little sensitive right now. I didn’t mean it so harshly. I just don’t like speculating with so little info. & I know a lot of those doctors at UVa.
@61: Wait, that’s what that means… there will be no new posts today? Lame.
I do feel bad for the guy’s family, but really…
Watch out double lu, that is a very unpopular sentiment (see 6), and apparently very difficult for the grieving to separate from sincere and honest respect for the dead.
belmont–see 26.
kiki, are you the same kiki as the restaurant? i have such a crush on you.
Everyone has to remember that NOT EVERYONE that lives in Charlottesville is a DMB fan. I am truly, very sorry that this unfortuate accident happened to him and my condolenses go out to his friends and family, but to some people, it doesn’t hit home as hard.
I think Kyle made an honest and sincere gesture in saying the site wouldn’t post for one day. People show their respect and sympathy in different ways, some of which may seem pointless to others. This is a site about the Charlottesville community, of which Roi was a significant member. Personally, he was a part of the lives of at least several regulars (that I know of) on this site (including me), and the shock of this makes even the smallest, most pointless gesture meaningful, at least imo.
If you can’t understand it, at least appreciate it for the rest of us. If you find the gesture itself small and pointless, then it should be just as small a sacrifice to not have new posts for one day. It’s not a celebrity thing. It’s a community thing.
RIP my friend, such a great guy with amazing talent. ive been blogging since last nite and would like someone to email me if the chula vista shows gets cancelled…im so busy with work i always find out about things too late and i wont travel out of state for the show if it does…
tayryn@Hotmail.com
thanks to my DMB family!
all i’m saying, it would be a shame to squander all that traffic coming from the front page of digg.
wtf, why does cville feel like they lost such an amazing person? he was born in north carolina.
@73: “Hi, we’re cVillain. We want a lot of people in this community (and outsiders as well) to come to our site and read and enjoy. We really want people to feel involved, and encourage people to ‘make this site community driven’ by letting people write their own posts about what people find interesting. That’s what makes this site great! So right after a Charlottesville large independant paper does a cover and a feature story, and our site lit up digg.com with about 1200 diggs (two things that should probably generate more visitors to this site than most things before), we are going to tell you that your posts are no longer wlecome. Shut up and take it. There will be no room for opposition.”
/thinks there can be a sincere thread for greiving, etc., but shouldn’t be turning away possible new posters, etc. Compartmentalize, people. What happens if something else very newsworthy happens today? We just going to ignore it until tomorrow?
//sorry, kinda
“and in your dave matthews band honor, we won’t write anything on the site tomorrow.” Is that supposed to be a tribute or is that just a lazy person(s) wanting to take a day off? haha
Wonderfull talent a saddly missed. We have your family and the groups in our hearts on this Tragic ending .
Im sure he will be looking down on you to guide you in the right dirrection . Thanks Dave for sharing him with so many of our “FAMILY”
Kimbo
He grew up here. He was a local musician for many years before DMB hit the mainstream. I think it’s natural for locals to be struck by this news.
Even when he moved to California, he kept his home here in town. It only went on the market recently.
the two companies advertising on the main page sure did get their money’s worth. I’m interested in exactly how much traffic a front paged Digg article generates. Any stats?
I knew LeRoi to be an incredible person. Rest peacefully my friend.
@77 … Do you really think that today’s posting moratorium is based on $$$?
That doesn’t make any sense because the link on digg is actually to the post URL, rather than the main page. So, new folks are entering the site on this thread, not the main page. See?
@72: The fact that it doesn’t matter to you much is irrevelant. His loss does matter to some people, so have respect and let them have their moment. You don’t tell a freind whose mom died, “Oh well, I never really liked her so stop grieving in front of me.
@77: It’s one day. It’ll be okay. Maybe the newspeople could um report the news.
Rest in Peace, Roi.
It’s a shame I never got to see him play in person.
@83: well said.
Very sad day between this and the plane crash in Madrid…
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@39 Salute!
A moment of silence for Leroi…Bless you and your family. And, thank you for so much joy.
LeRoi, you will be missed!
His fiancés name was Lisa :(.
Fiancée. Dammit.
I saw Dave Mathews Band play in OKC…just five days before LeRoi’s passing.
It is an honor to have witnessed his last performance and my deepest condolences go out to anyone touched by his music as I was.
Godspeed.
R.I.P. LeRoi! All love to the whole DMB community.
I am on the 49 thread……
OMFG, people, can you not abstain for 24 hours… have you no respect?
I did it, and obviously you cannot - if I’m not mistaken, if you’re not asked to not post/comment for 24 hours, i.e., “today”, can you not help yourself? I guess not…
Maybe I’m a lot healthier than I thought…
bp, they didn’t ask us to not say anything. They said there wouldn’t be any new articles.
LeRoi Moore, our fallen friend…
Sunday, May 14th, 2003…”Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations,” he said over and over again to me (without letting me interrupt him) , the day after Morwenna and I graduated from Berklee College of Music. With a blocked number calling my phone, I was hesitant to answer, but I had a feeling it was a call I should pick up. Hearing how big his smile was and his pride for my accomplishment was unreal. A musician I had grown up listening to since I was 12 years old, had called me to congratulate me on graduating music school. He kept saying to me that I did something that he only dreamed of and that I was on a great track.
Ever since I first met him, he always said I had incredible energy and a drive that was unlike anyone else. Since then he always acted as a mentor to me, listening to new ideas & songs, inviting me to meet people in the music industry, and encouraging me to never stop writing & playing. He was a very intelligent, hilarious, and humble person. He got me my first professional gig playing a DMB side-stage show in Mansfield, MA and he said my music was “too beautiful.” I think he was “too beautiful” and he will be missed dearly. I can’t imagine what people closer are feeling, but I am heartbroken and crushed, like so many…
If you ever have seen me write “stay on the positive tip,” It is a quote that LeRoi wrote to me (when I was a kid in middle school) on a flyer of theirs when DMB released their first major CD. I truly believe that it is necessary for all of us to get through any hard situations with positivity, so let us do just that. Be who you are, love what you do, love the ones around you and don’t take anyone or anything for granted.
with love, guidance, and the utmost sincerity,
Stay on the positive tip…
-Jay Pun
thanks jay.
i got a little goosebumps over here.
take care yerself, and smooches to morwenna.
95–if you saw dmb play five days before leroi passed away you didn’t see one of his last performances. He has been recovering since the end of June.
From Dave Matthews Band official site:
08/20/2008
We would like to take a moment at this sad time to thank everyone for the outpouring of condolences and notes celebrating LeRoi’s life. Thank you for the many inquiries we have received about making a gift in LeRoi’s name. A fund has been created in honor of LeRoi Moore in support of charities that reflect both his spirit and passion. Donations via check referencing the “Charlottesville Area Community Foundation for the LeRoi Moore Memorial Fund”…
http://www.davematthewsband.com/news/2008/8
This is a LOCAL community charity organization…
Can we round up some support for this fund in honor of LeRoi here at cvillain? anyone?
cacfonline.org — you can donate online, but you have to describe exactly which fund you want your money to go to or it’ll go into their general fund. Stop in with a check at their downtown office: it’s at 114 4th St SE between Water Street & the mall. They have $70 million in assets. Bamaworks (DMB’s charitable arm) has had their money their forever. Lots of local charities large and small have their funds with CACF. It’s a great place to browse for a local endeavor to support.
i truely am one of dmb biggest fan and supporters of their music and Roi was just as much of the band as dave was.especially in concerts,when Roi would have his solo’s…wow!!!!!!! then dave and the boys would jump back in there and DAMN!!!! it was a total awesome show to see. one of Roi best intros is”lets be loves” just one of the many.its a shame people will never hear the oringinal 5 band members at their finest hour! whats even more sad is with the passing of this great muscian,it probable will make the band more popular with other people that never really listen to the band whole heartly.they will want to know ,”why is this one man,a single muscian getting all this love and why is this band getting all of this support.”well once they go to a dmb concert and see and hear the sounds that come from those guys you will understand the whole DMB jimmy thing!!!!
Rio ,man you will be very hard to replace and i will miss you up there on stage ,kinda off to the side just waiting to light that stage up with your awesome timing and sound, babe!!!!!!! you made ever concert perfect with your own sound…..you truely will be missed!!!!!!!!!!! peace always
Jay I think your sentiments are the best. ‘92-’99 I worked/helped with/for LeRoi, in cappyland, and I was crushed to hear the news… today,.. Oh boy. Those who knew Roi and knew him well were deeply concerned when he checked himself out early. When I read he had been readmitted shortly there after I got very worried. Then no news for weeks… wow this is bad. For some reason I was not shocked that he was in LA. Rather disappear than be hounded to behave and get well. Damn the wife and I loved that hard headed sweet sweet man. I hope he’s showing Charlie Parker some hot twisted licks on those tin whistles Dave got him in So. Africa. Always in my heart……
truly, our hometown boy (even if he was born in carolina…), was taken too soon. Whenever those we love are no longer there, we mourn. I’ve seen too many talented people be taken too, too soon. Love to you, all. For those of us who remain, shall we only aspire to such talents, passion and mourning upon our own passing.
I haven’t given it a great deal of thought since I didn’t know the man, but it dawned on me this morning as I was walking and watching the sun rise just how profound an effect the death of Leroi Moore as had on many close to me. Even though I’m one or two degrees of separation removed, perhaps his passing warrants a post.
For those of us lucky enough to be in our late teens to mid-20s in the early ’90s when DMB was taking off it was a magical time. Like me, most of us were blithely unaware of how great it was, but in retrospect it was after the Cold War and Reagan, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Iraq I was a rapidly fading memory. Gas was like a buck a gallon.
If you were in Charlottesville, Lexington, or Amherst (you know who you are) there was this new band playing for practically nothing (we had them on the back deck of my fraternity house in the Spring of ’92 for $1,000!) that seemed special. For $5 on Tuesday night, you could go to Trax and listen, and, if you were fortunate enough and only 20 years-old maybe enjoy a furtive beer or two in the parking lot during set breaks and even a sticky fumbling in the backseat of a car with a lovely girl carried away by the music.
1992 to like 1995. Before Monica and Bush II. Before 9/11 and $4 gas. What an awesome time to be a middle class kid in Virginia!
However small a role he played in all this, LM was an integral part of a band that brought great joy to millions – some of them close friends of mine. There’s not much more I can say other than that the sense of loss on the downtown mall last night in Charlottesville was palpable. And I didn’t even go near Miller’s out of a sense of knowing what I’d find there.
Leroi Moore. RIP.
so true, thanks scorpio
I’m really surprised that the funeral and viewing is public. Any old DMB fanatic could show up just for the cheap thrill of seeing Dave et al.
I drove by the church a couple times today while runnung errands . C-ville police we definately ready for some crowd control, but I was glad to see it seemed like a peaceful, low key event. Not the media circus and gawk fest that it could hav been.
anyone go to the funeral today? I couldn’t
Hey guys, I wanted to share this with all the DMB fans out there. We’ll forever miss you LeRoi.
#41: My Tribute to LeRoi Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZuXN3JJbM
Best,
David