Dave Matthews Band: LeRoi Moore, Saxophonist with group, dies, hurt in June ATV wreck

Dave Matthews Band: LeRoi Moore, Saxophonist with group, dies, h (Added: August 20, 2008)

Dave Matthews band saxophonist LeRoi Moore has died. He died yesterday from complications from injuries suffered in June when he crashed his ATV at his farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. (more)

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Dave Matthews Band: LeRoi Moore, Saxophonist with group, dies, hurt in June ATV wreck

LOS ANGELES (AP) - He is listed as the saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band. But in reality, LeRoi Moore has been so much more for the group.

By: Associated Press | WNCT-On Your Side
Published: August 20, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) - He is listed as the saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band. But in reality, LeRoi Moore has been so much more for the group. It was Moore who Matthews credits with putting the group together and arranging many of his songs. Moore is now gone. He died yesterday from complications from injuries suffered in June when he crashed his ATV at his farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. Moore had recently gone to Los Angeles to begin rehabbing his injuries. But a statement from the band says he began suffering complications from his injuries and had to be taken to a hospital, where he died. No word on what complications he had. Ironically, the group itself was in Los Angeles, to play a two-night stand at the Staples Center. When word of Moore's death came, there was a question whether the band would perform. But the show did go on, with Matthews and the group taking the stage, with Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones performing in Moore's place, as he has been since the accident. At the start of the show, Matthews addressed the audience about Moore's passing, adding: "It's always easier to leave than be left." On the stage, as a tribute to Moore, was a saxophone sitting on a stool, bathed in a spotlight.