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Old 06-09-2009, 07:19 AM   #31
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Just a thought... could this Bear represent Rashaad??? He had a very special relation with Roi... They all did obiously, but there's something different about Rashaad.

I'm sure every member of the band, at least every musical member is represented somehow.

Are you talking about Rashawn Ross?

Also, dave sketched really beautiful illustrations of all the band members on the second page of the CD booklet (Shake Me Like A Monkey page). I know that's not exactly a symbolic "representation" of each band member, but they're all there...even Tim, Rashawn, and Jeff. Pretty cool drawings. I especially like how he drew Carter blowing a bubble.
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    Re: Big Whiskey cover art references

    Another little tid bit of information is the title itself... I found that Le Roi in French means The King. i just wonder where the GrooGrux come into play with Leroi... i wonder if it was a nickname.
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    Are you talking about Rashawn Ross?

    Also, dave sketched really beautiful illustrations of all the band members on the second page of the CD booklet (Shake Me Like A Monkey page). I know that's not exactly a symbolic "representation" of each band member, but they're all there...even Tim, Rashawn, and Jeff. Pretty cool drawings. I especially like how he drew Carter blowing a bubble.
    Yes I meant Rashawn... sorry for the spelling, wrote in a hurry and I wasn't sure, thanks.
    Still I would look for more symbolic representations in the booklet cover.
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    what's the significance of the guy in the white tank top paying off the cop? (lower right corner)
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    the whole cover is a parade..

    "all the freaks are on parade" - spaceman
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    Old 06-09-2009, 01:15 PM   #36
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    Another little tid bit of information is the title itself... I found that Le Roi in French means The King. i just wonder where the GrooGrux come into play with Leroi... i wonder if it was a nickname.
    If you go to the Fuse website, there are a series of video interviews with Dave. In one, he said that whenever Roi thought something was the "shit" or the "bomb" he would call it "the grux" or the "groogrux." The name came from that.
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    the whole cover is a parade..

    "all the freaks are on parade" - spaceman
    It says "all the freaks are on parade, wanna fill my belly so i gotta get paid" on one of the character's shirts.
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    I wonder what the significance of the Polar Bear is? He is featured on the front cover with a tear in his eye. Then, on the inside right of the CD cover, he is seen crouched over, crying with a crown on his head. Any thoughts?
    The Polar Bear is crying because they are going extinct because of Global Warming according to the Dive In lyrics.
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    Old 06-09-2009, 04:13 PM   #39
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    Are you talking about Rashawn Ross?

    Also, dave sketched really beautiful illustrations of all the band members on the second page of the CD booklet (Shake Me Like A Monkey page). I know that's not exactly a symbolic "representation" of each band member, but they're all there...even Tim, Rashawn, and Jeff. Pretty cool drawings. I especially like how he drew Carter blowing a bubble.
    I'm going to feel really stupid in a second, but who is the guy between carter and tim on the SMLAM page in the insert?
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    The Polar Bear is crying because they are going extinct because of Global Warming according to the Dive In lyrics.
    The polar bear is crying because "his friends wefre all drowning, cuz their holes were turning to water...."

    1. Snake on a wood pile (Why I Am)
    2. Alligator holding a pie (Alligator Pie)
    3. Polar Bear (Dive In)
    4. Dead Fish (Dive In)
    5. House on fire (Funny The Way It Is)
    6. Boy chasing a bird (Funny The Way It Is)
    7. Martian (Spaceman)
    8. Naked bodies on the side of the building (Squirm)
    9. 1/5 crown horns are broken (Representing LeRoi's absence)
    10. Open mouth on left side 'it's coming out' (Squirm)
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    Old 06-09-2009, 06:34 PM   #41
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    I'm going to feel really stupid in a second, but who is the guy between carter and tim on the SMLAM page in the insert?
    It's fonz. Looks like he's wearing a baseball cap and looking down at his guitar, as he usually does.
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    Old 06-09-2009, 06:55 PM   #42
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    It's fonz. Looks like he's wearing a baseball cap and looking down at his guitar, as he usually does.
    Well A)I'm really stupid for not realizing I missed him
    and B) why is he black?

    I found this while trying to figure out why (from NYT):

    "HONORS: THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -- The Dave Matthews Band is to receive the special Chairman's Award at the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards on March 6 in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported. The racially mixed band -- the drummer, Carter Beauford; the bassist, Stefan Lessard, and the saxophonist, Leroi Moore, are black, and the violinist, Boyd Tinsley, and Mr. Matthews, the vocalist and guitarist, are white -- was cited for its devotion to social and environmental causes and its ''dignified representation of people of color.'' Julian Bond, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board, said, ''To see and hear them is to recognize great talent; to learn of their good deeds is to recognize they are good souls.''"
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    Old 06-13-2009, 04:43 PM   #43
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    Well A)I'm really stupid for not realizing I missed him
    and B) why is he black?

    I found this while trying to figure out why (from NYT):

    "HONORS: THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -- The Dave Matthews Band is to receive the special Chairman's Award at the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards on March 6 in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported. The racially mixed band -- the drummer, Carter Beauford; the bassist, Stefan Lessard, and the saxophonist, Leroi Moore, are black, and the violinist, Boyd Tinsley, and Mr. Matthews, the vocalist and guitarist, are white -- was cited for its devotion to social and environmental causes and its ''dignified representation of people of color.'' Julian Bond, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board, said, ''To see and hear them is to recognize great talent; to learn of their good deeds is to recognize they are good souls.''"
    hahaha those are the same people who said carter boo-ford. they made a mistake-- Boyd is black and Fonz is white
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    Old 06-13-2009, 09:09 PM   #44
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    Does anyone else think that the dude at the very bottom is very clearly a drawing a LeRoi?
    yeah, ive always thought without a doubt those are lerois "pretty eyes" since theyre unmistakeably unique
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    yeah, ive always thought without a doubt those are lerois "pretty eyes" since theyre unmistakeably unique
    I don't think it is suppose to be Leroi. In the "Scenes From Big Whiskey" Dave says he made a drawing that looked too much like Leroi so he changed it.
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    Old 06-13-2009, 09:36 PM   #46
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    Here is the full cover art:

    http://arresteddevelopment.net/dmb/B...King%20Art.png
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    Old 06-14-2009, 12:59 PM   #47
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    there's the "king of men" in the top left from Why I Am

    "grew drunk on water turned into wine"

    "crushed 15 million the a wave of my hand"
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    Is it me or does the float look like Carter and the guy at the bottom right look like Roi?
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    Old 06-19-2009, 02:39 PM   #49
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    I thought the boy in the sky with the bird was from you and me.....when the kids get older we'll teach them to fly...
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    what's with all the rabbits? They are all over the booklet and there's the one on the far right of the cover.
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    what's with all the rabbits? They are all over the booklet and there's the one on the far right of the cover.
    I hare-dly noticed them
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    Looks like there's a Jack-O-Lantern on the right balcony, left side (farthest away). An oblique reference to Halloween? Or something I'm missing from BW?
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    Life goes on for Dave Matthews Band
    By JON BREAM
    (MINNEAPOLIS) STAR-TRIBUNE

    What’s the difference for the Dave Matthews Band between playing indoors and outdoors?

    “If you have an open-air place or just sort of a covered stage and a vast audience where people can come up to the stage, that’s exciting,” said Matthews the other day before going onstage — outdoors— in Bilboa, Spain.

    “I like that feel, because you have an energy, because whoever wants to hear you comes as close as they can. I also like that you get to play for an audience that isn’t necessarily there for you. Certainly, we’ve experienced that here in Europe.”

    The big difference on this tour is that it’s DMB’s first without saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who died Aug. 19, 2008, of complications after an off-road ATV accident.

    “It’s a profound thing,” Matthews said of touring without Moore. “I miss my dear friend enormously. I have my memories of him. He’s essentially still part of the band because of the way that he left the band. That’s the way it is. He died, we didn’t die. To not be playing is the only thing that would have disrupted that natural quality of the band. So we carry on. He’s there in a different way.

    “I could try and wax poetic about it in a way. But I don’t think he’d like it.”

    Moore was Matthews’ most difficult friend. He had strong opinions and had a hard time loving himself, the singer said.

    “He was a tough guy, and he could make his way to the bottom of a bottle pretty quickly,” Matthews told TV host Charlie Rose.

    DMB had already started work on its next album when Moore’s accident occurred.

    In fact, since he was expected to recover, the group pressed on, playing some concerts with Jeff Coffin, a Bela Fleck sideman, sitting in.

    After Moore’s passing, the group decided to build its album around him — use his recorded saxophone parts (even from demos and rehearsals), write songs about him, and honor him by titling the disc “Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King.”

    The cover art — illustrations by Matthews himself — depicts Moore, whose nickname was Grux, as the King of a Mardi Gras parade. Matthews’ illustrations cover all four panels of the CD cover as well as 16 pages of the inside booklet containing the song lyrics.

    “I put a lot of fun effort into it,” he said. “Someone sent me a photograph of the surviving members standing in front of a tree and said, ‘This is the cover,’ and I said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’ That sort of inspired me to go in a different direction. And I think taking charge is one of the things where the band is right now, confidence in what we’re doing.”

    It’s the kind of confidence that compels Matthews to call “Big Whiskey” the best album by DMB.

    “We stopped being tentative,” he said. “I don’t think the band could survive another album of halfway.”

    Some of that vibe can be attributed to the band itself, and some to new producer Rob Cavallo, known for his Grammy-winning work with Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

    “Rob was an essential, essential part of the puzzle,” Matthews said. “His greatest contribution was guiding this chaos. I know we couldn’t have made this record without him, and I have no desire to make a record with anyone else right now.”

    Interviewing Matthews, 42, is a lot like listening to a concert by the Dave Matthews Band. His answers are meaty, thoughtful, and long-winded, traveling off in tangents and eventually returning to the main theme.

    The passing of Moore apparently will not derail DMB’s momentum. Not only is the group the top dog of outdoors, but it’s also the most successful U.S. touring act of the ’00s, having sold more than $450 million worth of tickets.








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    Old 08-14-2009, 08:31 PM   #54
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    Bottom righthand corner man looks like he's throwing out the gang sign for westside.
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    Right above the black guy is a gun pointed at a shadowy head (Time Bomb?)


    Right hand side of the cover theres a gun pointed to head. Squirm is my guess.

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    on the shake me like a monkey page the male bunny has a hard on.
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    Old 08-23-2009, 01:18 AM   #57
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    this is the best thread in this entire section - -

    my hands are opened wide....
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    Old 08-23-2009, 11:16 PM   #58
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    the rabbit is also known as a heir...hare
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    Old 08-23-2009, 11:18 PM   #59
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    long winded please...the man has story telling down to an art - almost.
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    there's a monkey at the bottom right corner between the cop and the guy passing him money. SMLAM?
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