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I failed at my one chance to meet Roi. NYC, December 2000. I was with Stefan at the Band's holiday party. The club had booth seating, and Roi was at the very next booth over. I was 22 at the time. Roi was at a table with (what appeared to me at the time) to be NYC socialites. Basically, they were just dressed much better than I was. ALL I had to do was ask Stefan to introduce me so I could say hello, but I was intimidated by the people he was sitting with. So dumb, I know. I was the true fan in the place. Roi more than likely would have obliged me for a minute or two. Life. Can't live with regrets. RIP, Roi. :leroi |
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I miss your attitude Roi
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Is anyone able to explain why Dave called Roi "his most difficult friend" at times? Question is not out of malice, I'm just curious to know him better.
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Think roi pushed Dave hard and his standards were very high
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Roi was my hero growing up. Always wishing in vain the man was still here to play music for us
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The last song I saw Leroi Moore play was Ants Marching. His 2nd to last show ever.
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thirteen years, wow
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Missing his sound today and forever.
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Time flies. Sucks.
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Happy birthday, Roi.
Would have turned 60 today. :leroi |
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Happy Birthday, Roi! I saw one of your last shows in Mansfield, MA in 2008 and I am happy to say that I did. :leroy
Fonzie wishes you a happy birthday, too. https://twitter.com/SLessard/status/1435296905970413569 :leroy |
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Hangin with Roi today.
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He will be forever be in our hearts. RIP
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Missing the King today <3
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I miss you Roi but Jeff is carrying his weight very well. I think you must be proud of him looking down from all the way up there
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Forever dancing with the GruGrux King.
https://twitter.com/davematthewsbnd/...DTqfGZ8uUqAAAA :leroi Miss you, Roi. |
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Roi slaying per usual: https://youtu.be/eje59zqMNOY?t=5380
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Very cool to see this thread still alive and well... :cool
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Still remember exactly where I was when I was told that he'd passed. Crazy that it's been 14 years.
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Roi also slaying it here, but in a very different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtR0TcF0LQ&t=508s
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Hard not to miss Roi’s vibe and sound. Will for sure put on an older show tonight. Crazy it’s been so long ago
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Still here dancing! That Watchtower on Folsom Field always gives me goosebumps when he comes in for his solo. Wish he was still here but so grateful for the memories.
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I decided years ago I was no longer gonna be sad on 8/19, but instead listen to the beautiful sounds he created with a big smile on my face. He was amazing, never forget!
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Stage Left Solidarity... forever dancing...
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I just happened upon this tribute video the band showed a few shows after Roi passed, they showed this at the Gorge apparently. I'm sure many of you have seen it, but I didn't even know it existed until now.
Soooooooooo fantastic and so emotional! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHi4ZG_HYY |
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Live trax 11. Boyd’s solo. I love LeRoi’s build during the solo. Unmatched tone. When I think of Roi this is one moment I always go back to. RIP and thank you
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The more comparison I get to old shows, the more I miss Leroi. For so long I was excited that JC had stepped in to keep the band going. Still am in that regard. And while 08-10 were pretty exciting in terms of the energy he personally was bringing to songs like #41, Two Step, LIOG, it's been dwindling off ever since. Like his role started being riddled away starting in 2012. Just less and less, he stopped coming out to jam with 2 saxes and more or less fell lockstep in with a horn section type sound with RR for AFTW.
JC's solos are all becoming very redundant and predictable as well. As are RR's. How many times can RR do the United Airlines song in the middle of a solo? (I don't know the name of the real song). But all this being said, Roi brought the intangible magic. He was less technical than Jeff, and on paper, less talented. But that personal sound he brought was such a big part of the old DMB sound. That mix of jazz, funk, blues. Bringing all his influences in. It was HIS voice on so much of that. I do wonder where the band would be if he was still around in 2022. If they'd still be getting along that is. JC has a very hard role to fill in that, ROI had so many memorable parts that the fans love, but he would also never really play them exactly the same any given night. Outside of the studio albums, it's not a like a musician can come in and just copy the parts night after night. Especially in 08/09 I thought we brilliant in bringing in those memorable lines, but not copying them, while also being himself. He'd bring in that JC sound which was more uptempo and higher energy. Likely because he was playing for bigger audiences and knew the shoes he had to fill. He also looked like he was having a blast! Fast forward to 2012-16 and then 18 to now. It's like he is a hired hand. A contracted musician who plays parts and then is "allowed" a solo or two on pre set songs. Like, ok Jeff gets 2 minutes on Lying in the Hands of God, is part of the pre show talk. He seems a bit less enthused on stage. Likes to argue with fans on social media, or get butt hurt like he should be immune to what the rest of us face everyday on there. (Someone tell Jeff, if you post personal opinions on how the world should be, lots of people are going to disagree and you're going to attract troll) Roi brought so much taste and subtlety to the sax. Jeff, at least with DMB, is just blaring everything these days. And on songs like Ocean and the Butterfly he gets this beautiful role that lasts all of 7 seconds. |
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It’s been a while since I’ve really been into actively listening to dmb and after Roi passed I’ve consistently said to friends that it’s different. Both in a very obvious way, but also in other ways that aren’t right “in your face”. The way everything came together, music, sound, atmosphere, energy, presence just cannot be. Post Roi has never hit me in a way that the band originally did so viscerally. RIP Leroi and here’s to everything that he helped create that we can always go back to and enjoy. |
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LeRoi could play the same note or the same grouping of notes (phrases) in so many ways it really is not fair to anyone else
He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, cannon balls out of his ass (I meant out of his saxophone) God blessed the DMB with such a fantastic musician in LeRoi . . . forever Roi had grace and coolness behind those sunglasses and the music flowed so effortlessly through him and channeled through to the other band members. He was a good albeit tough band member to his band mates. He used dynamics and feelings and displayed incredible emotional musical intelligence in the songs to bring out sweeping emotion through his ever so beautiful noteworthy playing Rashawn and Jeff have the spirit of LeRoi within. Rashawn and Jeff being there in awesome ways helps me not wish LeRoi were back Rashawn and Jeff play off of each other so perfectly and professionally But boy-oh-boy LeRoi was so good I seem to remember through reading that Roi would sit in with local groups while in town touring with DMB I remember my first DMB show was on July 3, 2000 at Three Rivers Stadium. I just turned 18 on July 1, 2000. It was an awesome birthday present and experience. I felt chills throughout my body from LeRoi’s playing on that day LeRoi was and always will be my favorite musician of all time period and my favorite DMB member Man . . . Buddy is the X-Factor. He sings and plays rock solid. He is unconventional and then gets right into the groove Jeff plays in a way like Einstein or Mozart except on a saxophone and Rashawn has more soul than Miles or Louis on the trumpet Dave plays rhythm guitar better than anyone I have ever heard and also wails better than anyone I have ever heard and I really do miss Dave’s acoustic rhythm guitar solos at certain points within songs. Those are incredible parts of endings of songs and I do not have any doubts that true DMB fans of the music miss those with great fervor as well Tim is out of this world and wish he would be given the opportunity to perform a solo as Dave solos in DMB concerts just to jazz things up a bit Stefan is so cool and calm and effortlessly backs every song with just the exact amount of bass. He moves everywhere while keeping the song exactly within grasp. At the show on 9.29.21 at Blossom Stefan extrapolated (“MATHEMATICS extend (a graph, curve, or range of values) by inferring unknown values from trends in the known data”) All Along The Watchtower and was my favorite bass intro I have ever heard Carter’s syncopation and attention to detail is out of this world. Carter is just Carter. Not quite God, but good. Very good. The reason why I write about other band members in a LeRoi thread is because our souls are immortal and LeRoi has touched and influenced all of the other band members in significant ways and helped bring the DMB to where DMB is today. Everything is connected in some way. Dave said something like the world is a giant spider web.Without LeRoi, the success of the DMB is hard for me to imagine today. I think the DMB would have happened but the DMB would not have been nearly as good and certainly not as soulful without LeRoi. |
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I think I can say Roi is my favorite instrumentalist of all time
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I wonder how he would have played on Mercy. I think he would have liked it a lot.
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I've gone through somewhat of a musical renaissance lately. Listening now, I realize that Dave is the organs of the band;the brain, the skin, the heart, etc... Roi was the bones.
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Another album showcasing how much Roi is missed in the creative process.
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I wonder what Roi would have done on Looking for a Vein. I miss him
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I am listening to Grace is Gone Lillywhite this am. Just listen how he plays this song. One of if not my favorite DMB studio tracks and it's cause of how he plays this song. It is just brilliant.
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Honestly, the entire tLWS is him finding another level. I remember the absence of a lead guitar had him and Lillywhite working on having him play in a way that added even more texture to songs, they were basically experimenting within the band. Lillywhite talked about this for a bit on the Norlander podcast from last year. Conceptually, I always felt like his sax on tLWS was doing what a lead guitar does plus what his sax had already done for a decade, so it was cool to hear about. He was always so prominent on DMB tunes up to that point, but this whole record felt like there was even more of him/sax and it was awesome. It's a masterpiece album for him. Big Eyed Fish is my favorite example of it. |
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LeRoi played his last show 15 years ago tonight. This version of Sugar Will is a very beautiful and sad tribute to him-
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This is actually the version I meant to post, but they’re both beautiful-
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The importance of LeRoi to the band cannot be overstated. I think the catalogue of music, both live and studio, in the post LeRoi era speaks for itself in that regard.
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But partially what made DMB unique was Roi's contribution and musical intuition. It's why Dave sought him out for the band. Roi was able to work magic with Boyd, and keep him in tune, cover for him, allow Boyd to build on the licks and riffs that Roi came up with. I don't think Boyd contributed a lot of solely original ideas to the band. He would hear Roi do something and go off that. (just speculation) Boyd wasn't sitting the room coming up with riffs, parts and structures to the song. Once Roi was gone, it really showed Boyd's lacking in that regard. |
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15 years. Goddamn. RIP.
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Can't believe it's been 15 years, I remember hearing the news so vividly
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I was driving on the expressway when I got the call from a friend I hadn't heard from in years. Surreal moment
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Yup I vividly remember walking around this new neighborhood development (where we’d go to smoke weed) with my friend, when my sister called me to ask if I had heard the news. Definitely surreal. Saddest I’ve ever been about an artist or celebrity’s death, until Rodriguez passed last week.
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I remember exactly where I was I saw the news. Family trip to California, and we just started unpacking at our hotel room in San Diego. We put on the TV and one of the first things we saw was a news report on CNN about Leroi. In retrospect, I didn't even realize at the time DMB was playing Staples Center, and we just visited the venue a day or two prior.
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15 years ago, my very divorced parents moved me from Chicago to LA for college, and put aside their differences to take me to Staples center to see DMB as a family, and then we saw this news the moment before they got on stage. That was an emotional night and wild time in life overall & I can't believe how the time has gone. It's funny, I've just been rewatching the OC too - it's all very much of that Lehman Brothers collapse era lol.
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I've always thought it would be a cool tribute to him if they released all the albums he played on, but just his parts isolated. That would be so cool to listen to.
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15 years, goddamn the time flies. RIP!
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I'm jamming out to Monkey Man today while working. The man just puts me in a good mood when I listen to his best parts and this was one of them. I can be having a shitty day and it is all good when I hear LeRoi.
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Just dawned on me his birthday was last week. Which prompted my memory about the Piedmont show and the band playing him happy birthday.
Which prompted me to think about my first trip to the Gorge 2007. That was the last time I got to see Roi play. https://dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSet.a...=96&where=2007 At the time, I was thinking perhaps my time as fan is over. Gorge was a bucket list trip for DMB, and I'd already seen them 6 or 7 times.. lol. Fast forward to 2023, my 8th trip to the Gorge. Still riding strong on my DMB shows. I've never heard Jeff play so beautifully as he did last weekend. Think Roi was there with us all. |
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Is there anything wrong with leaving something at Roi’s grave when I am in C’Ville. Obsiously won’t be huge or disrespectful just a small token?
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I miss LeRoi.
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I broke down into tears when I got confirmation he passed on. Total stranger too.
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I miss LeRoi too!
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