R.I.P. Leroi Moore
There are no words, whether you’re a Dave Matthews Band fan or not:
I speculated previously when the band announced that he had been readmitted to the hospital following his June 30 accident that things seemed serious. But to actually get the news that he had passed is still both shocking and devastating.
I’m generally not a person who sulks around saying “we should do x because it’s what he would have wanted” when someone dies, but I have to note that the band went ahead and played their show in Los Angeles last night (which is, ironically, where Roi died–and, again, not to be too sentimental, but you almost have to wonder if he was waiting for the rest of the band to show up in L.A. before he left). And as of this writing, they’ve announced no plans to cancel shows, just as they soldiered on after Roi’s accident. I’d like to think that the music of the Dave Matthews Band is just as therapeutic for the band itself (and maybe more so) as it is for the rest of us who have been carried through bad times on the strength of their songs, and that playing through their pain would be better than not playing at all.
I’m so sad about this that I feel like I’m not making much sense, so I’ll just let the man speak for himself:
Loving Wings–a song I always thought was a Roi Tour De Force.
You’ll be missed, Roi. My condolences to your family, the band, and every fan. Our lives are a little less bright today.
