LEROI MOORE

Leroi Moore is one of two DMB members not born in Virginia, hailing from Durham,
North Carolina. September 7, 1961 is his day of birth. Leroi moved with his parents to Charlottesville,
VA, when he was very young, and he grew up on the same street as Carter Beauford.
In junior High School, Leroi began playing Alto Saxophone. He played Baratone and Tenor
Sax in his younger days (colpinto, p 32).

Moore began playing professionally after a brief stay in college. Moore helped
found the C'ville Swing Orchestra (1982), and the John D'earth Quintet. The latter
played at Miller's every Thursday night in the late 1980's, where Moore first met Dave
Matthews. Leroi once commented that he saw Dave's first professional singing performance
(Exodus, sitting in with Tim Reynolds band TR3), and was less than impressed. Moore
did aggree to help out Dave (along with Carter Beauford) on Matthews second attempt to
record demo songs. Moore and Beauford are the two original members asked to join Dave on his Demo
to make up DMB.

Moore is often sighted as the 'shy' member of DMB, wearing sunglasses on stage
and rarely speaking. In reality, Moore spoke often in early DMB concerts (see 6.1.92 video),
often introducing the band and calling out the names of songs played, and famously yelled
"Crunchberry's, Crunchberry's, Crunchberry's!" during the 5.26.92 show.