LeRoi Snub Gets Press
Posted by Jake Vigliotti in Band Member News at 11:36am on Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2009
The die-hard Dave Matthews Band fans weren't the only ones to notice Saxophonist
LeRoi Moore's name absent from the Grammy's memorial to artists that lost their lives in 2008.
Entertainment Weekly,
Perez Hilton, and
MTV all kept the story going, along with numerous radio stations around the country, including
WEQX in Manchester, VT.
There is still no 'official' word from the good people who honored Allison Krause and Robert Plant for their album no one heard of until it got nominated. The closest thing to an 'official' reply came from the well-respected music blog Bob Lefsetz, which said (via an email), "(Roi Moore) was... named in the In Memoriam section of the program book along with 274 other deceased musicians. They simply can't fit all 275 people on the telecast. When it was brought to the producer's attention that he was missing from the telecast, it was supposedly too late to add him."
DMB wins Grammy in 1997 for So Much To Say.Of course that's simply not true. The way that a video-roll out segment is edited goes basically like this: first the names are selected, then the order is decided. Video is then acquired (still shots or actual video [called b-roll]). This is done by one of the production people for the show, a Production Assistant or Associate Producer. The segment is given a specific time by the producer of the Grammy's, and it is then edited together by a video editor. Once complete, the Producer (or someone he assigns to it) will double-check the segment to assure it's correct. That means that LeRoi Moore was skipped over at the name picking, acquiring of video, editing, and spot check processes in the preparation of the
In Memoriam segment.
Four times. At least.
As for reaction from the band, Dave and Stefan both commented via their Twitter accounts. Matthews commented, "We all know what a great man Mr. Moore was, we remember him," and "The Grammies (sic) are not my cup of tea." Lessard was a bit more blunt, responding to the snub, "It just goes to show how full of s*** the Grammys have become."
