A DOPE sax player, and from all that I’ve heard, a very good guy.
RIP
Stupid ATVs. I write obituaries, and ATV accidents happen all the damn time.
RIP
rip
he could play the hell out of all those wind instruments, I remember being taken back at his skill at the one DMB show I saw back in 01
what a loss
lot of famous people dieing lately, keep up everybody!
I’ve never been a big fan of DMB, but any loss of a musician, I consider a loss to mankind.
RIP
you write obituaries? woah. what a morbid job.
Ask Will what he does.
Hank doesn’t write obituaries…
At best he calls a funeral home and recites it word for word to make sure it is correct, and then types it.
Unless it works differently up there.
OK, I TYPE obituaries, mostly.
Cripes, Will.
Was just sayin’…
There is quite a difference.
And the obituary lady for the one newspaper in these here parts… sounds like a big grumpy beeyotch.
We do do a free obituary service where I cut down the full obituaries families send us, to fit our guidelines.
What are your guidelines?
I don’t think I have ever experienced that… longer ones just cost more.
John Doe
Albuquerque
Died Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, at age 74 in a wormhole.
Survivors: (we only list names and immediate family. no grandchildren, grandparents, half-brothers, etc. And we only list names, not towns)
Services: (Basic service info, burial included, funeral home name)
and thats the format for our free obits
and then paid obits, you can run a picture and have basically whatever you want in there. 45 cents a word I think. 100 dollar minimum.
Ahhh… I misunderstood.
I thought you would take a paid one, and cut it down for free.
Gotcha now… I don’t think this area offers that service.
Not to get too off task here. 
Just wanted to pass along my condolences his family on his passing. Weird though, I was reading that we was getting better after he had to be resubmitted the hospital. That sucks.
I was huge into Dave for a long time, and he could play the shit out of the winds. He just seemed like a “bad mo-fo”.
Wonder what the band is going to do from here. I still can’t believe they played the same night he passes. Some brass balls there. I don’t think that I would have been able to go on that night. I read somewhere that when they played a song for him, both Stephan (bass) and Carter (GREAT drums) were crying and it just sent a wave throughout the crowd. Must have been surreal at that moment.
Anyway, always sucks to lose a great musicain like Leroi…RIP…
Leroi Moore apparently. man even though i haven’t listened to DMB in years, and even when i did it was nothing special to me, this is really sad and shocking. RIP, man.
LEROI MOORE (1961-2008) 08.20.08
When Phish played Virginia Beach in 1997, LeRoi came on stage and started playing three saxophones at once and set off the most hilarious chain of events. Within minutes, Page was playing four of his keyboards with his hands and feet. I had three guitars on and drumsticks in my hand banging on Fish’s drums, and Mike was playing two basses. It was just a phenomenal moment! And I remember LeRoi laughing with his mouth full of saxophones.
We miss you LeRoi and thank you for the joy you brought all of us.
- Trey Anastasio
So last night I went down to good ole Staples Center with my fiance to go see my old friend Dave Mathews, we met in Vegas in 95 when he opened for the Grateful Dead, been a fan ever since, anyway I go down there and get 75 dollar tickets for 50 bucks, sweet. First person I saw when I jumped out of the car in the parking lot was a Phish Phan, we exchanged smiles and high fives as I was wearing a Phish shirt as well. I was getting a good feeling until I went into the venue and heard about Leroi, the news just broke minutes before the show was about to start. It was a poignant and pretty, hearfelt show. Proudest Monkey, Bartender, the Maker. etc…All of the members looked very shaken…Sad, this was probably my 15th Dave show in 13 yrs, I’ve never seen him look so glum…
RIP Leroi…You will be missed…Definitely grooved to more than a few solos.
It’s insane that they went on and played. I know the adage that “he would have wanted them to” and all, but still…
…Phish would’ve canceled an entire tour if one of their members was injured or died, right?
Or is that apples to oranges?
^ I thought it was insane as well
It’s really more like GMO apples vs Organic apples, the GMO being Dave
They already had replacements for this tour to my surprise, I guess Leroi was in recovery at the start of this tour as it was…