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Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is an American jam band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991.

Founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from an ATV accident.

Grammy Award-winner Jeff Coffin,of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, has since filled Moore’s spot as the band’s saxophonist. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. With musicians who each have roots in differing genres, including jazz, classical, soul, rock, bluegrass, and hip-hop, the band has come together to create an eclectic sound which has earned them fans from a variety of quarters.

As of 2010, Dave Matthews Band have approximate sales between 30 and 40 million copies worldwide.

The band is known for their annual summer-long tours of the US and Europe, featuring lengthy improvisational renditions of their songs, accompanied by an elaborate video and lighting show. This portion of the tour has become a stamp ATV Scooter of DMB and has grown with the band since Fenton Williams began in the early 1990s.After twenty consecutive years of touring the band announced that it is going to take the summer of 2011 off.

The band’s most recent album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first since Moore’s death) debuted at number one on Billboard 200, giving the band their fifth consecutive number one debut, making them the second band behind Metallica to do so.

The band has won one Grammy Award, and was awarded the NAACP Chairman’s Award. According to Julian Bond, “they sell out the largest arenas on Earth, but frequently give their music away.”

For the Bands 20th year anniversary they have decided to not tour during 2011 for the first time ever. This was a announced in march of 2010. On January 19, 2011, the band announced this directly from their website: “2011 is our 20th anniversary as a band and we want to celebrate by playing music together.

While we are still taking the year off from touring, we have decided to plan four multi-day, multi-artist music events that will take place this summer. We will be sending out save the date emails and announcing more information soon but we wanted to share the news with our fans first.” On February 22, the dates of the shows were revealed with more information still to be announced.

Dave Matthews Band allows audience members to record most live shows and permits non-profit trading and streaming of the audience recordings.The band cites college students trading these tapes in the early 1990s as a key reason for their current fame. Up until February 23, 1995 the band allowed tapers to plug directly into the live desk at shows but after profiteering on these often high quality tapings, the taping policy was changed to only include microphones.

The band and its management also worked with the US federal government in 1996 to launch a crackdown on for-profit bootleggers, which resulted in large-scale arrests of those responsible for illegally manufacturing and selling copies of DMB material. To further combat bootleggers, the band released their first live album, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, to satisfy the demand for live recordings.

In recent years it has been common to see several sources per show, sometimes as many as five or more. As microphones and recording equipment have become less expensive and of higher quality, the quality of tapings has improved.

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