Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band (DMB) is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. The 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 injuries sustained in an ATV accident. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffinof Béla 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. The band's 2009 album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first album since Moore's death) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning the band their fifth consecutive number-one debut— making them the second band behind Metallica to do so. Their most recent album, Away from the World, was released in 2012, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard chart. As of 2010, the Dave Matthews Band has sold over 30 million records worldwide.

In March 2001, the Lillywhite conflict came full circle when the 2000 studio sessions with the producer were leaked over the Internet. The tracks spread quickly over established Internet channels such as Napster. Collectively known as The Lillywhite Sessions, these tracks were lauded by both the fan base and the popular press. After critical comparison of the two simultaneous albums, fans that were less than pleased with Everyday's slicker sound were frustrated with the band's decision to scrap the work in exchange for Everyday.

The Lillywhite Sessions would, however, eventually be officially released. In response to overwhelming fan support, coupled with a popular and widely publicized online campaign known as the Release Lillywhite Recordings Campaign, DMB returned to the studio in 2002 to record Busted Stuff. Produced by Stephen Harris, the recording engineer who worked under Lillywhite on previous albums, the resulting CD provided new treatments of much of the Lillywhite Sessions' material, along with newly written songs "You Never Know" and the single "Where Are You Going" which was subsequently used in the movie Mr. Deeds. Busted Stuff hit the shelves on July 16, 2002, receiving moderate critical and commercial success, while being generally well received by the band's fans.

In the Spring of 2003, Matthews and Reynolds embarked on another successful solo acoustic tour. The shows are very different from the normal DMB shows in that the venues were usually more intimate, and the song selection is very different.

In 2003 Matthews and Tinsley released their first solo albums. Tinsley released True Reflections on June 17, 2003.

On September 23, 2003, Dave Matthews released his first solo album, Some Devil. The album's lead single, "Gravedigger" won Matthews another Grammy Award. The album was followed by the Dave Matthews & Friends tour.

In August 2004, DMB was at the center of a controversy when about 800 pounds of liquid human waste was dumped from band member Boyd Tinsley's tour bus through the grate in the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto passengers aboard a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River below.The bus driver, Stefan Wohl, pled guilty, and the band has donated $50,000 to the Friends of the Chicago River and $50,000 to the Chicago Park District. In April 2005, the band paid $200,000 to settle the civil lawsuit that followed.

The Dave Matthews Band played their last show with all five original members on June 28 at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. Two days later saxophonist LeRoi Moore was injured in an ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. On July 1, 2008 while in Charlottesville, Dave Matthews announced Moore's accident.[citation needed] Béla Fleck and the Flecktones saxophonist Jeff Coffin filled in for Moore for the remainder of the tour.Although he was expected to make a full recovery, Moore died suddenly of complications from the accident on August 19. The following statement was released on the band's website:

We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

The band went ahead with a scheduled show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where Matthews announced the death of the band's "dear friend" to the crowd.

As we sat this afternoon contemplating the loss of our brother, we wondered how we could possibly do a show today. Dave put it into perspective stating, "There's no place I'd rather be than here with you guys right now." We cherish special memories of our lost friend. Tonight, Dave told a story about LeRoi at a bar in Virginia where the cash register was near the stage and LeRoi leaned on the register because "standing had become a chore". Roi proceeded to play the most beautiful version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Dave said, "that was the day I fell in love with him. And I'm still in love with him." It's safe to say we all were in love with him. "It's always easier to leave, than to be left."
The Dave Matthews Band Crew on August 19, 2008

Despite Moore's death, the band continued to play the rest of the tour, cancelling only two shows. They concluded the tour with a benefit concert for lung cancer research (Stand Up For A Cure) at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 10, for which tickets were exclusive to members of the band's fan club, Warehouse.

The band is known for their annual summer-long tours of the United States 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 of DMB and has grown with the band since Fenton Williams began working with them in the early 1990s. After twenty consecutive years of touring the band announced that it would take the summer of 2011 off.

Dave Matthews 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."


Studio albums

Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
Crash (1996)
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Everyday (2001)
Busted Stuff (2002)
Stand Up (2005)
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)
Away from the World (2012)

Live albums

Remember Two Things (1993: Bama Rags Recordings release; 1997: RCA Records re-release)
Recently - EP (1994: Bama Rags Recordings release; 1997: RCA Records re-release)
Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 (1997)
Listener Supported (1999)
Live at Luther College (Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds) (1999)
Live in Chicago 12.19.98 at the United Center (2001)
Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado (2002)
The Central Park Concert (2003)
The Gorge (2004)
Weekend on the Rocks (2005)
Live at Radio City (Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds) (2007)
Live at Piedmont Park (2007)
Live at Mile High Music Festival (2008)
Europe 2009 (2009)
Live in Las Vegas (Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds) (2010)
Live in New York City (2010)
Live at Wrigley Field (2011)
Live in Atlantic City (2011)

Members
Dave Matthews
Carter Beauford
Stefan Lessard
Boyd Tinsley
Jeff Coffin
Rashawn Ross
Tim Reynolds


Past members
LeRoi Moore
Peter Griesar
Butch Taylor

Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (accordion, keyboards), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Jim Bogios (drums) and Millard Powers (bass).

Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones". They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song "Accidentally in Love", which was included in the film Shrek 2.

The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Mike + The Mechanics, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, and The Band.

Singer Adam Duritz (former member of the San Francisco Bay Area band The Himalayans) and producer/guitarist David Bryson formed Counting Crows in San Francisco in 1991.Counting Crows began as an acoustic duo, playing gigs in and around Berkeley and San Francisco. Another friend, guitarist David Immerglück, played with them from time to time, though he was not an official member of the group, and experimented with other musicians in the area. As the emerging band recorded some demos, and as other musicians joined the duo to make a full band, Immerglück recorded with the band on some of the songs for their first album. He declined joining the band at the time, because of his membership in two other locally popular bands, Monks of Doom and Camper Van Beethoven.[10] By 1993, the band had grown to a stable lineup of Duritz as vocalist, occasional pianist, and primary songwriter, Bryson on guitar, Matt Malley playing bass guitar, Charlie Gillingham on keyboards, and Steve Bowman as drummer, and the band was a regular in the Bay Area scene. The same year, the band signed to Geffen Records.

The band took its name from a divination rhyme about the crow, heard by Duritz in the film Signs of Life.

The band actively encourages the recording of its concerts and the distribution of the resulting bootleg recordings (though the tapers who create the recordings eschew such terminology on account of its association with unauthorized creation and its tendency to imply that the taper has black-market commercial intentions: see "Taper (concert)"). The band hosts a trading network on its website[57] to enable fans to swap concert recordings. Sale of fan recordings for profit is prohibited; fans must either trade their own recordings for others or pay for blank media, postage, and packaging. An unofficial torrent site, named Crowstown, offers a vast quantity of video and live audience recordings for free.

Band members

Current members


Jim Bogios – drums, backing vocals (2002–present)
David Bryson – guitar, backing vocals (1991–present)
Adam Duritz – lead vocals, piano (1991–present)
Charlie Gillingham – accordion, clarinet, keyboards, piano (1992–present)
David Immerglück – guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocals (1999–present)
Millard Powers – bass guitar, piano, backing vocals (2005–present)
Dan Vickrey – lead guitar, backing vocals, banjo (1994–present)

Former members

Steve Bowman – drums (1991–1994)
Matt Malley – bass guitar, vocals (1992–2005)
Ben Mize – drums, vocals (1994–2002)



Studio albums

August and Everything After (1993)
Recovering the Satellites (1996)
This Desert Life (1999)
Hard Candy (2002)
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008)
Underwater Sunshine (2012)
Somewhere Under Wonderland (2014)

Dan Vickrey of Counting Crows

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Daniel Vickrey (born August 26, 1966) is an American musician. He has performed since 1994 as a lead guitarist in the alternative rock band, Counting Crows.[1] Vickrey also provides backing vocals, and is a harmonist within the band.
As co-writer of a number of hit songs with Counting Crows, Vickrey has distinguished himself as a nominee for a Grammy Award, Golden Globe Award, an Oscar, and was a winner of an award from BMI for co-writing the song, "Accidentally in Love.

Vickrey learned to play the guitar when he was about 11 years old with his father. Because of this, he was first influenced by his father's musical preferences. From childhood, he had listened to vinyl records belonging to his father, older brother, and sister. Albums in these collections featured Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his sister's Bee Gee's records. Vickrey's next-door neighbor introduced him to The Beatles, and Dan began spending time at a local guitar shop where he found a music teacher who gave Vickrey a taste of some of Eric Clapton's earliest work, performing with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, which left a lasting impression on him. He joined his first band with his neighbor, Steve Bowman, and his brother.

After graduation from College, and a return to the San Francisco Bay Area, he was introduced to Charles Gillingham by a mutual friend, and after playing with him for a goodly amount of time, was surprised to find he had quit all his various musical pursuits to join a new band, Counting Crows. Vickrey was an original fan and expressed a desire to join the band if a guitarist was ever needed. In late 1993, Vickrey was asked to join after the release of their first album, August and Everything After, when the band felt they could benefit with a new lead guitarist.

Vickrey's interests include politics, playing and collecting vintage guitars and amps, movies and of course, music. He now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Millard Powers of Counting Crows

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Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer.

Powers studied piano for six years, and played trumpet in his middle school and high school bands for five years. He went on to study Guitar Performance and Communications at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

He has played with acts such as Counting Crows, Keith Urban, Amy Grant, Ben Folds, Holly Williams, Cyndi Thomson, Greta Gaines, Anita Cochran, and Butterfly Boucher.

David Immerglück of Counting Crows

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David A. Immerglück (born May 3, 1961) is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven and the Monks of Doom. A versatile musician, Immerglück plays mandolin, pedal steel guitar, electric sitar, and keyboards on a professional level, sings and harmonizes with backing vocals, and performs some songs as a slide guitarist.

David Immerglück's surname is Austrian, and roughly translates from German as "always lucky." His nickname is "Immy", often coupled with the slang phrase "gimme".

Charlie Gillingham of Counting Crows

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Charlie Gillingham (born Charles Thomas Gillingham, January 26, 1960, Torrance, California) is best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, piano, and keyboards for the band Counting Crows. He has also played the bass guitar in live shows during certain songs such as "Holiday in Spain".

Gillingham attended Richard Henry Dana Junior High and San Pedro High School, both in San Pedro, California, and also attended Miraleste High School in Rancho Palos Verdes his junior and senior year. He was a member of Zip Code Revue, and played keyboards on Train's 1998 debut album.

In 2004, Gillingham was nominated for an Oscar as co-composer of the song "Accidentally in Love". He was put forward in the category Academy Award for Best Original Song with his fellow songwriters Adam Duritz, Jim Bogios, David Immerglück, Matt Malley, David Bryson and Dan Vickrey. The track was used in the film Shrek 2.

Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, in which he is a founding member and principal composer of their catalogue of songs.

Duritz has recorded solo material of his own and collaborated with other musical acts, leading him to branch out as the owner of at least two record labels, acting as his own A&R man. His work scoring music for film has been recognized by the music industry, notably with an award for co-writing the song "Accidentally in Love" for the movie Shrek 2 from BMI.

Duritz's lyrics have been described as "morose" and "tortured" and as "wordy introspection" and his vocals "expressive." He also suffers from depersonalization disorder, which he describes as "a dissociative disorder, which makes the world seem like it's not real," which contributes to the length of time between albums and the inspiration for many of his lyrics.

Adam Duritz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Linda Dee (née Feldman) and Gilbert Duritz. As a student, he attended Head-Royce School, the Taft School, the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Berkeley, but dropped out before earning a degree.

DAVID BRYSON of Counting Crows

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Name: David Bryson
Born: 5 November 1961
A guitarist and vocalist for Counting Crows. He was a student of guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani. Prior to forming Counting Crows with Adam Duritz, he produced recordings by Duritz and his band, The Himalayans from San Francisco. Bryson owned and operated Dancing Dog Studios in Emeryville, California, from the mid 1980s until it closed in 1997. Many San Francisco Bay area's acts recorded at Dancing Dog with Bryson producing and engineering.

Bryson was a member of Mr. Dog prior to co-founding Counting Crows. Before that, he was a member of the Berkeley based band, The Clique, which was signed briefly to Bill Graham Management during the mid 1980s.

Jim Bogios of Counting Crows

Born: Bay Area
He joined his first of many bands at the age of 12 and while in high school began to participate
in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra on the advice of his father, San Francisco Symphony trumpet player Chris Bogios.
After a few years out of state attending college Jim returned to the Bay Area in 1992 to join
Papa's Culture.
In 1996 Jim landed the gig playing drums and singing for Sheryl Crow.
Jim Bogios decided to join Counting Crows and has been touring and recording with the band ever since. He recorded his first songs with the band in 2003 on their Best of CD "Films About Ghosts," following that up with the Oscar nominated "Accidentally in Love" from the Shrek 2 Soundtrack.

Underwater Sunshine Album by Counting Crows

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Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on April 10, 2012, on Cooking Vinyl. The album is composed of cover songs, with vocalist Adam Duritz stating, "Sometimes it's great to play someone else's music and try to make it your own. Sometimes it's great just because it's fun."

Produced by both the band and Shawn Dealy, the album features tracks from the 1960s through to the 2010s, and includes songs written by band's early contemporaries, Tender Mercies and Sordid Humor, both of which included members of Counting Crows before the formation of the band.

Track listing


"Untitled (Love Song)" by The Romany Rye (written by Luke MacMaster) – 5:07





"Start Again" by Teenage Fanclub (Norman Blake) – 3:33





"Hospital" by Coby Brown (Coby Brown) – 3:08





"Mercy" by Tender Mercies (Kurt Stevenson and Patrick Winningham) – 3:31





"Meet on the Ledge" by Fairport Convention (Richard Thompson) – 3:37





"Like Teenage Gravity" by Kasey Anderson – 5:10





"Amie" by Pure Prairie League (Craig Fuller) – 4:33





"Coming Around" by Travis (Fran Healy) – 2:59





"Ooh La La" by Faces (Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood) – 4:37





"All My Failures" by Dawes (Taylor Goldsmith) – 4:37





"Return of the Grievous Angel" by Gram Parsons (Gram Parsons) – 4:22





"Four White Stallions" by Tender Mercies (Kurt Stevenson and Patrick Winningham) – 4:00





"Jumping Jesus" by Sordid Humor (Tom Barnes and Jim Gordon) – 3:04





"You Ain't Going Nowhere" by Bob Dylan and The Byrds (Bob Dylan) – 4:19





"The Ballad of El Goodo" by Big Star (Alex Chilton and Chris Bell) – 4:52


Personnel

Counting Crows

Jim Bogios – drums and percussion; tambourine on "Start Again", "Hospital", "Amie", and "Ooh La La"; backing vocals on "Meet on the Ledge" and "Coming Around"
Dave Bryson – electric guitar on "Hospital", "Like Teenage Gravity", "All My Failures", and "Jumping Jesus"; acoustic guitar on "Mercy", "Meet on the Ledge", "Amie", "Return of the Grievous Angel", "Four White Stallions", and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"; twelve-string electric guitar on "Start Again" and "Coming Around"; mandolin on "Untitled (Love Song)"; and banjo on "The Ballad of El Goodo"
Adam Duritz – lead vocals, backing vocals on "Start Again", "Meet on the Ledge", and "The Ballad of El Goodo"
Charlie Gillingham – piano on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Start Again", "Mercy", "Meet on the Ledge", "Like Teenage Gravity", "Ooh La La", "All My Failures", "Return of the Grievous Angel", and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"; Hammond B-3 on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Mercy", "Meet on the Ledge", "Like Teenage Gravity", "Coming Around", "All My Failures", and "Four White Stallions"; accordion on "Amie", Mellotron on "Coming Around", Wurlitzer on "Coming Around", backing vocals on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Mercy", "Amie", "All My Failures", and "Jumping Jesus"; string composition on "Hospital", pizzicato strings on "Jumping Jesus", doorbell on "Coming Around"
David Immergluck – mandolin on "Start Again", "Amie", "Return of the Grievous Angel", and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"; acoustic guitar on "Like Teenage Gravity", "Ooh La La", "Jumping Jesus", and "The Ballad of El Goodo"; electric guitar on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Meet on the Ledge", and "All My Failures"; bass guitar on "Hospital"; banjo on "Mercy"; twelve-string electric guitar on "Coming Around"; glockenspielon "Coming Around", pedal steel on "Four White Stallions", baritone electric guitar on "Jumping Jesus", backing vocals on "Start Again", "Hospital", "Meet on the Ledge", "Amie", "Ooh La La", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", and "The Ballad of El Goodo"
Millard Powers – bass guitar, upright double bass on "Amie", acoustic guitar on "Hospital", backing vocals on "Coming Around"
Dan Vickrey – electric guitar on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Hospital", "Mercy", "Meet on the Ledge", "Like Teenage Gravity", "Return of the Grievous Angel", "Four White Stallions", "Jumping Jesus", and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"; acoustic guitar on "Start Again", "Amie", "Ooh La Lah", and "All My Failures"; banjo on "Coming Around"; acoustic twelve-string guitar on "The Ballad of El Goodo"; backing vocals on "Untitled (Love Song)", "Start Again", "Mercy", "All My Failures", "Return of the Grievous Angel", "Four White Stallions", "Jumping Jesus", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", and "The Ballad of El Goodo"

Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings Album by Counting Crows

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Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided into two sides: the rock music of Saturday Nights and the more country-influenced Sunday Mornings. Vocalist and lyricist Adam Duritz states that the album "is about really wanting to mean something and failing to do it. You want your life to mean something. You want to be somebody and then what you turn out to be is so much less than what you thought you were going to be."

The Saturday Nights portion was produced by Gil Norton (who also produced the band's second album, Recovering the Satellites), while Sunday Mornings was produced by Brian Deck, perhaps best known for his production work on Modest Mouse's album The Moon and Antarctica.

To promote the album, the band performed on Private Sessions, Good Morning America, Late Show with David Letterman, The View, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest peak since Recovering the Satellites. The cover depicts the Empire State Building in New York City.

Track listing

Saturday Nights

"1492" – 3:50 (produced by Norton and Steve Lillywhite)






"Hanging Tree" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey) – 3:50





"Los Angeles" (Duritz, Ryan Adams, Dave Gibbs) – 4:40





"Sundays" – 4:21 (produced by Norton, Dennis Herring, and David Lowery)





"Insignificant" (Duritz, Vickrey, Charles Gillingham, David Immerglück) – 4:14





"Cowboys" – 5:22

Sunday Mornings






"Washington Square" – 4:17





"On Almost Any Sunday Morning" – 2:58





"When I Dream of Michelangelo" (Duritz, Gillingham, Immerglück, Vickrey) – 3:10





"Anyone But You" (Duritz, Gillingham, Immerglück) – 5:25





"You Can't Count on Me" – 3:16





"Le Ballet D'or" (Duritz, Gillingham, Immerglück) – 5:01





"On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago" (Duritz, Gillingham) – 4:57





"Come Around" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 4:31 (produced by Norton)

Personnel

Counting Crows

Jim Bogios – drums, sleigh bells, tambourine, maracas, percussion, vocals
David Bryson – guitar, vocals
Adam Duritz – vocals
Charlie Gillingham – keyboards, vocals
David Immergluck – guitar, vocals
Millard Powers – bass guitar, upright double bass, vocals
Dan Vickrey – guitar, banjo, keyboard, vocals