Recently Dead

LeRoi Moore, sax player and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died today at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center due to sudden, unexpected complications stemming from the punctured lung and broken ribs he sustained in an ATV accident on his Virginia farm in June. He was 46. The band performed tonight, Tuesday, at Staples Center, opening the show with "Bartender," after which Matthews, who credited Moore with arranging many of the band's songs, quietly informed the audience that "our good friend LeRoi Moore" had passed away. "He gave up his ghost to heaven," he said, "and we will miss him always." (MTV: photo: AP/Michael Kim, File)

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