Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist Dead

LeRoi Moore,46, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008. Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, from complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an ATV accident, according to a statement on the band's Web site.

Moore was injured on June 30, 2008 in an ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia, breaking several ribs and puncturing a lung, and was hospitalized for several days.
Though released several days later, Complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17.

The band went on with its show Tuesday night on August 19, 2008 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where lead singer Dave Matthews paid tribute to Moore, after the band's first song of the performance - Bartender "We all had some bad news today," Matthews told the sold-out crowd. "Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave his soul up today and we will miss him forever." Fans then shouted Moore's name in remembrance.

Moore often arranged music for the songs written by frontman Dave Matthews. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay".