Cavalier Daily Inteview with Dave Matthews and Boyd Tinsley

December 9th, 1993

The Cavalier Daily newspaper
by Adam Healey

I had an opportunity to talk to fiddler extraordinaire Tinsley.

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Dave Matthews Band Cranks Out Over-The-Top Fusion Rock

October 13th, 1993

by Philip Van Vleck
Herald-Sun correspondent
Durham Herald-Sun 

Dave Matthews Band climbed on a bandstand in Few Quad, plugged in and knockedback a set of stellar tunes for a quad's worth of al fresco Dukesters. Theyburned up 100 minutes with some of the most ruthless over-the-top fusion rockthat anyone has ever heard.

Every song was a Matthews original (score excepted); every rendition was definitive. Early in the set, LeRoi Moorekicked out the jams, pushing a tenor sax line that winked at rock and peeled out into jazz terrain--the man set us back on our heels and kept us there for several minutes. Dave Matthews was mixing it up with Moore, working two instruments at once:  a tasty, fluid guitar and an awesome singing voice. The number bopped and floated above Carter Beauford's slick busywork on drums. Moore grabbed a soprano sax and,cool enough, put a stinger in this tune, just tearing up the high end with another ripe solo.

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