Today we lost a pair of people who, while not from the same genres of life, were both part of the overall cosmos in this goofy thing we call life. LeRoi Moore, the saxophone player from the Dave Matthews Band, passed away from complications after an ATV accident he suffered in Virginia nearly two months ago. Soon afterwards, word came that Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones died from a massive brain aneurysm in Cleveland. She was 58, Moore was 46.
I was a big DMB fan - not the kind that quit his job for six months to follow the tour, but I knew a lot of the songs, and had a few CD's. Moore's jazzy sax playing helped Matthews music stick out from the crowd of bands in the 90's. They were a tight, cohesive unit that really didn't feature any one artist, despite the band's name...
As for Tubbs-Jones, while I didn't agree with her politically, she had a style that didn't offend the White Republican, which is nice. Disagree all you want, but keep it respectful and positive to achieve results. However, I was impressed with her more than ever this Spring and Summer. Being an African-American woman, she had the toughest challenge of all people when choosing a candidate for the Democratic Party. While she could have just have thought of herself as a black woman, she went with her gut, and chose Hillary Clinton, and stuck with her til the very end. That is to be commended, and she probably was right..
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