Dave Matthews Band Biography

Featuring Matthews Stefan Lessard Leroi Moore Boyd Tinsley and Carter Beauford the group's music presents a more pop-oriented version of the Grateful Dead crossed with the worldbeat explorations of Paul Simon and Sting. The band built up a strong word-of-mouth following in the early '90s by touring the country constantly concentrating on college campuses. In addition to amassing a sizable following their self-released album Remember Two Things sold well for an independent release; soon they were attracting the attention of majors. Signing with RCA the Dave Matthews Band released their major-label debut Under the Table & Dreaming in the fall of 1994. By spring of 1995 the record had launched the hit single What Would You Say and sold over a million copies.
A year-and-a-half after the release of Under the Table & Dreaming the record had sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone. In April of 1996 the Dave Matthews Band released Crash which entered the charts at number two and quickly went platinum. Throughout 1996 the group toured behind Crash sending it to double-platinum status. Also in 1996 Matthews launched an attack on bootleggers in conjunction with the Federal Government targeting stores that were selling semi-legal discs of live performances. The efforts of Matthews his band and his management resulted in an unprecedented crackdown on bootleggers in early 1997 -- with nearly all of the major foreign bootlegging companies placed under arrest by the United States -- thereby putting a moratorium on the entire underground industry.

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