Editing Dave Matthews Band (section)

===Formation (1991–1993)===
In November 1990, lead vocalist and guitarist [[Dave Matthews]], who was working as a [[bartender]] at Miller's Bar in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], befriended a [[Attorney at law (United States)|lawyer]] named Ross Hoffman. Hoffman convinced Matthews to record a demo of the few songs Matthews had written and encouraged him to approach [[Carter Beauford]], a local drummer on the Charlottesville music scene. Beauford had been in several bands and was then playing on a [[jazz]] show on [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]].

After hearing Matthews's demo, Beauford agreed to spend some time playing the drums, both inside and outside the studio. Matthews also approached [[LeRoi Moore]], another local jazz musician who often performed with the [[John D'earth]] Quintet, to join them. The trio began working on Matthews's songs in 1991. Matthews recollects that, "...the reason I went to Carter was ''not'' because I needed a drummer, but because I thought he was the baddest thing I'd ever seen and LeRoi, it wasn't because I desperately wanted a saxophone, it was because this guy just blew my mind. At this jazz place I used to bartend at Miller's, I would just sit back and watch him. I would be serving the musicians fat whiskeys and they'd be getting more and more hosed, but no matter how much, he used to still blow my mind. And it was the sense that everyone played from their heart. And when we got together and they asked, 'What do you want the music to sound like?' I said, 'I know this is a song I wrote and I like what you guys play, so I want you to play the way you react to my song.' There was a lot of breaking of our inhibitions."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thephilanews.com/dave-matthews-band-is-coming-to-pennsylvania-32839.htm |title=Dave Matthews Band Is Coming To Pennsylvania |access-date=February 7, 2014|date=June 22, 2012 }}</ref>

Matthews later said in an interview with Michael Krugman,<ref name="Martell">{{cite journal|last=Martell |first=Nevin |title=Dave Matthews Band: Music for the people |journal=New York: Pocket Books |year=2004 |page=13}}</ref> "In a way, initially it was just the three of us and I approached them with this tape and they said 'Sure,' cause they had time on their hands. They were both working on other things, but they had some afternoon time."<ref name="Martell" />

The beginning stages of this new band proved to be, in the words of Morgan Delancey, "a time of trial and incubation."<ref name="delancey50">{{cite book|last=Delancey |first=Morgan |title=The Dave Matthews Band: Step into the Light |url=https://archive.org/details/davematthewsband00morg_0 |url-access=registration |location=Toronto |publisher=ECW Press |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/davematthewsband00morg_0/page/33 33]|isbn=978-1-55022-443-6}}</ref> Beauford would later recall that, "It started out as a three-piece thing with Dave and Leroi...working on some of Dave's songs. He only had four songs at the time...And it didn't work out with the three of us."<ref name="delancey50" /> Matthews said, "The first time we played together...we were awful. Not just kind of bad, I mean heinously bad. We tried a couple of different songs and they were all terrible...Sometimes it amazes me that we ever had a second rehearsal."<ref name="delancey50" />

[[File:Miller Cville.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Miller's Bar on the [[Downtown Mall]] in [[Charlottesville]]]]
Their limited instrumentals did not provide the full sound they desired, however, and more musicians were needed. Upon the recommendation of John D'earth, Director of Jazz Performance at the [[University of Virginia]] and another local musician, Stefan Lessard, a junior [[Bass player|bassist]] at the time, joined the band. In 1991, Miller's waiter [[Peter Griesar]] became the band's first keyboardist. Because of other commitments, violinist [[Boyd Tinsley]] did not become a full-time member until 1992. Matthews later admitted,<ref name="Martell" /> "We had no plans of adding a violinist. We just wanted some [[fiddle]] tracked on this one song "[[Tripping Billies]]", and Boyd was a friend of LeRoi. He came in and it just clicked. That completely solidified the band, gave it a lot more power."<ref name="Martell" />

The band's first in-studio demo was recorded in February or March 1991, before Tinsley joined as a full-time member, and consisted of "Song That Jane Likes", "Recently", "Best of What's Around", and "I'll Back You Up."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://antsmarching.org/bios/BoydTinsley.php |title=Boyd Tinsley Biography |access-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref>

For years, it was believed that the band's first public show was April 21, 1991, at Charlottesville's [[Earth Day|Earth Day Festival]].<ref name="delancey50"/> On October 9, 2010, Stefan Lessard reported via Twitter the discovery of an earlier show, taped March 14, 1991, at TRAX, a local music venue. The show was a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance and, according to Lessard, included the following songs: "Typical Situation", "Best of What's Around", "I'll Back You Up", "Song That Jane Likes", "Warehouse", "Cry Freedom", and "Recently". The show included only Matthews, Lessard, Beauford, and Moore.<ref>@slessard Twitter September 10, 2010 (6) tweets, October 10, 2010 (1) tweet, November 10, 2010 (1) tweet. Additional comments include recording the show on a Tascam 8-track tape and that Lessard was then sixteen years old.</ref> Local weekly appearances soon followed, and word of the band's sound spread within a short time.<ref name="dmb-com-history">{{Cite web|url=https://www.davematthewsband.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828095309/http://www.davematthewsband.com/#/history|url-status=dead|title=Dave Matthews Band|archive-date=August 28, 2015|website=Davematthewsband.com}}</ref>

The band considered calling itself "Dumwelah", which is the [[Tswana language|Tswana]] word for "hello",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Tswana/dumela |title=Dumela Definition |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202213149/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Tswana/dumela |archive-date=February 2, 2008 }}</ref> but there was little enthusiasm for the name and they decided against it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmbtickets.net/about |title=Dave Matthews Band History |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415124444/http://www.dmbtickets.net/about |archive-date=April 15, 2009 }}</ref> One story is that Moore reportedly telephoned a place they were booked and said to write "Dave Matthews." The person receiving the call wrote "band" after the name, and the name stayed Dave Matthews Band from that point on.<ref name="delancey50"/> Matthews told Robert Trott of AP, "Boyd [Tinsley], if memory serves, wrote 'Dave Matthews Band' [on this flyer for the show]. There was no time when we said, 'Let's call this band the Dave Matthews Band.' It just became that, and it sort of was too late to change when we started thinking that this could focus unfairly on me. People sort of made that association, but it's really not like that."<ref name="Martell"/>

Beauford seemed to agree with Matthews's analysis of the band name when he said to ''[[Modern Drummer]]'' magazine that, "As a matter of fact, that's one of the things about this band that everybody likes: There isn't a leader. Each one of us can express ourselves musically without being choked by a leader. Everybody can offer what they feel is gonna enhance the music. So, yeah, that's the main thing that all the guys — especially me — feel make this band happen. It's the freedom that we have to speak with our instruments."<ref name="martell21">Nevin Martell, ''Dave Matthews Band: Music for the people'', (New York: Pocket Books, 2004) 21</ref>

By the summer of 1991, they were playing at Eastern Standard with Charles Newman as their manager for a brief time.<ref name="martell21"/> They also continued to play at fraternity functions; the last such show was at UVa at the DKE house on September 11, 1992. Thereafter the band began playing a regular Tuesday night show at the popular Charlottesville club [[Trax (nightclub)|Trax]]. Tapings of shows at Trax are some of the most widely shared among DMB fans. After Newman, [[Coran Capshaw]], owner of the Flood Zone where the band often played, took the helm of the Dave Matthews Band.<ref name="Martell"/>

For a variety of reasons, like sensing that the band was on the verge of making it big and not wanting to have his life ruled by the grueling schedule that touring musicians often face, difficulties communicating with Matthews, and maintaining the mortgage on his new home, [[Peter Griesar]] decided to leave the band after a show at [[Trax (nightclub)|Trax]] nightclub on March 23, 1993, a night known as "Big League Chew".<ref>{{cite web|last=Waldo |first=Jaquith |year=2000 |url=http://www.nancies.org/news/2000/09/griesar-interview/ |title=Interview with Peter Griesar |publisher=nancies.org |access-date=July 18, 2006}}</ref><ref name="delancy-p104">Delancey, Morgan, ''Dave Matthews Band: Step Into The Light'', page 104, ECW Press, 2001</ref>

On November 9, 1993, DMB offered its first official release, ''[[Remember Two Things]]'', on its Bama Rags label.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davematthewsband.com/#/sounds |title=Dave Matthews Band Albums |access-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last = Coleman| first = Gene| title = Dave Matthews Band releases debut disc| page = 7| newspaper = Commonwealth Times| location = Richmond Virginia| date = November 18, 1993| url = https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/com/768/| access-date = May 28, 2024}}</ref> It was re-released by RCA in 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmbreleases.com/remember2things-RCA97.htm |title=Remember Two Things |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519205652/http://www.dmbreleases.com/remember2things-RCA97.htm |archive-date=May 19, 2009 }}</ref> Live songs on the album were recorded at Trax in [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], Virginia The Flood Zone in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], Virginia, and The Muse Music Club on [[Nantucket Island]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacyrecordings.com/2014/05/07/dave-matthews-band-returns-to-where-it-all-began-with-first-ever-vinyl-release-of-remember-two-things-out-june-17/|title=Dave Matthews Band Returns to Where It All Began With First-ever Vinyl Release of "Remember Two Things" Out June 17|date=May 7, 2014|website=Legacy Recordings|access-date=October 31, 2019}}</ref> The album debuted on college charts as the highest independent entry, and went on to be certified platinum by the RIAA in 2002.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/74678/nelly-hits-new-heights-in-july-riaa-certifications |title=Nelly Hits New Heights in July RIAA Certifications |date=August 6, 2002 |access-date=June 15, 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071227121214/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/74678/nelly-hits-new-heights-in-july-riaa-certifications| archive-date = December 27, 2007}}</ref>