12 Days of Christmas

The only version of 12 Days of Christmas you'll ever want to hear.

The Muppets sing Queen

DMB's resurgence

OK, enough of that. I didn't realize every time you hit the blog's main page that video about DMB would launch.

Sorry.

Celebrate we will. Because life is short but sweet for certain.

Dave Matthews Band is playing North Little Rock during this year's summer tour. But Jen and I's favorite band isn't actually playing there during the summer.

Instead, DMB will play NLR on Sept. 29. A freakin' Tuesday. And they're not playing Alltel Arena. The concert will be held at Dickey-Stephens Park, the minor league baseball stadium.

Luckily, Jen's mom and step-dad have agreed to drive down from Walnut Ridge that night. They'll keep Paige at the Wyndham while we go to the concert right across the street. Good times will be had by all.

This year's tour is the first since the saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, died following an ATV accident. They've hired a replacement, but it won't be the same I fear.

BTW, the new DMB studio album is called "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King." Groogrux was the band's nickname for Moore.

Dave + Jack + Jimmy = Awesomeness

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds join Jack Johnson to sing a Jimmy Buffett song ...

Road trip!

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead and the Allmans will be playing a benefit for Obama at Penn State.

If nothing else, Obama's musical tastes are better than McCain's.

RIP LeRoi Moore

As y'all know, Jen and I are big Dave Matthews Band fans. The band's saxophonist died tonight.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.

Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, according to a statement released on the band's Web site. The statement did not specify what led to his death.

Moore was initially hospitalized in late June after the accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va. He was later discharged and had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin a physical rehabilitation program when complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17, the band said.

Galina Shinder, a nursing supervisor at Hollywood Presbyterian, said the hospital could not release any details.

Ambrosia Healy, the band's publicist, said the band's show Tuesday night in Los Angeles was not canceled. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, had been sitting in for Moore during the band's summer tour.

Moore, who liked to wear his trademark dark sunglasses at the bands' live concerts, had classical training but said jazz was his main musical influence, according to a biography on the band's Web site.

"But at this stage I don't really consider myself a jazz musician," Moore said in the biography. Playing with the Dave Matthews Band was "almost better than a jazz gig," he said. "I have plenty of space to improvise, to try new ideas."

Lead singer Dave Matthews credited Moore with arranging many of his songs, which combine Cajun fiddle-playing, African-influenced rhythms and Matthews' playful but haunting voice.

The band formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Va., when Matthews was working as a bartender. He gave a demo tape of his songs to Moore, who liked what he heard and recruited his friend and fellow jazzman Carter Beauford to play drums, and other musicians.

The group broke out of the local music scene with the album "Under the Table and Dreaming." The band won a Grammy Award in 1997 for its hit song "So Much to Say" off its second album "Crash." Other hits include "What Would You Say," "Crash Into Me" and "Satellite."

The band won't be the same without him.

Satellite radio rocks

Yeah, I'm behind the times. What do you expect out of somebody who didn't get a CD player until 1999?

The Jeep is in the shop, thanks to a problem with the clutch. There was a recall on it, but I never got the info about it. So yesterday afternoon, the recalled part broke.

As a reward, Dad hooked me up with a 2007 Dodge Durango to drive while it's being fixed. And it's got built-in Sirius Satellite Radio, which means I don't have to listen to the doofuses on the local sports radio shows nor the two classic rock stations playing the exact same songs.

I've been glued to channel 17 "Jam On" where I've listened to the Grateful Dead, DMB, Allman Brothers, moe, String Cheese Incident, Rusted Root, Phish and all those other hippie bands I like. I've also flipped over to channel 31 "Margaritaville" where they play Jimmy Buffett 24/7. All-Elvis is channel 13 and all-Sinatra is channel 75. And, for what it's worth, there are two Howard Stern channels. I listened to one yesterday for about five minutes. I still don't see how this guy is so popular.

Anyway, the Jeep might be ready Thursday. Depends on whether or not the parts warehouse in Memphis was damaged by Tuesday's storms.