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But perhaps the highlight of the night was DMB’s lively cover of Sly & the Family Stone’s song “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again).” Dave danced around on stage without his guitar, connecting with both the band and the audience, encouraging everyone to sing with him, “I want to thank you for letting me be myself again.” The crowd willingly acquiesced; they let Dave be himself, and in return they got to throw their hands up…

Oh Dave, I cant wait to see you guys Tomorrow!

Charlottesville, Va., home of the Dave Matthews Band, sometime in the 1980s: Boyd Tinsley, the masterful violinist of the group, remembers rock groups jamming with bluegrass musicians, jazz cats sitting in with rock bands, the stray banjo player turning up anywhere and everywhere.

“Or me, a violin player sitting in with a jazz band or a rock band,” Tinsley says. “For us, we kind of grew up with that, the different combinations of instruments and musicians playing together and making this music. I think we all recognized it was something very special, and it happens naturally with us because of where we’re from.”

The Dave Matthews Band, launching its 2008 tour Friday and Saturday at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown, embodies the cross-hybridization of music that was prevalent in its hometown. Since the release of “Remember Two Things” in 1993, the five-piece ensemble constantly has reinvented itself, exploring various strains of rock, jazz and world music.

To do otherwise, Tinsley says, would be pointless.

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