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Fluffy
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 Posted - 10/02/2009 : 5:43:58 PM
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From the STL Today:
St. Louis native keeps busy with TR3, DMB
By Daniel Durchholz
SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH
10/02/2009
When Dave Matthews performs at Farm Aid on Sunday, he'll be accompanied by an old friend and frequent musical partner who spent his formative years in the St. Louis area.
Tim Reynolds has been a member of the Dave Matthews Band inner circle from the very beginning, playing on numerous albums and performing acoustic duo shows with Matthews as well. He's also been a frequent member of the DMB touring band, in recent years playing mostly electric guitar.
Reynolds is a solo artist, too, recording albums on his own and with his band, TR3. His latest, "Radiance," was released this year.
"It's about half vocals, half instrumentals," Reynolds says by phone from his home in North Carolina's Outer Banks. "It's probably the most accessible record I've made. I've done a lot of acoustic records and more experimental things, but this is more of a band record."
Reynolds was born in Germany but moved frequently thanks to his father's military career. His family moved to St. Louis in the late '60s, and Reynolds remained in the area for about a dozen years, living first in south St. Louis, then in Florissant.
"I went to Hazelwood," he says, answering the inevitable high school question before it's asked.
His parents were conservative and religious, and Reynolds' early musical experiences came courtesy of his church, where he learned to play electric bass.
"During that whole time, I was also playing with my friends after school and kind of sneaking out," he says. "That was like the underground for me."
Reynolds never scored any major gigs while in St. Louis, but he played plenty of basements, backyard parties and apartment complex clubhouses. Among his '70s St. Louis rock bona fides, he says, was a KSHE T-shirt that he "wore till it disintegrated."
From St. Louis, Reynolds moved to Charlottesville, Va., where he formed the original incarnation of TR3 and encountered a bartender named Dave Matthews.
When Matthews' band took off, Reynolds declined to formally join it, keeping TR3 going and playing with Matthews whenever possible. That's the way their partnership remains to this day.
"It's crazy to keep all these things going at the same time," Reynolds says. "But if you can roll with it and it's the time of your life to be busy, you might as well go for it."
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St. Louis native keeps busy with TR3 & DMB
