Dave Matthews did an interview on NBC this week in which he told us that the band almost broke up a couple years ago. Why? He says it was like a marriage. The group had been together for more than a decade and they were in a bit of a rut. They hadn’t released much in the way of their own music, nor had they been getting along on their own either. Sometimes they’d get angry or argue. Finally, Dave jumped up and said that he thought that it was silly to be this way, so fix it! So they started making their own music, doing some improv music together and having a lot of fun. He said that it’s sad that LeRoi passed away when things were so good, but he’s also happy for him to have ended happily.