Peter Griesar
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Peter Griesar (born 1969) is a keyboardist who played in the Dave Matthews Band from August 1990 to March 1993, playing keyboards, harmonica and providing backup vocals. He grew up in Westchester County, New York. He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to attend the University of Virginia. He met Dave Matthews, later joining his band. After leaving the band in 1993, he continued playing, releasing several solo albums.
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[edit] Dave Matthews Band
While living in Charlottesville, he got a job at a bar called Miller's. Starting out as a dishwasher, he eventually started waiting tables. Once he started doing that, he became friends with the bartender, Dave Matthews.
Greisar was recruited to join the band The Basics, by bassist Houston Ross. Leroi Moore and Tim Reynolds were also in the group. As a result, he began recording his own music with Matthews. When Matthews quit bartending, they started playing shows at another bar, Eastern Standard.
In August 1990, Miller's hosted practice sessions for Matthews, Moore, Carter Beauford, and Stefan Lessard, while they were closed for late summer cleaning. Before long, he was practicing with them.
By 1991, the band (entertaining using the name Dumela) became the Dave Matthews Band, and added violinist Boyd Tinsley, playing at frat houses and other bars. During the fall of 1992, as attendance was skyrocketing, the band began planning to cut an album.
However, after the band's March 23, 1993 performance, Greisar quit the band.
[edit] Early retirement
Citing that his mother was sick, communication between him and Matthews dropped off, and he wasn't having any fun, he left the band, preferring the small stage, as opposed to big venues that the band later went to play at (including Central Park). He felt that his place in the band was no longer necessary, as Matthews, Tinsley, and Beauford had grown into their roles in the band.
Two years later, in 1995, he came out of his retirement, working with artist Lauren Hoffman. In 1996, he joined The Ninth, which included Lessard. The band didn't take off, so Greisar decided to record his own album for his friends and family.
[edit] Supertanker
In 1998, he assembled Supertanker, and released a solo album, Disposable Love Songs. Two years later, he left the original Supertanker, and released an EP, From The Supertanker Dude With The Zero Obsession.
In August 2000, he assembled the second incarnation of Supertanker, which is still touring, as of May 2008, in North Carolina and Virginia.
[edit] References
Peter Griesar interview with Nancies.org
[edit] See also
- Pete Best, the drummer who left the Beatles shortly before they became famous.
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