The group has done boffo numbers at the box office and is expected to draw 37,000 during two nights at the FleetCenter (the first show is sold out). The tragedy interrupted a phenomenal summer for the band. So we'll just get back on the road and carry on." When death happens, it reminds everyone of what really matters, and that is life and love and family. If it's done anything to us, it's brought us together. And what has it done to us? It devastates us because this is our brother, but he's more devastated because this is his child. We've had tragedies before in the band, and it's been the same thing. It's just, `We have to stop.' Stefan has had a tragedy. There's not even a consideration of anything else. There's no way we could have had a replacement. Because there's no way we could have continued playing. We didn't want to sit down and say, `Well, what should we do now?' It was very evident what we should do. "Everything just stopped - and that's the way it should be. You wake up and everything's changed."We didn't have a meeting or anything," says Matthews. "(Fate) snaps its fingers and suddenly everything else vanishes for a while. "I don't know what happened, but it's a terrible, early departure," Matthews says of the baby's death. The band immediately canceled 11 shows and is just returning to action. The Dave Matthews Band found that out when the group was sent reeling by the recent death of bassist Stefan Lessard's 3-week-old daughter, Asian, of unknown causes. Rock stardom doesn't shelter you from reality.
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