1. Tim Reynolds was born on 15 December 1957 and is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist known as both a solo artist and as lead guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band.
16 Facts About Tim Reynolds
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Tim Reynolds plays the guitar, piano, sitar, drums, violin, bass, keyboards, ethnic percussive instruments, solo djembe, harp, uses drum machines for special effects, and sings, although his performances are primarily instrumental rock music.
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Tim Reynolds was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father, who served in the US Army, was stationed.
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Tim Reynolds says he hails from nowhere, because the family moved so often.
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Tim Reynolds's family lived many places, including Germany, a farm in Indiana, an army base in Alaska, Kansas, and Missouri, where he lived longer than any other place until he was old enough to move away as an adult.
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Tim Reynolds's talent brought him together with what would be two other founding members of the Dave Matthews Band, Carter Beauford and Butch Taylor in the fusion band Secrets in Richmond, Virginia.
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Later landing in Charlottesville, Virginia, finding jazz, jazz fusion, and experimental music enthusiasts there, Tim Reynolds found the college town a more welcoming environment for him to branch out musically than any of his previous homes, and added to his experimentation other musical influences to his repertoire, including sixties psychedelic rock, citing some of his early influences as Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Led Zeppelin.
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Tim Reynolds was performing in Charlottesville in the late 1980s when his friend Nic Cappon encouraged him to perform at a local bar, Miller's, where he met bartender Dave Matthews.
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Tim Reynolds joined Matthews on a mini-tour of Europe in February and March 2007.
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In 2008, Tim Reynolds joined Dave Matthews Band for the recording of Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King with producer Rob Cavallo.
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Tim Reynolds toured as lead guitarist with the Dave Matthews Band in support of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King in early 2008.
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Each show opened with a small acoustic Matthews and Tim Reynolds set, and then followed with the full-band set with Tim Reynolds performing on electric guitar.
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In 2008, Tim Reynolds joined the Dave Matthews Band on their summer North American tour, and scheduled to rejoin them on their Spring 2009 North American tour.
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On 4 October 2009 Tim Reynolds performed with Matthews in St Louis, Missouri to support Farm Aid in 2009 and again in Hartford, Connecticut on 22 September 2018.
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Tim Reynolds has a son Josef, born in February 1982 with his ex-wife, Linna.
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On 1 August 2017, Tim Reynolds married Kristin Nienkirchen in Turks and Caicos.