Writer Dave McNair Pens Feature Article On Dave Matthews, Celebrity, Suicide, And The Etiquette of Envy

2001 Interview and 2004 Feature Article with Rock Star Dave Matthews Explores the Nature of Celebrity and Tragedy in the Music World

(PRWEB) October 14, 2004 -- In September of 1996, Charlottesville musician Haines Fullerton took his life. Fullerton's band The Deal had come a heartbeat away from making it big in the mid 80s. In 1991, Fullerton met a young Dave Matthews while tending bar at a popular Charlottesville bar. He became a strong, early supporter of Dave Matthews, predicting that Dave would be hugely successful, and even cowrote some songs with an early Dave Matthews Band.

Writer Dave McNair's article,"In the Shadow of a Spiritual Crisis: Celebrity, Suicide, and the Etiquette of Envy" is a recounting of a 2001 conversation that McNair had with Matthews about Fullerton. The article offers insights on what it means to be acquainted with Dave Matthews, what it is to have watched him become famous, and the tyranny of celebrity.

You can read McNair's article here: http://dsmcnair.blogspot.com/2004/06/in-shadow-of-spiritual-crisis.html

Dave McNair is a freelance writer based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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