Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from them," the former nursing-home employee told TIME. She says she would falsify records to show that the residents had eaten everything on their plate. Things would improve for a while when state inspectors showed up for their predictably timed annual visit. "The attitude was to put a Band-Aid on it until the state left, and then it'd go right back to the way it was," she says. The inspector, who has been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because of the "cronyism" that exists between the state overseers...
Have you heard about the bartender who sank the Titanic? It happened on the record charts, not in the North Atlantic, and instead of an iceberg, the fatal blow was struck by Dave Matthews, a former barkeep turned leader of the Dave Matthews Band. After spending 16 weeks at No. 1, the once unsinkable Titanic soundtrack collided with Matthews' new album, Before These Crowded Streets. When it was over, Matthews reigned in the top spot...
...Dave Matthews Band (DMB) is building on that achievement with the summer's most exciting rock tour. Last week the group launched its 23-city road show with a sold-out appearance in Virginia Beach, Va., where they kept an ecstatic crowd of 20,000 on its feet despite sweltering heat. The band that once paid its dues by playing fraternity houses drew an impressively diverse coalition of college students, young suburban professionals, Lilith Fair stalwarts, fusion-music devotees and even recovering Deadheads. For fan Sarah Patejak, 18, the music's allure was that "it's all-purpose...
...time when record buyers are abandoning the monotony of alternative rock in favor of the music smorgasbord of movie soundtrack albums, it is perhaps no surprise that the DMB has broken out. For years the band's hard-to-categorize music was scorned by serious rock critics, who considered it overblown frat rock. The group is suddenly being viewed as a legitimate, deserving successor to the great American jam-band tradition of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers...
...offers an alternative to alternative rock: music that is conspicuously eclectic but plainly rooted in the familiar bedrock of Americana, the blues and jazz. By introducing acoustic guitars and shifting tempos punctuated by violins, penny whistles and other flourishes of world music and jazz, the band has forged a cerebral yet commercially appealing sound, surpassing competitors like Phish. Onstage, the five band members seem more like a jazz combo than a rock band, playing tightly coordinated phrases that suddenly veer off into flights of improvisation. Matthews sings, plays guitar and projects an uncomplicated, populist charisma that dispenses with rock-star...