Word: rucker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late in the afternoon, the four members of Hootie & the Blowfish--singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there...
...America's Band--down-home, upbeat and immensely popular, a group of rock stars who don't look or act like rock stars. Typically dressed in baseball caps and baggy jeans, they look as if they're about to do some farm work or finish the back nine. While Rucker, 29, and Felber, 28, are still single, Bryan, 28, and Sonefeld, 31, are both engaged, settling down. All four still live in Columbia, within walking distance of one another, in homes that are sizable but modest (Sonefeld's pad boasts a Foosball table--the perfect just-a-guy, have...
...copies in the U.S. than any single album by Pearl Jam, U2, the Rolling Stones and even the Beatles, the Hootie backlash has begun. A page surfaced on the Internet recently calling for readers to join PAHB--Peoples Against Hootie & the Blowfish. This week the New York Times dismissed Rucker as rock's "reigning crybaby," a reference to his emotive lyrics. Some of the criticism cuts deeper. A writer for the Village Voice compared the band to a minstrel show, and Saturday Night Live did a sketch where Rucker leads beer-swilling white frat boys in a countermarch to Louis...
...objectivity in your coverage of his campaign and we urge the student body to make Rudd Wakefield Coffey the next president of the Undergraduate Council. --David Bonfili '96 Manisha Bharti '98 Phil Kaufman '98, Hahrie Han '97 Eugene Kim '96 Sandip Madhavareddy '98-'97 Joseph Sena '99 Catherine Rucker '99 Aarti Shah '97 Bert Huang '96 Aldonna Clottey '96 Adriane Smith '96 Sheila Swaroop '97-'96 John Turner '97 Sue S. Lee '96 Kevin Scott '97 Andwele Lewis '98 Nisha Hitchman...
...existence is conditional and it will dissolve once PUCC does, Rucker said...