®bp Sally Slar Mppl NEWS Tuesday, September 3,1996
Polished Dave Matthews
Band grooves in Raleigh
Friday’s concert at Walnut Creek
Amphitheatre may have been just an
other stop along the long road to
superstardom for the Dave Matthews
Band, but to die-hard fans of the Virginia
rooted band, the concert was just another
night with the boys.
True, the venues, they are achangin’.
Seeing Dave
(as we South
erners may af
fectionately
call him) jam
ming at Wal-
MELISSA MII.IOS |
Concert Review
Dave Matthews
Band
nut Creek amidst thousands of swooning
pre-teens parents in tow put into
perspective the magnitude of the band’s
fame. However, when the five casually
dressed musicians took the stage, the
collective roar of the crowd seemed to
startle Matthews, and he confessed after
the first song that he was a little out of
practice and a tad bit nervous.
Obviously, nerves were a good thing.
The band played with uncanny precision
and synchronicity, following each oth
ers’ improvs as if they were rehearsed.
(This, of course, could be a result of
being, well, rehearsed.) But combining a
mindful mix of new material, old favor
ites and Top 40 hits, the band managed to
satisfy both the scenester and the post-
Gen Xer.
The most stirring moments of the con
cert were the solos traded between the
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Seven drown at memorial
for Susan Smiths children
UNION, S.C. Tears welled in
Tommy Vinson’s eyes as he talked about
John D. Long Lake, where Susan Smith
drowned her two little boys in 1994 and
seven people drowned over the weekend.
“It’s like it’s haunted or something,”
said Vinson, who knew one of the latest
victims. “It keeps taking lives.”
This small textile town is again deal
ing with tragedy after three adults and
four children drowned Saturday night
when their vehicle rolled into the lake.
Five of the victims were from one family
—a couple and their three children.
Foul play was not suspected, but au
topsies were expected to be conducted on
Monday, Union County Sheriff Howard
Wells said Sunday.
A group of 10 had driven out to the
lake and parked next to the boat ramp
where Ms. Smith killed her children.
Their Chevrolet Suburban’s headlights
were shining on two memorials to the
Smith boys, 3-year-old Michael and 14-
month-old Alex.
Shortly after five members of the group
got out to look at the memorials, the
vehicle started to roll, Wells said.
It passed between the memorial mark
ers and knocked over a young tree planted
in the Smith boys’ memory as it slid
down a steep grassy embankment into
about 20 feet of water.
Two adults, including the mother of
three of the children, dove into the lake to
help. They drowned along with everyone
in the vehicle. The father of the children
was behind the wheel and the gear shift
was found in park, Wells said.
There were no skid marks or tire tracks
to indicate the driver did anything to
keep the vehicle from going into the wa
ter, Wells said.
“We have no indication of what could
have caused this,” said Wells, who spoke
at a news conference in the same spot
where he announced nearly two years
ago that Smith had confessed to drown
ing her boys.
The accident killed an entire family
from Union: Tim Phillips, 26; his wife,
Angela, 22; and Courtney, 4; Meleana,
1, and 4-month-old Kinsleigh, Wells said.
Also killed were Carl White, 29, of
Campobello and 3-year-old Austin
Roodvoets of Inman. Both towns are
about 40 miles northwest of Union.
Angela Phillips and White died trying
to save those in the truck. Some bodies
were found outside the truck, indicating
that some children were pulled out only
to perish before they could be brought to
the surface, Wells said.
On Oct. 25, 1994, Smith, distraught
over a love affair, released the safety
brake on her car and let it roll down a boat
ramp with her sons still strapped inside in
the back seat. Ms. Smith was sentenced
in July 1995 to life in prison. She will be
eligible for parole in 2025.
Tobacco companies say
no settlement ahead
WASHINGTON Mississippi’s at
torney general says states suing tobacco
companies are working on a possible
settlement that would give the manufac
turers immunity from liability in exchange
for covering tobacco-related health ex
penses. But two tobacco industry execu
tives say it’s news to them.
“I don’t know who he’s talking to,”
multi-instrumental Leroi More and funky
violinist Boyd Tinsley. These emotional
outbursts shook up die mellow flow of
the concert and provided a welcome
chance for some hard-core dancing, if
you can imagine that at a Dave concert.
Most memorable was Tinsley’s climactic
(in every sense of the word) finale to
“Dancing Nancies,” wherein his electric
violin lost a string or two from the inten
sity.
Other concert highlights included the
ironically named “Crash,” the soothing
title cut from the band’s most recent
album. “Ants Marching” was also a
crowd pleaser, with the band cranking
out CD-quality music as Matthews in
dulgently let the crowd shout the chorus:
“We all do it the same, we all do it the
same way."
After the obligatory brief departure
from the stage, Matthews returned alone
for an encore, singing a nondescript bal
lad not quite as intense as the blue lights
spotting him.
The rest of the band redeemed the
encore, however, when they came back
to cover Bob Dylan’s “All Along the
Watchtower. ” Hendrix andU2 are tough
acts to follow, but the Matthews Band
transformed the song into a fresh, jazzy
masterpiece, proving the band has moved
up from the realm of regional collegiate
bands into the realm of national headlin
ers.
Steve Parrish, senior vice president of
Philip Morris Cos., said of Attorney Gen
eral Mike Moore. Both appeared Sunday
on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Mississippi was the first state to sue to
recover government expenditures to treat
patients made ill by tobacco, and 15 states
now are involved. Moore said the state
attorneys general have appointed seven
of their number to negotiate a proposed
settlement.
“We’ll settle, but only if it makes good
sense for everybody good public
sense,” Moore said. “I’m not sure the
tobacco companies are willing to pay the
kind of price that we’re going to ask.”
But Moore said his main emphasis is
the courtroom. “I expect to meet them in
court, and I expect to beat them in court”
when the case reaches trial next March.
“Our goals have been pretty simple.
We want to collect the taxpayers’ money
back, the hundreds of billions of dollars
that have been spent treating poor people
in this country who died from tobacco
related disease,” he said.
Philip Morris’ Parrish and Charles
Blixt, senior vice president of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Cos., said their com
panies are not negotiating a settlement.
“I don’t know who he’s talking to.
He’s not talking to us. We’re not negoti
ating with him,” Parrish said. “I think,
frankly, what you’ve got here with Attor
ney General Moore is he knows that this
lawsuit... is not popular among his con
stituents, it’s a weak case from a legal
standpoint and it’s a bit of a desperation
move in his part.”
Iraqi troops pull out of
Irbil after offensive
SAL AH AD-DIN, Iraq As Iraqi
troops pulled back from the northern
Kurdish city of Irbil on Monday, refu
gees who fled to a nearby town described
the biggest offensive by Saddam Hussein’s
army since the Persian Gulf War.
“It was very frightening. Boom here,
boom there. Taka-taka-taka. We were
scared to death,” said Sabira Hamid
Hursid, who fled with her four children
to Salah ad-Din, 20 miles northeast of
Irbil. Iraqi troops did not allow reporters
to approach Irbil, where they were pull
ing out on Monday, leaving their Kurdish
allies in control.
But U.N. workers there told The As
sociated Press that there were still Iraqi
tanks in fields three to six miles outside
the city. A Clinton administration offi
cial, speaking on condition of anonym
ity, said the withdrawal was not signifi
cant. White House press secretary Mike
McCurry said Saddam must not go un
challenged. The 20,000 U.S. troops in
the Persian Gulf region were on high
alert, and Gen. John Shalikashvili, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled
to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Saudi Arabia
agreed to cooperate in any U.S. retalia
tory action, Saudi sources said on condi
tion of anonymity.
The offensive also prompted the
United Nations to delay its plan to let
Iraq resume limited oil sales despite sanc
tions. Saddam’s troops stormed Irbil, the
main city in the U.S.-protected Kurdish
“safe haven” in northern Iraq, on Satur
day. The Kurdistan Democratic Party
had asked Iraq for help in dislodging the
rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Both groups want an independent
Kurdish area that would include north
ern Iraq, but the KDP is willing to work
with Saddam’s government in exchange
for greater autonomy, while the PUK
will accept only independence and has
allied itself with Iraq’s archrival, Iran.
PUK leader Jalal Talabani called on
Western nations to retaliate against Iraq
for the offensive in Irbil.
“Saddam Hussein must be punished
and must pay the price of the crimes
which he committed inside Irbil,”
Talabani told the AP by satellite tele
phone from northern Iraq.
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