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Boomer Bands Rock for Fun and Maybe Profit
Search U.S. Yahoo! Who says you can't be a rocker after 50, or even 60? Take it from Mick Jagger, who's still touring at 65, or the members of Aerosmith, who are pushing 60 yet have a new album in the works and a headlining role in a new edition of the video game Guitar Hero. When it comes to boomer bands, success isn't defined by sold-out stadiums or fat paychecks. Money is beside the point, says Sean Lee, 56, lead vocalist and rhythm guitar player for the Wicker Lee Band in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. "What matters to us is seeing people get up, dance, and have a good time," says Lee, an Alexandria, Va., government contractor. "We're not trying to be famous." That's not to say minor fame doesn't come calling for some lucky bands. The Dallas band Take5 parlayed its experience playing bars and private parties into an opening spot in a local summer concert series. That led to an invitation to open for Jefferson Starship and Survivor a few years ago (a $2,500 gig). Like Take5...
Originally from: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/retirement/2008/09/03/boomer-bands-rock-for-fun-and-maybe-profit.html
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Targeting McCain's "Keating 5" history
In the same New York delegation meeting stood two loyal Democrats with starkly different opinions on what may be a big tactical question: whether the Barack Obama campaign should start openly slashing away at Sen. John McCain's role long ago in the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The handful of senators known as the "Keating 5" had varying roles in helping the effort of Charles H. Keating Jr. try to get federal regulators off his bank as his S&L neared collapse. Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer says this: "The mortgage foreclosure mess is the S&L scandal of the 2000 decade. We should drag it out front and center. Of course, there are shades of gray, one of which is that Democrats were among the other four in the Keating quintet. But in this season, as attack ads intensify, the facts will be tweaked. One corporate consultant, a one-time Democrat operative who was in the same room as a guest, talked this down as a strategy. His thinking was th...
Originally from: http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usjani285819197aug28,0,1559217.story
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Area Dems weigh in on convention
Both Michelle Obama, wife of presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, opened the weeklong event with speeches. The term "party unity" continues to be a topic of discussion both at the national and local level. In particular, the DNC has tried to address the concerns of many former and current supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. Eighteen million people voted for Hillary," said Torrington attorney Audrey Blondin, who is also Democratic State Central Committeewoman for the 30th district. "In my opinion, since she did not quite make it as nominee, she deserved a place on the ticket." Michelle Obama referenced Clinton in her speech, and focused much attention on family values. She highlighted Clinton's effort to run for president, citing it as "breaking 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling." "Obviously she's very dynamic in her own right," state Rep. Roberta Willis, D-64, said of Michelle Obama. "She came across as being not only supportive...
Originally from: http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20092574&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=665579&rfi=6
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