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| information will open up a whole new world of | | | | NAMM, a trade group that represents tune |
| awe and wonder for you. | | | | retailers and apparatus manudetailurers, has |
| DARREN REIS isn't disparate to the band practice | | | | noticed the increasing records of inside-aged |
| that takes place in his house every Tuesday night. | | | | sawyers, and now oversees what it calls the |
| But there's only so greatly loud sway tune he is | | | | Weekend Warriors encode, a six-weekend |
| ready to tolerate. So when the umpteenth | | | | sequence planned specifically for baby boomers to |
| rendition of the Monkeys' "Last sequence to | | | | get back into live in a band - or create live in one. |
| Clarksville" creates rattling the windows, he goes | | | | The encode brings would-be sawyers into tune |
| downstairs, knocks on the door and makes his | | | | food around the country and provides gear, |
| request: "Dad, do you think you guys could keep | | | | practice legroom, coaches and, for those in |
| it down? I'm wearisome to review." | | | | requisite, additional band members. |
| ADULTS WITH TOYS rework Ego practices in | | | | Joe Almond, the chief executive of NAMM, |
| Weston, stack. In bands with elder people, says | | | | created the encode when he was effective in a |
| songster chant Cheney, Threes no drama. | | | | tune keep in Sacramento and began noticing a |
| The classic American midlife emergency has | | | | change in the keep's clientele. "I created since |
| found a new retailer: garage-band sway 'n' spin. | | | | customers advent in who you'd think would have |
| Baby boomers across the country - generally | | | | been shopping for their kids," he said. "But they |
| inside-aged dads who never utterly outgrew an | | | | were shopping for themselves." |
| obsession with the tune of their youth - are | | | | Mr. Almond said the encode has burgeoned in |
| cranking up their amps and living their sway 'n' | | | | current living, as the sway 'n' spinners of the '60s |
| spin fantasies. | | | | and '70s become clear nesters with time and |
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| the subject matter presented in the first half of | | | | Nostalgia provides the backbeat for this advance. |
| this article. | | | | "The tune we pass through our lifetimes is tune |
| The Tennyson Seven in Palo Alto, Calif., is normal. | | | | we eavesdrop to in our recent youth and early |
| The two-year-old band includes Darren's dad, Rob | | | | 20s, because it was such an emotional time," Mr. |
| Reis, 53, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who gets | | | | Almond said. "That tune is plainly sheltered into |
| together once a week with five other amateur | | | | your usage - your wits, your body, and your |
| sway 'n' spinners - some more-experienced | | | | emotions." |
| Tunisians than others - to play the tunnel comfort | | | | For those now in their 50s defective to alter back |
| food of their generation: the Beatles, Van | | | | the timer, that means live "brunette eyed |
| Morrison, the Monkeys and the Romantics. | | | | youngster" and "I Saw Her rank there." And |
| The band won't be signing with Virgin account any | | | | "Mustang outing," in the key of C. |
| time presently. But that's beside the situation. With | | | | "We commend? Mustang outing' as a good |
| one son at seminary and Darren, 17, last high | | | | creature song," Mr. Almond said. "A bad creature |
| prepare next year, Mr. Reis said he can think of | | | | song is something by hard Dan, or truthful Zappa. |
| no better way to consume inside age. "What do | | | | Or Yes." |
| other people do?" he asked, as if only randomly | | | | Part of recapturing perplexed innocence means |
| conscious of his other options, nobody of which | | | | laboring under an illusion or two. Mr. Almond |
| request to him in the slightest. "A daydream car? | | | | commends that the practice quarters be open of |
| An issue?" | | | | mirrors. "You don't want to be living your guitar, |
| Mr. Reis has amply of visitors. In his urban forlorn, | | | | emotion like you're 20 all over again, then look in a |
| there is a wealth of such bands. The Tennyson | | | | mirror and see some paunchy bald guy," Mr. |
| Seven newly sent out e-send letters to numerous | | | | Almond said. |
| Palo Alto prepares present to play open of indict | | | | Not only do many spouses pass of the bands, |
| at some support-raising actions. The retort, Mr. | | | | some even participate. Rob Reis's spouse, Julie, |
| Reis said, was, "No merit, we have our own dad | | | | 54, is a songster in the Tennyson Seven. |
| band that theater for us." | | | | And when such bands get the occasional gig, the |
| Mike Lynda, 55, who lives just north of Palo Alto | | | | faces in the viewers lean to distort to the bands |
| in Redwood City, theater deep, drums and guitar | | | | own demographic, a detail that helps verify song |
| in a six-guise band called distance untaken. Mr. | | | | span. Mike brunette, who was taught as a classical |
| Lynda, who has a day job as a marketing | | | | pianist and came to sway 'n' spin a bit recent in |
| essayist at Deloitte & Touché, said nothing | | | | life as the keyboardist for the Palo Alto band the |
| utterly compares to the therapeutic aspects of | | | | Wildcats, said his band's repertory is simply |
| practicing riffs with a group of like-minded sway | | | | recognizable, with a basic of Beatles and Double |
| aficionados. | | | | Brothers. "We want each to know the song in the |
| "I don't know what has done me better - | | | | first pair of comments," he said. |
| Leapfrog or Thursday nights jamming with the | | | | If you type in the main word from the subject of |
| band," Mr. Lynda said. "You're effective out a | | | | this article into any reliable search engine, you will |
| intact lot more than chord patterns when you're | | | | pull up a variety of resources. |