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