ROCKERS' MUSIC CAMP.Dust off the old guitar and load it into the VW minibus min·i·bus n. pl. min·i·bus·es or min·i·bus·ses A small bus typically used for short trips. minibus Noun a small bus Noun 1. . Nowadays, make that the Beamer No... it's not the latest BMW! It was a window in the StarOffice desktop that displayed the contents of the element selected in Explorer. (video, hardware, communications) beamer - A personal video station (PVS) that adds video to standard telephone lines at no additional cost. . In February, West Hollywood's Wyndham Bel Age Hotel will host a Rock 'n' Roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. Fantasy Camp, where - for $4,495 - adult campers can hang out with graying rockers, including Ringo Starr Noun 1. Ringo Starr - rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) Richard Starkey, Starkey, Starr Beatles - a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and (Beatles drummer), Lou Gramm (Foreigner lead singer), Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad singer/guitarist), Billy Preston William Everett Preston (September 2 1946 – June 6 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in (all-star keyboard player), Felix Cavaliere (Young Rascals lead singer) and Leslie West (Mountain guitarist). If the names stopped sounding familiar after Ringo, you're in the wrong generation for this jam. ``The people that we're attracting to this camp are baby boomers who maybe played in a band in college and now they are doctors or lawyers,'' said John Phillips of Marathon Entertainment Inc., an Arkansas-based promotions firm. ``They could have been rock 'n' rollers themselves. Now they want to go back and live this fantasy and play with some of the best.'' About 150 campers already have signed up for the L.A. camp, Phillips said. Most are men ages 35 to 50. Promotors promise music and voice instruction, but there will also be plenty of activities for those who are more interested in the fantasy element. True to rock's reputation, the week includes plenty of partying, with a kickoff bash at the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically and a party at Billboard Live, both on the Sunset Strip. ``There will be a lot of people that don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anything about music, but they just come to hang out with the rock stars and listen and learn what it's like to be part of a rock band,'' Phillips said. Apparently these rockers aren't quite the adolescent bad boys they used to be. Seems most of the rockers had no problem getting to a recent 9 a.m. press conference (called a ``breakfast jam'') announcing the camp. Phillips, a supermarket magnate who sold his chain to Wal-Mart in 1992, hooked up with promoter David Fishof after they met in a health spa in Florida to create the camp. They borrowed the idea from baseball fantasy camps, where big kids can play with the pros. ``There are lots of sports camps, and they've been very successful,'' Phillips said. ``We thought it would be a natural draw.'' Similar camps will be held in Miami (in April), Atlanta (May) and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (July). In each city, there will be two one-week sessions. The Los Angeles sessions run Feb. 17-23 and Feb. 24-March 3. For information, call (888) 226-7762. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr will be one of many graying rockers jamming at the new Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp in West Hollywood. |
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