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Listening to Redlight takes you back to the kinder and gentler days of youth culture, a time of high school sock-hops in small town America. Besides singing about love and heartbreak, the Slackers also sing about smoking marijuana and being "Rude and Reckless." A wide array of guest musicians further supports this old-time party. While Jackson irritatingly crows for the Pietasters, the Slackers use a three-headed singing attack of Victor Ruggiero, Marq Lyn and Jeremy Mushlin. The variety of individual vocal styles enhances the appeal of Redlight...
...Cooking for Tommy" and "Tin Tin Deo," that mark the album's two opposite musical poles. "Cooking for Tommy" is the opening number on Redlight and is described by the band as "a major key, Latin-goes-ska number" that showcases the band's horns. "Tin Tin Deo," with guest percussionist Larry McDonald, exhibits the significant Jamaican reggae influence on the band's rhythm section...
...author himself was just another guest. "He was kind of a nondescript sort of a guy," said Gil Hause, a Colorado resident who worked with him on his 1974 book "Centennial." "He had a battered old straw hat, wore jeans and a flannel shirt, tennis shoes and was of medium-build.... But Jim was a man who had a very deep feeling for humanity...
...Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed $130,000 towards the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign managed by Knight...
...sweetheart deal had its roots in a June 1996 fund raiser at the palatial San Francisco home of Senator Dianne Feinstein and her financier husband Richard Blum. The $25,000-a-couple dinner has already gained notoriety because of its guest list, a power lineup including President Clinton, top party and Administration officials, even Asian-American fund raiser John Huang. Given all those luminaries, hardly anyone noticed the presence of Judith Vasquez, a thirtysomething Filipina developer, who pledged $100,000 for a chance to be photographed with the President. As a foreigner, she couldn't legally contribute to his party...