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...some cases the crowds and revenues have rivaled those of the 1980s. Ratt and Poison just wrapped up a long, large-venue summer tour where they played regularly before 8,000 to 10,000 fans. Ratt lead singer Pearcy says he noticed an emerging younger fan base of teenagers and twenty-somethings who were born years after Ratt multi-platinum Out of the Cellar album released in 1984. "It has been a gradual buildup again. It's rock and roll - colorful, dangerous, exciting," Pearcy said...
...pretty cool to play all these songs to sold out concerts and see younger kids, 12- to 13-year-old kids with "Shout at the Devil" T-shirts on," says Motley Crue's Vince Neil. "The whole essence of rock and roll is something that kids are latching on to. This is what Motley Crue was always about, the music and the show. We are in our heyday now. This is the time." Motley Crue is planning to record a new album this coming winter...
...Rainbows blazes new possibilities for established bands, it could also provide labels with a chance to redefine their business. The majors can still be influential and profitable by focusing on younger acts that need muscle to get radio play and placement in record stores, or they can continue the recent trend of signing mature acts to "360 deals," in which they participate in profits from nonrecord income streams like touring and publishing...
...Richard P. Chait, professor of higher education at the Graduate School of Education, notes that opting for senior scholars rather than junior faculty for tenured positions can potentially lower morale among the younger set. “ If you tenure from outside,” he says, “from the vantage point of junior faculty it can feel as if someone is cutting in line ahead...
...Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year...