In the late '70s, when 24-track recording was possible but there was no reliable way to automate mixing, mixing records was a live performance, with the producer, the engineer and half the band called in to push faders up and down as the track was bounced to the master tape.

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For the next hour and a half, the band plays through a set that alternates tales of economic pain with party-time escape.

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My old management got half and the band split the rest.

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Then comes The War, in this case Vietnam, and the band loses half its members to the draft.

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Its rugged music with an infectious attitude, but sounds only make up one half of Khan's band.

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Wes, we'll help you on one condition: the next time you're directing a half-time show, the band has to stand in the shape of the Engadget logo.

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Watson and Fowler make up half of golf's only boy band, the Golf Boys, along with Ben Crane and FedEx Cup leader Hunter Mahan.

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About half of the young people involved with the comparsa band have found jobs or returned to school.

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In all of its two and a half minutes, "Silver Moon" finds singer Eric Earley guiding the band through a hooky chorus, backed by the infectious sounds of a harmonica.

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