"Happy Birthday, Billy!" someone called when the song ended, and Mr. Hector his black sideburns tinged with gray, the spotlight reflecting off the glasses he started wearing two years ago took a small bow with an abashed grin before starting the next one.
It's a powerful dream that has lured many, but eluded most: to earn your keep in life with nothing but your guitar. It's what brought Mr. Hector south from his hometown of Orange in 1977, when he joined the Shots, the house band at the Stone Pony; what drove him through the string of other bands in the 1980s and '90s that almost, but never quite, broke out of the local club scene; and what sustains him still, 14 albums and more than 7,000 gigs later.... In the Wonder Bar as midnight neared, he seemed to have ascended into that realm as he closed his first set with a raucous version of "Old School Thang," a funk-driven original...." from Jersey - Still Strumming and Rocking After All These Years - NYTimes.com <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/07colnj.htm\ l?_r=1&scp=1&sq=asbury+park&st=nyt&oref=slogin> http://tinyurl.com/5u8zs5 <http://tinyurl.com/5u8zs5> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
