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Rock on.(DOWNTIME)

By Perkins, Barbara
Publication: South Florida CEO
Date: Sunday, May 1 2005

Just after 6 p.m. Friday, on the 40th floor of the Wachovia tower in downtown Miami, the impeccably dressed chairman of Steel Hector & Davis' bankruptcy and creditors rights department unchains himself from his desk.

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Within minutes Jack Shawde is tooling up Interstate-95. Reaching his Hollywood home, Shawde immediately backs his sport utility vehicle up to his garage and begins hauling guitars, amplifiers, staging and recording gear into the vehicle's attached trailer. The rest of his band will be there soon. "The gang usually meets at

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