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Technology Stocks : Rockwell-Spins off Conexant (CNXT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Boplicity who wrote (513)	11/18/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2013

Small Booth, Big Party: "Conexant f---ing rocks!" upside.com It's safe to say the Rockwell spinoff and IPOed Conexant got the bang for its buck from alternative rockers Sugar Ray at its Monday night party. So is Comdex. A young, sinewy ruffian--albeit an Orange County, Calif. ruffian--with spikey blondish hair and tattoos on most of his viewable skin real estate, shouting out the name of a CDMA chip leader again and again during a defiant performance. And eight out of 10 times, he didn't add an extra "T" in there. Sugar Ray's lead singer Mark McGrath sidled out to the front of the stage, swiveling his low-slung Dickies pants at the 30-something crowd, fist in the air. Spitting occasionally on the stage to clear his throat, McGrath played half the hour-long set and then invited two stumbling drunk tech professionals out of the crowd to rap for the crowd. Bowling-shirt clad Ivan spewed a string of expletives, while Brian managed to spin out a little Grandmaster Flash with a twitch of platinum-dyed hair. Brian caused a slight controversy by confessing he was from NVidia to a chorus of boos. McGrath then engaged the crowd in an NVidia vs. 3DFX shouting match, whipping the crowd into a frenzy before his next song. McGrath took the microphone back before playing some of Sugar Ray's radio-recognizable hits. Soon enough he was getting a flurry of black and red bras flung at him from excited well-made-up women in the swaying crowd of buttoned-down shirts. McGrath dutifully smelled each bra and stuffed it down in to the crotch of his pants. As McGrath said, Conexant f---ing rocks.