We're sure no one was expecting Usher or Franz Ferdinand to perform at any of the convention-related parties, but some of the considerably less-than-hip entertainment choices still raised some eyebrows.
Z.Z. Top played a corporate-sponsored party on Monday at B.B. King, but the bearded bunch wasn't the headliner—that would be cover band Kiss Nation.
Senator John McCain did book current Saturday Night Live cast member Darrell Hammond to make an appearance at his Wednesday night party at Cipriani 42nd Street—but he'll perform with Joe Piscopo, who joined the cast in 1980.
Piscopo also made an appearance—singing Sinatra songs, no less—at a reception for the Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education on Monday on the Intrepid.
And speaking of the Intrepid, the Pointer Sisters will perform at a party there for the California delegation on Thursday. ("Neutron Dance" was on the charts in 1985, by the way.)
One 80's exception: Lynyrd Skynyrd—whose first album came out in 1973—played a party for Southern delegates at Crobar on Sunday night.
Another: Country duo Brooks & Dunn—who are playing an AIDS fund-raiser for 1,200 in Rockefeller Center on Wednesday—are not 80's throwbacks. But they're not exactly hip either.
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