Balloon Boy's Tween Heavy Metal Career Lifts Off
Camille Dodero · 07/02/13 11:59AMRichard Heene did not mean to utter the words. The 51-year-old manager of the Heene Boyz, an unsigned metal band comprising his three home-schooled sons, was recounting how one Christmas years ago, he was so broke that he'd had to design an ingenious sort of wooden building system, fabricated from $35 worth of materials, for his children's present.