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Music first business for old friends
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Matt Alexander, right, and Bart Dorough talk with customer Keith Miller at FASTSIGNS in Cumming. Alexander and Dorough run the business by day and play in a band together by night. - photo by Autumn Vetter
Bart Dorough and Matt Alexander spend their days listening to the hum of large-scale printers, but the notes of their nights and weekends are quite different. The pair runs the Buford Highway FASTSIGNS, a franchise that creates a variety of specialty signs, but their partnership strikes deeper chords through a longstanding love of music. Dorough and Alexander have known each other since attending high school and college together in Birmingham, Ala.