Are there any lawyers who can ACTUALLY play guitar?

bingefeller

d8m said:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/lawyer-guitarist-jon-levin-is-probably-your-favorite-80s-metal-bands-attorney-4892865

He's wearing a suit and has books behind him and everything!  This guy isn't messing around.

scrumhalf

I got my degree in law before going over to the dark side (accountancy).

Drew_TNBD

My pot-smoking Dog The Bounty Hunter crack addict friend became a lawyer, so I don't really have high standards for them!

bingefeller

Drew_fx said:

My pot-smoking Dog The Bounty Hunter crack addict friend became a lawyer, so I don't really have high standards for them!

Stop being jealous!

Strangefan

TimmyO said:

What is it about playing guitar that attracts this sort of negative vibe if you do it as a hobby?

The same doesn't be true of, say, golf. Or driving fast cars. Or painting. 

I'm not sure if it's an inverted snobbery thing toward people with money, or a crushing inferiority complex that might be common among the kind of people drawn to playing guitar but it is odd whatever the cause. 

I earn good money. I have awesome gear. I'm a bit shit at guitar. But I really enjoy it. In that respect I am very happy to be 'out' :-)






All down to psychology,  guitar has always been seen as a rough and ready instrument, (think back to original. Blues,  grunge, rock,  punk etc).    
Being a lawyer is the other end of the spectrum,  and really a hated profession,  so what ever they do as a hobby (especially the same as ours)  is going to get jibes. 

It's down to money as well,  dentists and lawyers are on more than most of us, which will bring about silly comments like "prs are dentists guitars" etc,  guitar players like to see them selves as grass roots playing earthy music away from the establishment, so any one earning more and doing a job like the above is going to get these silly comments. 

Why do you think so many guitarists play teles and prs are now unpopular,....... 

Just my opinion mind..... Even if it's the right one  

jamiexsilver

Duncan from legendary zombie thrash outfit Send More Paramedics is a lawyer, and he is bloody awesome on guitar.

thermionic

TimmyO said:

What is it about playing guitar that attracts this sort of negative vibe if you do it as a hobby?

The same doesn't be true of, say, golf. Or driving fast cars. Or painting. 

There is in fact a direct analogy in the world of cycling - "Dentists on Pinarellos" are a much-maligned sub-species of MAMIL.

Evilmags

FFS dentists are only upper middle at best, certainly non U...

Sporky

TimmyO said:

What is it about playing guitar that attracts this sort of negative vibe if you do it as a hobby?

The same doesn't be true of, say, golf. Or driving fast cars. Or painting.

It was true on the woodwork forum I joined. Anyone with a Lie Nielsen or Veritas plane instead of a 50s Stanley that they'd refurbished themselves was clearly just a diletante hobbyist (the suggestion being that this is a bad thing). Then there were the trade members, who were generally much nicer but had no interest in the craft side of things - they were interested in production and efficiency and output quality.

Basically hobbyists who want to be (or like to think they are) professionals are quite often mean and petty. Succesful professionals are generally too busy working, and most non-aspirational hobbyists are busy having fun.

Evilmags said:

FFS dentists are only upper middle at best, certainly non U...

We can always count on you to make an antiquated class war out of any thread, Mags. Don't ever change.

I'm still struggling to see where anyone suggested that dentists form part of the aristocracy, mind...

Drew_TNBD

Basically guys are dickheads. That's why we don't have any women here, and that's why we all try to one-up each other all the time. Coz we're cunts.

JezWynd

someone has to be.

rlw

Mate of mine - an ex client - is a District Judge and he plays lead in an originals band, so no covers.
Bloody good he is too and thoroughly likeable and charming, with something of a public spirited attitude to housing law.

TimmyO

Drew_fx said:

Basically guys are dickheads. That's why we don't have any women here, and that's why we all try to one-up each other all the time. Coz we're cunts.

"we all" ? Speak for yourself. 

Drew_TNBD

TimmyO said:

Drew_fx said:

Basically guys are dickheads. That's why we don't have any women here, and that's why we all try to one-up each other all the time. Coz we're cunts.

"we all" ? Speak for yourself. 

Well tbh I was mostly speaking for you, but didn't really want to single you out. Soz babez xxx

thecolourbox

Drew_fx said:

Basically guys are dickheads. That's why we don't have any women here, and that's why we all try to one-up each other all the time. Coz we're cunts.

Yeah cos women hate all that bitchiness stuff don't they. In fact that's why so many men go to sewing bees and Zumba

octatonic

As I once said to Johnny Depp, all men are braggarts and liars.

Drew_TNBD

thecolourbox said:

Drew_fx said:

Basically guys are dickheads. That's why we don't have any women here, and that's why we all try to one-up each other all the time. Coz we're cunts.

Yeah cos women hate all that bitchiness stuff don't they. In fact that's why so many men go to sewing bees and Zumba

Yeah pretty much.

Bucket

Strangefan said:
 guitar players like to see them selves as grass roots playing earthy music away from the establishment, so any one earning more and doing a job like the above is going to get these silly comments. 

I don't get this.

I don't think of myself as some maverick cosmic explorer just because I play a bit of guitar, and I think anyone who does think that of themselves is fundamentally a bit of a wanker who needs to take themselves a lot less seriously.

And I have total respect for people with good jobs who work hard to make a lot of money - fair play to them. Do what you want as a hobby, you've earned it. I'm inclined to have more respect for a lawyer or dentist who balances a demanding, highly-paid job with a sincere dedication to their musical leanings when they have some time to play, than I would to someone like the frontman of my old band, who at 24 was basically a feckless layabout who spent all day dicking around in his parents' attic trying to finesse some shitty-sounding recordings of songs no-one except him liked rather than getting a job and earning his own money.

TheBlueWolf

There's a magician who practises law but he's one of them four string types so it doesn't count.

He does a cracking BBQ though

DLM

d8m said:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/lawyer-guitarist-jon-levin-is-probably-your-favorite-80s-metal-bands-attorney-4892865

Yup, came here to post about Jon Levin. Listen to his interview with The Double Stop to hear how he runs his legal practice from Dokken's tourbus.