Digital media has provided many of us the opportunity to research and relive the past, particularly from 1983 into 1985. In 1983, the Purple Machine was in full stride. Prince’s 1999, The Time’s What Time Is It? and Vanity 6’s self-titled album were all hits and selling well. The Triple Threat Tour was scorching across the nation, powered in large part by The Time constantly upstaging Prince on the tour… I was there. The Rolling Stone magazine with the cover showing Prince and Vanity was the talk of the industry, all was good in the land of Purple…until it wasn’t. Defections, disagreements, firings and hirings, circumstances that led to the creation of… The Family. Like a comet, they burned hot and flamed out too soon…or did they?

Presently, I’m a Vice-Chair for the ABA Recording and Performing Arts division, a member of the Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter, a member of the Schwartz-Levi Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar Association. The bulk of my law practice is in music industry transactions, which I LOVE. I’ll be renewing my NBA agent credentials in October. And I have applied to teach a music law course at King Hall, the UC Davis Law School.

Before starting college and after dropping out of high school, I was a roadie in the Bay Area, and among the acts I worked with were Journey and Santana. Music is “my thing” and other than a possible run for the judicial bench, I don’t see myself in any other areas of law.

When I’m not doing my thing in the legal world, I can be found dining at various Michelin-star restaurants or listening to my audiophile sound system and reading a music biography or a comic book. I’m a complex cat…