Tuneful Lincoln Drive in High Gear: Hill Area Lawyers Guilty of Making Great Music
In the fall of 2017, Chuck Marion, 55, a Wyndmoor attorney with the major center city law firm Blank Rome, received an email about a charity, battle- of-the-bands event at the World Café Live in West Philly called “Law Rocks.” Each band was required to have at least one lawyer in it (doesn’t every band?) and would be performing to raise money for a charity of its choice before an audience of about 200.
Marion had previously filled in for the keyboard player in another band that friends Craig Stutman and Jim Sturdivant play in and had played tennis regularly (and had occasional music jam sessions) with Erik Sabo. Stutman knew and invited Scott Galper to join them. The band performed a six-song, 30-minute set at the event. They did not win but got a lot of positive feedback, thus giving birth to the classic rock band Pleasant Avenue, whose name was recently changed to Lincoln Drive.
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“We play primarily for fun,” said Marion, the band’s spokesman (after all, he’s a lawyer), "as we all are lifelong musicians who greatly enjoy performing, composing and listening to music. We would like to continue expanding our repertoire and will be adding more original songs to it, as some of us write songs. We are currently playing a few originals but mostly cover songs. We also hope to eventually record some of our songs."
"Tuneful Lincoln Drive in High Gear: Hill Area Lawyers Guilty of Making Great Music," by Len Lear was published in Chestnut Hill Local on July 24, 2019.
