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ROCKIN' ROLE – LEGAL BISNOW
That not-so-buttoned-down guy below isn't striking the most lawyerly pose, but we've checked it out and he's legit. He's Erik Huey, partner at Kilpatrick Stockton, just showing his alter ego as lead singer of the real live rock band The Surreal McCoys.
It's a six-person group Erik formed with friends from Notre Dame Law School (they took "ten years off" before picking up again in '05), but don't think these are mild-mannered attorneys re-living high school with covers of Brown-Eyed Girl. The Surreal McCoys have played L.A.'s famed Viper Room during Oscar week and just released their first album, "The Bottle and the Gun" (sample their toe-tapping title track, which Bisnow gives two thumbs up, here). They're not just in it for the sex and drugs, though; late last month, Erik led the McCoys through a set on the Warner Theater roof for ThanksUSA, a charity that provides scholarships to children and spouses of members of the armed forces.
ThanksUSA founder and NBC Universal lobbying head Bob Okun knew of Erik (and the McCoys) through Erik's lobbying for the Screen Actors Guild and other entertainment clients, so the band made a natural choice to play the after-party of a benefit concert headlined by country rocker (and former Marine) Stephen Cochran and pop singer Mylin, daughter of a Navy sailor. Despite the fact that Mylin has toured with Nick Lachey, we hear that she too is very good.