New Careers AFTER The Music Industry - Senoff's 1970s West Coast Music Industry Photos and Memories

Senoff's 1970s West Coast Music Industry Photos and Memories

New Careers AFTER The 1970s Music Industry

So is there life AFTER the Music Industry? We found some very good examples from people that some of us knew during those crazy 1970s. Do you know about someone (even you) who went though a major career re-invention after the 70's music scene? Let us know.

ABE HOCH became a top echelon Hollywood manager for many motion picture and television personalities

BILL (now WILL) YARYAN teaches English to Thai Monks at one of Thailand's key universities

Bob Emmer followed his successful career in business affairs and legal in the music business to co-founding the Shout Factory video and music organization

BOB LEVINSON went from an ultra entertainment public relations specialist to an internationally-known writer of mystery novels and stories

CAMERON CROWE transformed from one of the most prolific and acclaimed music writers to the highly lauded producer and director of numerous award-winning motion pictures

COLLEEN GRIFFIN swerved from her years at Atlantic Records to a long career in the television industry on a variety of shows

COLMAN ANDREWS became an internationally-lauded food writer, reviewer, editor and entrapreneur

DAVID GEFFEN found even greater success after the music business, becoming a powerful business magnate, producer, film studio executive and philanthropist

DAVID RENSIN moved from magazine journalist to the author of a steady stream of best-selling books on a variety of topics

DON WHITTEMORE started the highly-successful Dandy Don's Ice Cream company

GORDON SKENE's role in the music industry changed when he started his epic, online (and so valuable) historical news archive "Past Daily".

JIM BICKHART has been very actively involved in Los Angeles-area political service for many years

JOHN GIBSON'S music industry career was followed by his high-profile news commentary career on Fox News

Ex-Marketing Executive MACEY LIPMAN has become a full-time painter/artist based in Europe

MICHAEL OCHS used his music industry acumen to create the Michael Ochs Archives, the world's largest single collection of musician/music photography

Ndu (formerly Bernard) Comas moved from the music industry into creating his own high-end, home audio and video equipment installation service

PAMELA DES BARRES (Miss Pamela) emerged from groupie stardom to become a best-selling author and creative writing instructor

PETE SENOFF traded-in his music industry marketing experience for more than two decades in healthcare business development

PETER GREENBERG currently the Travel Editor for CBS Morning News, has been a successful travel writer, editor and businessman since leaving Newsweek

PHILIP CHIANG went from art directing with Rod Dyer to creating the super successful P.F. Chiang's restaurant chain

SAM GRAHAM went from writing about the music industry to becoming a musician, himself

SAM SUTHERLAND's post music business career saw him emerge in the technology sphere with a multi-decade stint at Microsoft

Teri Pierce made the change from editing several major teen magazines in the 70s to becoming an animal trainer today

WALLY AMOS transferred from a William Morris agent to the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate cookie empire

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NOTE: This website was created for purely entertainment and archival/educational purposes, for those of us who were involved in the music industry in the 1970's. My intent is to bring a memory and hopefully a smile to your faces as you view photos of your friends and associates from those treasured years. This is strictly a non-profit, non-commercial website. Nothing is for sale on this site and we urge you to respect the copyright ownership of the photos that appear herein. There are thousands of photos on this site and some are seemingly public domain shots that I used for purely illustrative purposes. We have made every effort to contact photo copyright holders when they are identified. If you are a rights holder to any of the photos on this site and feel strongly about them not being displayed on this type of forum, please contact me and I will immediately respond to you and take down the photo(s), if you so desire.

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