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A motley crew of Wall Street execs are unbuttoning their collars, powering down their Bloomberg terminals and living out part-time rock-star dreams. “The hours are long. I’m here from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. I’ll never profess to be Jimmy Page or The Edge, but when I pick up the guitar, it’s a great outlet,” said Greg Dabal, a director in prime services at a major Wall Street bank and guitarist for The Cause, a band made up of execs at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. “It’s really cool to see people in our industry let their hair down.” “We have pretty onerous schedules, but all of us are pretty helpless at golf, so this becomes a substitute,” echoed Chris Heasman, a portfolio manager at Lazard.

A motley crew of Wall Street execs are unbuttoning their collars, powering down their Bloomberg terminals and living out part-time rock-star dreams.

“The hours are long. I’m here from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. I’ll never profess to be Jimmy Page or The Edge, but when I pick up the guitar, it’s a great outlet,” said Greg Dabal, a director in prime services at a major Wall Street bank and guitarist for The Cause, a band made up of execs at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. “It’s really cool to see people in our industry let their hair down.”

“We have pretty onerous schedules, but all of us are pretty helpless at golf, so this becomes a substitute,” echoed Chris Heasman, a portfolio manager at Lazard.

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  1. organicallyadventurous reblogged this from thedailyfeed and added:
    This is the kind of executive I aspire to be. Awesome.
  2. momentarysadness reblogged this from thedailyfeed and added:
    AKA why you shouldn’t take us bankers seriously. We have lives beyond our little cubicles too. =)
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