Feb 20, 2025
This 11-minute LIVE 4-song
performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in
Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr,
under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a
songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr.
Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years.
After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce to perform a short segment of his songs and parodies as an entertainment break at the Sun legal All-Hands conferences in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the country (including the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas).
Bruce stayed with Sun Legal, becoming Assistant General Counsel in 2008 before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 where Bruce remained until retiring in 2020.
These 4 songs consist of a barbershop song arrangement about nearby San Francisco, "Java," about Sun's trademark infringement case against Microsoft at the time, "That Lonesome Road" with Bruce digitally generating 3 harmony parts triggered by his lead vocal per pre-programmed chord changes. Closing the set is one of his parodies about office life, "Black Magic Marker."
Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and had over 150 song plays on Dr. Demento. Though Bruce is retired, he continues to write, record, and upload his original songs, parodies and videos to his blog loosebrucekerr.com, YouTube, and other platforms.
He lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California where they are expecting 2 new kittens.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
