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Player Entertainment Law

Thomas Andrew Player, JD, MBA

About Me


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After serving as a trial attorney in two prominent litigation firms, I established Player Entertainment Law in 2000, for the express purpose of providing legal representation, business consultation, and career guidance to musicians, producers, actors, writers, models, and other “players” in the entertainment industry in all aspects of their professional careers.
I am active in the Entertainment, Arts, & Sports Law Section of the Florida Bar, and I am a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy Awards), The Florida Bar , the Seminole County Bar Association, and the Florida Justice Association; I am admitted to practice in all Florida state courts and the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida.
I also play bass guitar and did so professionally for many years, and I still perform and record every chance I get. My experiences as a professional musician have given me considerable insight into the music business and an appreciation of the industry from the musician’s perspective.
If I get really bold, really stupid, or really drunk, I may even post some embarrassing pictures here from my rocked-out glory days in the big-hair, leather-clad 80’s …
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Cool people and talented, professional, dedicated bands and musicians who make original music that moves me in one way or another. Preferably those who are true to their art and take it seriously, but who don’t take themselves too seriously, and who are REAL, down to earth, realistic, have personality and a sense of humor, don’t suffer from “LSD” (lead singer disorder), and who truly love making music and do so for the right reasons.

Not Alex
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How Would YOU spend Three Trillion Dollars?

Music:

Alter Bridge; Benjamin Warren; Black Star Morning; Breaking Benjamin; Chase; Cinder; Collective Soul; Cori Yarckin; Crease; Dark new Day; Disturbed; Dolt; DoubleDrive; Downstem/ dManufacture; Echovalve; The Exies; Faktion; Finger Eleven; Fall Of Envy; Fuel; Filter; Holotype; Incubus; Indorphine; InTension; Jimmy’s Chicken Shack; Live; Megaphone; Munk Tung; Jane Automobile; Puddle of Mudd; Red Hot Chili Peppers; 7 Blue Skies; Sevendust; Seven Channels; Sixx: A.M.; Social Ghost; Tantric; Therapy Chamber; Tool; Under The Flood; Virgos (and Merlot, of course); Whole Wheat Bread; Within Chaos; X:144

… and that just scratches the surface; I can appreciate anything that demonstrates talent and musical integrity ...

Movies:

Every Kevin Smith movie; almost every Quentin movie; Tequila Sunrise; The Big Easy; Body Heat; Casablanca; Rock Star; Almost Famous; The Sweetest Thing; Training Day, Man on Fire, and pretty much anything Denzel has done; Grosse Point Blank and pretty much anything John Cusak has done; all the James Bond movies; some of the John Grisham movies …

Television:

Law and Order; CSI; Boston Legal; Shark; Desperate Housewives; Gene Simmons Family Jewels; My Name Is Earl …

Heroes:

Tyler Thomas Player
My son, my pride and joy!
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Tyler Thomas Player

My Blog

Fall Of Envy’s Awesome CD Release Party

Fall of Envy brought the heat on Friday night for their CD release party.  They managed to pack the venue on a rainy night, and the crowd was fist-pumping and singing the lyrics to every song fro...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:51:00 PST

FALL OF ENVY CD RELEASE !!!

The long-awaited release of Fall Of Envy's debut full-length CD, titled Poetic Rage, is finally upon us.Fall Of Envy will be hosting a CD release party at the AKA Lounge in downtown Orlando this Frida...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:46:00 PST

SECOND YEAR -Voted Top Entertainment Attorney in Central Florida

For the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW I have been voted by my peers as top entertainment attorney in Central Florida for the Orlando Business Journal's Annual "Best of the Bar" which recognizes attorneys at th...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:38:00 PST

Thank you Suzann and Full Sail

A big thank you goes out to Suzann Bain and Full Sail. Suzann is an entertainment attorney and teacher in the entertainment business masters degree program at Full Sail. Suzann invited me to be a gu...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:35:00 PST

This Friday: I will be on the Florida Music Festival panel on "Legal Issues in the Music Biz"

The Florida Music Festival is this weekend, and I will be on an industry panel discussing the topic of legal issues in the music business. The panel will be this Friday, May 18, 2007, from 11:30 to...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Mon, 14 May 2007 02:40:00 PST

MUNK TUNG OPENING FOR GODSMACK THIS SUNDAY!!!

I am very very proud of my boys in Munk Tung as they were personally selected by Godsmack, over approximately sixty other bands, to open for them at their Orlando Hard Rock show this Sunday, May 13, 2...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

X:144 & SPS on Soul Brother Kevin's show TONIGHT!

Listen to X:144 & SPS tonight at 8:00 PM on Soul Brother Kevin's show on Real Radio 104.1I'll be in the studio, too, with my home boy Roy Smith, so call in with your entertainment law questions ...Pea...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:32:00 PST

Megaphone at WJRR's EarthDay Birthday 14

Congratualations to my boys in Megaphone, who made the cut and will be playing on the Native Noise stage at WJRR 101.1's EarthDay Birthday 14.EarthDay Birthday is April 28, 2007 at Tinker Field in Orl...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:34:00 PST

Voted Top Entertainment Attorney in Central Florida

What can I say?  I am very proud to have been voted by my peers as the number one entertainment attorney in Central Florida for the Orlando Business Journal's 2006 Annual "Best of the Bar" which ...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:11:00 PST

My Son ...

WELCOME TO THE WORLD, MY SONTyler Thomas PlayerBaby-Rex!!!Born: 08/29/055 lbs. 14 oz.18.5 inchesHe is my Mini-Me  with Asian eyes! ...
Posted by Player Entertainment Law on Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:49:00 PST