Jacques Brautbar
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Jacques Brautbar was born March 14, 1979 in Los Angeles, California. He is an American photographer and guitarist, formerly of the Los Angeles rock band Phantom Planet. He left the band in 2004, after their self titled release, to pursue a career in Photography. However, Brautbar plays in the electronica band Something for Rockets. After Phantom Planet recruited Jeff Conrad on drums, Brautbar began to grow tired of music. As a result of his discontent, Brautbar quit music all together, sold his guitar and became a photographer. Singer Alex Greenwald explains his departure.
"As much as Jacques contributed because he was an amazing guitar player, towards the end he was visibly showing wear and tear and not liking playing and I think that might have been making all of us a little sad for him," Greenwald said. "He just wasn't happy and we just felt really bad and that affected our playing as a band. But now that he's happy as a photographer and we're super happy as a four piece, and I think it shows."
More than six months after Brautbar's renouncement of music, Greenwald described Schwartzman's and Brautbar's splits from the band as amicable and easy. "It was more like wishing them off to college; they have to do this and they can't stay home anymore. They can't till the farm"[1]
