Sherlock was a hipster

I shattered my own world thinking about this.  I almost cried.

So, in the late 19th century, Sherlock was playing the romantic German violin pieces--roughly a few decades behinid the times, really.  That means that if you were to update Sherlock to the modern era, Sherlock would be this middle-aged guy who was really interested in the music of a few decades ago--that is, the 80's. 

Sherlock would play electric guitar and bust out with a gnarly solo in the modern equivalent of his parlor--a garage.  He'd look down on everyone and enjoy his esoteric taste, and say that he was doing the detective work before CSI ever picked it up.

This image is one step away from birth control glasses and skinny jeans on a fixed-gear bike. 

"Lately, I've been working on the Juliana Weber case.  You probably haven't heard of it."