Once he delivered my mail for a week or two. It's true!
**I saw Debbie (guitar player) from Curve/Echobelly working at a used disc store in London right across from the Notting Hill tube stop in 2000.**
She still does, Alex. It's the big Record and Tape Exchange (or Music and Video exchange as it's now called.) She's usually in the rock rareties section upstairs, where Epic Soundtracks also used to work.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
James Williamson of the Stooges does something w/computers in Silicon Valley.
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.electroharmonix.co.jp/tubeworks/img/911.jpg
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"Once he delivered my mail for a week or two. It's true!"
It can't be all that frequent for a customer to ask a postman to sign something he hasn't even delivered....
Last year my old mate N* (who's a delivery driver) was asked to deliver a package to an address somewhere in Surrey.
So he turned up at the door of this cottage and knocked - and it was answered by none other than Bruce Foxton of The Jam / Stiff Little Fingers.
The ensuing converstaion apparently went something like this:
N*: "Bruce Foxton?" BF: "Yes?"N*: "Bruce...? Foxton...?"BF: "Errrr.... yes?"N*: "Bruce Foxton!"BF: "Can I help you?"N*: "But you're.... you're.... Bruce Foxton!"BF: "Ummm.... yes, I know!"
On his return to the depot, N* was apparently asked to explain why he hadn't obtained a signature for the delivery and the only explanation he was able to offer was "He was Bruce Foxton.... Bruce Foxton? Oh, you know: Bruce Foxton!"
I believe N* got a bit of a bollocking for leaving the package without getting a signature but he still insists that his biggest regret was failing to ask Mr. Foxton to teach him how to play the bass line to "Precious".
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
His body (and the wreckage of his minivan) was later found at the bottom of a ravine off of Highway 23 in the Santa Monica Mountains.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
-- noizem duke (dan...), February 2nd, 2005.
We all gotta work; it's part of God's plan.
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
(she was a drummer in an all girl band)
― rumming around in botswana, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Don Van Vliet paints too, but I don't know what his stuff sells for.
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
He probably does this for bragging rights.
Big Paul Ferguson of Killing Joke is now an art restorer, specializing in pre-Islamic Afghan scupture (Ghandaran?)
Doesn't Jim Martin, ex Faith No More, now raise genetically enhanced super-sized vegetables (ala Woody Allen's "Sleeper")? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
She's at Cal State Chico and spends time in her trailer out in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
xpost: Milo is a chemistry chair (?) at the University of Delaware. I went to the same college that Milo originally went to while he was still there doing his PhD candidacy and my friend BB and I would go into his office and antagonize him to no end... hehe.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't/Isn't Greg Graffin of Bad Religion a professor at UC Berkeley?
― cdwill, Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― ave satani (lemike), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― michaeln (kid loki), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/
― cdwill, Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gareth steamy specs, Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Amazing, if true. Just like that Bruce Dickinson story. Wow.
― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
On the contrary, I find it inspiring, especially the many examples of those for whom a music career was just one chapter in an interesting and varied life.
― briania (briania), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
And I think we can all agree that piloting an airplane is the more inspiring of *those* two choices.
And Pat DiNizio as an elementary Music teacher somehow strikes me as insanely cool. I'll bet the songwriters-turned-teachers list is quite long, given the number that come to mind immediately.
― Paul Roub, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
todd trainer (shellac) has been selling hair products for like 15 years or something.
brian mcmahan (slint) is now an electrician.
matt talbot (hum)owns his own recording studio and is a high school football coach near champaign, il.
wayne coyne (flaming lips) worked at a long john silvers for over 10 years.
adam pfahler (jawbreaker) owns his own video store.
― kristofer@sleepcomesdown.com, Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
OH MAN, you gotta tell some stories.
Also, Deniz Tek not only became a doctor, but an emergency room surgeon in Montana. He & his wife returned to Aussie Land a coupla years ago since she missed it. He's always talked about musicians needing to keep a day job, just to maintain some connection to real life.
Mike Lutz from Brownsville Station(co-wrote "Smokin' in the Boys Room" with Cub Koda) taught me bass guitar for a coupla years. Cub Koda became a rock writer, and wrote for AMG right up until his death in 2000.
― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
so freakee when that happens. oddly i now live bang opposite the house that john mcgeogh (mentioned upthread) used to live in, in whalley range. small world etc.
― piscesboy, Friday, 12 August 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
You won't WITHER when you get the BILL!
-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...), February 1st, 2005.
I had a good chuckle readint this again ...
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link
and still does, for kicks! its the smile on the kids' faces when he sells them popcorn shrimp that brings him back at least once a year.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
You're laughing at your own jokes, Josh?
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
There's a lot of wisdom in this comment. I think a lot of people would have a hard time doing *nothing* after becoming famous, especially if (as most of the folks above) they never hit the A-List anyway.
I always think about Andy Kaufman, who at the height of his fame worked at Cantor's Deli and was apparently a good, conscientious worker.
― mike a, Friday, 12 August 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
There was a quote from Cliff Richard in the Times a while ago, in an article about (and whole-heartedly in favour of) extending copyright, in which he bemoaned the fact that some poor old musicians who'd had a single hit many decades ago could no longer earn a living off the royalties. Get a job!
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eddie Spaghetti, Friday, 12 August 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
this thread is depressing... dreams have been shattered
-- firstworldman ( ), February 3rd, 2005 4:45 AM.
again.
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link