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John Kerry played in the The Electra's.

Poised for a big deal with Capitol Records the band's deal was thwarted by the myopic Kerry's side gig desires for war hero, senator and presidential canidate.

― pat aspat, Saturday, 8 October 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Heh. Yes I am indeed that bloke, you know the white guy, from Londonbeat, who had that song "I've been thinking about you" - I live and work in Los Angeles as a professional photographer. After I quit the band in 95 I started a software company called Rocket Network that developed a system that ships large media files securely and quickly across the internet. I sold the company to Avid in 2003. Didn't get rich but got out of high tech to follow my love of photography...

This is an interesting thread overall. Speaking as one who had a few minutes in the spot light in the early 90s, I have found that life after being in a band is great. You have to sacrifice so much of your own life and friend and family relationships to get a real career going that keeping a balance of real life and chasing the music dream becomes inpossible to keep. I got no regrets...but I am glad I don't live out of a suitcase anymore. Here's some more stuff about my work www.rockstarphoto.us

― william henshall, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

not sure if this counts, but the drummer from Flock of Seagulls used to work on the manufacturing floor of my workplace.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

after being in the band that is.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Earl Brutus' Nick Sanderson is reportedly working as a train driver...

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Swedish singer Jakob Hellman went to work in a breadpacking factory after his succesful debutalbum.

― Johanna K, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Andy Spearpoint (formerly of New Fast Automatic Daffodils) now runs percussion workshops for schools in West Yorkshire.

― Niall, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I was NEVER an A&R person. That was a Steve ("God Bless Him") Albini construct to help him seem important.

I did help run some 'cool' record companies, like Caroline. I walked away as the industry fell off the cliff -- hell, they didn't want me anyway.

Now I'm a 2nd year law student, hoping to one day help out some artists and others in the new world we live in.

― Lyle Preslar, Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Lori Barbero of the Minneapolis based Babes in Toyland was a waitress at the Modern Cafe. Don't know if she's still there tho, I haven't been in a while.

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― Todd Fugere, Saturday, 12 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

as far as i know speedy j is a graphic designer
i also heard he lives in a house in the shape of a cube resting on one of its points

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

donald trump delivers my mail in the morning,and i don't even tip him

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

Sarah Shannon of Velocity Girl is finishing up her second release. Currently, I heard she's label shopping with it.(www.sarahshannon.com)

I too have heard Jim Spellman is at CNN and Archie's at a DC studio.

Kelly and Brian of V-girl are at the Washington City Paper I think....

Still waiting on the V-girl reunion album....It's hard to believe with the myspace explosion and internet adv. that the V-girl fans out there wouldn't unite to pay some $ for it... :)

― poor artist, Friday, 18 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I was NEVER an A&R person. That was a Steve ("God Bless Him") Albini construct to help him seem important.
I did help run some 'cool' record companies, like Caroline. I walked away as the industry fell off the cliff -- hell, they didn't want me anyway.
Now I'm a 2nd year law student, hoping to one day help out some artists and others in the new world we live in.

-- Lyle Preslar (lyle.presla...), November 10th, 2005.

Sorry, my bad.

This thread just got ten times cooler, though.

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I know Andrew Mcleay - the bass guitarist for top Melbourne band "The Link" from the very late 80's is a stay at home dad while his wife works as a financial controller. I say bring that band back!

― lenni sarugan, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

FM Cornog (better known as East River Pipe) works at Home Depot.

― michael g. breece, Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

That Speedy J cube house rumor is correct, he lives in one of these in Overblaak, Rotterdam:

http://travel.u.nu/pic/nl/overblaak.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I was seeing those buildings *minutes ago* in a Jackie Chan movie...

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Martin Atkins teaches a course in touring in a college in Chicago. I think he wrote his own wikipedia entry.

― hector (hector), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Fascinating thread.

From the Loud Family: Scott Miller is a computer programmer.

...and working on a new album, I hear, despite swearing off the biz a few years back.

Ed's Redeeming Qualities: Dan Leone became a food critic. Carrie Bradley started working for a graphic design company after her tenure in the Breeders.

Vudi from American Music Club also did the taxi-driver gig, I believe.

To follow-up far upthread, Don Van Vliet's paintings go for a rather large stack of nickels, yes.

Laurie Anderson claims to have worked at a McDonald's in NYC recently, but it was undoubtedly for more of a conceptual/storytelling purpose as usual. I would have paid large sums of money to sit in on that job interview, though.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

the dudes from the punk band 7 Seconds all have day jobs, I'm pretty sure. I know Kevin (singer) owns a cafe (True Love Cafe) in Northrn California with his wife and hosts a punk show at a radio station. Steve Youth (bassist) is a liquor distributor for nightclubs in the Reno area. Troy (drummer) owns a landscaping company. Bobby (guitarist) owns a limo company.

― Criztopher, Monday, 12 December 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Vudi from American Music Club may have driven a taxi, but I am fairly sure he is a currently a Metro bus driver in Los Angeles.

― r3000, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Chris Richards from Q and Not U writes for the Washington Post

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

― Gregory639, Friday, 12 May 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom is (or has been) a real estate agent, I read somewhere.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Neal Smith, original drummer (and "platinum god") in Alice Cooper, is a real estate agent in Connecticut...

Larry "Mr . Fingers" Heard quit music to go into computer programming...(I hear he's back, though)...

and somebody mentioned Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart...yeah, his music wasn't selling so he had to go into visual art to make ends meet...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

When I was in college in the late eighties, I remember seeing one of the members of Eleventh Dream Day working in a Chicago record store. It was right then and there I saw the light that recording for a major label didn't give you a license to quit your day job. Even at 20-21 years old, I knew that the indie-level bands had some other source of income besides music, but 11DD were on Atlantic Records at the time - home of Phil Collins and Debbie Gibson! But, they weren't making Phil or Debbie's $$$, so...

yessir, empire records on...cicero, i think it was. met rick rizzo there in 1992. had the exact same reaction.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing (in my searches) to corroborate the Topper Headon taxi driver story though.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

There are a few threads about Arthur "Killer" Kane. Real human interest stuff. Every few months I fall off the wagon and post sentimental garbage, and Killer Kane comes up every time.

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, Leila K., known for her "Got To Get" hit with Rob'n'Raz back in 1990, is now a prostitute in Stockholm.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Ach, Geir, yee're me only salvation, b'I'm a quartet wooorse'n any'wheeedlin' whoooor 'at yoo've got'r'oond.!?

Hoch-le-roi.

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

― nebraska992, Friday, 26 May 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Barry Melton, lead guitarist from 60's Band "Country Joe and the Fish" became a California state judge after the band broke up.

― jamie, Friday, 26 May 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

david yow (scratch acid / jesus lizard) is now a graphic design artist.
Here are some of the funny/interesting details:
I drew the ice board that the character Frozone from The Incredibles is riding on the billboards and bus signs etc., I worked on the billboards for Madagascar, Chicken Little, The Bogey Man, etc. I've done a shit-load of DVD covers, among them, Garfield, The Movie; Monk . . . yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah and so on...
From: What David Yow has been up to...

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Dr. Tory Crimes, Chiropractor

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dang, I probably could have thought of a decent "back work" joke there.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

After one ill-advised album in 1985, Eddie Murphy want back to work as a comedian. Wise move (even though he was a lot funnier in 1985 than he is now)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

David Yow doing DVD covers for children's movies is kind of awesome.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

the punch-line to it all this, is that it turns out
(according to 'REMarks/REMade') that peter buck was paid *in vinyl* and he was only doing it to stave off post-tour boredom. so the story goes.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hang on, Bruce Springsteen selling furniture, 8 posts up from here?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

jeff "skunk" baxter of the doobie brothers consults the pentagon on weapons systems after researching and writing a paper that got noticed (god i despise this country as it is today...)

Boz Skaggs had a restaurant on Union St. in San Francisco and I walked past a lot...one time he was there changing light bulbs over the entrance...

― JOHN HANLEY (suddenfun), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Karl Precoda, ex-Dream Syndicate guitarist, occasional Last Days Of May mainman and 2005 Virginia Tech teacher award winner

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

Les Pattinson of Echo & The Bunnymen is now a boat builder

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Ex-YMG/Weekender Alison Statton is a chiropractor, too. I think she and Tory Crimes should form a practice specializing in fiftysomething ex-punks.

― mike a, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Guy Kyser of Thin White Rope, something of a household god of mine, has worked for years in botanical science at UC Davis. Ay dios mio I miss him!

Matthew Seligman, bassist from Soft Boys, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins etc etc etc, is yet another one who became a lawyer (breaking briefly for the SB reunion).

Tony Maimone runs a studio down the street from my apartment. I felt like such a nerd for being impressed when I heard that.

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

David Fair of Half Japanese works at my local public library. If you're lucky, you can spot him doing 'story time' for the kids.

― circa1916, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Too Much Joy:
Tim Quirk is VP, Music Content and Programming for Real Networks.
Jay Blumenfeld produced a Ted Nugent reality show
Tommy Vinton just retired from the NYPD

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Eddie Phillips from The Creation worked as a London bus driver.

― goldmatt, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't Arthur Baker run a restaurant in London now?

― Matt #2, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

last night on Food Network, I saw Bobby Flay go head to head in a cupcake-making competition with a member of the early-90s SFTRI punk band Red Aunts. They made a big deal about how she was a punk rocker, now famous for her restaurants red velvet cupcakes.

My daughter was impressed that I owned one of her records.

What is it with this cupcake meme? I keep hearing about hipster joints that specialize in cupcakes

― bendy, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Patrick Fitzgerald (ex Kitchens of Disctinction) now has a day job again according to his website..

Mark Eitzel has a job doing something with computers...

― Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 12 May 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

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