rock stars who went back work.

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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)

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)

Anyone know where to find discount furniture?

StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

awesome
http://www.thedevoeteam.com/

zappi, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

A+

g®▲đұ, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

can someone clever but 'to' in the title between 'back' and 'work'?

pisces, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Victor Krummenacher of Camper Van Beethoven:
Welcome to my day job.

For the last 15 years, I've been heavily involved in graphic design, when music doesn't pay the mortgage, this does. I've worked as the Art Director for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, as a page designer for Wired Magazine and as a freelance graphic designer for dozens of clients doing everything from CD design to advertisements to publication redesign.

Mike Dixn, Thursday, 27 September 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Eric Bachmann of Archers of Loaf sells Cuban sandwiches in Denver

Jake Brown, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

A few years back I remember seeing one of the members of ...and you will know us by the trail of dead working at a record store in Austin, specifically 33 degrees.

Also, Cuban sandwiches kick major ass and as such selling them is an honorable and praiseworthy trade.

l, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

I've been listening to Joe Escalante of the Vandals on Indie 103 in LA for a couple years now, it seems. Also Steve Jones (the Steve Jones) has a one-hour daily stint there.

nickn, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Joe was an entertainment biz lawyer for a while. He does a legal advice call-in once a week.

nickn, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:44 (eighteen 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."

The store I was implying was actually the long-defunct-and-much-missed Round Records on Sheridan, and 11DD's Baird Figi worked there in the late eighties and early nineties. Only now finding out that Rizzo worked at Empire.

Rev. Hoodoo, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

holy crap! i used to live around the corner from round records in '90-'91. went there all the time. had i recognized baird figi i'm sure my mind would have been similarly blown (as it was, it was another year until i ran into rizzo at empire for the mindblowing).

Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Janet Bean of EDD was working at Blackout Records on Southport (near the Music Box, was Pravda store at one point) in 1993. She accused me of stealing magazines, but I had just walked out with a Reader, which is free.
Rizzo was bartending at the Rainbo a few years ago, and maybe he still does. I don't go to too many bars any more.

Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Eric Bachmann of Archers of Loaf sells Cuban sandwiches in Denver

-- Jake Brown, Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Slicer of Loaf

latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Mr Jeff Dimpsey, bassist for '90s feedback-y rockers Hum who had the catchy song "Stars" among others, has a tech-y computer related job here at the University of Texas, where I go to class.

stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

also, can't believe this hasn't been mentioned here:

Pitchfork: Learn Guitar From Mission Of Burma's Roger Miller!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44102-learn-guitar-from-mission-of-burmas-roger-miller

stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

This is a good thread.

roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Tim Quirk of Too Much Joy is now a Rhapsody executive.

Jake Brown, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

... and I too find Cuban sandwiches tasty and Archers of Loaf rocking.

Jake Brown, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Tim Kerr of the Big Boys, producer and many other long-named bands works in a library at the University of Texas.

Misery, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Here I found some discount furniture:
nebraska furniture mart
broyhill furniture
jordans furniture
ethan allen furniture
levitz furniture
wickes furniture
bobs discount furniture
sauder furniture
wick furniture
harlem furniture

forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

dammit, xpost.

forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

kurt cobain *in between BLEACH and NEVERMIND* tried to start up a cleaning business called PINE STREET CLEANING. i just learned this on THE LAST 48 HOURS OF... bbc tv show. there's that weird sub-section of rock stars who went back to work; those who went back to work after recording a record or records but *just before they went huge*. this has got to be the best example i've heard of. even edges out lou reed working in his dad's company in between the end of the velvets and TRANSFORMER.

piscesx, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

When Turbonegro broke up in 1998, singer Hank von Helvete went to work as a caretaker in a whaling museum in Norway.

He spent (wasted) a large part of those four years on the street as a drug addict though.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

john strohm of blake babies/lemonheads is now a lawyer in the entertainment industreee

thereminimum chips (electricsound), Monday, 13 October 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

ha ha genuine lols at forks

max, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)


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