rock stars who went back work.

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.

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

This is a good thread.

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

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

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

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

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

dammit, xpost.

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.

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.

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

ha ha genuine lols at forks

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

― pisces, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:07 (2 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.

I'll stand by this one that I posted a few years ago.

Christina Carter (1/2 of Charalambides) has a record store gig at Waterloo Records in Austin. See her there almost every week. Once she complimented my buying a Jack Rose album about a year back, which made me happy.

Margaret Fiedler out of Laika makes and sells eco-friendly candles.

the singer of Codeine is a school teacher

Tom Carter is a busy, busy man: http://www.linkedin.com/in/artercay

Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab works as a Shiatsu Massage Therapist in London.

"Sadier has played in Stereolab since it formed in the early '90s. What would she do if she had to give up music?

Shiatsu massage, maybe? She's been trained for it. But that too, Sadier explains, can make for a less than steady paycheck.

"It's difficult to build a clientele," she says. "Hopefully, we're not there yet."

I suspect half this message board with be calling her about their stiff muscles.

will not with.

Born: A baby girl, Mary Margaret Inouye, the very first grandchild for Sen. Daniel Inouye. "I've been waiting for this moment for many years," said the Hawaii Democrat, 85. Maggie (she's taking her late grandmother's nickname) was born at Sibley Memorial Hospital in D.C. on Tuesday morning; parents are Jessica Carroll Inouye, a graphic designer, and Ken Inouye, a lobbyist (whom fans may also remember as the guitarist of D.C. hardcore pioneers Marginal Man).

bit of a shocker for any Gene fans, two up from the bottom
http://www.talentmark.com/people/

i mean good luck to him and everything but :/

I like to think voluntarily working with Martin Rossiter in any capacity would eventually drive someone to the relative sanity of business recruiting.

I have this feeling there's more money in it than there ever was in Gene.

xp was he a bit of a pain to work for/with? i can kinda see that. i know he had his issues over the years.

Bruce Springsteen is my dustman

Guy Chadwick = a plasterer now in London, according to a guy calling in on the Danny Baker radio show.

Post 60s hits and pre-Rounder Records comeback, Irma Thomas worked in Montgomery Ward's lingerie and automotive departments to support her four children while singing in San Francisco clubs on weekends.

already mentioned, but the story of Dave Gregory and Colin Moulding renting out cars for $$$ after Oranges and Lemons is really weird

I also heard that Jim Smith (bassist of Cardiacs) works regularly as a refrigerator repairman. And that (the former) Sarah Smith now has an office job somewhere

Stretching the bounds of "Rock Star" here but noticed this story about Helen Reddy who left music to pursue a degree in hypnotherapy.

Guy Garvey is also a DJ which helps get his band A-listed on 6Music

Nasty Suicide, the original guitarist from Hanoi Rocks, got a degree and now works as a pharmacist.

Under his real name, obviously.

with a name like that, why would he want to change it?

Drummer from Lemonheads is a lawyer

Luke Wood who used to play in Sammy is the boss of Spotify now

What's David Berman been up to lately?

somewhat relevant

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/our-favourite-bands-and-their-day-jobs?utm_source=vicefbuk

however, 'loads of huge uk rock bands' is stretching it ..

I came on to post that article!

But yeah, I hadn't actually heard of any of those bands before I read it.

most of them have played near my house in the last 6 months.

mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.

xp

Google says that rather than being CEO of Spotify, Luke Wood from Sammy is the President of Beats (by Dre etc). Also apparently "While Wood was at Geffen in 1994, the company posted the first commercial MP3 file".

I used to love Tales of Great Neck Glory but if you told a teenage me that one of the guys would be in charge of a multi-billion dollar company I'd have called you mad. They only just sound like they are in charge of their instruments on that album.

with the exception of Deaf Havana, who I assume no-one here gives a fuck about but play 1500-cap venues in the UK, the examples in that article are pretty badly chosen as I doubt most of them would have scraped a living from their band even in, idk, 1997

The Scrape A Living Years

mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.

― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)

Oh come on now.

you know though, these are bands playing a very competent brand of popular rock. I mean, stuff like Gnarwolves, God Damn, Wytches have all been featured highly on 6Music. Heart of a Coward are from my neck of the woods. Not my cup of cha, necessarily, but they do the post-hardcore/metalcore thing extremely well, and that's a very very popular style of music.

xpost Biffy Clyro. That's the only one I can think of.

Muse?