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Fact Checkin Cuz: Thank you for once more living up to your name. :)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Does becoming a preacher count as "going back to work"?

Paging Al Green.

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Webnoize.com was the horse I rode for a while, then AOL, then back to relatively straight work

guess those stock options never quite paid off, huh? ;-)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"topper told me he works as a cab driver. not sure if he still would be as some of their songs were successfully rereleased."

Last I heard (a couple of years ago) he was living somewhere down near (Dover?) and still driving a taxi.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cappadonna also became a cab driver after the last few Wu related albums started tanking.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I got a cab ride once from a pretty well-known music writer.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelly Hogan bartends at the Hideout in Chicago.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick Buckler (The Jam) now makes a living restoring and selling old furniture.
A former Buzzcock (can't remember if it's Steve Garvey or John Maher) is apparently working as a car mechanic somewhere in the USA.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking of restorers, billy zoom from x had a shop for a long time where he repaired and customized guitar amps. he may still have the shop, but his website says he's too busy producing to work on amps right now.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Prior to his death, John McGeoch (Magazine, Visage, Banshees, Public Image) was working as a nurse.
The Damned's keyboard player Monty Oxymoron still works as a psychiatric nurse when the band aren't touring.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

didnt those alimony docs that came out on the smoking gun awhile back mention that exene cervenka (sp?) was a high school teacher? also, didnt one of the girls from sleater kinney teach in between all hands on the bad one and one beat?

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

xxxpost:
Wasn't one of Mott the Hoople also in the furniture restoration business- Overend Watts?
I thought I heard that Pete Shelley was working in the City of London as a stockbroker or something back in the 90s.

Anton Fier was working as a counterman at a local sandwich shop in downtown Brooklyn until recently.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"I thought I heard that Pete Shelley was working in the City of London as a stockbroker or something back in the 90s."

Buzzcocks have been back together (only Pete and Steve Diggle from the origonal line-ups) since 1989....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

One of The Raincoats (Gina Birch?) weas running an antiques shop before the band reformed.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sterling Morrison was a teacher .. College I think ...
He did that too. He went back to grad school to get a PhD in (Victorian?) Literature at UT Austin.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

rock stars who went back TO work that's meant to say in the thread title by the way sorry. if i were from rochdale it'd be okay as it is.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I saw something about the drummer from Bl*nk 1*2 teaching drum lessons even now

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we really count something like that?

xpost:
Baby's got back work.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"I thought I heard that Pete Shelley was working in the City of London as a stockbroker or something back in the 90s."
Buzzcocks have been back together (only Pete and Steve Diggle from the origonal line-ups) since 1989....
Yeah, you're right. Shows what I get for talking and listening to strangers.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Santiago Durango went to law school when Big Black split (wasn't he the reason they split?). He may still be there of course if he's done a lot of re-sits for being a daft lad.

Greg Demos, former GBV.....wasn't he another lawyer type?

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and speaking of gbv-related peeps, there's also john petkovic of cobra verde, who's a reporter for the cleveland plain-dealer. though i'm not sure if that's technically going "back" to work, 'cause i'm not sure if he was ever NOT doing it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

an old co-worker used to get her taxes done by (i think) the drummer from the circle jerks.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bass Thing from the Wonder Stuff briefly worked at the Tower Records on Broadway....before he died.

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.

Jack Natz (Undead/Virus/BlackSnakes/Cop Shoot Cop/Lubricated Goat/CrimeWave/Crux) is now a bike messenger.

Supposedly Wild Bill Carter of the Screaming Blue Messiahs is now a scooter messenger in London...with a tenuous grasp on sanity.

an old co-worker used to get her taxes done by (i think) the drummer from the circle jerks.

I've heard that too, only it's not the drummer, it's their bass player circa Golden Showe of Hits (whose name escapes me).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

jesse peretz of the lemonheads gave up music to become a video and filmmaker.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Laura Cantrell actually wasn't a stockbroker, she was an analyst at B@nk of @merica up in midtown. Worked a floor above me when I was there, but I didn't know her. Tony Rettm@n of Blastitude.com/200 lb. underground zine infamy works in publication services there.

And didn't Sterling Morrison become a tourist boat captain while waiting for the Velvets reunion?

he was a tugboat captain. also, a medieval scholar.

M4rk Ibold is also a "food designer" for photo shoots. Meaning, he makes sure photographed food looks good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Philip Glass still renews his NYC taxi license whenever it's up for renewal

if it's a medallion, and not a license, there would be incredible financial incentive to keep renewing it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

M4rk Ibold is also a "food designer" for photo shoots. Meaning, he makes sure photographed food looks good.
you'd be surprised at how this is actually somewhat difficult.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't trying to imply that it isn't difficult, just explain it in layman's terms since it's not the most common profession.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i know. sometimes its also referred to as "food stylist"...

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In a Wire interview Keith Levene mentioned that until recently he was working as a graphic designer in LA.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Billy "Bass" Nelson (the OG bass player from Funkadelic) apparently got into the computer industry in the 80s-90s, before returning to Clinton's touring band.

he actually worked at Rocketdyne in Simi Valley. i tried to talk to him about it once but that guy is difficult to talk to. he's always in his own world.

also check this out about my favo heavy metal singer:

Bruce Dickinson juggles life as singer for the band Iron Maiden with flying a Boeing

A ROCK star whose band is famed for long hair and wild on-stage antics has taken off in a new career: as an airline pilot.

Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, has passed rigorous flight exams to qualify to fly twin-engine passenger jets with a new charter airline based at Gatwick.

He now works as a pounds 35,000-a-year first officer, flying 148-seat Boeing 737s to holiday destinations ranging from Portugal to Egypt.

These days, Dickinson, 44, who once had waist-length, ginger hair and leapt around stage in leathers and skin-hugging tights ...

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

also the drummer for BRMC is unemployed and homeless right now so if anyone has an open position contact him asap! ;)

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe he should form a Primal Scream-esque act and follow his destiny!

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter does some kind of defense dept. consulting. Don't know if he needs to, though.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

he gets royalties? I always thought he just a session hack and tv mouth-off.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there's also john petkovic of cobra verde, who's a reporter for the cleveland plain-dealer. though i'm not sure if that's technically going "back" to work, 'cause i'm not sure if he was ever NOT doing it.

I read somewhere that he'd been a freelance journalist while in Cobra Verde--is he a staff writer or a stringer now?

Julia Cafritz reportedly is teaching in NYC, and I once heard about Juliana Hatfield working at one of the Newbury Comics stores.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

bill withers went back to working as a contractor when he stopped singing. his company builds houses and stuff. weird but true, too.

-- Jay-Kid (jizzleki...) (webmail), February 1st, 2005 3:54 PM. (Jay-Kid) (link)

I'd have thought he could live off of the royalties from "Lean on Me" alone.

-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...) (webmail), February 1st, 2005 3:54 PM. (Hurting) (link)

i read an interview with him recently; he says he just likes to be busy. sounds good to me. i wonder if the showcase homes he builds have a big "built by BILL 'LEAN ON ME' WITHERS" sign out front.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it when the night shift comes in and does the day shift's work all over again.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I thought those were new posts, not quotes.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Greg Norton of Husker Du is now a chef.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When I interviewed Barbara Manning a few years back she said she was going to pursue a forestry degree in Northern California. A quick scan of barbaramanning.com suggests she's doing so.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith Morris from the Circle Jerks is also a chef at Millies on Sunset.

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i believe that kim wilde does landscape gardening now, if memory serves...

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

a really annoying one is Deniz Tek, guitarist and songwriter out of Radio Birdman (70s oz punk/detroit pebbles). He was US citizen so at demise of band went back to the US became a Navy Jet Pilot and then a Doctor.

His career reads:

Rock Star
Fighter Pilot
Doctor

bastard!

― gallantseagull, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

A former Buzzcock (can't remember if it's Steve Garvey or John Maher) is apparently working as a car mechanic somewhere in the USA.

It's John Maher. In one of the recent Manchester documentaries on BBC, he's interviewed in his garage.

J. Geils of the J. Geils Band is a car restorer in rural NY or MA.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Another one who should have been able to live off of his royalties:

Peter Tork taught social studies, math, and music at a high school for a while after his career with the Monkees.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

paris became an accountant

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I could look this up to be sure, but some member of Iron Butterfly became some sort of rocket scientist or scientician or something, and then he worked for the U.S. government, and then either federal agents or spacemen "disappeared" him. But maybe they found his corpse later?

― Heidy- Ho, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Mars of the Replacements is a relatively successful artist. I have one of his lithos in my office (the cover from Horseshoes & Handgrenades), and I've seen paintings for sale at upward of $50,000.

David Schelzel of The Ocean Blue was a year behind me in law school. We had a class together, and he seemed pretty bookish. I believe he is a corporate attorney somewhere in MN.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Handgrenades" should have been "Hand Grenades." Sorry. I was worried about screwing up the HTML. His website seems to be screwed up right now, but you can normally view his art at chrismarspublishing.com.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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