rock stars who went back work.

-- 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.

His career reads:

Rock Star
Fighter Pilot
Doctor

bastard!

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.

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

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.

ah she ain't gotta work, isn't her dad some big-deal london real estate tycoon?

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.

James Williamson of the Stooges does something w/computers in Silicon Valley.

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"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".

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.

-- noizem duke (dan...), February 2nd, 2005.

We all gotta work; it's part of God's plan.

(she was a drummer in an all girl band)

Don Van Vliet paints too, but I don't know what his stuff sells for.

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.

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.

Wasn't/Isn't Greg Graffin of Bad Religion a professor at UC Berkeley?

http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/

Amazing, if true. Just like that Bruce Dickinson story. Wow.

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.

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.

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.