You're laughing at your own jokes, Josh?
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
There's a lot of wisdom in this comment. I think a lot of people would have a hard time doing *nothing* after becoming famous, especially if (as most of the folks above) they never hit the A-List anyway.
I always think about Andy Kaufman, who at the height of his fame worked at Cantor's Deli and was apparently a good, conscientious worker.
― mike a, Friday, 12 August 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
There was a quote from Cliff Richard in the Times a while ago, in an article about (and whole-heartedly in favour of) extending copyright, in which he bemoaned the fact that some poor old musicians who'd had a single hit many decades ago could no longer earn a living off the royalties. Get a job!
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eddie Spaghetti, Friday, 12 August 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
this thread is depressing... dreams have been shattered
-- firstworldman ( ), February 3rd, 2005 4:45 AM.
again.
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, he was a busboy. he talked about doing it to prove (to himself, probably) that "i'm no better than them."
― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jillian Boyik, Monday, 15 August 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Can anyone substantiate this? (That he owns a subway, not that he is a chef...) Maybe if Kanye's around he'll know...
― jcartledge (jcartledge), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Perhaps he doesn't need the money but simply enjoys the work. I don't share the assumption that s.o. would be daft to have a day-job (however 'humble') if they didn't need the money. Work *can* be healthy. Unemployment (in my experience) usually isn't, + not only for financial reasons.
Inspiral Carpets singer ?? worked in Tele-marketing a while ago.
― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― tolstoy (tolstoy), Sunday, 11 September 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Jim Marcus, one of the guys from Die Warzau (early 90's industrial/dance band) was doing programming (Y2k/COBOL stuff) last I heard in 1997.
― dark_s, Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy The Miller, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― eric, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Legendary bassist Henry Grimes stopped playing music completely for many years and worked in construction and as a janitor. He's playing bass again though now...
― schlarb, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― matthew Vetter, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bill Simmons, Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
My friend Alan claims to have played sax with Pop Group but I've never seen his name connected with the band. I adore him too much to prove him wrong.
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yale Bloor, Thursday, 22 September 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
-- eric (ericfetterman200...), September 21st, 2005.
Last I heard (earlier this year), he's working with a friend of mine at a noatable record shop on Haight in SF
― Wite eyebrow, Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
# Pete: Lead Singer in Polak (worked in a second hand book shop in Brighton as well)# Robert: Getting into computer networks.# Kevin: Math Teacher in Bodmin Community College, but I hear that he's going to Truro(?).# Wil: Teacher
― Sunburnt, Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
now he works at the Amoeba in San Francisco
― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
stuck on yooooooooou till the end of tiiiiiiime
― dennis davis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Fact is, almost all of them. If you're in a band and you're not the songwriter, and you decide you're not going to tour endlessly as a hasbeen, you're going back to work. Songwriters get royalties, and may be able to live off them if they had a big enough hit. The other musicians only get paid as long as they're playing - when they stop, that's it. That TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time was great - showing the likes of Loverboy at their day jobs. Some musicians transition to sidemen/session musician/teaching or music industry careers, but the rest are on the payroll.
Rob Van Winkle (AKA Vanilla Ice) - mananger of a convenience storeTim Cronin (Monster Magnet) - longtime fixture at Jack's Music Shop in Red Bank NJTod A (Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater) - graphic designer at Rolling StoneLyle Preslar (Minor Threat) - A&R rep Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmer
the singer from the band failure pumps my gas.Self-fulfilling prophecy?
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Ron Sexsmith used to be a messenger in Toronto, on foot. (He doesn't drive). He told me he was delivering a package to a business there that had a return address in Lebanon, TN, which gave him the idea for that song on his first record.
― wendyo, Friday, 23 September 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy Dexter, Friday, 23 September 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― George Dick, Friday, 23 September 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
He left Beatnik a few years ago to start some cellphone ringtone company.
― mikef (mfleming), Friday, 23 September 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Nope. Hugo Burnham teaches at the Brookline Art Institute here in Boston.
Until very recently, Marty Crandall from the Shins worked at Bow Wow Records in Albuquerque. I bought many an album from him over the years.
― stewartflamingo, Friday, 23 September 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― me, Friday, 23 September 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Which is probably every band member's dream.
― !@, Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
kinda hot, actually.
― the, Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― the, Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
they used to say that if you drive a jaguar, you need a mechanic riding in the boot.
british computers must have been similar, that's a lot of operators.
― the, Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― The document contains no data., Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
This sounds almost too Aki Kaurismaki!
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakitori Bob (joseph cotten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
It's true, though I'm not sure whether he took the rollercoaster job for financial reasons or for something else. I guess you're right about the Kaurismäki thing, except that Kaurismäki would never make a film with mobile phones in it. Valtonen recently did a comeback tour with his first band, Sleepy Sleepers, but that was just one-shot, I'm not sure what he's doing now.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I should add that working at the record store was nothing to be 'shamed of; I just figured that because of Atlantic, the guy wouldn't have to work retail any mo'.
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 24 September 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Why not? Aesthetic or ideological reasons?
I love that he didn't come to the last NY Film Festival out of solidarity with Abbas Kiarostami, who, being Iranian, didn't get a visa.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
John Curley of the Afghan Whigs owns a recording studio in Cincinnati (Ultrasuede), and also does web design, with his wife.
― Steve Libbey, Saturday, 24 September 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
-- mikef (mflemin...), September 23rd, 2005.
totally confirmed. a friend of mine here in SF works for a ringtone company called Moderati, and they deal with Thomas all the time.
― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Saturday, 24 September 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
in Pittsburgh, they were the shit - but i don't know just how big they really got elsewhere.
but i bought a couple of CD's off of him. nice enough guy.
― JoeOverdrive, Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link