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I was working in a theatre in Glasgow in the mid-90's where Fay Fife from the Rezillos/Revillos performed a very serious one-woman play under her real name. It was a pretty good play but poorly attended. Shortly afterwards the Revillos reformed.

everything, Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

After the Jam and the Stlye Council, Paul Weller went back to being a full-time prick.

Smithers Jones, Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a couple of friends who took guitar lessons from Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio. It was before they were signed by Elektra but after they were already a huge touring phenomenon. One friend still has all of Trey's pencil-written notes from those classes. He could probably get a lot for them on ebay now. Some choice quotes form guitar teacher Trey: "tritone is key" and "the 5 chord is mobile."

--Bill Simmon
www.candleboy.com/candleblog/

Bill Simmon, Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of Velocity Girl, Jim (the drummer) was a location/production director (or something of the sort) for CNN in DC. That was 3-4 years ago.

Jawbox guitarist Bill Bardot is part owner of DC design studio, Threespot.

Wife Kim Colleta was getting her Library Science degree from Catholic U.

D-Plan drummer Joe Easley was last heard going back to school to finish his Aerospace Engineering degree.

Frodus drummer Jason Hammacher is a part-time massage therapist, freelance photographer, & writer.

j o h n, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Anthony Bramante, the guitar player from Nuclear Assault drives a US Postal truck.

Keith Alexander from Carnivore was working in piercings/body modifications before becoming a software guru. Sadly he died this summer in a bicycling accident.

JC1999, Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Scott Miller from Game Theroy and The Loud Family has kept his day job as a programmer in San Fran. I bet he is a great programmer.

raytube, Friday, 30 September 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Country Joe and the Fish guitarist Barry Melton has been the Public Defender for Monterey California for quite a while.

Tommy, Friday, 30 September 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know if anybody outside of Canada remembers the Forgotten Rebels, but frontman Mickey DeSadist works in a factory making catalytic converters.

Dadmobile (Dadmobile), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Edison from trip-hop pioneers Earthling was temping in a market research call centre in 2001. Who knows what he's doing now...

err..., Friday, 30 September 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

william henshall is the guy from londonbeat, and he wrote the song "I've been thinking about you"

Now he is a photographer http://www.williamhenshall.com

i'm.me, Monday, 3 October 2005 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

On Friday night in san francisco, i found Philip Manley of Trans Am working as a roadie for Acid Mothers Temple

ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Kim Mithcell, who was once a huge star in Canada, having fronted the heavy rock band Max Webster in the 1970's and then going solo and having a string of hit albums in the 1980's is now a lowly daytime dj at Q107 in Toronto playing old classic rock and other hoser bands. He even sneaks in tunes from his own albums whenever he gets a chance, lame, it doesn't get much lower than that.

sumguy, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

he is a wild party!

ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

If MC 900 Foot Jesus got a pilot's license, I guess he didn't get a good job, because last time I run into him, we were driving away from an Air concert, and I noticed a clunky on-the-verge-of-death Daihatsu Rocky. Then I noticed Mark Griffin was driving and started shouting at him. He had a great sense of humor about it. Didn't get to ask if there would ever be another album. He had done some local shows maybe in 2001 or so and said at the time he'd like to do another album, but then... nothing. :|

Andrew Hime, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of Velocity Girl, Jim (the drummer) was a location/production director (or something of the sort) for CNN in DC. That was 3-4 years ago.

Then he was the same Jim Spellman cruising around New Orleans last month giving street details. Hopefully the spark for a flood-themed reunion album.

Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

todd brashear owns a video store

bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Roger Powell, keyboardist for Utopia with Todd Rundgren, is working as a software developer after developing carpal tunnel syndrome. I believe I heard where Willie Wilcox, drummer for the same band, is working with Roger at the same company.

Keith Lake, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Paula Abdul was a pop superstar in the early 90's, and now she is a judge on that piece of crap culture ruining American Idol (aka karaoke challenge) now, somebody top that when it comes to 'sinking' to new lows lol!

harry, Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

John Kerry played in the The Electra's.

Poised for a big deal with Capitol Records the band's deal was thwarted by the myopic Kerry's side gig desires for war hero, senator and presidential canidate.

pat aspat, Saturday, 8 October 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Heh. Yes I am indeed that bloke, you know the white guy, from Londonbeat, who had that song "I've been thinking about you" - I live and work in Los Angeles as a professional photographer. After I quit the band in 95 I started a software company called Rocket Network that developed a system that ships large media files securely and quickly across the internet. I sold the company to Avid in 2003. Didn't get rich but got out of high tech to follow my love of photography...

This is an interesting thread overall. Speaking as one who had a few minutes in the spot light in the early 90s, I have found that life after being in a band is great. You have to sacrifice so much of your own life and friend and family relationships to get a real career going that keeping a balance of real life and chasing the music dream becomes inpossible to keep. I got no regrets...but I am glad I don't live out of a suitcase anymore. Here's some more stuff about my work www.rockstarphoto.us

william henshall, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

not sure if this counts, but the drummer from Flock of Seagulls used to work on the manufacturing floor of my workplace.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

after being in the band that is.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Earl Brutus' Nick Sanderson is reportedly working as a train driver...

Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Swedish singer Jakob Hellman went to work in a breadpacking factory after his succesful debutalbum.

Johanna K, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Andy Spearpoint (formerly of New Fast Automatic Daffodils) now runs percussion workshops for schools in West Yorkshire.

Niall, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I was NEVER an A&R person. That was a Steve ("God Bless Him") Albini construct to help him seem important.

I did help run some 'cool' record companies, like Caroline. I walked away as the industry fell off the cliff -- hell, they didn't want me anyway.

Now I'm a 2nd year law student, hoping to one day help out some artists and others in the new world we live in.

Lyle Preslar, Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Lori Barbero of the Minneapolis based Babes in Toyland was a waitress at the Modern Cafe. Don't know if she's still there tho, I haven't been in a while.

todd
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Todd Fugere, Saturday, 12 November 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

as far as i know speedy j is a graphic designer
i also heard he lives in a house in the shape of a cube resting on one of its points

robin (robin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

donald trump delivers my mail in the morning,and i don't even tip him

robin (robin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Sarah Shannon of Velocity Girl is finishing up her second release. Currently, I heard she's label shopping with it.(www.sarahshannon.com)

I too have heard Jim Spellman is at CNN and Archie's at a DC studio.

Kelly and Brian of V-girl are at the Washington City Paper I think....

Still waiting on the V-girl reunion album....It's hard to believe with the myspace explosion and internet adv. that the V-girl fans out there wouldn't unite to pay some $ for it... :)

poor artist, Friday, 18 November 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I was NEVER an A&R person. That was a Steve ("God Bless Him") Albini construct to help him seem important.
I did help run some 'cool' record companies, like Caroline. I walked away as the industry fell off the cliff -- hell, they didn't want me anyway.

Now I'm a 2nd year law student, hoping to one day help out some artists and others in the new world we live in.

-- Lyle Preslar (lyle.presla...), November 10th, 2005.

Sorry, my bad.

This thread just got ten times cooler, though.

Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
I know Andrew Mcleay - the bass guitarist for top Melbourne band "The Link" from the very late 80's is a stay at home dad while his wife works as a financial controller. I say bring that band back!

lenni sarugan, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link

FM Cornog (better known as East River Pipe) works at Home Depot.

michael g. breece, Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

That Speedy J cube house rumor is correct, he lives in one of these in Overblaak, Rotterdam:

http://travel.u.nu/pic/nl/overblaak.jpg

StanM (StanM), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn, I was seeing those buildings *minutes ago* in a Jackie Chan movie...

Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Martin Atkins teaches a course in touring in a college in Chicago. I think he wrote his own wikipedia entry.

hector (hector), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Fascinating thread.

From the Loud Family: Scott Miller is a computer programmer.

...and working on a new album, I hear, despite swearing off the biz a few years back.

Ed's Redeeming Qualities: Dan Leone became a food critic. Carrie Bradley started working for a graphic design company after her tenure in the Breeders.

Vudi from American Music Club also did the taxi-driver gig, I believe.

To follow-up far upthread, Don Van Vliet's paintings go for a rather large stack of nickels, yes.

Laurie Anderson claims to have worked at a McDonald's in NYC recently, but it was undoubtedly for more of a conceptual/storytelling purpose as usual. I would have paid large sums of money to sit in on that job interview, though.

Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link


the dudes from the punk band 7 Seconds all have day jobs, I'm pretty sure. I know Kevin (singer) owns a cafe (True Love Cafe) in Northrn California with his wife and hosts a punk show at a radio station. Steve Youth (bassist) is a liquor distributor for nightclubs in the Reno area. Troy (drummer) owns a landscaping company. Bobby (guitarist) owns a limo company.

Criztopher, Monday, 12 December 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Vudi from American Music Club may have driven a taxi, but I am fairly sure he is a currently a Metro bus driver in Los Angeles.

r3000, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris Richards from Q and Not U writes for the Washington Post

Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...
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Gregory639, Friday, 12 May 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom is (or has been) a real estate agent, I read somewhere.

pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Neal Smith, original drummer (and "platinum god") in Alice Cooper, is a real estate agent in Connecticut...

Larry "Mr . Fingers" Heard quit music to go into computer programming...(I hear he's back, though)...

and somebody mentioned Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart...yeah, his music wasn't selling so he had to go into visual art to make ends meet...

hank (hank s), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

There's nothing (in my searches) to corroborate the Topper Headon taxi driver story though.

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link


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