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
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
― lenni sarugan, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― michael g. breece, Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
http://travel.u.nu/pic/nl/overblaak.jpg
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Criztopher, Monday, 12 December 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gregory639, Friday, 12 May 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Hoch-le-roi.
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― nebraska992, Friday, 26 May 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― jamie, Friday, 26 May 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Boz Skaggs had a restaurant on Union St. in San Francisco and I walked past a lot...one time he was there changing light bulbs over the entrance...
― JOHN HANLEY (suddenfun), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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― circa1916, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― goldmatt, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― Matt #2, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― bendy, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 12 May 2007 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome http://www.thedevoeteam.com/
― zappi, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
A+
― g®▲đұ, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
can someone clever but 'to' in the title between 'back' and 'work'?
― pisces, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Victor Krummenacher of Camper Van Beethoven: Welcome to my day job.
For the last 15 years, I've been heavily involved in graphic design, when music doesn't pay the mortgage, this does. I've worked as the Art Director for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, as a page designer for Wired Magazine and as a freelance graphic designer for dozens of clients doing everything from CD design to advertisements to publication redesign.
― Mike Dixn, Thursday, 27 September 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Eric Bachmann of Archers of Loaf sells Cuban sandwiches in Denver
― Jake Brown, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
A few years back I remember seeing one of the members of ...and you will know us by the trail of dead working at a record store in Austin, specifically 33 degrees.
Also, Cuban sandwiches kick major ass and as such selling them is an honorable and praiseworthy trade.
― l, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been listening to Joe Escalante of the Vandals on Indie 103 in LA for a couple years now, it seems. Also Steve Jones (the Steve Jones) has a one-hour daily stint there.
― nickn, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, Joe was an entertainment biz lawyer for a while. He does a legal advice call-in once a week.
― nickn, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:44 (sixteen 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."
The store I was implying was actually the long-defunct-and-much-missed Round Records on Sheridan, and 11DD's Baird Figi worked there in the late eighties and early nineties. Only now finding out that Rizzo worked at Empire.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
holy crap! i used to live around the corner from round records in '90-'91. went there all the time. had i recognized baird figi i'm sure my mind would have been similarly blown (as it was, it was another year until i ran into rizzo at empire for the mindblowing).
― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link