rock stars who went back work.

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jeff "skunk" baxter of the doobie brothers consults the pentagon on weapons systems after researching and writing a paper that got noticed (god i despise this country as it is today...)

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

Karl Precoda, ex-Dream Syndicate guitarist, occasional Last Days Of May mainman and 2005 Virginia Tech teacher award winner

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Les Pattinson of Echo & The Bunnymen is now a boat builder

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...
Ex-YMG/Weekender Alison Statton is a chiropractor, too. I think she and Tory Crimes should form a practice specializing in fiftysomething ex-punks.

mike a, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Guy Kyser of Thin White Rope, something of a household god of mine, has worked for years in botanical science at UC Davis. Ay dios mio I miss him!

Matthew Seligman, bassist from Soft Boys, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins etc etc etc, is yet another one who became a lawyer (breaking briefly for the SB reunion).

Tony Maimone runs a studio down the street from my apartment. I felt like such a nerd for being impressed when I heard that.

Jon Lewis, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link

David Fair of Half Japanese works at my local public library. If you're lucky, you can spot him doing 'story time' for the kids.

circa1916, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Too Much Joy:
Tim Quirk is VP, Music Content and Programming for Real Networks.
Jay Blumenfeld produced a Ted Nugent reality show
Tommy Vinton just retired from the NYPD

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Eddie Phillips from The Creation worked as a London bus driver.

goldmatt, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Doesn't Arthur Baker run a restaurant in London now?

Matt #2, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link

last night on Food Network, I saw Bobby Flay go head to head in a cupcake-making competition with a member of the early-90s SFTRI punk band Red Aunts. They made a big deal about how she was a punk rocker, now famous for her restaurants red velvet cupcakes.

My daughter was impressed that I owned one of her records.

What is it with this cupcake meme? I keep hearing about hipster joints that specialize in cupcakes

bendy, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Patrick Fitzgerald (ex Kitchens of Disctinction) now has a day job again according to his website..

Mark Eitzel has a job doing something with computers...

Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 12 May 2007 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone know where to find discount furniture?

StanM, Saturday, 12 May 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

three months pass...

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

Janet Bean of EDD was working at Blackout Records on Southport (near the Music Box, was Pravda store at one point) in 1993. She accused me of stealing magazines, but I had just walked out with a Reader, which is free.
Rizzo was bartending at the Rainbo a few years ago, and maybe he still does. I don't go to too many bars any more.

Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Eric Bachmann of Archers of Loaf sells Cuban sandwiches in Denver

-- Jake Brown, Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Slicer of Loaf

latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Mr Jeff Dimpsey, bassist for '90s feedback-y rockers Hum who had the catchy song "Stars" among others, has a tech-y computer related job here at the University of Texas, where I go to class.

stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link

also, can't believe this hasn't been mentioned here:

Pitchfork: Learn Guitar From Mission Of Burma's Roger Miller!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44102-learn-guitar-from-mission-of-burmas-roger-miller

stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

This is a good thread.

roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Tim Quirk of Too Much Joy is now a Rhapsody executive.

Jake Brown, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link

... and I too find Cuban sandwiches tasty and Archers of Loaf rocking.

Jake Brown, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Tim Kerr of the Big Boys, producer and many other long-named bands works in a library at the University of Texas.

Misery, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link

dammit, xpost.

forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

kurt cobain *in between BLEACH and NEVERMIND* tried to start up a cleaning business called PINE STREET CLEANING. i just learned this on THE LAST 48 HOURS OF... bbc tv show. there's that weird sub-section of rock stars who went back to work; those who went back to work after recording a record or records but *just before they went huge*. this has got to be the best example i've heard of. even edges out lou reed working in his dad's company in between the end of the velvets and TRANSFORMER.

piscesx, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link

When Turbonegro broke up in 1998, singer Hank von Helvete went to work as a caretaker in a whaling museum in Norway.

He spent (wasted) a large part of those four years on the street as a drug addict though.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link

john strohm of blake babies/lemonheads is now a lawyer in the entertainment industreee

thereminimum chips (electricsound), Monday, 13 October 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link

ha ha genuine lols at forks

max, Monday, 13 October 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

can someone clever but 'to' in the title between 'back' and 'work'?

― pisces, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:07 (2 years ago)

:(

piscesx, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Mr Jeff Dimpsey, bassist for '90s feedback-y rockers Hum who had the catchy song "Stars" among others, has a tech-y computer related job here at the University of Texas, where I go to class.

I'll stand by this one that I posted a few years ago.

Christina Carter (1/2 of Charalambides) has a record store gig at Waterloo Records in Austin. See her there almost every week. Once she complimented my buying a Jack Rose album about a year back, which made me happy.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Margaret Fiedler out of Laika makes and sells eco-friendly candles.

anagram, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link

the singer of Codeine is a school teacher

Zeno, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Tom Carter is a busy, busy man: http://www.linkedin.com/in/artercay

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab works as a Shiatsu Massage Therapist in London.

Moodles, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link

"Sadier has played in Stereolab since it formed in the early '90s. What would she do if she had to give up music?

Shiatsu massage, maybe? She's been trained for it. But that too, Sadier explains, can make for a less than steady paycheck.

"It's difficult to build a clientele," she says. "Hopefully, we're not there yet."

Zeno, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link

I suspect half this message board with be calling her about their stiff muscles.

djh, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

will not with.

djh, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Born: A baby girl, Mary Margaret Inouye, the very first grandchild for Sen. Daniel Inouye. "I've been waiting for this moment for many years," said the Hawaii Democrat, 85. Maggie (she's taking her late grandmother's nickname) was born at Sibley Memorial Hospital in D.C. on Tuesday morning; parents are Jessica Carroll Inouye, a graphic designer, and Ken Inouye, a lobbyist (whom fans may also remember as the guitarist of D.C. hardcore pioneers Marginal Man).

Mike Dixn, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

bit of a shocker for any Gene fans, two up from the bottom
http://www.talentmark.com/people/

i mean good luck to him and everything but :/

piscesx, Saturday, 3 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

I like to think voluntarily working with Martin Rossiter in any capacity would eventually drive someone to the relative sanity of business recruiting.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

I have this feeling there's more money in it than there ever was in Gene.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\etc (Matt #2), Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link


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