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
Here I found some discount furniture: nebraska furniture mart broyhill furniture jordans furniture ethan allen furniture levitz furniture wickes furniture bobs discount furniture sauder furniture wick furniture harlem furniture
― jeff, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:03 (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
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
dammit, xpost.
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
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
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.
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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
xp was he a bit of a pain to work for/with? i can kinda see that. i know he had his issues over the years.
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen is my dustman
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Guy Chadwick = a plasterer now in London, according to a guy calling in on the Danny Baker radio show.
― piscesx, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Post 60s hits and pre-Rounder Records comeback, Irma Thomas worked in Montgomery Ward's lingerie and automotive departments to support her four children while singing in San Francisco clubs on weekends.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
already mentioned, but the story of Dave Gregory and Colin Moulding renting out cars for $$$ after Oranges and Lemons is really weird
I also heard that Jim Smith (bassist of Cardiacs) works regularly as a refrigerator repairman. And that (the former) Sarah Smith now has an office job somewhere
― frogbs, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Stretching the bounds of "Rock Star" here but noticed this story about Helen Reddy who left music to pursue a degree in hypnotherapy.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Guy Garvey is also a DJ which helps get his band A-listed on 6Music
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Nasty Suicide, the original guitarist from Hanoi Rocks, got a degree and now works as a pharmacist.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 10:36 (nine years ago) link
Under his real name, obviously.
with a name like that, why would he want to change it?
― legit new threat wrt to a norman invasion (seandalai), Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Drummer from Lemonheads is a lawyer
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
Luke Wood who used to play in Sammy is the boss of Spotify now
― hackshaw, Thursday, 13 November 2014 07:06 (nine years ago) link
What's David Berman been up to lately?
― Simon H., Thursday, 13 November 2014 07:06 (nine years ago) link
somewhat relevant
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/our-favourite-bands-and-their-day-jobs?utm_source=vicefbuk
however, 'loads of huge uk rock bands' is stretching it ..
― mark e, Thursday, 13 November 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
I came on to post that article!
But yeah, I hadn't actually heard of any of those bands before I read it.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
most of them have played near my house in the last 6 months.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:23 (nine years ago) link
mind you, i'm struggling to think of any huge uk rock bands right now.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
xp
Google says that rather than being CEO of Spotify, Luke Wood from Sammy is the President of Beats (by Dre etc). Also apparently "While Wood was at Geffen in 1994, the company posted the first commercial MP3 file".
I used to love Tales of Great Neck Glory but if you told a teenage me that one of the guys would be in charge of a multi-billion dollar company I'd have called you mad. They only just sound like they are in charge of their instruments on that album.
― challop (Willl), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
with the exception of Deaf Havana, who I assume no-one here gives a fuck about but play 1500-cap venues in the UK, the examples in that article are pretty badly chosen as I doubt most of them would have scraped a living from their band even in, idk, 1997
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
The Scrape A Living Years
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)
Oh come on now.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
you know though, these are bands playing a very competent brand of popular rock. I mean, stuff like Gnarwolves, God Damn, Wytches have all been featured highly on 6Music. Heart of a Coward are from my neck of the woods. Not my cup of cha, necessarily, but they do the post-hardcore/metalcore thing extremely well, and that's a very very popular style of music.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link