Sammy Hagar also owns a few classy bistros in the San Francisco area.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
Mat Osman: ‘I went from being a rock star to driving a van'
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/books-art-and-culture/mat-osman-i-went-from-being-a-rock-star-to-driving-a-van/?fbclid=IwAR0zM5osbkPf965nsSwDW8uo4iYXHKYaIsiCTXKJ1_4DfrjApk5H1E4zVdE
― piscesx, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
Fred Neil, writer of "Everybody's Talkin'", sang "I've been searching for the dolphins in the sea", then set up the Dolphin Research Project and more or less retired from music.
― lana del boy (ledge)
I thought this was a joke, googled his wikipedia page to find out what he’s been up to and lo and behold, it’s true.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
What he’s been up to? He died of cancer years ago.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Sorry for my bad english, I meant “what he had been up to after retiring from music”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
Mick Pointer of Marillion returned to his career as a kitchen designer after being fired from the band he formed.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
I wish this article wasn't paywalled because the lede is a masterpiece:
Life on the road as the leader of an indie-rock band wasn’t such a far cry from clocking in as a corporate lawyer for Darren Richard. He was welcomed into Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Columbus office as an associate in September 2009 following a career in which he owned a record label, mainly supporting his band, Chicago-based Pinetop Seven, where he was songwriter, instrumentalist and singer.
― sing a song of skip spence (unregistered), Friday, 1 May 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/20110415193240/https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2010/10/11/focus3.html
Richard was surprised at the similarities between professions. Both involve problem solving, whether it’s working through the logistics associated with shipping six band mates overseas for a European tour or helping a client negotiate a commercial lease agreement.“Playing music professionally is a collaborative endeavor,” Richard said.A musician works with band mates on song arrangements, recording sessions and shows, as well as with label representatives and promoters to generate album sales and to fill seats at venues.“Similarly, transactional legal work is collaborative,” Richard said.An attorney advocates his client’s position, he said, but ultimately all sides want to close the deal, whether it’s an asset purchase or a recording contract.The similarities end with the lifestyle. Richard said a typical day on the road started early and ended with dinner at 9 p.m. “Now, I’m in the office generally from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m,” he said.Meeting with clients and opposing counsel with a speciality in entertainment law has replaced driving between venues and loading equipment. Writing and reviewing documents takes precedent over penning lyrics and arranging songs.
“Playing music professionally is a collaborative endeavor,” Richard said.
A musician works with band mates on song arrangements, recording sessions and shows, as well as with label representatives and promoters to generate album sales and to fill seats at venues.
“Similarly, transactional legal work is collaborative,” Richard said.
An attorney advocates his client’s position, he said, but ultimately all sides want to close the deal, whether it’s an asset purchase or a recording contract.
The similarities end with the lifestyle. Richard said a typical day on the road started early and ended with dinner at 9 p.m. “Now, I’m in the office generally from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m,” he said.
Meeting with clients and opposing counsel with a speciality in entertainment law has replaced driving between venues and loading equipment. Writing and reviewing documents takes precedent over penning lyrics and arranging songs.
― sing a song of skip spence (unregistered), Friday, 1 May 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
Imagine, two different professions that involve “problem solving”... what are the chancesBtw, here’s another lawyer who runs a record label.
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 1 May 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
tbf environmental law is pretty noize
― sing a song of skip spence (unregistered), Friday, 1 May 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
I got lots of friends who had low- and mid-tier music careers who've moved on... some of them at a certain point felt impossibly famous, like they were part of ad campaigns, were working as models for certain designers, etc. etc.
Of all the secondary career moves that these people have taken, "therapist" seems to be the most prevalent. I can think of six musicians who're now working as therapists. All six of them, too, I'm like, "that sounds like a perfect job for you, you'd be a great therapist". All of them are so, so much happier!
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
James Corden's drummer is off awaiting the birth of his child, so one of the show's producers is sitting in.
Their name?
Kate Shellenbach of Beastie Boys & Luscious Jackson fame.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 March 2021 04:48 (three years ago) link
Mudhoney's current bassist is also a nurse
https://crosscut.com/culture/2021/10/mosh-pit-er-mudhoney-bassist-being-nurse-during-covid
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
(current = for over two decades)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
The shadow of Matt Lukin looms large (Also: before initially clicking on the link I thought it would be about Lukin having an interesting second chapter outside music ala Jason Everman).
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
PW Long of the old Touch and Go band Mule works doing TV news and documentary work.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
I really loved PW Long's Reelfoot, more than Mule actually
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
Never saw that band live, but Mule rocked some serious mullet. I saw Long on some feature watching a news program on Vice and thought it was him, looked it up and it was.
― earlnash, Thursday, 14 October 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
xxxpost Lukin worked as a carpenter after quitting music
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
From a Guardian article based on a new book by Nick Duerden about what happened to music stars after their fame had faded, here's a curious update on Dennis Seaton of Musical Youth.
Child reggae stars Musical Youth were a ray of early-80s sunshine when their single 'Pass the Dutchie' sold 5m copies around the world. Once their fame elapsed, and it did so with breathtaking speed, one member, Patrick Waite, developed drug problems, turned to crime, and died of heart failure at 24. Another, Kelvin Grant, became a recluse; singer Dennis Seaton a born-again Christian. “It saved me,” he tells me. Now in his mid-50s and a father of four, Seaton is the chairman of the Ladder Association training committee, alerting builders to the dangers of working at altitude without sufficient protection.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
Hmm....
Hey just sent you DM about pretending to interview me! 👍— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) April 17, 2022
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
After Mr. Siebel walked away from the music business, he became a bread baker for a restaurant and a county park worker in Maryland.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
Asked in 1996 how he thought he would be remembered, Mr. Siebel said: “He was a guy who wrote a couple of pretty good songs. What ever happened to him?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/arts/music/paul-siebel-dead.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 17 April 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
Maybe he was called Max Decharme that time
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
.. or maybe I've got the wrong bloke (opps)
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
From that Guardian piece:
When 10,000 Maniacs’ Natalie Merchant grew tired of being a marketable commodity, she quit for the quieter life of a solo artist, and was then duly horrified when her debut album, 1995’s Tigerlily, sold 5m copies, because “then came the treadmill again”.
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Sunday, 17 April 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmer
Actually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
Also, it was mentioned in another thread, but when Jonathan Richman isn't doing music, he makes a steady living building and installing pizza ovens.
Best story I've heard is Philip Glass - from The Guardian:
...Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. “I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
Forgot, I looked into the Gang of Four after catching their reunion. Turns out Hugo Burnham went into academia to teach art, Jon King became the chief executive of World Television, which produced news reports, webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to Nestlé, and for awhile Dave Allen went into advertising and brand marketing, first with a division of Overland Agency and then co-founding the digital strategy firm Fight.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
when I read that Guardian piece I did think that his was not an accurate take on Róisín Murphy's recent career:
After singer Róisín Murphy had navigated the end of her pop duo, Moloko, and then attempted to steer an idiosyncratic solo career with a determination Orson Welles might have admired, she moved to Ibiza to focus on two things: motherhood and the Mediterranean. “Sometimes it’s nice to just relax, you know,” she says.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
I saw something about how after her solo album tanked, Jemina Pearl from Be Your Own Pet was overseeing open mics and karaoke nights in Nashville.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
Forgot, I looked into the Gang of Four after catching their reunion. Turns out Hugo Burnham went into academia to teach art🕸, Jon King became the chief executive of World Television, which produced news reports, webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to Nestlé, and for awhile Dave Allen went into advertising and brand marketing, first with a division of Overland Agency and then co-founding the digital strategy firm Fight.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmerActually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
Update yr info. Kira won an Oscar for sound editing on Mad Max Fury Road.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
When I last checked on him, in the 90s, Arthur Brown was doing this:
In the 1980s, Brown moved to Austin, Texas, where his wife came from, and obtained a master's degree in counselling.[28]...Together with former Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, he also became a painter and carpenter for some years,[10] and released an album with him, Brown, Black & Blue (1988). In 1992, Brown and fellow counsellor Jim Maxwell founded Healing Songs Therapy, a service that culminated in Brown creating a song for each client about their emotional issues.[30]
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Hah, even better! I just pulled everything from the opening paragraph on Wikipedia - I was surprised it's not in there. (It actually is, but buried towards the bottom.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 18 April 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
Bit of a niche interest this, but Michael McGuire, from 80s' conceptualists/ pranksters Sudden Sway, is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey.
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/michael-mcguire
And if you doubt it's the same guy then about one seconds worth of hearing him talking about cybercrime on YouTube will convince you it's definitely him!
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
my brother-in-law is in advertising, used to live in portland, and would run into dave allen at things regularly. It took him a few times before he realized it was the guy from GoF and not just some random advertising guy
― joygoat, Monday, 18 April 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
Xpost I have a home made box off all the "sing song" bits, so "Yes, yes, I did know that actually..."
― Mark G, Monday, 18 April 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
Inspired by that latest Dandy Warhols thread, I fell into a clickhole and discovered Zia McCabe is/was a realtor.
Nice interview from 2017: https://www.wweek.com/music/2017/12/26/when-zia-mccabe-got-tired-of-touring-with-the-dandy-warhols-she-became-a-licensed-real-estate-agent/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Mojo piece this month reveals that Scott Walker became a painter and decorator in the post Climate of Hunter period.
'Though Walker began work on an album produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in March 1985, the project was rapidly aborted. Later, the singer made one of his infrequent visits to his manager. “I said, What have you been up to?” recalls Bicknell. “And he said, ‘I’ve been painting.’ I said, Oh, oils or watercolours? He said, ‘No, man, walls.’ He’d been working as a decorator. He could, at any point, have put The Walker Brothers back together and done the nostalgia circuit, but he would rather, literally, get up a ladder with a pot of Dulux and paint somebody’s flat and get a few quid."'
― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 13:58 (seven hours ago) link
pretty sure that was widely reported in the 90s during his critical comeback
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:05 (three hours ago) link
yeah. it's definitely not the first time i heard that story too
― Born Under a Bad Sine (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:11 (three hours ago) link
Figured him for an electrician
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:12 (three hours ago) link
stretching the term "rock star" here, maybe, but Hailu Mergia deserves a mention.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:34 (two hours ago) link
I saw Tommy Tutone on one of those "Where are they now?" VH1 things and he's just a regular office worker whose coworkers apparently razz all the time
gotta say though he's got one hell of a "fun fact" whenever they make him introduce himself
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:41 (two hours ago) link
This is the guitarist from Tommy Tutone:
Jim Keller went on to become the director of Philip Glass's publishing company, Dunvagen Music Publishers.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:54 (two hours ago) link
Nice gig
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:02 (two hours ago) link