rock stars who went back work.

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

Xpost I have a home made box off all the "sing song" bits, so "Yes, yes, I did know that actually..."

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/

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."'

pretty sure that was widely reported in the 90s during his critical comeback

yeah. it's definitely not the first time i heard that story too

Figured him for an electrician

stretching the term "rock star" here, maybe, but Hailu Mergia deserves a mention.

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

This is the guitarist from Tommy Tutone:

Jim Keller went on to become the director of Philip Glass's publishing company, Dunvagen Music Publishers.

Nice gig