rant whine 'splain espouse: Where are they now?

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Where are they now?

Among the landslide of obscure musicians' names mentioned in this long but interesting forum post titled "rock stars who went back to work," I learned that:

Justine Frischmann of Elastica has been a teacher.
The bassist for Jesus Jones was a bartender in Chicago.
Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, etc.) worked as an airline pilot for a while, before joining Kansas.
Topper Headon (The Clash) has been a taxi driver (and possibly a herion addict).
Rick Buckler (The Jam) now makes a living restoring and selling old furniture.
The B52's Kate Pearson has a motel.
Moe Berg (anyone other than me remember The Pursuit of Happiness?) has a regular DJ gig at a small pub called The Tap.
Greg Norton from Husker Du runs a restaurant outside of Minneapolis.
David Lee Roth now works as an emergency medical technician in New York.
Philip Kramer of Iron Butterfly went on to become a rocket scientist before he disappeared (apparently killed in an auto accident).

And last but not least:

"the drummer from metal church works at the ace hardware store in olympia, washington (i know this because i worked there too, and on his application, he wrote under previous job 'drummer for metal church')."