A list of rock star's day jobs
One of the dirty little secrets of pop music (or much of any music, for that matter) is that it's so very hard to make a living doing nothing but playing music in a band. To that end, various people are contributing to a list of jobs that various musicians have held either while they were working or afterwards.
Some examples:
- after R.E.M.'s 'fables of the reconstruction', before hitting the real big time, peter buck went back to work in his local record store.
- One of the guys from XTC worked (maybe still does) at a car rental place , even in the band's heydey, because the singer had chronic stagefright so they had no steady source of income.
- Michael Gerard of Killdozer is a tax lawyer
- Derrick Bostrom of The Meat Puppets is a web designer
I'd also advise taking the list with just a tiny grain of salt.
Posted by Casper at August 10, 2005 02:42 PM
