They started off as musicians and became writers

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Zodiac Mindwarp

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope
Nick Cave
Henry Rollins
Lydia Lunch

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Howard Devoto

― rexJr., Wednesday, 30 April 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Wirtz

― Paul R (paul R), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Greg Kihn

http://www.myprimetime.com/play/hobbies/content/kihn_mpt/index.shtml

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dee Dee Ramone!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Buffet!

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Gus Van Sant!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinky Friedman
Louis Farrakhan

― dave q, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

one-offs, like dylan's 'tarantula'. john lennon?

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Louis fucking Wener

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hector Berlioz, haha.

Why does this happen? Is it a step forwards, backwards, sideways for a musician?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicholas Blincoe (was in Factory group Meatmouth).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Dickinson of The Maiden!
This is bloody expensive!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330314440/qid=1051701423/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_1_4/026-9290232-8174013

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, why does it happen, bright people?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

they realsie they're not very good at music in the majority of cases... nick cave excepted...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Or they were doing the wrong kind of writing. Dom mentions Lou upthread, who has submitted short stories to me which I thought were pretty good and reminded me of Jack Rosenthal in terms of East End diaspora-ness. This was ages before she got a book deal, and she's a better nonfic/critical writer than most of the people who write about her. What I *don't* like is the middlebrow in the mix; she may not be writing chick lit, but it's marketed in exactly the same way and is in many ways just as fluffy. She could aim a bit higher but perhaps needs the confidence.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm, middlebrow equals evil...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummm umm, I have a theory, shoot me down if you like... it has something to do with how much an artist listens to her own inner speech. I have a strong feeling many musicians, especially those who don't write lyrics, are really either quite quiet inside, or don't pay much attention to what they're saying to themselves. Big writers, like most of us, are really quite into our own inner conversations. It eventually spills out on to the page. BUT, and here's the crunch I suppose, to write MUSIC you really do need to be quiet inside. Too much inner talk really disrupts the musical flow, as it sets up oppositions and frustrates the process. The obvious thing that happens is that music becomes impossible, and suddenly writing becomes tremendously compelling as a means to 'drain the tanks', spill out the words, so to speak.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably unknown to most of the readers here, but Norwegian Torgrim Eggen started out as a member of the band The Cut, then became a music writer and ended up as a novelist.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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