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Bonus points for naming anybody who's NOT working in a record store.

― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) = hardwood floor installer (until last year)

― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weren't most of Arcwelder rocket scientists?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

- Tod [A] of Cop Shoot Cop/Firewater = graphic design/art director - Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull = Saw somewhere that he made millions by developing Trout fisheries. Not sure, but its something like that. - Cy Curnin of the Fixx = Hat designer

No extra points, but members of Factory Press and To Roccoco Rot work at Mondo Kim's on St.Mark's Place in NYC

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Andrew Withycombe (Hydroplane/Cats Miaow/Anstey Station/Huon) is a boilermaker.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember that the wonderful Killdozer spend most of their time working as accountants, only getting together to record once in a while. And I once worked in the same place as a guy who said he was in Johnny Kidd And the Pirates. I don't know if he was telling the truth, but he was an industrial door salesman then.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

isn't amelia fletcher from tallulah heavenly research some sort of hotshot economist?

― dave k, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, she is (Amelia, that is). And Cathy Rogers (formerly of Heavenly) created and hosts Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge.

― Miranda, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of Silkworm used to work as cab drivers in Seattle. Tim Midgett now works as an engineer at Shure Microphones in Chicago, and Andy Cohen is a lawyer.

― daniel, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most Seattle rockers are bartenders by day. In fact, walk into the Cha Cha and you can have your very own budding Sub Pop artist serve you an Olympia on tap. Never fails.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One moderately well known '90s punk rock singer I knew was also an assistant district attorney (and a little paranoid about anyone from one world finding out about the other).

― Douglas, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also alot of seattle rockers work at sonic boom

― jesse, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Dose-one works at the Amoeba a few blocks from my apartment. No bonus points for me.

― Honda, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jesse - what musicians work at Sonic Boom besides Nabil?? Is he the only owner??

― Ron Hudson, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think tim kinsella is possibly a waiter, or so i've heard.

― Todd Burns, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lisa Germano and Sarah McLachlan were both waitresses.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i heard on the radio that john darnielle (mountain goats) works with mentally challenged children. or something equally stressful.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Santiago Durango is now an attorney. But that was post-Big Black.

The NYC legal world is full of frustrated artists, if anyone cares.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You could have left the refernce to NYC out of the sentence and not affected its truthfulness.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I read somewhere that Gibby Haynes was/is a qualified accountant...

― baxter wingnut, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think two of the Silos (or was that the Vulgar Boatmen) were college professors.

― nickn, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I read somewhere that Robert Pollard was a teacher. I've seen enough of VH1's "Where Are They Now?" that I should be better at this, but all I can remember is Men at Work, and that one of them became a physics teacher and one joined a cult.

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In between one of his many comebacks, sixties Texan showstopper long domiciled in England P.J. Proby was a shepherd. In Bolton.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Baxter: Gibby didn't last very long as an accountant. He ran off to California with Paul Leary a few months into his first accounting job.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike Paradinas of Mu-Ziq has a day job at the Woolwich.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I read somewhere that Carcass were medical students. And isn't Stephen Pastel a librarian?

― Braces Tower, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Scott Ambush of Spyro Gyra builds basses that are way better than his crappy band.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Pete Momtchiloff, famous guitarist (ex-Tallulah Gosh/Heavenly/Marine Research and now in Would-be-Goods) is a Philosophy Editor for Oxford University Press

― marianthi, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sixteen years pass...

This is great! I'm in a Macclesfield group on Facebook, and someone put up a picture of his dad's work Christmas drinks from the 70s. He worked at Macclesfield Unemployment Office and Ian Curtis from Joy Division is one of the colleagues. pic.twitter.com/JbPGHsC7f1
— Geoff Lloyd (@GeoffLloyd) December 25, 2018

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 12:52 (seven years ago)

I assumed this was a new band I hadn’t heard of yet.

― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 15:54 (seven years ago)

This is awesome for making you realize that the guy in all those iconic black and white photos was also someone who had to make office chit-chat, pick out secret santa gifts for co-workers, and take nagging phone calls from his mother.

― enochroot, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:03 (seven years ago)

Vic Godard = the postpunk postman

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 5 January 2019 12:52 (seven years ago)

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