Get a haircut and get a real job : Rockers who got real jobs

Richie Furay is a pastor. He still does play music with his band

Read somewhere that George Ed Powell of Pure Prairie League runs a
hog farm

Skunk Baxter is a government missile expert.

 

Although Amelia and Rob still record under the name the Catenary Wires, and Peter Momtchiloff recently recorded with Tufthunter, so they haven't given up music entirely.

 

I was in high school about the same time. African-American friend came up to me one day and told me that Joe English had played his church the night before.

 

Possibly already mentioned but I believe Rick Buckler from The Jam now restores furniture or certainly something in that field.

 

Freddie Stewart (from Family Stone), pastor of Evangelist Temple Fellowship Center in Vallejo, California.

 

Fuzz plays drums for The Beat as well. I saw him recently at Caerphilly Castle. They were doing a show with The Selector. This was Rankin Rogers version of The Beat. I know Dave Wakelin also tours his version of The Beat as well. So Fuzz certainly seems to be a very busy fella.

 

Hey Jeopardy fans - the reigning champion is Jackie Fox of the Runaways! Competing under her real name of Jackie Fuchs, she told Alex Trebek today about her former gig. She is one sharp cookie on the show, but with an honors degree from UCLA and a Harvard law degree what else would you expect?

 

cor that's as different as 'chalk and cheese' or so my mate fat Harry White would say

 

If we include soul / R & B, Arthur Alexander drove a bus for many years before he passed away at age 53 in 1993.

 

Probably already mentioned, but since we’re talking about getting a haircut and a real job, Roy Buchanan went to barber school!

 

Another one that may have already been mentioned, Neal Smith, the way cool original drummer for Alice Cooper, is a (presumably) way cool Realtor

 

Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey both worked with concrete and Sheet Metal respectively

 

But not after their musical careers.

 

It's not too late for them to earn an honest living.

 

Probably 99% of metal musicians. I was always surprised growing up how many of the guys in relatively 'big' bands for their scene were also doing music lessons, manual labor, retail, etc.

 

He also keeps interesting company from time to time...



(hopefully simply posting a photo with politicians in it isn't against the rules... 'sides, it was more Kid Rock I want to laugh at here)

 

Every single teacher I know at every location of the School of Rock is a working musican.

 

He also self admittedly ghost wrote screenplays for those awful tv movies on the Family Channel in the nineties

 

I thought that was Barrington Womble

 

A friend of mine ran into Vinnie Appice and Vinnie told him a story about getting hired by Verizon in the nineties because Grunge all but killed his career here in America. They gave him free reign to take time off to gig internationally.

 

nope, you're mistaken - he actually became two hairdressers

 

John Haggerty, Naked Raygun guitarist, is a plumber.
John Kezdy, singer for the punk band Effigies, is a lawyer.
Santiago Durango, guitarist for Naked Raygun and Big Black, is a lawyer.
Fred Armison, drummer for Trenchmouth, became a comedian, actor, writer and television producer.

 

One of the dudes from Snapcase is a college professor.

 

Punk women:

Gail Thibert

from the 1980s anarcho-punk bands Adventures In Colour and Lost Cherees went on to become a professional clairvoyant.
https://gailhart.co.uk/gail-hart-tv-psychic-essex/make-an-appointment-2/

Punk icon Jordan


became a veterinary nurse


and guitarist Viv Albertine from The Slits


became a film director before returning to music in 2009. Both of her recent autobiographies are really entertaining, well written and packed with great reminiscences about the punk era.

 

Johnnie Johnson became a bus driver.