What happened to musicians who stopped playing?

They're not that special. Pretty standard Asda supermarket fare.

 

Joe Byrd of The United States of America and Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies - presently lives in northern California, where he teaches music history and theory at College of the Redwoods. He was for five years a food columnist for the North Coast Journal in Humboldt County, California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byrd

 

Farlow was also a sign painter.

 

Mike Love joined a Beach Boys sound-alike band...................

 

Tom Rapp of Pearls Before Swine became a civil rights lawyer.
Dan Spitz of Anthrax became a watchmaker.

 

Michiel Peters of Dutch band (The) Nits became a bookkeeper.

 

Neal Smith, drummer for the original Alice Cooper band, is now a Realtor. Has a clever spin on it at his site: http://www.nealsmith.com

 

Former ELO cellist Mel Gale went on to run a small pressing plant, which later produced a small run of the band's 2006 single Surrender. However, this has since gone out of business, so he now sells property, teaches music lessons and has a small farm.

Additionally, I once read on a forum somewhere about John Deacon of Queen now being a postman and that he even once signed a copy of the group's Complete Works boxed set he was delivering, though I'm not sure whether this is actually true or not...

 

From a quick scan of his wiki, it appears he found a job constantly..marrying..women. (If you say it in Norm Macdonald's voice, it's much funnier.)

 

I'd like to know what became of Maurice Deebank from indie cult band Felt....he was such a wonderful guitar player. I know he did one solo album but that seems to be it..

 

Ron Blair - Bass - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

From: http://www.mudcrutch.com/content/band_bios.html

...Blair would move to Los Angeles where he played on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first four albums.
No longer wanting to deal with the rock and roll lifestyle, Blair quit the band in 1982 to open a bikini shop.

In March 2002, he re-joined the band to perform at their Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.
He stayed on for the summer tour that year. Blair came in to help finish The Last DJ album.
Since then, Blair has been the bass man for the group.

 

A double shame as he's still got it! Sounded fantastic!

 

Man, a real life version of this song:

 

Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom - real estate agent (though they still do some stuff as a band)

Lesley Woods of Au Pairs - immigration barrister in London

 

Ha, there must be something about ex-bass players opening bikini shops...That's exactly what Peter Gifford of Midnight Oil did when he quit in 1987

 

What's wrong with a job looking at hot girls in tiny swimwear all day?

As long as there's sex and drugs, I can do without rock and roll. - Mick Shrimpton of Spinal Tap

 

I want to know if there are any painters who stopped painting and took up music.

 

Ian Craig Marsh (Human League, BEF and Heaven 17) is now a music teacher in a secondary school

 

Captain Beefheart became an artist. Grace Slick became a painter.

 

Jimmy Page, kinda sorta!

 

Really? How many copies of Piper did they sell? Did he retain a share of PF after he left?

 

I guess you didn't look at Grace's paintings

 

Bassist/vocalist Derek "Mo" Moore of Nektar runs a very successful plumbing business in New Jersey.

 

Wow...those are...really...really...bad.

 

Arthur Brown and Jimmy Carl Black started a house painting business in the 80s under the name "Black and Brown" in Austin, TX. They did return to music after this.