Gunn ,'Power Play'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Actually, I kind of like it that good musicians have the wherewithal to pursue other professions successfully, like Mo Tucker becoming a computer programmer or Sterling Morrison a professor of English. Instead of becoming drug addicts on welfare, for instance.
Well, except that per Tony Bourdain, being a chef isn't necessarily much healthier a lifestyle than being a musician.
Mo became a programmer? Huh. I was gonna ask what she's up to recently.
Last I knew she was working at K-Mart. Then I assume she quit to tour behind Life in Exile After Abdication. (Love that album.) Then I sorta' lost track of her.
The truth of the matter is that not that many people make money making music. And even those that are moderate with their significant income at the time rarely make enough to live off the rest of their lives after their unbelievably short shelf life.
Remember that lots of those musicians weren't able to hang on to their publishing rights; those got signed off to the record companies, so they may not be making residuals off any new sales. So what they have is what they made during their few years in the spotlight. The advances all got paid back out to reimburse the record companies for their expenses. Probably they didn't personally own the merchandising rights. Ticket sales go to the venue and promoter.
In Christian music, nobody is making any money except for a few songwriters. I'd imagine the situation is similar for many of the other smaller genre markets.
I stand corrected! Greg Norton's restaurant: [link]
Nevermind - I clearly skipped an important part of the conversation.
There's a couple of interview with Norton at his restaurant in the Minutemen documentary.
Queen guitarist and songwriter Brian May, who gave up studying the stars to become one, will soon complete his doctorate in astrophysics.
May, 60, will submit a thesis titled Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud next week at Imperial College London.
I think that here's where I note that T. Corey Brennan, who was a bassist for The Lemonheads, wrote his Harvard PhD thesis on Roman history while touring Europe. He was a professor I knew in college, and now teaches at Rutgers. And he's in Wikipedia! [link]
Let me just say that sometimes I envy the copy guys. You're in, you're out, no muss, no fuss. Just making copies. I'm not sure if I feel *worse* for the guy in the Hall of Fame. I mean, I guess I regret that Glover's not rolling in dough, but I don't know why he's not.
Let me just say that sometimes I envy the copy guys. You're in, you're out, no muss, no fuss. Just making copies. I'm not sure if I feel *worse* for the guy in the Hall of Fame. I mean, I guess I regret that Glover's not rolling in dough, but I don't know why he's not.
Now this reminds me of the time years ago in SF when my friend and I were at a copy shop and the dude who worked there was helping her print out her resume. When he saw that she'd worked in Santa Cruz he said he'd been in a band there--Camper Van Beethoven. I can't remember which one he was, though. He seemed fairly bitter about it. I think he was one who sided against Dave Lowery.
(And in trying to figure out which one he was on the wikipedia I found a page for dieselhed! They were one of my faves back when I lived in SF)