Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676  
| 7/14/2006 1:25 PM |
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After being very unimpressed by the setlist of Bob Dylan's radio show, getting fustrated at Steven Van Zandt for holding up the filming of The Sopranos and reading Alex Kapranos' stale coloumn in the Guardian on numerous occasions, I feel the need to declare that the majority of musicians should just stick to their day job.
Are there any musicians out there who balance two careers with an equal amount of prestige?
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ctrlaltdelete Basic Member Posts:268
| 7/14/2006 1:28 PM |
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Kinky Friedman: singer, songwriter, novelist, and maybe, the next Governor of Texas
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milkmanBasic Member Posts:119
| 7/14/2006 1:30 PM |
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i used to juggle being a succesful barman and being the fella who plays covers on a friday very well.
interestingly, i got so good at juggling, they paid me in skittles.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/14/2006 1:33 PM |
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Originally posted by Gar
getting fustrated at Steven Van Zandt for holding up the filming of The Sopranos
Ah it wasn't just him, the fella who played Pauley Wallnuts was holding out too. Besides, Syl is genius, I can forgive him almost anything. |
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 7/14/2006 1:38 PM |
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I know but I think it's just because the last season was been muck. He's still a cracking guitarist, especially his stuff with Southside Johnny and of course The E Street Band.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/14/2006 1:41 PM |
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Bono?
I hate Kapranos' column.
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benni Advanced Member Posts:947
| 7/14/2006 1:43 PM |
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I think I hold down my position as Bass player AND international woman of mystery
very well
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/14/2006 1:46 PM |
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Originally posted by benni
I think I hold down my position as Bass player AND international woman of mystery
very well
That makes you sound like one of Jem and the Holograms. Or maybe the Misfits. |
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
| 7/14/2006 1:54 PM |
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is this a good thing? Eh - yea!
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AntistarAdvanced Member Posts:544
| 7/14/2006 2:01 PM |
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Dwight Yoakem was brilliant in Red Rock West and terrifyingly sinister in Panic Room.
Bono: Rock Star/Messiah
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ctrlaltdeleteBasic Member Posts:268
| 7/14/2006 3:31 PM |
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John Squire: guitarist, Jackson Pollock forger
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/14/2006 3:42 PM |
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Ronnie Wood is also a pretty good painter, as is Marilyn Manson.
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blacksheep New Member Posts:50
| 7/14/2006 3:45 PM |
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Joni Mitchells a painter too & Neil Young develops toy trains
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
| 7/14/2006 3:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Una
Ronnie Wood is also a pretty good painter, as is Marilyn Manson.
Yea i saw some of his pictures - quite good indeed. |
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/14/2006 3:55 PM |
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John Squire is mean :(
Nick Cave wrote and directed a film recently, didn't he?
Gwen Stefani has an awesome clothing label: LAMB
Madonna has a million-selling children's book series
I remember interviewing Daniel Spitz from Anthrax a couple of years ago, and when Anthrax first split, he went off to Switzerland to become a watchmaker and over 10 years became the second best in the world at the craft. He only repairs watches worth millions now. What a legend!
50cent has a top selling Vitimin Water flavour
I thought Eminem was v g in 8Mile
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klootfanAdvanced Member Posts:851
| 7/14/2006 4:05 PM |
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Nick Cave wrote a script for Gladiator 2!!!
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DaraghAdvanced Member Posts:666
| 7/14/2006 4:06 PM |
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ronnie wood is pretty good at painting alright, would Dylan count as a novelist for "chronicles"?
what about people who are equally as bad at what they do? like spice girls, movies n muzak.
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strollerAdvanced Member Posts:576
| 7/14/2006 4:20 PM |
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Well Ludacris gave an excellent performance in Crash but he's a terrible MC so he's somebody who I'd actually encourage to give up his day job. Like wise the Soulwax boys are far better DJ's than they are musicians.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/14/2006 5:33 PM |
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I like Ludacris' part on Yeah.
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| 7/16/2006 10:17 PM |
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Frankly Stroller i couldn't disagree more with both points: Ludacris was terrible in crash really over acting and bombastic, as for soulwax, they are such a brilliant live band much against everyones advice has some cracking tunes
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 7/16/2006 11:22 PM |
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Bob Stanley was a music journalist before forming Saint Etienne with Pete Wiggs (Sarah Cracknell joined later). Still writes for the Sunday Times and other publications I believe.
Giorgio Moroder, aside from his music and film involvments managed to find time to setup a car company called Cizeta-Moroder. The car called the V16T (because it had a 16 cylinder engine, for non petrol heads, imagine 4 ordinary family car engines joined together to make one massive engines and you have some idea) was not a commercial success and production was halted. Doesn't mean he should stick to the day job, you can hardly call building something that spectacular a failure. I'd be pretty pleased to have that on my CV.
http://www.giorgiomorodergallery.com/cizeta/m_cizeta.html
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 12:28 PM |
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Bruce d**kinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden is a fully qualified pilot and flies regularly to Sierra Leone, alas he wasn't the pilot when I went there. How cool would that be
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
| 7/18/2006 12:33 PM |
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hahahaa! It astrixzzeded his name!
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MullyAdvanced Member Posts:849
| 7/18/2006 1:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nerraw
Bruce d**kinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden is a fully qualified pilot and flies regularly to Sierra Leone, alas he wasn't the pilot when I went there. How cool would that be
IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce d**kinson flew a chartered plane filled with MAIDEN fans on Tuesday, June 7 from London, England to the band's gig in Reykjavik, Iceland. Bruce, MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain and band manager Rod Smallwood were on board, and helped keep the fans entertained during the flight. Check out pictures taken during the trip:
http://www.downloadmyarse.co.uk/thumbnails.php?album=44 |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 2:41 PM |
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all these jobs are too closely related...
...apart from bruce d**kinson - that's funny...
...and nick cave wrote the script and soundtrack to the proposition, yes... but probably more impressively wrote a highly critically acclaimed novel some years back.
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 3:11 PM |
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In the inflight brochure there is a feature about him, with a pic of him in this pilot unifor. Not the best advertisement I would've thought. He is also qualified to land of one of the most difficult runways in the World.
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 3:41 PM |
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talking of difficult runways, did anyone ever fly into the old hong kong airport... the wave at the office workers either side before taking a sharp 90 degree bank one?
bit off topic, i know...
...wonder if bruce d**kinson was qualified to fly into that...
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/18/2006 3:48 PM |
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no, I never flew there, but my mate did, said it was bizarre. The new one is on some island that's slowly sinking, innit?
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 4:07 PM |
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Originally posted by Una
no, I never flew there, but my mate did, said it was bizarre. The new one is on some island that's slowly sinking, innit?
I watched a full hour documentary on that sinking airport. Fascinating, even with self medication. They gave it a lifespan of 30 years or so and I think they plan to build another. It has massive lift thingies all around the airport that they raise every so often. It showed a staircase that was several steps below the floor it was supposed to reach, such was the the sinkage |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 4:34 PM |
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hong kong's new airport is indeed on an island but it is kansai airport (on a reclaimed artificial island) in japan that is the sinking one
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| 7/19/2006 11:10 AM |
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leonard cohen novelist, poet, singer song writer. he won a butt load of awards for his literature in the late fifties and early sixties doesnt publish as much nowadays.
kris kristofferson... not sure about prestige though
i heard jeff bridges released an album recently
neil young has his own company that makes hitech toy trains that apparently have the most realistic sound and smoke effects on the market he,s also made some crappy films with dennis hopper
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
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petethedrummerNew Member Posts:38
| 7/19/2006 11:21 AM |
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Bruce d**kinson was 'the seventh-best foil fencer in Great Britain during the 1988-89 fencing season'
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5619/bruceSI.htm
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| 7/19/2006 11:33 AM |
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...and so hot his name gets censored on the cluas forums, what a man!
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 7/19/2006 7:22 PM |
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Originally posted by alio
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
He was great in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy  |
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strollerAdvanced Member Posts:576
| 7/19/2006 10:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by alio
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
Mos Def was an actor before he was an MC. His first major acting role was in a made for TV movie called God Bless the Child back in 1988 but his first crew Urban Thermo Dynamics didn't release a record til 1994. |
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AntistarAdvanced Member Posts:544
| 7/20/2006 8:08 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by petethedrummer
Bruce d**kinson was 'the seventh-best foil fencer in Great Britain during the 1988-89 fencing season'
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5619/bruceSI.htm
He also does a bit of presenting on Sky One, he recently fronted a programme on spontaneous human combustion. He was very, very good- a real natural at it. Didn't he write a novel a long tome ago also? 'The Missionary Position' I think it was called. He's also a pilot!! Phew!!! |
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