Coolest/most-interesting post-music careers

[PopTodd]

And I cannot believe that nobody (including me) has yet mentioned former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton, who was a chef at his Minneapolis-area restaurant. (I think that it's now closed.)

 

Too bad, because it sounds damn good:

Past favorites have included a duck breast served with a cassoulet-like side of giant white beans, roasted red peppers, chorizo, fresh goat cheese, and candied carrots, creating a sweet-salty interplay as crazy as it is comforting. The menu does offer several straightforward American items, such as steaks and BLT sandwiches, but the majority have global inspiration, such as their riff on a bahn mi, the Saigon Sub.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

On the not-so-glamorous side:

After the Beatles fired him, Pete Best got a job "loading bread into the back of delivery vans." He later became "a civil servant working at the Garston Jobcentre in Liverpool."

Zappa alum Warren Cuccurullo "took the plunge into adult print in 2000, appearing in a nude photo spread in Brazilian gay publication, G magazine, in which he appeared nude with a full erection in several photographs."  

Eventually, both of them returned to music.

[Winston Legthigh]

Catholic Boys... Warren Cuccurullo... kinda young kinda wow.

 

 

His nude photo career notwithstanding, his time with Missing Persons and Duran Duran makes for an interesting Post-Zappa career on its own.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

True. I just found the worst thing on wikipedia and posted it because it was a shock to me, and pretty funny to boot.

[mountain bed]

"Of course I'll introduce you to Warren". 

[Mr. Heartbreak]

"Of course I'll introduce you to Warren". 

God, that line must have taken on a whole 'nother meaning after he posed for a gay porn mag.

The funny thing is, Wiki goes on to clarify that all of Warren's sexual material was of a heterosexual nature....It's just that they thought he was a good subject for gay men to ogle. Freakish!