{"id":2731,"date":"2010-05-07T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-07T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:09:31","slug":"fall-back-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fall-back-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall-Back Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Robert<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What aspiring musician hasn’t been lectured by at least one parent to stay in school and make sure to have a “fall-back plan” if rock ‘n roll dreams don’t come true? I’m sure I’m not the only once-aspiring rocker among you who maintained the slightest connection to some, at best, some half-assed fall-back plan. Thank goodness, because I’d dug myself into enough of a financial and emotional rut during my years of chasing The Dream.<\/p>\n

We know that some successful rock ‘n rollers had a full-blown fall-back plan, like London School of Economics student Mick Jagger<\/strong>. We can be certain that the founding members of Genesis<\/strong> likely were prepared to fall back on paths leading to eventual seats in the British Parliament. Chuck Berry<\/strong> and Ringo Starr<\/strong> were prepared to be hairdressers or something, right? Skunk Baxter<\/strong> could turn to designing weapons of mass destruction if the rock ‘n roll thing didn’t pan out.<\/p>\n

What might the fall-back plans of any of the following dyed-in-the-wool musicians\/rock icons have been? Perhaps you really know what alternate skills they had in their back pocket, or perhaps you’d like to speculate…after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n