Brain May from Queen is, rather famously, an astrophysicist, but did you know Jeff “Skunk” Baxter from both Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers is a defense contractor and advisor to Congress on missile defense? And I don’t know how well known it is outside of NY’s EMT circles --there is such a thing! My son is an EMT and they do kinda congregate in talky in-group circles-- but David Lee Roth is certified and has done a lot of volunteer work incognito. Easy for him because he does not look like he did when he wore spandex and make-up to work.
Those are the ones I know off the top of my head. Who else is out there doing Not Rock?
John Tichy, one of the guitarists in Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, had a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and became head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.
Also Brett Gurewitz, the guitarist and co-founder of the band, is the founder and owner of Epitaph Records, a major independent record label. But since that’s music-related, maybe not so much a ‘side hustle’ as a main hustle.
He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. He became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017.[8] For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD’s Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.
In addition, May is a huge fan of “stereoscopy” (3-D photography), and operates the “London Stereoscopic Company,” which sells viewers, photographs, and books to enable people to view 3-D photos. May designed an inexpensive 3-D viewer, which his company sells, along with a mix of vintage cards (images originally created in the 19th century) and modern images, many of which feature astronomical images, or pictures of his band, Queen.
More of a country artist than a rocker, but Willie Nelson started a company to make biodiesel fuel (made from soybean oil and vegetable oil, instead of petroleum), which was marketed as BioWillie. (It’s not clear to me if BioWillie is still made, or if Nelson has any direct connection to it anymore.)
Jacki Fox (Jackie Fuchs) of the Runaways went on to a career as a lawyer. And more importantly a four game Jeopardy! champion.
The leader of the Hong Kong Cavaliers has had many interesting jobs such as physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and adventurer. One could add professor of art history if you wanted to stretch a little.
that does not necessarily mean he was a medic for LAPD.
A quick googling looks like LAPD SWAT may have some medics but that may be only to treat those injured in high danger SWAT calls, first officers, but then possibly any injured suspects, & not necessarily responding to treat anyone who is sick or injured outside of those calls.
George Harrison co-owned a movie production company, HandMade Films; he was friends with the Monty Python troupe, and he founded the company in order to finance Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The company produced several other well-known films in the 1980s, including Time Bandits, Mona Lisa, and Withnail and I.
