Ongoing History Daily: Weird musician hobbies, part 2

March 31, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Last time we looked at some of hobbies in which musicians indulge when they’re not making music. Here are a few more.

Flea of the Chili Peppers is an excellent chess player. When the band is on tour, Flea takes a chess set and is always looking for a game.
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is all about martial arts. He has a first-degree black belt in karate and black belt in Taekwondo.
It would be cool to see him in an MMA fight against Maynard James Keenan of Tool. He has a brown belt in Brazilian Jui Jitsu and is also studying Muay Thai boxing.
Slash collects pinball machines.
And this is pretty weird. Brann Dailor is the drummer for Mastodon. He collects all manner of clown memorabilia.

Ongoing History Daily: Weird musician hobbies, part is here.

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