Milo Aukerman of the Descendents has a PhD in molecular biology - there's a great interview (maybe in the Filmage documentary?!) where he's discussing a conversation with his colleagues who are asking "what did you do at the weekend?" and he replies "Oh, my band was playing Woodstock..." (or something along those lines!)
Interesting, did not know that. Punks seem to like biology it seems ..
"Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University."
They've toured for 40 years, sold 8 million records and have over a million monthly listeners on Spotify. The singer's label has put out many of the big punk bands for the last 30 years. I agree with your point, but this lot are fine.
They are indeed “doing just fine” which I am sure is what you must have been referencing — from one of their most famous songs:
Buy me a Becks beer
or pass me the bong
Gimme some Bushmills
I'll sing you this song
Open another
big box of cheap wine
We're over 30
we’re doing just fine
The last time I saw them live it was pushing 40 instead of over 30 and that was nearly a decade ago.
Hahaha, yeah, they're a fun band. I saw them (for the last time, I guess?!) a couple of weeks ago (and oddly in reference to the lyrics, I actually saw them tour Pump Up The Valuum as well). Mike is pushing 60 now!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
For him it wasn't about money, though.