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How Does A Rock Star Get To His Desk Job? He Commutes Like The Rest Of Us

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Dave Dederer from the Presidents of the United States of America performing at the Gnomodex technology conference in June 2006.

What happens when you become a star and then you’re not anymore? Where do you go after that?

Seattle guitarist Dave Dederer was a member of The Presidents of the United States of America. In the '90s they had three top-40 hits, two Grammy nominations and a platinum album.

Dederer’s star has faded but his career hasn’t. Now he’s at Amazon as the head of music programming. Bill Radke asked Dederer what made him switch careers.

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