While a member of TISM, Minack periodically worked as a secondary school teacher of Drama and fully resumed that role after they disbanded.
[2] In 1983, he joined TISM, an alternative rock band formed by two of his friends, Damian Cowell and Eugene Cester, in the year before.
TISM members remained anonymous throughout their career, with Minack adopting his stage name, Ron Hitler-Barassi, as a reference to[citation needed] his German background and Australian rules football fandom.
[2][3][4] Michelle Griffin of The Age reviewed it as "anarchic and anachronistic" with a "sour satiric tone" where leaders of the conflict are cast as "civil war dickheads" to be "frequently lampooned throughout.
"[6] TISM split up at the end of 2004[7] and Minack returned to his day job as a secondary school teacher of English in Melbourne.