FUZEE - Joe History

Joe – Vocals, Guitar

Joe's first musical performance in 1979 was a great success, if success is measured by the amount of neighborhood kids that forfeited a mad dash to the approaching ice cream truck. He played an orange plastic Bontempi guitar and an organ while a good friend played Hills Brothers drums.

He was writing his own music even then, penning such hits as "I love Smoke" and "If we walked on our hands instead of our feet" (adapted from a "Highlights for Children" poem). Later that year he'd be belting out "I am the donkey all shaggy and brown" for a grade school christmas concert. The recording of that stunning vocal solo still exists!

Having nagged his awesome parents into buying him a self-standing organ - the kind with ragtime and waltz percussion beats built in - he was well on his way to not using it much a year later. As high school crept up on him, Joe would grow further from that organ and from music.

V isual art has been the main focus of Joe's life. He has a degree in Fine Arts with emphases in graphic design and printmaking. Upon graduation he once again turned his focus to performing live music, never forgetting the satisfaction of entertaining those five kids back in '79.

In '95 He joined Milwaukee's Big Mother Gig about a month before commencement from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. From there he's been a part of several Milwaukee bands including "Free Beer", "fundshort" and now "FUZEE".

Joe digs any and all kinds of music from classical to rap.

What Joe Has been listening to lately:

Fweep -" The Sound of Music"
CAVIAR - "Laurel Metallic"
Battlestar Cadillactica - "Farming in the Sands of the Hourglass"
Oh My God - "Interrogations and Confessions"
Firetrucs - "Hovercraft LP"
Caviar - "Caviar"
Walt Mink - "Goodnight " ( Joe's photo is in insert - twice, really small... )
Fig Dish - "That's What Love Songs Often Do" and "When Shove Goes Back to Push"
Truck Stop Love - "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
Jawbox - "Jawbox"
Fweep -" Now That's Modern Living!"