Discover the Legend

I must begin this blog by saying what a joy and an honor it must be to know Joe or even having been a part of his life at any given point (especially in the early nineties at his pinnacle). He is a new discovery for me. I've never met Joe and I'm not sure I want to. I'm ok with simply worshiping the legend that is Joe.

Now on with the blog. The best place to start in discovering him for yourself is here: the long version of his autobiography where you'll find such treasures as:

"In grade school, my best friend Richard Hamilton and I were the two brightest kids in the class, and we were in constant competition for the "smartest kid in the class" crown. Eventually it became a fight over "smartest kid in the school". I also served as an altar boy in church for a few years, and was really into religion when I was young. My mother thought I would become a priest when I grew up. I wanted to be Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers quarterback and My Hero) when I grew up."

and

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"1996 was really a tough year for me...
Then, while attempting to patch things up with Helena, I allowed her adopted daughter and her boyfriend to stay at my house with their new baby...
Well, almost all of my large CD collection (many of which were extremely hard to find in the first place), practically all of my records (ditto, but even larger), and all of my keyboards, instruments, and musical equipment, disappeared...
As if these problems weren't enough, in losing my "other half", I was stuck with all of "our" debts, and had no real job. Also, I had a car, a van, and a motorcycle, all three of which died on me in short order. I contemplated suicide, went back to delivering pizza, eventually worked for nine months as a receptionist for Mazer Real Estate Company, then got work as a temp."

Thanks the Gods, Joe is still with us.