radiohead, pink floyd, modest mouse, cat stevens, tool, crosby stills nash AND young, elliot smith, jeff buckley, your mom, your dad, t.v. evangelists, church in general, fox news, shame, fear, love, desire, Gratitude, libido, fire,
have you heard?!?!
led zep, the beatles, nailpolish, bandyouneverheardof, did I mention your back yard?
I'm Joe Clopton. I made these songs. I hope you like them and want to listen to them. I like to pretend I don't care what people think about me, yet I'm a performer. Who wants to be disliked? Otherwise I could just play alone in my room all day by myself...
actually I do that often.
I like Radiohead, Elliott Smith, The Doors, Tool, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Modest Mouse, Sufjan Stevens, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, The Coma Lillies, The Pixies, Sublime, John Vanderslice, Bjork, Beck and a thousand more and counting.
Were are all the Heros. Everybody. Whether we like it or not, we are all connected. We share this home. We are all roommates, brothers, sisters, responsible for one another. I am paying attention. I am learning how to be. When I grow up I want to BE. I want to help you. I want your help. Bands please contact me, lets do some shows together. Artists and humans of every creative cloth, lets get together and vibrate brightly, greater than the sum of our parts. "If we respond with violence, said a King, All of our weeping will have been in vain."
HERE ARE SOME QUOTES WRITTEN ABOUT JOE. (THE ALL CAPS PORTION OF THE COPY YOU ARE READING LETS YOU KNOW THE NEXT SECTION OF THE BIO IS BEGINNING.)
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
“a progressive voice of truth"
“sexy, passionate, honest, gritty, truthful, unafraid.”
"lyrics are explosive layers of unfolding poetry”
"songs are soberingly truthful"
"forced to shatter the dellusioned justfications of our distractions."
"we must, collectively, take RESPONSIBILITY for where we are today."
suffering the consequences of OUR actions, NOT someone else's."
Soon as you register you would be featured in our top friends list. And beable to get more promotions on your gigs. If you are not a promoter its the best place to see whats going on at night & day in the north bay. :)
hey! long time no talk... where in cali are you these days? still up in the bay area? i just moved up to san fran a few weeks ago. love it up here so far! hope you are doing well. talk to ya soon!
Hey Joe! I just wanted to say thank you thank you thank for playing at the wedding. You did a fantastic job and we were thankful to have you there. Thanks again and you should check out the photo link, there are a few great pics of you from florence....peace out!
Hey Joe... where you goin' with that guitar in yo' hand? Seriously- I'm developing a songwriter's guild to play around here at all the venues. You, Me, Pat and whoever else that's really talented should organize a show soon at Russian River or The Toad. You in?
Hey Joe. Even though it was brief it was great to see you're doing well. I really like your new song. Is this the one you were recording last week or do you have more coming?
