Member Since: 12/12/2005
Band Website: thunderhandjoe.com/
Band Members:
Influences: The Beatles, Redbone Jimmy Hendricks, Cream, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Savoy Brown, Blues Image, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bad Co., Humble Pie, Pink Floyd, Arrowsmith, Santana, The Stones, Mountain, Buddy Miles, Foghat, ZZ Top, Leonard Skinnard, Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Alice Cooper, Jim Morison, Dave Mason,CCR, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, The Eagles, Journey, Joe Walch, JoeCocker, Little Feat, Jackson Brown. Steely Dan, BTO, Cold Sweat, Tower Of Power, A.W.B., War, Commodores, Marvin Gay, BB King, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitte, Al Green, Sam Cook, Otis Redding, Benny King, Jeff Beck, Sly Stone, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Jazz Crusaders, Yellow Jackets, Latin Jazz Allstars, Tito, Chick Corea, Brecker Brothers,Weather Report, King Crimson,Billy Cobham.Thunderhand Joe and the Medicine Show at FT Randall Casino SD.No one has ever influenced me like the band back in in the day. I was 13 years old when Come and Get You Love came out. Redbone is the only band I ever wanted to play with. I did from 1981 to 1998.As I look back I have to say that my experience with the band pushed the envelope in
every direction possible and expanded my world more than I could have ever imagined. It..s funny how grown up you feel at 21 and how grown up you feel some 21 years later.Endocentric: The first rule
1981The first rule is there are no rules, a lesson I would live out in every aspect of my Rock & Roll life and in the years to follow. My dream vision to be the drummer for the greatest Indian Rock & Roll band in the world .... Redbone came to me when I was 13 years old. I had a glimpse of it before the age of 13, but it fully revealed it self to me at 13 years of age... width="425" height="350" ..From My Book ...... Redbone DazeI have been blessed to have a musical family. All of them, in their own way have contributed to my success, and right before our garage completely fell down, I moved my drums into the house. From the confines of that old farmhouse and those thick lath & plaster walls. I unleashed my second attack. I was now bigger and stronger, and I could actually keep a steady beat. Every day after school I would, with reckless abandon and blind fury, practice until my mom came home. I guess we were latchkey kids but that word was not invented yet, so we didn..t know. I am the oldest of my brothers & sisters and with no one in my immediate family big enough to keep my swagger in check, I honed my skills on one Credence Clearwater Album after another: Cosmos Factory, Green River and Willie and the Poor Boys.I got the albums from the library and would use my library card to get the albums. I was in that library every single day that summer. When I was not sneaking into the Orange Theater. I don..t remember checking out books, just albums.I don..t remember returning the albums. They kept letting me check them out. Until one day they pulled the plug. I could no longer check out an album, until I returned the ones I had. That was understandable assuming I still had them. I learned a long time ago never to assume anything. They would still let me in the library and while I could not check out an album. I could listen to albums on cassette, while in the library.They had this table with a cassette deck installed in the middle. Yes it was high tec. You could plug in up to 4 headphones. Day after day I would check out a Credence Clearwater cassette and head for the table. I studied I studied and studied every nuances of those records. I used the cassettes as part of my practice.With head phones I could here every thing that Doug Clifford was doing. This was a significant point in my musical development it was pure ear training.
Doug CliffordWell It did not take long before my ear training moved from my ears to my hands, feet and then to my voice. I..d be tap..n out the beat and singing along.
People ask me how I can play drums and sing at the same time ... it just came natural. I guess, sitting around that table. In the Library is where it started. I did not even know I was doing it,Now This is the shit here. RealThe stuff dreams are made of.... This is the way I learned it.Oh yea how great is James he was a big influence.My 1 Girl ... Bonnie Raitt ... This is a old recording 1971 I love her.
Sounds Like:THUNDERHAND JOE AND THE MEDICINE SHOW
Record Label: Thunderhand Records PO Box 6214 Whittier, CA 90601
Type of Label: Indie