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Regular Joe

About Me

I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, cleverly disguised as a professional in the healthcare industry. I'm currently the Vocalist/Lyricist and 2nd guitar player in the band DownCycle. I was brought up on old big band and “rat pack” type music (thanks to my Dad blaring the american classics in the kitchen as I was trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons). I remember him teaching me how to clap my hands to the beat of a Dean Martin song when I was barely old enough ride a bike. He was different than other Dads in the way that when other Dads would bring their boys out in the yard to toss a football around… mine would sit me down and have me sing along to Perry Como songs. When I was about 15 or so, I found myself becoming more and more frustrated when listening to music. Mainly because it would inspire me, and I had no outlet in which to vent. So I asked my Dad for a guitar. He did his best to furnish me with one. We didn’t have a lot of money, so he and I rebuilt an old/junked acoustic guitar from the 1940’s. It was a “Frankenstein” guitar; put together from different parts of many junked guitars. I had an old Mel Bay beginner guitar book that had pictures in it, and I taught myself from it. After a while, I was playing all the 80’s “hair band” rock ballads. Like so many others, playing, pausing, finding the right chord, writing it down, playing, pausing, finding the right chord, writing it down… - Well, here I am, all these years later. My musical expression has always been torn between hard rock/alternative and acoustic mellow tunes. I hope you like what you hear. Thanks for reading and feel free to let me know what you think. - I apologize for the quality of the recodings posted on this site.

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Member Since: 25/01/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/justjoeacoustic
Band Members: Joe Verga - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Percussion/Bongos
Influences: Most recently: Rev Theory, Double Drive, Army of Anyone, From Zero, Amos Lee; but my timeless favs are: Alice In Chains, Dark New Day, Clint & Corey Lowery, Brett Hestla, Ani Difranco, Dave Matthews, Incubus, Chris Cornell, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Indigo Girls, Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel, Jack Johnson, SRV, Sevendust, Damien Rice, Trent Reznor (NIN), Pink Floyd, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, 3 days Grace, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Alice In Chains (worth mentioning twice), ya know... It's impossible to list all the music that infuences me... Let's just say- anything that doesn't suck.
Sounds Like: Hmmm, sounds to me like I needs better recordings :)
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

January 17th 2009 - Today's thoughts

Wow, I havne't done this blog thing in a while. The last blog post was in September of 2007! I don't even know what to write about. I guess just a general update is in order. I've decided to bow out o...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:29:00 GMT

September 11 - Todays thoughts

I hope today is a good day... Well, the band I'm in (Down Cycle) has started recording our new and updated material. So far things are running pretty smoothly (knock on wood). I actually feel bad caus...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:55:00 GMT

July 28th - Todays Thoughts

Well, I miss my truck...  It broke down on July 12th and since then it's been in 2 different shops... (long story-short: Dealer couldn't fix it.. I'm getting a new engine installed)-  So I'v...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:26:00 GMT

July 11th - Todays thoughts

Wow, where do I start. What do I tell & what should I keep to myself? So much time has past...it's hard to fill in the blanks.  I just need to write out my thoughts or I think I'll go in...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:52:00 GMT

April 15th - Today's Thoughts

1st off- I have to say, There's a KILLER thunderstorm happening right now- I LOVE thunderstorms  :) that's some angry sky out there :) I wish I had a huge bay window or sheltered b...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:52:00 GMT

April 1st - Todays Thoughts

ok-... finally it's done. I finished recording my latest acoustic song. It took a while... I had the song in my head for over a month now... I just couldn't finish recording the vocal parts because of...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:25:00 GMT

March 13th - Today's Thoughts

Hello,  I just wanted to address something (finally). As of February 16th 2007, I no longer hold the position of lead vocalist in the rock band "VagueUs". I decided to step down&nb...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:59:00 GMT

February 18th - Today's thoughts

Right now I'm supposed to be working on a paper for school or studying for a mid-term exam I have this coming Thursday. But I feel lazy, so I'm wasting time on Myspace.  I was looking a...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:15:00 GMT

December 22nd - Todays Thoughts

Ok- It's about that time; Time to look back over the year that has passed and reflect on what lessons we've learned, the people we've effected and those who've effected us. Time to think about th...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:20:00 GMT

November 10th - Today's thoughts

OK - It's been a while- here I go, getting my thoughts out again. One thing I'd like to say... School sucks. The program I'm in takes up almost all of my time. and even when I'm not dedicating time to...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:52:00 GMT