Wow. I never met him but he was from Kent (KSU) just down the road from west AkronYeah, I used to drink with Joe at the Miramar hotel in Montecito when his wife would get mad at him and throw him out of the house!
It was a pretty common occurrence! I hung around with Dennis Johnston of the Beach Boys too. His wife was a student of mine for a while.
where I grew up... I knew a guy like him in HS -- stoned constantly but he could get on stage and play Comfortably Numb, Zep and Rush tunes ....
We made friends with the janitor and he would let us sit in the bar as long as he was working, and we would talk politics, music, cars, whatever struck our fancy that night.
He is VERY smart.