Oh, well thank you hopefully he sees this anyways!

He can inbox me too, if it’s an issue.

I started out way back in the Milenko era. I was a regular touring label employee, I was not a fan when I got hired, it’s a long story on how that came about. Many years later I moved on with a fondness for the music and whatnot.

Haha well it depended on which Joe you got on a given day. The only guys who had to really work with him 24/7 were Tom, Patrick and Dougie. The rest of the guys were on Billy’s bus and worked for Billy. 

Billy was always the leader behind the scenes. Nothing but respect for him, he never once asked for kudos or to be well known, without him there no way any of the tours would have been as successfully done as they were. When you work for that guy, he’s the type of dude you want to work hard for because you want to earn his respect and help him succeed. He’s truly an outstanding guy, but if you slacked or were on his bad side from being more interested in becoming well known or sneaking away from the work load to do the fun stuff the artists got to do you were going to pay holy hell

I’ll try to get to everything, lets see. My opinion of the music when I started was it was WAY different than anything I was used to, I thought it was great, I really love the Riddle Box and Milenko stuff the best, to me it’s iconic in a way they never really duplicated after. Don’t get me wrong I was really loving Jeckel and B/B etc but maybe it’s a nostalgia thing, the first stuff I heard was in Joes basement when I first came on board he played me everything up to Milenko and it was really good. My musical influences are all over the place so I can like anything that speaks to me and it really did. 

The fans, there are many I’ll never ever forget. A LOT of them I’ll never forget. All for good reasons. Not only did they pay the bills for me but there were so many with such unique stories and lives and I was honored to be apart of that for those years. I even have a few lifelong best friends from being around the Juggalos and they taught me a ton about life. 

 My favorite tour, that’s a tough one. Has to be one of the Jeckel Bros tours, I loved being on tour and that one was just great because we did small venues, by small I mean fucking none of our set pieces could be used b cause the stage was the size of your kitchen table and it was in a Mexican restaurant (Juanitas I’m talking to you) and some of it was in basketball and hockey arenas and amphitheatees and shit which was not as fun as the small venues but still pretty cool. And I know a lot of people hate on Woodstock but I’ll always love that day because how many people can say they got to do that? Pretty fucking cool to me.I will say on a side note that while I did love the Bizaar era too, that’s kind of when the “All Business” policies went out the window on the road and more and more drugs and alcohol were seeping into the works, and I really think it affected not only the day to day shit but maybe even some of the music and the writing as well. That’s what puts it behind Jeckel era and Milenko for me personally