Musical Involvement: 

Oil On Canvas
Reformed Dreamers

Guitar.

Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Led Zeppelin, Narbotic, Rush, Yeti, Meat Beat Manifesto, Suzanne Vega, The Beatles, Neil Finn, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Belew, Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc.

Raised on classical music, The Beatles, the AM radio pop of the 1970's and various forms of American folk music, Joe began playing violin in 1980.  Being introduced to the music of Pink Floyd and Rush compelled him to take up guitar in 1984.  Joe has played guitar for Dead Silence (1984-1985), Star Garden (1990-1991), The Porcelain Servants (1992), King Ink (1993) and Reformed Dreamers (1994-present).  Current Musical Involvement:
Reformed Dreamers, Strange Familiar, and Oil On Canvas.

Signal chain Setup:

Guitar->Ross Phaser Distortion pedal (lavender)->Boss DD-3 DDL pedal->Line 6 POD Pro (or Line 6 Flextone II XL combo) w/Floorboard controller; Digitech IPS-33B->Alesis MIDIVERB II (both in effects loop).

Music:
Bic Runga - http://www.bicrunga.com/
Godspeed You Black Emperor - http://www.brainwashed.com/godspeed/
MC Frontalot - http://www.frontalot.com/
Meat Beat Manifesto - http://www.brainwashed.com/mbm/
Neil Finn - http://www.nilfun.com/
Papas Fritas - http://www.papasfritas.com/
Robert Randolph Family Band - http://www.robertrandolph.net/


Equipment/Studios:
Bogner Amplification - http://www.bogneramplification.com/
G&L Guitars - http://www.glguitars.com/
Godin Guitars - http://www.godinguitars.com/
NYC Pedalboards - http://www.nycpedalboards.com/index.html
Planet Dallas Studios - http://www.planetdallasstudios.com/
Svetlana Tubes - http://www.svetlana-tubes.com/
Techstar Services - http://www.palmerdirect.com/services.html
Warmoth Guitar Parts - http://www.warmoth.com/


Web Comics:
Ctrl-Alt-Del - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/
Diesel Sweeties - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/
Megatokyo - http://www.megatokyo.com/
Sexy Losers - http://sexylosers.com/
Taco Man and Burrito Boy - http://www.hindrances.com/archive.php


Various:
Damn Small Linux - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Iraq War Casualties - http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
Paper CD Case Creator - http://www.papercdcase.com/