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Joe was born at a small research outpost in Antarctica. As a small boy, he would wander to the edge of the ocean and watch the walrus eat penguins and frolic as only walruses can. He in fact, began to think of himself AS a walrus and to emulate their behavior in disturbing ways. His parents, usually too wrapped up in their study of how fruit flavoring and a paper cone could be used to make the antarctic ice a food source, were unaware of their sons walrusness until one of their assistants had seen him attempting to mate with a 4000 lb female. They decided they had to remove him from Antarctica and take him back to the US.
He was disoriented at first, not understanding why no one else seemed to want to eat raw fish or crash headfirst into him in a battle for territory. He soon adjusted however and before long was eating at McDonalds and watching Star Trek like any ordinary teenager. Still, the sea called to him, and he found himself taping The Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau. His parents, somehow reminded of his existence again a few years later, bought him a bass guitar in hopes of getting him out of their hair again for a few more years. Finding it inedible, he decided to learn to play it, noting how the low tones it produced were almost walruslike in pitch and volume.

Now, the bass is his primary focus, but he can sometimes still be found facing south, clapping his flippers together and waiting for mating season to begin once more.

Joe's Stuff

I have a lot of people asking me what I'm using for equipment, so here it is. The first bass is a
Carvin LB75 5 string fretless
Solid Walnut with a maple neck through body and ebony fingerboard.
the second is a
Dean Edge 5 string fretless

which was actually a gift from my friend Shelby. It's a great bass, and I'm frankly amazed at the quality of it, as Dean's aren't exactly considered super duper top of the line. I would recommend them to anyone though. They make a 6 string fretless too, and someday I may just have to get one.
I currently have 7 basses, but these is the only ones I use in this band. I sometimes take the Fender with me as a back-up, but I find it a pain to switch back and forth between 4 and 5 strings. Along with the Carvin, Dean and the Fender, I also have a Gibson Victory Artist, a Washburn AB-20 Acoustic fretless, an Ibanez SR-506 6-string, and a Peavey T-40, which was my very first "real" bass when I was starting out.
The amp is a Hartke 5000 bi-amped into an Ampeg 1528HE cabinet which has 1 15" that fires downwards and 2 8" mid drivers and an HF horn slanted upwards. The low side and high side are completely seperate so I can bi-amp without using 2 cabinets. To give an idea of the level of power this system puts out, the master volume on the Hartke goes to 10 or so, but it has literally never been higher than .5 (yes, point five). I also have an Ampeg 4-12 cabinet and an old Peavey Mark III that I've had for well over 20 years.

I'm also using a Zoom B2.1u multi effects pedal and a Korg DTR-2000 rack tuner that are not shown in this photo.
Lately I've also been using Carvin BR610 amp, which is a small cambo with 2 10" speakers but with a 600 watt power amp. It's very versatile and the 2 10s make it cut through cleanly so I can hear myself on stage, but it's small enough to fit into some of the tighter places we play, and it tilts back so it's not firing directly into the crowd all night.

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Joe was once an extra on the TV show "Spenser for Hire". He can be seen slapping a haddock against a toyota in several scenes.

Photos Copyright ©2007 Joe Miglionico - Toyrobotgraphics.com