November 17, 2008
Good morning everyone. I have rather sad news about a friend in OKC. His name is Shane Montgomery formerly know as Adam Dropout from the band The Pseudo Dropouts. His 18 month old daughter Zoe was tragically killed in a hayride accident about 2 weeks ago. He emailed me to let me know what happened and we’ve been emailing back and forth. I personally don’t know how I’d get through something like this or if I even would. The pain must be unbearable. He’s sent me pics of Zoe and she was such a cute kid, just looking at them will break your heart. Friends of the family have started a fund in her name to help them out in their time of need and I wanted to share the info and ask anyone that can help out to please do so. Music is great but when there’s someone in need that’s when it becomes most important and can accomplish a lot. If you go here http://www.koco.com there is an interview with Shane and his wife Carrie about little Zoe. So let’s all contact them and try to take a little bit of the pain away if we can. Shane and Carrie can be reached at pseudodropouts@hotmail.com . If you care to help financially the info is
Zoe Montgomery Memorial Fund
c/o Lisa Talley
3813 Elie St.
Norman, OK 73072

Just make the check out to the Zoe Montgomery Memorial Fund.
I know they’ll really appreciate any cards and letters or emails and contributions so again let’s all try to help them out and get them through this horrible time. Thanks for any and all help you guys.

Joe Queer

November 2, 2008
Well lookie what we got here-another newsletter. Actually this is a shameless plug for my recording studio The Electric Cave in Portsmouth, NH. A happening place in a happening town. Let’s face it any town I’m in is happening. Just ask Dangerous Dave. He’ll tell you. So unless you’re a musician and/or band stop reading here and go find a copy of The Onion to get your fix of salacious bullshit. I will mention that we are going to China for 5 shows in January starting with a New Year’s Eve show in Beijing I believe. The date is right but possibly not the village. Then the winter will be spent recording our new album and The Drunken Cholos as well. I don’t mean we are going to take months to record the new album like all the hip punk bands these days. You wouldn’t believe how much time and money absolute phonies like Anti Flag spend recording. I think it’s the tour bus syndrome. They do it cause of the status symbol-not cause it’s making the music better or they need to. But goldang it we’re anti corporation we are!! If we sign with a major label it’s only to spread the word cause we’re so much fucking smarter than you. Say what you want about the mid 90’s scene but one hint of a band pulling that BS and they’d be voted off the island right quick. There was integrity in the scene back then. Eh things have changed-get on the right label, pretend to be Irish or a half assed metal-head cum punk rocker from OC and you’ll make a million.

Anyway where was I? Oh yeah the studio. It’s called The Electric Cave. We have opened the doors and started doing sessions. We still have painting and shit to do but we’re recording finally. Jim Teirney and I are working on the myspace page and website-we’ll get them up and going this week with pics and the gear list and shit. But I wanted to get the word out here that we’re up and running and if you wanna record then come on down. In true punk style we have full analog capabilities right down to the trusty MCI 2 track as well as Jim and I manning the helm. What more could you want I ask you?

The infamous Riptides came in 3 weeks ago and did a 5 song session that was a blast and last week The Sheckies and The Slotcars came up from NJ. We’re doing a split with The Riptides and The Sheckies and Slotcars are doing a split too. Contact those bands to inquire about how it went-don’t take my word for it. I’m having a blast recording and producing so let me know if you want to work on something. January will see The Roman Line from Toronto coming down for their next album. They’re a great band you gotta check out.

Anyway as Sonic Iguana has slowed down the last couple of years I think there is a very real need for a studio with me in it to produce and make your wildest dreams come true (recording-wise that is). In re: your other wildest dreams you’ll have to hop on whatever side of the fence your wildest dreams reside on and go find greener pastures then The Electric Cave can provide. Our services stop at recording, producing and the occasional cup of joe from Port City Roasters next door. I will on occasion counsel you on affairs of the heart but that’s only to get a performance out of you so we can get the recording done. Now this isn’t to say Mass isn’t still open at Sonic Iguana-perish the thought. If he gets wind of me saying that he’ll whip me to death with a piece of spaghetti cooked al dente so don’t start any rumors. Jim and I are musicians so we’re ready to work with your budget. I guess our attitude is we can take as long or as short as you want to go. Let’s face it-if we have more time we can really pick things apart and get really anal and add tambourine and flute solos and glockenspiels and stuff like that-but if you want to do an album and you only have 3 days then we will get it done in 3 days-without tambourine and flute solos. The glockenspiel we’ll have to see about. We’ll work with your budget though amigos. Another little gem about recording with us is communication and mixing. (That’s two little gems not one) I have always hated recording and not being able to get in touch with the engineer or studio afterwards when I have some retarded question like did I forget my cell phone charger in the men’s room or something. Did I leave my dvd of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians in the dvd player? When am I going to get my fucking mix? Because we’re musicians and have been fucked over so many times we are making a point of answering the phone and getting the mixes done. Ideally we want to mix with the band but if you can’t stay we will get it done quickly and let you know the status of the mix. And get it in your greasy little paws in a timely fashion. I won’t go into the bullshit of waiting for 3 months to get a mix but trust me it’s happened-and recently too I might add. I mean if the band pays up front and the studio makes said band wait 3 months for a final mix I’m calling bullshit on that. Total Bullshit. Till the myspace page and website are up and running you can contact us here or at joe@thequeersrock.com .
Thanks and go Obama!!
Joe Joe the dog-faced Punk.

October 17, 2008
I am selling another guitar and before it goes on ebay I figured I’d get the word out to the millions of fans we have around the world. It is a 1991 Fender Stratocaster made in the good old USA. It’s in great shape and I have owned it for 3 years. It has a Seymour Duncan Invader humbucker pickup in it and sounds great.It comes with a nice hardshell case too. I’ll be honest I haven’t used it as much as my other Strat but I have had it with me around the world and played it onstage with Marky a bunch of times in Europe and actually China. Dave and I went to Beijing with Marky a year ago and did a huge festival with him. Nine Inch Nails, Public Enemy and The New York Dolls were there as well. The roadie left my main guitar back in the hotel (which was about 20 miles in heavy traffic away) so I used this one. I used it onstage at the Insubordination Fest this year too. I was the one who left the other guitar in the hotel room that time. I paid $1200.00 for it so I wanna get around that for it at least. Anyone interested shoot me an email at joe@thequeersrock.com or here on myspace and let’s talk!!
Joe Joe the dog-faced Punk.

August 28, 2008
Greetings friends Romans and countrymen. I have returned from my self imposed exile to write of my exploits of the past few months. And let it be known I have been busy as fuck my er……good people. What with moving from Atlanta to New Hampshire, organizing the recording studio (more on that later) and dealing with all sorts of family shit it’s been a crazy summer for your working boy. Anyway let’s see-first off in band news is Matt has wandered off to greener pastures for the time being and can’t do this September tour. So none other than the Colorado Ape himself-Lurch Nobody-will assume the drumming position. At least for the first 2 weeks-at which time he’ll fly home (if the airplane he’s on can carry his obese carcass) and Ryan from The Atom Age will finish the last week for us. When last seen Ryan was on the throne for The Hard Ons tour-he has since moved to SF and started singing in The Atom Age. Ryan was nice enough to come out and help set up the studio with me and JimTeirney and is going to be there when The Riptides come to record in October right after our tour ends. All the dates are up on myspace and our website so check them out. We’re going from Florida over to Texas and then up to Indiana-sort of. Come on down and see us as I am determined to not tour as much so I don’t know when we’ll be back on the road again. Though knowing us it won’t be too long I imagine. Ok so the studio…….it’s called The Electric Cave and it’s in Portsmouth, NH. Jim Tierney our old pal from out here who worked on Beyond The Valley and More Bounce to the Ounce and the Today ep among other things opened it a few years ago. I bullied him into letting me come in there with all my gear so we’ve joined forces so we can start producing bands again. We used to work together all the time here in Portsmouth on various demos and comp tracks and shit so we go way back to the Hubie/Bface days. It’s a cool room and we’ve added tons of gear as well as 2 tape machines as I am a staunch believer in analog (tape) and am pretty much anti protools (shit). So The Mighty Riptides will kick things off pretty much and we already have a bunch of bands coming in so it’ll be a cool thing. I love producing so if you wanna cool studio to record in email me here or our website. We’ll be updating a myspace page Jim has going as we start working more. The Bugs featuring our favorite bassist (from San Diego that is) Dangerous Dave Swain will be coming in next year for their new album. So if it’s cool enough for The Riptides and Bugs then it’s cool enough for you my friends. We will be recording our next album-I already have the name but I’m not telling any of you guys yet-we’ll be recording the new album early next year. Asian Man tells us May or June is a good release time so yeah about 6 months we’ll have it out. I am going to do more punky stuff this time around by the way. Oh The Drunken Cholos! Since Wimpy Tulu and I are all living here and I have a studio we will do a new album this year in a couple of months. We talked to Dez Cadena in New Jersey about possibly doing some recording with us so we’re going to try to get him up to play bass on it. We did one fill in show last week in Cambridge, Mass. at The Middle East Café which was fun as hell. We opened up for The Meatmen who were doing a few shows and Unnatural Axe was also on the bill. They’re an old Beantown band I saw a million times back in the day. It was fun as hell as all my old pals were there-Johnny from Psycho, Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys……..yeah it was fun. Johnny wants to come record with me and asked me if I’d sing on a song with them. I told him hell yeah-I always did see myself in a grindcore band. Cheetah is living in Nashville now and doing great. He played with Unnatural Axe and sounded great as always. We used to get all fucked up at Chet’s in Boston and then go to our rehearsal spot in Southie and play all night doing Stones’ songs. Amazingly enough Cheetah still remembers!! Ok I have to go to the studio and play with our plate reverb unit. I drove all the way to Nashville from Indiana to get the thing. Not many studios use them anymore cause they’re huge, but it’s what they used in Motown in the 60’s for that great reverby vocal sound so I had to get one. Oh one other thing-I was at Sonic Iguana working with Phillip Hill on the new album for Unbelievers (not ‘The’ Unbelievers-just Unbelievers). We had a fun time and the album is awesome. They’re a great band so check out their myspace page. They’re from Toronto. Also out soon will be the new album by my pals The Front. They recorded with Matt and I at his studio in Nashville a few months ago. That album came out great too. Lauren Iron Lungs the singer really ripped it up. Good stuff. See you on the road!!!
Joe