Joe Dean was born in a log cabin that he helped his Mother build. He has played bass in fX, A Few Circles, Victor the Florist, Laughing Academy, Noise God, Tin Brood, Crawlspace, Maria Silver, Object:blender, Christian Lunch, Constant Llama, ¿What Street?,  The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, The Watts Band, Three Eyed Fish, The Jack Brewer Reunion Band, Cast of a Thousand, Sassafras, MajicBulletTheory, Million Kids, and The Wrinkling Brothers, his first self led band since 1986.

Cathy Cooper & Stephen McNeely



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Beijing and Santa Barbara. For more recent work (post 2005): https://www.youtube.com/user/Syneme

Although we’ve tried not to label ourselves, we’ve been called experimental, spacerock, postrock, psych and mathrock. So far, we’re an instrumental band so each new song is a reimagination of what we can do with the our hands, that will speak for itself and entice listeners to project their own imagination onto the sound.

Within my limited means, I'm trying to create the Prog/Funk fusion which should have existed in the 1970's.  And whatever else occurs to me along the way.  Enjoy it if you're able.

Comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried, a man Stephen King once called “a national treasure,” talks with the show business legends, icons and behind-the-scenes talents who shaped his childhood and influenced his comedy.

Along with co-host and fellow pop culture fanatic Frank Santopadre, Gilbert is joined by comics, actors, musicians, talk show hosts, writers and other eyewitnesses to Hollywood history, including Bruce Dern, Chevy Chase, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Adam West, Steve Buscemi, Micky Dolenz, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow and DOZENS more, for a funny, frenetic, fly-on-the-wall look at showbiz then and now (but mostly then.)

Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast was named "Best Podcast of 2015" by the Village Voice and one of iTunes' "Best of 2014." It has been featured in Rolling Stone, Wired and the Los Angeles Times.

It’s OK! is/are: Robert Hecker (chameleon-voiced guitar guru, Redd Kross), Ellen Rooney (five-octave chanteuse), Dennis McGarry (eight-string bass & three-piece suit), & Roy McDonald (transcendent percussion, The Muffs & Redd Kross). Individually, they can all stand as shred-lords, but collectively, they make a beautiful, hyper melodic (& harmonic) sound. 

It’s OK! have released four sixteen-song albums on Econoclast Recordings, each & every one of them a triumph of eclecticism. It’s OK! have been compared to Queen, Guided By Voices, Poi Dog Pondering, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, the Ink Spots, the BellRays, & A Giant Dog, to mention just a few. “We like all different kinds & sorts of music, so we write all different kinds & sorts of songs.” The band have completed their fifth sixteen-song album, ‘Product Of California’, due to be released physically on 3/25/2025, & digitally on 4/1/2025: spotify:album:3z8uWPtjyrg6MdQVUiq2Du 

From the delirious guitar shred of the opening track (‘Hold My Tea’) to instant rock classics steeped in the ‘70s (‘Here She Comes Again’, “Be Strong’) to poignant power pop (‘Home’, ‘To Beg You’) to modern standards (‘Siren’s Lament’), ‘Product Of California’ covers all of the bases, & more, including a title track that would make Woody Guthrie proud. 

It's OK! have played AZ, CA, NM, NV, OK, OR, TX, & WA, and look to cover even more territory in 2025. Future Forward! 

Succumb to the Mystical Power! Freak On! We Love You! It’s OK! 


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