Was Some Guy Named “Joe” the First Lead Singer of the Twisted Nixon?
California State University at Fullerton’s Most Famous Student Claims a Very Early History with Twisted Nixon
* The excerpt below is taken from an Oral History of the Orange County College Punk Scene circa 1983
Last Night, Joe, real name Joe, was torn to pieces by the crowd at The Pub at Cal State Fullerton during a Battle of the Bands show. Charged with disturbing the Peace Process, the curtain was dropped on Joe just before he finished the last verse of SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO while Johnny Punish played guitar and Richy Abboud pounded his drum.
It was said that Joe was to sing “Hateful”, London’s Burning”, Somebody Got Murdered”, and I’m So Bored with the USA”. Spectators claim he was wearing a U.S. Military jacket with the flag of Palestine emblazed in gold on his lapel and screaming obscenities. Some say that the JDL’s Irv Rubin was in the crowd taking pictures. This could not be confirmed. Just one song in, the crowd of future republicans and neo-cons turned on Joe and dropped the heavy curtain on his head, thus effectively ending Joe’s tenure as Anaheim’s most notorious punk rocker.
Later charged and convicted by Cal State Fullerton Police with being the most famous student on campus even though he never officially enrolled, Joe’s short but infamous tenure as College Student without Portfolio and lead singer of the future Twisted Nixon was cut down by a public who could not take it anymore.
Joe was punk at the extreme. The most outrageous, the most obscene. He was not there for his singing talent. At best he was just mediocre. No, he was there for what he stood for. He picked fights freely….not even his friends believed his was normal.
At his garage office, there were exaggerated and unsubstantiated rumors of thuggery, strategic planning of protests, and music by The Clash. In his mobile office, namely his white Audi Fox, there were rumors of enemies buried in the wheel wells and speeding races down Euclid Ave as Joe chased down local antagonists. Joe was even seen at Anaheim’s Famous Shakey’s Pizza picking fights with some alien named Galaga! He claimed that Galaga was a Mossad Agent and the handlers where what he called the ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government), sometimes known as the U.S. Government.
On Campus, Joe was both respected and feared. A Thug, Dictator, and Politician. He was hard to peg. Who was this Joe? At the Cafeteria, It was Joe’s world. At his table, you were offering your respects or acting as his personal security force or you were his sworn enemy and a public pariah.
Back the Pub, he was too much for the crowd of wankers, yuppies, and future republicans. The stage hands at the Pub at Cal State Fullerton dropped the curtain on the lead of singers head after just one song this crystal night, thus ending his tenure as one of Anaheim’s most notorious and infamous punk rockers.
"Joe" is seen in the background holding what looks to be an assault rifle
* DISCLAIMER – Literary License was taken in the above oral recallection of this fabled history taken from a jaundice eye. “JOE” is a mythical figure and any resemblance to a real person is purely coincidental. After all, does anyone really believe this story? Wink! Wink!
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