Who the #$&% is Joe?

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 Teri’s Find, Take One

As described in an earlier post, Jackson Pollock in Toronto, I had a wonderful evening checking out the controversial painting attributed to Jackson Pollock that rolled in to town recently. I had first heard of the painting years ago, and at some point saw parts of the movie, Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock, the title making reference to what Teri Horton – Joe’s mom and the owner of the painting – apparently exclaimed when she first heard that her paint-splattered canvas might be worth more than the $5 (US) that she paid for it at a flea-market in California.

The real highlight of the night was meeting both Joe and Teri along with the staff of the Delisle Gallery who were hosting the exhibition out in the Beaches, and little did I expect that I would find myself performing several times that night, accompanying Joe with some flute improv for his original song, Teri’s Find, which is featured in the film. Joe had come along with his mom expressly to perform his songs at the opening, and let’s just say we kinda hit it of!

With this first soundfile, he has just given me a quick tutorial, and my cue is when he shouts “Geetar!”, which is when I’m supposed to crank out my flute solos! Minutes later we were jamming away like long-lost musical soul-mates to a delighted audience at Delisle!

Who the #$&% is Joe? My new best bud is all!