You haven’t lived until you’ve met your double.
I’ve been hearing about the other Joe Vitale since I was in college in the 1970s. He’s a legendary drummer who performed with everyone from Joe Walsh, Dan Fogelberg, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Peter Frampton, Ted Nugent, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Beach Boys, Eagles and more.
Whew! What a list of rock and roll legends. Drummer Joe even wrote a recent autobiography:
The other Joe Vitale
I figured the drummer Joe Vitale was proof of a parallel universe. In this one, I’m an author. In the other one, he’s a drummer. And never the twain shall meet.
Until yesterday.
As you probably know, I already have one music CD out: Blue Healer. It’s blues meets New Age music. It’s designed to help you relax and heal.
What you may not know is I’ve been working night and day to record my next CD, a rocking album of original songs, all written, played and sung by me. They are songs of inspiration, motivation and transformation. I’m calling myself the world’s first self-help singer-songwriter and the CD is called Strut!
My next CD!
It’s an enormous undertaking to jump into such a project. I put together my trifecta: Daniel Barrett, Mathew Dixon and Guy Monroe. These are my coaches for my music. They are incredible and I love them.
When it came time to actually record my new music, Daniel said I needed a drummer. I thought for a minute and told him, “Well, it’s probably a long shot as he plays with the greatest of the greats, but what if I ask the famous drummer Joe Vitale?”
Well, I did ask Joe.
And Joe said YES.
Turns out Joe has been hearing about me for a long time, too. He once emailed me that people often ask him for advice about life. He writes them saying, “I can advise you on what kind of drum sticks to get.”
Joe flew into Austin and I picked him up. We instantly connected. He’s a non-stop storyteller, generous with his time and expertise, and as loveable as a kitten. I instantly loved the guy.
Joe Vitale meets Joe Vitale
Over a light dinner before the first day of recording my new CD, I told Joe my purpose for the music:
“I love music but too much of it plants negative messages that we absorb without thinking. The Rolling Stones singing “You can’t always get what you want” is programming us to believe in scarcity. I want to record music that is as beloved as the classics, but instead plants positive messages in you.”
Joe loved the idea.
As I write this, we’re about to record day two of Strut!
Sit quietly and you might hear us rocking…
Ao Akua,
PS – If you want to know more about Strut!, please click right here.
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31 Comments
great !
This idea is so great. I think such kind of music is exactly what we need in our life. I hope everything will work out well. I’ll try to listen to it as soon as it’s out 🙂
Love this story, Joe! I can only imagine how much fun you’re having with this project 🙂
Love and Hugs.
This is amazing,
I found out about the other Joe Vitale when I did a search one day on amazon.com
This is awesome, Joe. Can’t wait until it comes out in January 2012!
Hey Joe! I’m friends with Dan and those were my drums that he used for your session. Heard some rough mixes when I picked them up yesterday. Sounds great! Congrats and looking forward to the final product!
THANK YOU! The other Joe LOVED those drums. If you ever want to sell them, let me know.
What a great idea, and to have those names associated with the project is brilliant! I can’t wait to hear it, Joe. You rock brother! 😉
Love,
Jason & Skye Mangrum, Authors
“Uberman, Almost Super Human”
http://www.AlmostSuperHuman.com
Fabulous Joe!!! How exciting! I’m looking forward to when it comes out! If you ever need any consciousness-infused live violin to add to the mix, just let me know and I’ll fly in to Austin asap! I would LOVE to play with you guys!
Hugs!!!
Megan ♥
Wow! Violin might be really cool on one of the tracks!
Isn’t it fabulous how you can create coincidences in your life.
Lovely story Joe and it demonstrates how anyone can ‘allow’ things to happen in their life, if they take the necessary actions and don’t let the mind get in the way and stop you just asking.
I worked as a professional freelance photographer in the music business many years ago. Recently I saw a busker (not sure if this is a universal word, but it means a street musician) who I thought was brilliant playing in my local town, I got to know him a bit and turns out he had played professionally in a band. Long story short, I said I’d love to dust off my camera and take pics of him, he was just going into the recording studio with his old band a few weeks later and said that would be great. I had such fun. Why? Because I didn’t let all my doubts take over from all the excuses I had lined up, as to why I shouldn’t ask.
The universe is just calling out to us all the time, but it is up to us to respond and say “Yes, let’s play!”
That is so true.
Love the idea of a parallel universe. But im still intrigue how you know of its existence. Where was the other Joe? What makes him your other self?
Congrats on you new album. Kisses.
I have a namesake double, she is a bit younger than me and I think we are cousins. 🙂 I’m getting that new CD when it come out. Yay! Reminds me. I have to get Blue Healer, too. More love.
Joe,
I am always blessed when you share how things naturally work out. This is just another one of those free flowing “coincidences” that just happen when you are open to life working great for you.
On your TV station with God is there gonna be a show chronicling this and other examples of “stuff” just working out for people?
To Your Best,
Houston
Dr. Vetter – DocResults.com
Great Joe! I found a guy called ‘Joe Vitale’ on google images some weeks ago and i figured it out he was a famous drummer with your same name. 🙂
What a WONDERFUL story!!! I can hardly wait for the new cd!!!
Pat
Its fun to do this! I connected with other versions of ‘me’ on facebook long ago :o)) What a hoot!
Look foreward to the new CD… and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put FIJI ISLANDS in the drop down country list…. I still want to buy Blue Healer since its release, but my country’s existence is not acknowledged by your sales page. LOL True!. … Or consider releasing as an mp3 download, which saves me waiting weeks for delivery and also the high postage costs… the would be awesome, Joe, thanks Smiles and hugs from Feejee…..
That’s great! I would like to meet my parallel universe twin!
Great story. We used to play “Roller Coaster Weekend” in our record store in 1975. I still have the promo copy. I once Googled “Joe Vitale” to find current info on drummer Joe and I got a mash-up of both Joe Vitales in the search results. It was confusing. Now you’ve made it more confusing. That’s OK, it’s great to know you guys met are are working on a project together. I just love Blue Healer and am looking forward to the new stuff. Thanks to you both for all your contributions.
Hi Joe,
I have read about parallel Universes and how in one Universe we may be a millionaire. I agree with the music and the messages that can be sent to our subconscious minds.
Rock on!
Love the idea, love the title! And love the serendipity… 😉 Looking forward to it…
There’s (at least) a triple parallel. Mike emailed me to tell me to congratulate you on your new Hockey career.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/4632
One of his co-workers is a Penguins fan, so he heard the last name and looked it up and there you are! Pittsburgh will be playing in Dallas Wed Feb 29, 2012, unless you’ll be near Pittsburgh sooner 😉
Hockey? Just how many parallel universes are there? 🙂
OK I spend all morning doing the calculations and the answer is 42. Hmm unless we apply the Kitten Cuteness Differential in which case the answer is infinity. Ya might get a better answer here: http://www.briangreene.org/?page_id=26
Great!
You didn’t mention that the two Joe’s are both from Ohio. Now, that’s amazing!! You make a good team! Can’t wait to hear the new CD. Best of luck to both of you.
A fan from Ohio.
That’s a real cute story. It’s interesting that you are both so well known in your own right. I wonder if there are any other Joe Vitale guys out there doing great things? 😉
Whoops! Missed the hockey guy! But still – are there more?
Thanks for starting the ball rlionlg with this insight.