I’m about half-way through the John Joseph memoir, The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon, and have to say it is one of the most powerful stories of struggle and resilience I have ever had the joy of experiencing. Here is a man who overcame more by the time he was 10-years-old than I will in my lifetime. I wish I had a teacher like John Joseph in 10th grade, instead of that wang, Mr. Parky, who yelled at me for speaking out of turn.

I just finished a section in which John talked about when FEAR played SNL in ‘81. “With that Fear broke into ‘Beef Bologna’ and I hit the stage, launching out over the crowd in perfect stage dive form,” said Joesph. Fear is one of the best punk bands of all time, and this performance encapsulates a time we will most likely never see repeated on mainstream television. See it for yourself. Ian Mackaye was also in the audience.

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