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JOE LEE DAYTON BiographyMy name is Joe Lee Dayton, you can call me Joe, Lee, Joe Lee, JLD, The Jay Man, JD or just Joe Dayton, whatever you want basically. I was born on 17th November 1987 which of course makes me 23 years old.
I was born into a fucking crazy huge family which hails from Seattle, Washington, USA, it’s where I was born and it is where I lived up until the age of 17. I’m the oldest sibling, I have 2 younger brothers and 4 younger sisters, I guess you could say that my parents liked the sex, but I digress.
I grew up in a pretty big city and having so many younger siblings helped divert the attention away from me and it meant I could pretty much do what the fuck I wanted, it was pretty cool but there’s always this kind of burning inside of me when I’d get home after staying out all weekend and nobody seemed to notice, that was pretty tough to deal with.
Anyway I decided that Seattle wasn’t the place for me, I decided that I’d move to California and at 17 years old I decided that it was the right time for me, I hitched many rides to get there but I made it 6 days later in California.
It was while I was in California when I first picked up a Bass guitar. I had dabbled in playing regular guitar but let’s face it six strings are a fucking pain. I became addicted to playing Bass and after about 4 months of learning the basics I was ready to step it up and I started looking for bands to play in, needless to say I didn’t get too far.
I even auditioned for one band which ended up becoming pretty huge, Saburban Sunrise, I auditioned and they said they’d like to try things out in a couple of live shows, it all went well but then they decided they were gonna go in a different direction, I don’t have any bad feeling towards them and it’s almost a different band now.
So while in California I ended up struggling pretty badly, I never had a place of my own, I crashed on friends bedroom floors every night, one friend of mine had a pet snake and I once woke up to a fucking snake staring me in the face, not pleasant at all.
I continued to audition and refused to get a proper job, the only job I had was selling lager out the back of pick up truck to 16-20 year olds who couldn’t get served, needless to say I drunk more beer than I sold.
And right now I feel like I’m on the verge of things, I think I’m about to make things happen, I’ve had interest from a couple of A&R people, no concrete offers just yet but I’m hopeful. I’m writing music all the time and I’d like to consider myself a pretty decent singer-songwriter, bass player but that‘s for other people to judge.
And as of now, I’m still living in California and crashing on my friends bedroom floors, People constantly tell me, “Get a proper job, stop living in the clouds.” I tell them to fuck off.
And one day I‘ll get my own place but right now I‘ve just gotta keep on believing.SINGLESJust When Things Can't Get Any Worse (Tales Of An Emo Kid) [#18, Top20]Edited by user 09 December 2010 04:22:54(UTC)
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