Read a review of California Calling in The Los Angeles Times:




Read a review of California Calling in Big Wheel Magazine:




Read an interview with Joe in the LA Music Blog:




California Calling is my story of growing up in Northern California in the early 1980's. California Calling starts with me moving in with my dad in Campbell, California in 1981 when I was 15 years old.

That year, two things happened that would change and shape my life forever. First, I became a member of Winchester Skateboard Park and second, I heard Black Flag's "Jealous Again" for the first time.

California Calling is about my obsession and love for punk rock - and all of the roads that obsession has taken me down. California Calling is packed with personal stories, and never-before-seen images from photographers Edward Culver and Lisa Johnson, as well as skateboard legend Lance Mountain.







One night at SideOneDummy Records, I was drinking some beers, shooting the shit, and telling some stories with some friends and these guys from a band. As the night ended, someone in the band said to me, “I wish you could come on the road with us, just to tell us more of your stories.”

The next day I started thinking about what that guy said and decided to take a few minutes and tape one of my stories. At first, I felt weird just gabbing into the microphone by myself. But the more I did, the better the stories came out. So, for the next two weeks I would come in to work early, drink some coffee and just start talking. These stories made it on to a CD called True Stories and Bad Ideas.

Check out the five stories from True Stories and Bad Ideas. Take a listen, and if you like them, pass them on to someone else you think might dig them and ask them to do the same.

Thanks!!!
Joe Sib