Ricki C at his
Growing Old With Rock & Roll blog has long post from 2013 detailing his history with Joe Peppercorn, the pre-Whiles band Mrs. Children, and the legendary Beatles Marathon Joe puts on. Here's part of that:
I first met the band's main songwriter Joe Peppercorn in maybe January of 2002. It was at my day-job at Ace In The Hole Music Exchange, an indie record store in Columbus, when he came in the day after I had co-hosted a local record review radio show. "Was that you on Invisible Hits Hour last night?" the kid on the other side of the counter asked. "Did you like the show?" I queried. "Yeah, it was great," he answered. "Yeah, that was me," I replied. He paused for a moment, then said, "What were you gonna say if I DIDN'T like it?" "I was gonna say it was the white-haired guy who owns the store. The last thing I need is little 311 fans coming in here hassling me because I bad-mouthed their favorite band and I can't walk away from them."
Joe laughed, then got serious and said to me, "I just wanted to come in and thank you because five or six years ago you were on that show and you played The Velvet Underground and I had never heard them and got into them because of you." I just stared at him for a second, then said, "You have just validated everything I've ever gone through to be on that show. I owe Lou Reed a gigantic rock & roll debt and you just helped me pay some of it off."
We talked a little more about music & such and when he was leaving Joe said, "I'm in a band. If we made a record would you sell it in the store?" "Absolutely," I replied, thinking that was the end of it. I would say at that point every tenth kid under 25 that came in the store was "in a band, and they were gonna make a record, and would we sell it at the store?" and not more than three of them ever returned.
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