At the age of 14 and after many bails "Flying Dead Skin" would be his first band. Nothing Records, Nothing Everything & Nothing Enterprises would resolve in releasing the music that followed (Ringwurm, Lemming, 1/2 Bastard, Zero My Hero, Your Mother, Stag, Jackalope, Happy About Everything, Emo Summer, The Unit Breed, Sparkle Pony and the Fluffy Cloud, Chu Chi Nut Nut and the Pine Cone Express, Th
e Abominable Snowband). These labels would also release several compilations of Bay Area California bands and national bands that Joe would meet on tour or have play in his garage. With a move to Portland OR, Demaree would start Idiomism Records releasing new music by The Unit Breed, Captain Nowhere, Janice D Presley and Joseph Demaree.
