Oddball Toronto musician Joe Hall was the ‘anti-star’ GlobeArts
which played like zany B-movies themselves, full of eccentric characters and twisted plots. But Mr. Hall also had a poet’s sensitivity, capable of crafting a touching confessional such as. “Zappa backed himself into a corner where he couldn’t do a romantic ballad, even if he wanted to,” says guitarist Tony Quarrington, Mr. Hall’s long-time collaborator. “We always tried to do both,” he adds wryly. “That’s what kept us out of the big time – we were too schizophrenic.
Mr. Hall was born Hans Joachim Boenke in Wuppertal, Germany, on My 15, 1947 to Johann Boenke and the former Johanna Maria Zeirmann, who immigrated to Canada three years later and settled in London, Ont. When his parents divorced and his mother remarried, Mr. Hall took his stepfather’s name, to avoid schoolyard taunts . Mr. Hall learned to play guitar, performed in London coffeehouses and wrote his first song at 17, a bluegrass number called. But his interests grew from his mother’s records.
As for Mr. Hall, a voracious reader, he found inspiration in the most unlikely subjects: the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, a beleaguered barroom stripper, a gun-toting stalker or Hitler pining for his girlfriend in a Caribbean hideaway. “My own favourite themes are apocalypse and boredom," he once told The Globe."I adopt the persona of the different people involved. I believe in altering my state of mind whenever I can.
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