Joe Exotic – Tiger King & Prolific Recording Artist
As Tiger King mania mercifully fades from our collective consciousness, let us not forget that there’s more to Joe Exotic’s music career than made it into the Netflix special:
- His songs are all written by Vince Johnson and Danny Clinton, whose prior claim to fame was producing most of the soundtrack to Nude Nuns With Big Guns.
- You Can’t Believe claims Terry Thompson (who turned loose his nearly three dozen lions and tigers before killing himself), was actually murdered by the deep state in an attempt to discredit private zoo ownership.
- He has inspired covers from musicians who embrace the redneckery, reminding us that in parts of this country “everybody has one of those guys in their town, the super eccentric guy who will do anything to keep his name in the headlines. Most of them are the mayor.”
- I Saw A Tiger “could be an a ’80s Springsteen song if it wasn’t about the tiger holocaust.”
You can’t make this shit up.
