Joey was born in 1973, in Elmont, NY. After dressing up as Gene Simmons for 3 Halloweens in a row, he discovered the six string at the age of 9. He began taking guitar lessons from Joe Pichkur for 4 years, and started his first band, Execution.
Exection played typical 80's heavy metal (think Queensryche, Metallica and so on). Somewhere around 1989, Joey and the rhythm guitarist John left and formed Vertigo, a cutting edge metal band. Vertigo quickly blew up on the local scene and lasted until 1991.
Joey bounced around from band to band until finally forming Unified. Joey's shredding ability has been compared to Joe Satriani and Steve Vai (two of his idols) and his creative input always puts a "suprise" in whatever song he is playing.
Aside from his solo project, Joey is once again shopping for that perfect band.