His rendition of A Little Help From My Friends is one of my favorite songs.
Listening to NPR yesterday, I understand he became quite the fly fisherman and hiker where he lived out in Colorado.
They really are soul searching experiences.
I have a couple of friends who said they did hunting and fishing either on his place or adjacent to it. One of the friends was on casual speaking terms with the gentleman. Joe seemed to be quite the okay guy. (Although my friend is a bit of an inveterate name-dropper, and it could be a smidgen of prairie patty in the story.)