Joe Harvard Band

Bio:

This page is for the Joe Harvard Band, of Asbury Park, NJ, as well as JH solo work. Originally from Jeffries Point, East Boston, singer and guitarist JH has played on records by Dinosaur, Jr., the Pernice Brothers, Throwing Muses, and on dozens of other major and indie label releases and recordings; as co-founder and former owner of Fort Apache Recording, he was an indie pioneer and spiritual midwife to hundreds more. More of that stuff in the blogs. Having worn many hats in the music world, the JH Band is a return to first loves: songwriting, recording and doing live shows with a kickass band of genius pirates, which he is happy as hell to have discovered in Asbury Park. See the Bio Blog for more info on members of the extended JH Band family as well as band history.

Check out the first Cranial Mass video, conceived and edited by Mallory Massara, written by JH and Mal, which we used at the Asbury Music Awards. A masterwork, with JH battling members of the bands appearing at that night's show. Host Fu! !

RECORDS YOU CAN FIND THE JOE HARVARD BAND ON!
Full Credits listed in Blog

SOME OTHER RECORDS JOE HARVARD PLAYS ON OR PRODUCED

WATCH THE JOE HARVARD BAND

Our Youtube collection includes numerous Playlists, like the Joe Harvard With Friends Playlist, JH Solo list ... the Best of JHB Playlist is embedded below, or you can look thru all of the JHB live tunes and decide what you like best yourself.

COUNTRY EASTERN AVAILABLE NOW! Aeria Records has released Country Eastern for purchase with CD Baby.Country Eastern, the 13-song JH LP recorded back in Fort Apache’s glory days, with a cast that includes Howie Ferguson [Real Kids, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages], Billy Conway & the late Mark Sandman [Treat Her Right, Morphine], Jim Fitting [Treat Her Right, The The, Coots], Jerome Deupree [Joe Morris, Bourbon Princess, Morphine, Either-Orchestra], Sebastian Steinberg [Cibo Mato, Syd Straw, Soul Coughing], Marylou Lord, Florence Dore [Mudsills], Brother Cleve of the Church of the Subgenius [Del Fuegos, Combustible Edison], Paul Brown [Gtr. Player Mag Best Unsigned Guitarist], Bob Pernice [Pernice Brothers], Gary Smith [Lifeboat, Philosopher Kings], Bob and Greg Kendall [Lifeboat, Tackle Box] and a lot of other great players from Boston and Columbus – not to mention engineering by soon-to-be-hugesters Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade, Tim O’Heir and Lou Giordano.

Country Eastern
13 Classic JH Songs on Aeria Records!

This is the cover of my book. You can buy it from me, or go to Amazon or even Audiobooks.

We got as high as Number 19 on Neil Young's Living With War website with our homemade video for "[How I Became A] Patriotic Pseudo Pacifist", which uses contemporary images to tell a true story about how Joe's late brother, Marine Lance Cpl Bobby Trainor, ended up in Vietnam, and the consequences."

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Member Since:

May 19, 2006

Members:

The Joe Harvard Band is more like an extended family. See the Members Blog!!

Influences:

Basically anyone who can write a great song and got onto my radar screen in the past three decades has been an influence - garbage in, garbage out. I'm not shy about talking about them, though ... see the blog!

Sounds Like:

The day before Graham Parsons died he played miniature golf with Jonathan Richman, and they discussed GP possibly playing on the first Modern Lovers album. That is how I'd love my band, and my records to sound: the Flying Modern Burrito Lovers. But from Egypt.

Record Label:

Aeria in NJ - still looking globally