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.
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.
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."
Come to see Stormin' Norman Seldin's solo performance.
For reservations or information please call Mister C’s Bistro at (732) 531-3665, or log on to the following websites for additional information: normanseldin.com or mistercsbeachbistro.com.
We are playing next Saturday in Moonachie, NJ..This show is VERY important for us and we could really use your support at this one…We have tickets on our page for sale…We’ll send ya a few for free too!
Let us know if you can make it! If you missed the last one, you missed a great show, don’t miss this one!!!! We will buy you shots too!!! Don’t fear coming out to see some new great music!!!
Tickets available on our myspace page! Just click the link to BUY tickets and follow the instructions! Thank you for your support and please come out to send us to the 2009 Warped Tour!
Joe thanks for the stage time last night. I had a blast and loved that bass player I played with - that jazz stuff he was laying down on the first jam had this old goat on his toes.. The last tune was epic. Never played with 20 percussionists at once before. Only in Asbury Park :)
Did you make it to Mass Ave last night? I did a drive-by but couldn't go in due to too much unbridled humanity on the streets. God, it was icky! I've been crooning along to Sweet Jane in anticipation of your next Boston date. I suck. the oooh's are really kicking my ass. Please don't play on a Saturday!
Yea, what Sunny said! Good time, I've got lots more video (including We Are The World) but for now, the famous nunchucks from another angle: .. .. Find more videos like this on AsburyMusician. com
