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Joe Harvard Band

About Me


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."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/19/2006
Band Website: http://www.rockinboston.com
Band 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
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this event: Joe Harvards 50th Birthday Bash

Hosted By: Joe HarvardWhen: Sunday Jan 04, 2009 at 7:00 PMWhere Asbury Lanes4th Ave and KingsleyAsbury Park, New Jersey|31 07712United StatesDescription:Joe Harvard Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:12:00 GMT

"My Christmas Song": the story

"My Christmas Song written by Joe Harvard. Performed by Mr. Happy for the unreleased LPLove and Music: Play! Play! Play!Produced and Engineered by Joe Harvard at Fort Apache South, 1986.8-track Otari ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:58:00 GMT

O'Tooles on Mondays! Long Weekend, month one

It's been a bitching first month for Joe Harvard's Long Weekend at O'Toole's, and we've settled into a nice, low-volume groove out in the dog-friendly Galleria of the Convention Center. Talk about aco...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:50:00 GMT

MONDAYS at O’TOOLES: SONG LIST

Think of this as a one-man band that lets people sit in -- NOT A jam, it's a song-oriented evening with a conductor and a mutatable band, if you will. Joe Harvard provides a trap kit [no cymbals allow...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:59:00 GMT

Joe Harvard Band - LP Credits! Who did what!

JOE HARVARD BAND LP CREDITS Hero: Main Man Records Tribute to David Bowie"Panic in Detroit" Credits:Joe Harvard Band. Keith Monacchio ac gtr & community relations, Jay Walker jazz bass, Tony Te...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:30:00 GMT

DAY 4 Cary Grant Guitars vs. James Dean Guitars ETC

DAY 4 . "Exotic-Electric' SUNDAY [lisa in, keith out]] Lisa Higley saves the day! I am stuck, stranded. No way to get to SRG. Lisa comes in from Freehold, and then proceeds to drive me and my crap to ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 16:27:00 GMT

4 GEARHEADS: STUDIO AMP SOUNDS, PT. 1

4 GEARHEADS: STUDIO AMP SOUNDS, PT. 1 ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  One cool thing about working at SRG is that Sean loves guitars and amps in much th...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:04:00 GMT

MEMBERS

MEMBERS. Acoustic gtr. and backing vocals are handled by Keith Monacchio, frontman for longtime Trenton faves the Commons, while the bass chair is tastefully occupied by local lo-end hero Jay Walker. ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:13:00 GMT

Influences & Stuff We Like

INFLUENCES. JOE HARVARD: For quite a while now I've made a conscious effort to avoid being influenced by contemporary artists, it isn't and obviously can't be entirely succesful -- and ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Day 3. Guitars. Making: Making It Hot For Em at SRG Studios

THURSDAY Day 3. [keith in, rae out] Getting up to Hamilton without a car is a major undertaking. Jersey transit routes you from Asbury Park station to Trenton via Long Branch, Newark, and Grinnell Fre...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:39:00 GMT