An alternative music pioneer and winner of the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Poll for Best Local Producer who has been called "the only non-reconstructed punk at Harvard during the seventies," JH graduated cum laude in Archaeological Anthropology, sad to leave a great 2 year Work- Study gig as Assistant to the Director of the Peabody Museum, the esteemed archaeologist C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. Originally Class of '80, Joe was asked to take some time off, officially for "possession of dangerous materials" -- which he has called "a charitable official charge which could and did include a universe of illicit possibilities, but which spelled out none of them in cold hard prose to my parents, or to anyone snooping in the future, which is the point of Ivy League schools using that kind of vague terminology vis transgressors in the first place, since they may become kazillionaire benefactors in the future, there's no sense hobbling the old boy now, folly of youth etc., though it was pure irony that it helped me out of my own well deserved fix" --and during that period, while working in Cahaly's convenience store on Mt. Auburn St., he met, and fell in love with, a Muslim graduate student. He converted to Islam in order to propose marriage, travelled to London, Greece, and Pakistan, and failed in his efforts. During this period Joe worked summers and various hours at the legendary Record Garage music store, and affiliated Cambridge Music Complex rehearsal rooms. He roadied for and followed Baby's Arm, and then the Real Kids, playing bass for the former briefly , which led to brief stints on bass and then gtr. with Unnatural Axe, now one of the best remembered of boston's punk bands, most memorably during the '78 Inn Square Men's Bar Battle of the Bands. Joe gigged and recorded with his real first songwriting vehicle, the Bones, from 1979 to '82 steadily, with sporadic appearances until the mid-80's, when Mr. Happy and then Joe Harvard's 500 TV were Joe's songwriting vehicles, both of which recorded an unreleased full length LP, as did the Bones. Later Boston outfits like Flo and Joe, the Local 22's, the Troublemakers [not the Dave Bone Austin TX version, whose name Dave and I agree I pre-stole], and Old School Bitch had short lives of a year or so, but are represented by their legacy, such as John Rosato and Florence Dore's work on Country Eastern. After re-acceptance at Harvard, Joe took a semester off to work as part of the multi-year Archaeological Survey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, receiving a surprise "field promotion" when the draftsman for the team failed to appear, and the team leader overheard Joe joking about having taken drafting and architectural drawing back in Don Bosco Technical High School. The results of a dusty afternoon learning to use a plane table [pre-laser technology], and 2 weeks cleaning up drawings back in Riyadh can be seen in Joe's maps and excavation sections in Atlal, the Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology, wherein he is also cited as a member of the DeJesus scientific team under his birth name, Joseph Incagnoli. A bit of contract archaeology followed after graduation in '82, but the fork in the road came the summer of '84, which Joe spent excavating on the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />East River near Wall Street. A year after leaving East Boston, and ceasing use narcotic which was the same summer he bought his first 1/4" Fostex 8-track. Joe went on to become a co-founder of both Fort Apache Recording in '85 [full owner of Fort Apache South in '86, and after a risky move and a last-minute loan secured by his parent's home, Fort Apache North in '87], and the original Music at the Middle East Restaurant series in '88. An unsuccesful geographical cure to Columbus, Ohio followed a whirlwind tour of public detoxes, and while there on hiatus from the Fort Joe worked as house soundman for Dan Dougan at Stache's / Little Brother's and opened 8-track Little Big Horn Studio. While in Columbus Joe also formed the Joe Harvard All-Stars, Blunt, and finally the first Joe Harvard Band. After returning and hitting the wall, Joe entered a clinic program and began the road back. While serving as a full time volunteer, Joe retrained on computers at a nonprofit Internet Access Center in downtown Boston called Virtually Wired, soon creating and supervising a highly successful Individual Training Program. Joe managed the program and taught over 500 individual classes himself, eventually stepping in as Interim Executive Director when the center was threatened with bankruptcy, organizing a single quarter, volunteer-led turnaround which saved the organization. Leaving Boston in '99 Joe became a co-owner [former] of NYC's Tribal Soundz world music emporium in 2000 - an impressive run for someone who is, essentially, dead broke, and STILL doesn't own a real sitar. Since moving to Asbury Park, Joe became the First Annual MOTH Storyslam Grandlam Winner, an annual storytelling contest held by the highly regarded MOTH organization in NYC, pitting a dozen monthly Newyorican Cafe storyslam winners against one another. A one minute version (!) of his winning 5-minute story, along with those of the next nine winners, was recently read at the MOTH Anniversary Gala, and has just been selected by MOTH members and audiences to be part of the annual Best Of the MOTH CD. The Shore is also where JH authored The Velvet Underground and Nico, a well regarded volume in Continuum's 33-1/3 series; he has appeared in a number of rock music books and documentaries in recent years. His first LP Country Eastern is scheduled to be released on Aeria Records on June 13, 2008. He only writes about himself in the 3rd person when it is absolutely necessary. Like now.