first time playing The Stone Pony
with Joe, he gave me the suitcase
and said here’s your drums. Every-
thing you need is in there. I think
we freaked the soundguys out a
bit when they realized we didn’t
have an actual drum set. That be-
came the first long weekend drum
kit when it started at O’Tooles on
the boardwalk. Joe had a way tak-
ing everything out of its element
and somehow when all the pieces
and players were there he made
that his pallet and that’s when you
realized that the genius of essen-
tially abandoning the plan and
logic in general was how every-
thing and everyone was on their
toes and at their best.”
-- Greg Wilkens
“We were both doing sound in
Asbury Park and were mostly on
each other’s periphery but his bril-
liance was palpable every time
our orbits intersected. I can’t re-
member when he arrived in As-
bury because it seemed like he
Watch the Joe Harvard perform “Pablo Picasso”
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