Bob Harvey

Bob Harvey is normally known, if, for a short stint inside a music group with whom he never recorded. That music group, nevertheless, was a big one: the Jefferson Aircraft. Harvey was their unique bassist, playing a standup acoustic bass to get a few months within their 1st lineup in 1965. He offers actually performed and documented with additional organizations, though it’s like a Jefferson Aircraft trivia query that his name arises. Harvey initial recorded being a banjo participant with country vocalist Les Overstreet. In 1963, surviving in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, he co-founded the bluegrass group the Slippery Rock and roll String Band, where he performed standup bass. It had been being a folk musician that he fulfilled Marty Balin, after that element of another folk group, the city Criers. When he noticed Balin was developing a folk-rock group in early 1965, he effectively auditioned for the bass placement. Currently in his early thirties, he was significantly older than all of those other music group; perhaps even more problematically, his acoustic bass didn’t participate in the electric existence of a rock and roll group. He do buy a power bass around the start of fall months 1965, but soon afterward he was changed by Jack port Casady, before the Jefferson Aircraft began documenting for RCA. Harvey returned towards the Slippery Rock and roll String Music group and sang business lead on their just record. In the past due ’60s, he is at the Holy Mackerel, a music group which also presented vocalist/songwriter Paul Williams. But Harvey remaining before their obscure recording was completed, although one of is own tracks, “Wildflowers,” was included. Then went into performing, journalism, and civil assistance. In 2001, a music group Harvey had shaped in the past due ’90s with Brian Fowler, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Blue, released the Compact disc Idiot’s Eyesight, pressed in a restricted quantity of one thousand copies and released by Cranium Music in New Zealand.