Harvey Gold

Harvey Gold, born (1952-10-12) October 12, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA, is an American guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist, a founder of the avant-rock/new wave band Tin Huey. When the band members first went their separate ways in 1982, Gold also became a film and video producer. In 1986, he started his own production company in New York City, Gold Teleproductions. Included among the projects he produced are specials for Nickelodeon, series and specials for Comedy Central and A&E, for Comedy Central the television series 2 Drink Minimum, the house band including a couple of his bandmates from Tin Huey, Chris Butler (musician) (as music director) and Ralph Carney. Gold also produced the music video for The Black Keys' "10 AM Automatic." After his 20-year stay in New York, Gold moved back to his hometown in early 2000 where he currently resides with his wife, Dolli Quattrocchi Gold. Not long after line producing a live to tape season finale for IFC's "The Whitest Kids U' Know" Gold, at the end of 2016, closed up Gold Teleproductions and "officially" retired from the Video and Film business.

Staying involved with the Hueys, Harvey played a role in completing their second album, disinformation (album) released in 1999. In 2003, starting with a "Ralph Carney & Friends" reunion in Cleveland (with the very young Black Keys opening for them), Harvey's involvement with various Tin Huey configurations started up again for a brief period, the Hueys playing multiple gigs in NE Ohio and the NY/NJ area, headlining a concert at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Gold has appeared with his spin-off bands, Half Cleveland with Chris, and recorded as Harvey in the Hall, whose members include the Hueys' and Unit 5's "Bongo" Bob Ethington on drums, Chi-Pig's Deborah Smith on bass and vocals, and Bruce Hensal as producer. Other guests/unofficial members, include The Byrds' and Flying Burrito Brothers' Chris Hillman, the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, and Dolli Gold; another , Mr. Ray Violet, includes Gold on guitar, bass, digital sounds, loops and vocals, Tin Huey's Michael Aylward on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Huey drummer, Stuart Austin and, on "Lemon Beasley," David Stephenson. Gold, Aylward, and Austin have done some recording and performances at art galleries as "Huey's Swing Club," an art-improv project.

In 2010 Gold recorded a piano track for Sally Spring's "Made of Stars" and completed a mini-tour (playing bass) with Sally in March of 2011, playing at "Not SXSW" in Austin, and other venues due east, including Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This was followed up by a Spring 2012 European Tour billed as "Sally Spring and the Folk/Country Blue Boys" (Ted Lyons on guitar, and Gold) centered on three appearances at F.I.M.U, the annual music festival held in Belfort, France. The tour numbered 14 shows in 22 days on the ground in Europe, covering the Netherlands, France, England, and Scotland.

Gold also contributed a track for R. Stevie Moore's Tribute Box Set, a recording of Moore's "Human Race," everything recorded, as a nod to Mr. Moore's DIY-king status, on a Boss Stomp Box looper.

2019: As Half Cleveland became less active by 2017, Gold began working with his old mates Chuck Keith, Denny Coyle, Rich Roberts (Chi-Pig), and Tren Houseman (The Bad Dudes) in The HiFis, a pop/rock combo performing material written by singer/songwriter Keith (who co-wrote the Tin Huey release, "Sister Rose" with Gold). This has, thus far, yielded the 2019 EP release "6x5" and the single "Christmastime is Coming Around Again"

Gold recorded keys on a track ("Slow Saturday"), for the self-titled debut by the band Fancy Legs, and in support of its release, both Gold and Butler (who recorded guitar on a different track) have performed with Fancy legs, reviving some Tin Huey songs along the way.

A new experimental project called Golems of the Red Planet manned by Gold on guitar, bassist Mark Allender (Pointless Orchestra, Brothel Brothers), drummer Bob Ethington (Tin Huey, Half Cleveland, Unit Five), and cellist Matt Reese (Trials of Lucy) exploring the Masada works of John Zorn is in play. [1]

2020: Gold combined the 4 tunes from the “Harvey in the Hall” sessions with 4 new songs recorded with Half Cleveland at Sta-Level Studios in Akron and the one-off with his Hueys mates in “Mr. Ray Violet.” He also recorded 2 new songs and a looping piece in his own Casa De Oro home studio (where much of the “H in the H” work was recorded by Bruce Hensal). Tracks were added, and songs were remixed and/or remastered at Sta-Level. “It’s Messy, Vol.1,” was released by Smog Veil Records on download/streaming platforms August of 2020, with CD release September 18th, 2020.