The Indie Rock Retire­ment Home presents: Har­vey Danger

Mostly known around the block for being a one hit won­der in the late nineties with their sin­gle “Flag­pole Sitta”. Har­vey Dan­ger seemed like they were just there and gone. But this band actu­ally had a long 15 year run. To put it in per­spec­tive they were active longer than Guns N’ Roses
and actu­ally put out more solid musi­cal work. Alas with most bands in this sit­u­a­tion it is usu­ally the suits to blame. As they were caught in record label limbo. But years after they got lost in a file cab­i­net they
made their best effort on their own.

Har­vey Danger

They had three albums, a string of EP’s, and a very lim­ited release of a
B-side col­lec­tion. If you are unsure of this band just sit down and
lis­ten to Lit­tle by Lit­tle. Their last album which showed how well the
band matured and fined tuned their sound in their years of spo­radic
activ­ity. With emerg­ing from musi­cal pur­ga­tory they released Lit­tle by
Lit­tle and it is still widely avail­able for free.

Give Where Have All the Mer­ry­mak­ers Gone? another lis­ten and you will
real­ize that it is a very solid album that fully cap­tures the racous yet
unique to the nineties alter­na­tive sound that this band carved out for
them­selves. They also have wrote one of the most hon­est and true
Christ­mas songs of our gen­er­a­tion. Yet, most have yet to hear any of it.

Hey imma gonna let you fin­ish, but King James Ver­sion was one of the best albums of all time, I’m just sayin’

The bands final release is a B-side col­lec­tion called Dead Sea Scrolls.
It as of today only sold at the farewell shows. I con­tacted the band about it:

WeAArU: Is Dead Sea Scrolls ever going to hit Ama­zon or Itunes for us long dis­tance fans?
Har­vey Dan­ger: Ama­zon seems unlikely , but pos­si­bly iTunes. It’s com­pli­cated to work out, but we’ll make it avail­able in some form soon.
WeAArU: Awe­some. I am bummed I missed the final shows. I worked for the music indus­try for a while so I know about the prob­lems that arise. Best of luck to the band and all of your future endeavors.

You can watch some songs they per­formed on Youtube (I linked a cou­ple in our favorites sec­tion)
includ­ing a good record­ing of “The Show Must Not Go On” which is the last song they wrote
and per­formed.
Lit­tle by Lit­tle (free down­load): http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/
Some­times You Have to Work on Christ­mas and other free tracks and videos:
http://chemicalflaw.sad-machine.com/hardlydangerous/dangerous.html

The band is still very active on their Forum and on Face­book and plan on releas­ing their
last song: “The Show Must not Go On” which they just recently wrapped up recod­ing very soon.
So what now for the band? They posted a good­bye let­ter on their site, myspace, and facebook.

Sean Nel­son (lead vocals) is work­ing on films as for the rest of the group they are still active
and will more than likely share what they are up to among the Har­vey Dan­ger network.