Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Harrison played with Jonathan Richman in The Modern Lovers when he was an architecture student at Harvard University. He joined The Modern Lovers in early 1971, playing on their debut album in 1972 (not released until 1976), and left in February 1974 when Richman wished to perform his songs more quietly. Harrison joined in 1977.
After the release of their debut single Love → Building on Fire.
Harrison"s solo albums include The Red and the Black, Casual Gods, and Walk on Water. After the 1991 breakup of, Harrison turned to producing and worked on successful albums by bands including Hockey, Violent Femmes, The BoDeans, The Von Bondies, General Public, Live, Crash Test Dummies, The Verve Pipe, Rusted Root, Stroke 9, The Bogmen, Black 47, Of A Revolution, Number Doubt, Josh Joplin, The Black and White Years, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bamboo Shoots, the String Cheese Incident and The Gracious Few.
He also is Chairman of the Board for Garageband.com ("an internet music resource he co-founded in 1999"). Also during the era, Harrison made cameo appearances as Billy Idol and Prince look-alike lip-synchers in David Byrne"s 1986 film True Stories.
Harrison also had a small part in the 2006 film The Darwin Awards as "Guy in Bar Number.
1" alongside John Doe of the band X.
Harrison, as a member of Talking Heads, is featured throughout the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme.