Jerry Harrison

Jeremiah Griffin Harrison is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter. He began his professional music career as a member of the band the Modern Lovers, before becoming keyboardist and guitarist for the new wave group Talking Heads. In 2002, Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads. Following David Byrne's announcement of Talking Heads' disbanding in 1991, Harrison has focused more on producing other bands, a role he started while still with Talking Heads, first producing the album Milwaukee with Elliott Murphy, and then later working with Violent Femmes on their third album, The Blind Leading the Naked, in 1986. During the 1990s, he produced a number of hit albums for bands such as Live, The Verve Pipe, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd among others. He has also released three albums of solo music and has participated in a number of partial reunions of Talking Heads. In 1999, he helped found the online music community GarageBand.com. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_H...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)