Favorite Bands: Harvey Danger

As Philip Seymour Hoffman-as-Lester Bangs says in Almost Famous, “Music, true music — not just rock and roll — it chooses you.” I’d like to talk about my experience with my favorite bands, in no particular order.

The first time I saw Harvey Danger was on a commercial for the first NOW: That’s What I Call Music compilation. I couldn’t really make out the song but I saw a chubby, tall, nerdy guy with thick glasses and a crazy mop of curly hair and I felt an immediate kinship with him. He felt like someone who could live in my sub division, a friend’s cool older brother who lived…