Chuck Garvey
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Chuck Garvey
| image = Chuck_Garvey.jpeg
| image_size = 150
| caption = Chuck Garvey performing with moe. on May 25, 2008
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| origin = New Hartford, NY
| instrument = Electric guitar
acoustic guitar
Saxophone
| genre = Progressive rock
rock music
| occupation = musician
| years_active = 1989 – present
| label = Fatboy Records
| associated_acts = moe.
Ha Ha the Moose
All Thumbs Trio
| website = [http://www.moe.org/ moe.org]
}}
Chuck Garvey is one of two guitarists for the American rock band moe. His playing has been influenced by Frank Zappa, Mick Ronson, David Bowie, Pete Townshend, Andy Summers, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan."You want Moe jams, you’ve got Moe jams" by Joel Francis, Kansas City Star June 1, 2006 He lives in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.{{cite web|url=http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=3309|title=moe. Deep; A Chat with Chuck Garvey|author=Dennis Cook|accessdate=2006-12-15}}
On the morning of November 6, 2021, Garvey suffered a stroke while at home.{{cite tweet |author=moe. |author-link=moe. |user=moeperiod |number=1458087553605767170 |date=November 9, 2021 |title=https://t.co/LmTS2cSLc7 |language=en |access-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112093408/https://twitter.com/moeperiod/status/1458087553605767170 |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |url-status=live}} In 2023 Garvey returned to moe. full time after recovering from the stroke. {{cite web | url=https://relix.com/news/detail/chuck-garvey-announces-full-time-return-to-the-road-with-moe/ | title=Chuck Garvey Announces Full-Time Return to the Road with moe | date=11 January 2023 }}
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Garvey is one of the founding members of moe. along with Rob Derhak."Touring takes toll, but moe. sees payoffs, like Red Rocks" by Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News June 2, 2006 Both first played a Halloween show at a friend's request in 1989 with drummer Ray Schwartz.{{cite web |url=http://www.moelinks.com/faq/3.html |title=Band history at moe.links.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713153552/http://www.moelinks.com/faq/3.html |archivedate=2006-07-13 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.jambands.com/oct98/features/josephson.html |title=Chuck Garvey: On Tin Cans, Car Tires and moe.mentum |author=Isaac Josephson |accessdate=2006-12-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821103227/http://www.jambands.com/oct98/features/josephson.html |archivedate=2006-08-21 |url-status=dead }} Since then, Garvey has been co-guitarist of the band along with Al Schnier.
He was recently voted, along with Schnier, as one of the "Top 20 new Guitar Gods" for a Rolling Stone magazine cover story.
Other bands
Garvey has also performed as part of Ha Ha the Moose with Derhak and moe. drummer Jim Loughlin, as well as with the All Thumbs Trio."Jam band moe. weathers blizzard, tendinitis" by Chris Jordan, Asbury Park Press October 21, 2006
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Category:American rock guitarists
Category:American male guitarists
Category:People from New Hartford, New York
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
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