{{short description|American drummer}}
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Joe Haggerty | image = Joe H@ggerty.jpg | birth_name = Joe Haggerty | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966 |07|23}} | origin = Chicago | genre = Punk rock, Pop punk | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1985–present | instrument = Drums | label = Quarterstick }}'''Joe Haggerty''' is the drummer for Pegboy and is known for his dense, energetic, relentless and varied drumming style.<ref name="trib1" /><ref name="trib5" /> In the mid-1980s he was the drummer for the Chicago punk band Bloodsport. In 1987, three of the members of Bloodsport, including Haggerty, went on to join a re-formed version of the Effigies.<ref name=trouser /> When the Effigies folded in 1990, Haggerty became a founding member of Pegboy, along with his brother John Haggerty.<ref name="trib3" /><ref name=Allmusic />
Haggerty also played in a Chicago band called the Nefarious Fat Cats which featured an all-star line-up including his brother John Haggerty, Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, Herb Rosen of the Beer Nuts and Rights of the Accused, Mark DeRosa of the band Dummy and Scott Lucas of Local H.<ref name="suntimes1"/> The band stopped performing when Jake Burns moved from Chicago to West Virginia.
He played with Stiff Little Fingers in December 2012 for a show in Chicago, as a substitute for Steve Grantley who could not make the show.
In 2021 Haggerty became a member of industrial/punk/hard rock supergroup The Joy Thieves by contributing a drum track to their song "Nihilist Landscape" from their album, "American Parasite."
==Partial discography==
===Bloodsport=== *''I Am The Game'' (1985)<ref name=trouser/>
===Pegboy=== *''Strong Reaction'' (1991)<ref name="trib5"/> *''Earwig'' (1994) *''Cha Cha Damore'' (1997)
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Allmusic>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p400036}}</ref> <ref name=trouser>{{Cite news | last = Rabid | first = Jack | title = Bloodsport — I Am The Game | publisher = Trouser Press | date = | url = http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=bloodsport | accessdate = 2013-01-07}}</ref> <ref name="trib1">{{Cite news | last = Kot | first = Greg | authorlink = Greg Kot | title = Punk's passion, minus the violence, propels Pegboy | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = 1991-10-28 | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/10/28/punks-passion-minus-the-violence-propels-pegboy/ | access-date = 2011-08-26}}</ref> <ref name="trib3">{{Cite news | title = Pegboy Profile | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = 1991-10-25 | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-10-25/entertainment/9104060146_1_bands-cbgb-naked-raygun | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006124448/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-10-25/entertainment/9104060146_1_bands-cbgb-naked-raygun | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 6, 2012 | accessdate = 2011-08-26}}</ref> <ref name="trib5">{{Cite news | last = Kot | first = Greg | authorlink = Greg Kot | title = Strong Reaction (Quarterstick) | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = 1991-10-24 | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/10/24/strong-reaction-quarter-stick-starstarstar-12this-chicago/ | access-date = 2011-08-26}}</ref> <ref name="suntimes1">{{Cite news | last = DeRogatis | first = Jim | authorlink = Jim DeRogatis | title = Bye-bye M.O.T.O., hello Jake Burns | newspaper = Chicago Sun-Times | date = 2009-08-25 | url = http://blogs.suntimes.com/music/2009/08/this_weekend_bye-bye_moto_hell.html | archive-date = 2012-10-20 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121020053835/http://blogs.suntimes.com/music/2009/08/this_weekend_bye-bye_moto_hell.html | url-status = dead | accessdate = 2013-01-07}}</ref> <ref name=ABC7>{{Cite web | first = Craig | last = Wall | title = City of Chicago employee accused of threatening Republican Illinois senator: state police | date = 2025-11-25 | url = https://abc7chicago.com/post/joseph-haggerty-freeport-accused-threatening-illinois-sen-andrew-chesney-held-stephenson-county-state-police/18209581/ | website = ABC7 Chicago | access-date = 2025-11-26}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{discogs artist|Joe Haggerty}}
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