# Joe Haggerty

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{{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](/source/Chicago)
| genre           = [Punk rock](/source/Punk_rock), [Pop punk](/source/Pop_punk)
| occupation      = Musician
| years_active    = 1985–present
| instrument      = [Drums](/source/Drums)
| label           = [Quarterstick](/source/Quarterstick_Records)
}}'''Joe Haggerty''' is the drummer for [Pegboy](/source/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](/source/the_Effigies).<ref name=trouser /> When the Effigies folded in 1990, Haggerty became a founding member of Pegboy, along with his brother [John Haggerty](/source/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](/source/John_Haggerty), [Jake Burns](/source/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](/source/Scott_Lucas_(musician)) of [Local H](/source/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](/source/Steve_Grantley) who could not make the show.

In 2021 Haggerty became a member of industrial/punk/hard rock supergroup [The Joy Thieves](/source/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](/source/Strong_Reaction)'' (1991)<ref name="trib5"/>
*''[Earwig](/source/Earwig_(Pegboy_album))'' (1994)
*''[Cha Cha Damore](/source/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&nbsp;— I Am The Game
| publisher    = [Trouser Press](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/WLS-TV)
| access-date  = 2025-11-26}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* {{discogs artist|Joe Haggerty}}

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Category:American rock drummers
Category:Drummers from Chicago
Category:Living people
Category:1967 births
Category:20th-century American drummers
Category:American male drummers
Category:20th-century American male musicians

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