500 TV was the 'working name' for the 500 Teeth of Vengeance, a fanciful name suggested to Joe by the Boston 500, a mid-70's concept that there was a hypothetical list of 500 people in Boston who went out to every show and made up all the good bands [a not-so-hypothetical version of which was actually printed on a Pastiche 45 cover].

Sebastian Steinberg played a 5-string Yamaha bass and Clark "Dark' Goodpastor played drums. Joe Harvard played electric XII string guitars ['66 Fender XII and a '66 Epiphone Riviera XII] and Telecaster live, as well as using a whammy-bar equipped Strat and regular and Nashville tuned acoustics on recordings.

The group that Clark "Dark" acquired his nickname from was truly legendary. Their exploits included an afternoon of guerrilla sets played from the back of a flatbed truck in Boston and Cambridge, as well as the "all bands on deck" Rumble finale the year that they lost to Someone and the Somebodies but scored big for Hub band solidarity. Clark went on to Life on Earth with Reeves Gabrelle [later of David Bowie's Tin Machine], and also spent a year managing the twin Forts Apache around 1989.

Sebastian "Bash" Steinberg, who Joe liked to call "Boops" (as in 'me boops deah'), had been a member of the reggae group the Shy Five when Joe first saw him play. Harvard recognized his considerable low end prowess, although he had no idea of the breadth of Steinberg's talent. Only after Joe had recruited Bash for Mr. Happy, while recording 'Love & Music: Play! Play! Play!', did he become aware of the latter's virtuoso command of electric and acoustic standup bass in virtually any genre.

Joe invited Bash and Jerry to stay around when the 5-piece Mr. Happy disbanded and the three-piece 500 Teeth of Vengeance formed. Deupree's popularity as a devotee of his own instrument had made him extremely busy, though, and he exited to be replaced by the metronomic Clark "Dark". Clark earned his nom de guerre with the legendary Dark, whose 'all hands on deck' Rumble final with Someone and the Somebodies was emblematic of Boston's intra-band solidarity in the Golden Age of the late 70's and early 80's. The Dark had also done a hit-and-run, guerrilla tour of Boston and Cambridge one afternoon, playing on a rented truck via gas-powered generator and then splitting before anyone could figure out they had no permit.

'All Fired Up' is thus the second record Joe and "Bash" would do together before the latter returned to his NYC birthplace and joined Soul Coughing for eight highly productive years ['92-2000]. Steinberg then went on to record with William Shatner, Cibo Mato, Marc Ribot, Eddie Vedder, Johnny Marr & many others, and has played and toured with the Shy Five, Syd Straw, Dixie Chicks, k.d. lang, and Joe Morris, among others.