Yeah baby,this guitar is Shaggadelic!

[octagon]

ULTRA RARE VINTAGE 1968 (?) AVALON AV-T2 "THE SHAGGS" MODEL!!

[kiramdear]

Yeah, Baby! Go Cats Go!

[octagon]

The seller got that guitar on Ebay last month for $135

[collin]

That thing is awesome!

I dig the super beat patina. It's an early Matsumoko made guitar (later made Aria, Conrad, Univox etc..). probably '65-'66

Shweet! Twangerific.

[kennyhowes]

THE SHAGGS!!!

[jingle_jangle]

...who can make anybody feel good about their own abilities...

[romo1950]

Looks like they borrowed some styling from Burns Guitars, except for the crazy string pull, when every other guitar manufacturer is trying to acheive straight string pull

[collin]

Looks like they borrowed some styling from Burns Guitars, except for the crazy string pull, when every other guitar manufacturer is trying to acheive straight string pull

Ah, good point Bob. It does kinda look like a Burns Bison. With a strat jack plate!

[britinvasion]

...who can make anybody feel good about their own abilities...

[brammy]

Groundbreaking???? Where did they break ground? .... the local toxic waste dump?


The Shaggs were an American all-female rock group formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1968. The band was composed of sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin (vocals/lead guitar), Betty Wiggin (vocals/rhythm guitar), Helen Wiggin (drums), and later Rachel Wiggin (bass).

The Shaggs were formed by Dot, Betty, and Helen in 1968 on the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother foresaw the band's rise to stardom. The band's only studio album, Philosophy of the World, was released in 1969. The album failed to garner attention, though the band continued to exist as a locally popular live act. The Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after the death of Austin.

As the obscure LP achieved recognition among collectors, the band was praised for their raw, intuitive composition style and lyrical honesty. Philosophy of the World was later reissued, and the compilation Shaggs' Own Thing was released in 1982. The Shaggs are now seen as a groundbreaking outsider music group.

http://www.shaggs.com/meet_the_shaggs.html
DEPENDING on whom you ask, the Shaggs were either the best band of all time or the worst. Frank Zappa is said to have proclaimed that the Shaggs were "better than the Beatles." More recently, though, a music fan who claimed to be in "the fetal position, writhing in pain," declared on the Internet that the Shaggs were "hauntingly bad," and added, "I would walk across the desert while eating charcoal briquettes soaked in Tobasco for forty days and forty nights not to ever have to listen to anything Shagg-related ever again."

[jps]

That is so horrible it almost turns it into art!

Better than The Beatles, eh?

[Danotron]

I couldn't get through the clip, and I like to think I'm pretty open minded about most music.

[kiramdear]

I like it.

[sloop_john_b]

I love The Shaggs. My buddy has been after one those Avalon "Shaggs" models forever!

[jimk]

Oh my...that is horrible. I couldn't make it through the clip, either.

JimK