Yeah baby,this guitar is Shaggadelic!

[jingle_jangle]

I love playing the clip. As I said, it makes me feel GREAT about my own (lack of) abilities!

[jimk]

I had rather that same experience yesterday morning playing at Farmers' Market. There was this street person dude sitting outside the market on the public sidewalk arhythmically strumming a battered old cheap acoustic guitar. Made me feel pretty good about my fiddle playing, actually.
JimK

[collin]

It takes all kinds......that's all I'll say.


I thought it was cool. Creation out of chaos...?

[wj350]

That's pretty awful...you should take it from me, I know a thing or two about sucky playing.

[brammy]

They should have called themselves "The Drunken Chimps", 'cause thats what they sound like.

I love playing the clip. As I said, it makes me feel GREAT about my own (lack of) abilities!

ditto's to THAT..... I'd say my home recordings are about 162 times better than The Shaggs.
And my home recordings are so bad that I wont let ANYONE hear them!

My only question is how The Shaggs convinced anyone to let them near a recording studio. What weird convergence of
events allowed a record to be marketed? It must have been some sort of recording industry inside joke.

[windchimp]

They should have called themselves "The Drunken Chimps", 'cause thats what they sound like.

monkey_band.jpg

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Notice the lack of the bass chimp - that photo was taken after I left the band...they sucked even more than I do!!!
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[marc61]

You mean they intended to make the music sound like that?

I have to believe Zappa was being sarcastic

[octagon]

You mean they intended to make the music sound like that?

I have to believe Zappa was being sarcastic

May be true but Terry Adams of NRBQ wasn't when he reissued Philosophy of the World on his label Red Rooster.

[jingle_jangle]

Terry knows how to turn a buck, that's all.

[octagon]

Terry knows how to turn a buck, that's all.

You are such a cynic Paul

No,Terry really thinks that Dorothy Wiggins is a musical genius.Really,at least that is what he said.NRBQ used to visit my record store whenever they played in New Haven. Here is a photo I took of Tommy Ardolino(AKA the 4th Shagg)shopping for Beatles bootlegs at my store circa 1987.

[jingle_jangle]

He's Shaggy, all right.

There is less genius present here than serendipity. Let's call a Shagg a shag.

[octagon]

He's Shaggy, all right.

There is less genius present here than serendipity. Let's call a Shagg a shag.

Oh, behave!

[brammy]

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/ ... 0shag.html
THEATER REVIEW | 'THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD'
Barely Qualified to Be a Band, but Making History Anyway

[brammy]

The Shaggs. Better than the Beatles -- even today. --- Frank Zappa

The Shaggs are like castaways on their own musical island. --- Bonnie Raitt

For me, one song about your real life is worth ten "professional" songs. The Shaggs convince me that they're the real thing when they sing. --- Jonathan Richman

They bring my mind to a complete halt. --- Carla Bley

"It stopped me cold in my tracks. My brain hurt. I had to turn it off after 10 minutes." -- Director John Langs

"hilariously bad" -- Mike Walsh

"To listen to a recording of The Shaggs' 1969 album Philosophy of the World is to wonder at the very purpose of artistic creation" -- Jennifer Worth, Theatre Journal

"sorta like 14 pocket combs being run through a moose's dorsal, but very gently." -- Lester Bangs

Lots of mind-numbing Shagg clips here:
http://www.rhapsody.com/the-shaggs/the-shaggs

Reminds me of a band screwing around TRYING to sound bad. The one that comes closest to an actual listenable song is "Paper Roses"

PS: Tom Ardolino is a GREAT drummer