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hanzomon4:

--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---The Shaggs definitely fall into that "weirdest music I've ever heard" category.

Naively creepy, they sound like they could have formed in the looney bin..    :rofl: ::madclown::
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They did,


Father was a hippie.................

ZenAgent:

--- Quote from: ""hanzomon4"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---The Shaggs definitely fall into that "weirdest music I've ever heard" category.

Naively creepy, they sound like they could have formed in the looney bin..    :rofl: ::madclown::
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They did,


Father was a hippie.................
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I don't believe their father was a hippie, if you're referring to the Shaggs dad and not your own.

Meet The Shaggs http://www.shaggs.com/meet_the_shaggs.html

WHERE else would Austin Wiggin have got the idea that his daughters should form a rock band? Neither he nor his wife, Annie, was musical; she much preferred television to music, and he, at most, fooled around with a Jew's harp. He wasn't a showoff, dying to be noticed-by all accounts he was an ornery loner who had little to do with other people in town. He was strict and old-fashioned, not a hippie manqu

ZenAgent:
What other 60's Beat band was made up of U.S. soldiers who stayed in Germany after their tour of duty  to create some brutal, weird music.  They wore monks' robes on stage, sported tonsures, and featured a frantic banjo player.  Gary Burger choked some sounds out of his guitar that would have fucked with Lou Reed's head.  Get "Black Monk Time", find out why Sonic Youth thinks these guys were the shit.

Froderik:

--- Quote from: ""ZenAgent"" ---What other 60's Beat band was made up of U.S. soldiers who stayed in Germany after their tour of duty  to create some brutal, weird music.  They wore monks' robes on stage, sported tonsures, and featured a frantic banjo player.  Gary Burger choked some sounds out of his guitar that would have fucked with Lou Reed's head.  Get "Black Monk Time", find out why Sonic Youth thinks these guys were the shit.
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What band are you talking about here?

Anonymous:
He's talking about the Monks.  It's in the subject line if the post didn't clue you in  Good stuff, definite garage classics.


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