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	"Meet The Shaggs" by Susan Orlean
		Now the Shaggs are entering their third life: 'Philosophy of the World' was reissued last spring by RCA Victor and will be released in Germany this winter.
		He named them the Shaggs, and told them that they were not going to attend the local high school, because he didn't want them travelling by bus and mixing with outsiders, and, more important, he wanted them to practice their music all day.
		The Shaggs never made any money from their album until years later, when members of the band NRBQ heard 'Philosophy of the World' and were thrilled by its strange innocence.
	www.susanorlean.com /articles/meet_shaggs.html (4463 words)

	The Shaggs
		The idea of the Shaggs is older than the girls themselves.
		When the girls' father, Austin Wiggin, was young, his mother made three predictions: he'd marry a strawberry blonde, he'd have two sons she would not live to see, and his daughters would form a famous musical group.
		In 1975, Austin Wiggin died of a heart attack, and the Shaggs died with him.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Shaggs.html (383 words)

	The Shaggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shaggs were an American all-female rock and roll group from Fremont, New Hampshire.
		The Shaggs has often been considered the worst rock and roll band in the world (or the "best worst" by the New York Times), and this designation has made the band's one and only album a collector's item.
		Frank Zappa is known to have said of the Shaggs, "This sounds like the missing link between Fanny and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band." The album featured established acts such as Ida, Optiganally Yours and Danielson Famille covering The Shaggs' songs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shaggs (815 words)

	The Shaggs' Philosophy of the World \| Apr 9, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Read their supremely naïve liner notes: "The Shaggs love you, and love to perform for you." Listen to this inept performance: "My Pal Foot Foot," an ode to their pet, which features an opening drum solo that sounds as if a five-year-old were playing.
		The Shaggs are nature, or at least the closest humans can get to the mythic "primitive." They serenade their one exposure to the outside world--their radio--and celebrate Halloween ("Don't go to school 'cause you too scared/ Why, even Dracula will be there!").
		The Shaggs are part of the grand American tradition of fuck-ing up royally and creating something entirely new through misinterpretation.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxvii/1999.04.09/ae/p13shaggs.html (438 words)

	OFFOFFOFF music NRBQ / THE SHAGGS band with NRBQ:, Terry Adams, Tom Ardolino, Joey Spampinato, Johnny Spampinato, ...
		Shaggs to the listening public, the group would still deserve a place in many listeners' personal Halls of Fame.
		A decade later, while the Shaggs' album had died in virtual obscurity (save for a quote from Frank Zappa calling it "better than the Beatles"), NRBQ were at their peak of popularity, enjoying a sizable cult following and commercial radio airplay.
		A Shaggs insider tells OffOffOff that only two Shaggs will be at the NRBQ shows — presumably Dorothy and Betty, since a recent New Yorker feature on the group said that Helen suffered from depression and was homebound.
	www.offoffoff.com /music/nov99/nrbq.php3 (584 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: On The Stage: Shaggs Forever
		John Langs, director of the new musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, remembers the first time playwright Joy Gregory played him the album that the show is named for: “My jaw just hit the floor,” said Langs.
		The Shaggs were born in the 1960s when the three Wiggin sisters — Dot, Betty, and Helen — were pulled out of school by their father, Austin, and sequestered in rock-band rehearsal, the idea being that they would become famous and rescue the Wiggin family from mediocrity.
		Said Langs, struck by the “divine strangeness” by which his production has become a chapter in the Shaggs saga: “I feel very much as the curtain comes down each night that we’re a part of whatever this prophecy was.
	www.smmirror.com /volume5/issue21/shaggs_forever.asp (686 words)

	The Mighty Shaggs — KCRW \| 89.9FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The real life Shaggs were three sisters (Helen, Betty and Dot Wiggins) who had never taken music lessons-let alone attended a concert-who were forced by their father to record a rock album entitled PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD.
		But escape is impossible for the Shaggs, as Helen and her sisters are held captive by their father: a brutal, small-town, show-biz dad.
		The people responsible for THE SHAGGS, both on stage and off, clearly believe in the material and have spent a long time shaping the performance with the same innocent enthusiasm as their subjects-and the result is a genuinely moving piece of theater that's so good, it's good.
	www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/th/th031113the_mighty_shaggs (792 words)

	OFFOFF music NRBQ / THE SHAGGS band with NRBQ:, Terry Adams, Tom Ardolino, Joey Spampinato, Johnny Spampinato, The ...
		Shaggs to the listening public, the group would still deserve a place in many listeners' personal Halls of Fame.
		A decade later, while the Shaggs' album had died in virtual obscurity (save for a quote from Frank Zappa calling it "better than the Beatles"), NRBQ were at their peak of popularity, enjoying a sizable cult following and commercial radio airplay.
		A Shaggs insider tells OffOffOff that only two Shaggs will be at the NRBQ shows — presumably Dorothy and Betty, since a recent New Yorker feature on the group said that Helen suffered from depression and was homebound.
	www.offoff.com /music/1999/nrbq.php3 (584 words)

	The Shaggs : Philosophy of the World / The Shaggs
		The Shaggs -- sisters Dorothy, Helen, and Betty Wiggin -- hailed from the culturally disconnected backwater of Fremont, NH.
		The Shaggs' lost-chord wonderland has an internal logic that transcends the conventional relationship between ability, technique, and originality.
		The Wiggin sisters, teenagers from New Hampshire who recorded in the late '60s and early '70s as the Shaggs, had a unique, original musical vision, one that was either complemented or detracted from by the fact that they could barely play their instruments, at least not by conventional Philistine standards.
	www.counterpoint-music.com /specialties/shaggs.html (500 words)

	The Shaggs - All-Girl Band 1968 - 1973 - www.guitaristka.ru
		Появление очень лестного отзыва Фрэнка Заппа о творчестве The Shaggs в интервью журналу "Playboy" всколыхнуло волну общественного интереса в группе.
		О том, что группа The Shaggs лучше, чем группа "Битлз", первым догадался Фрэнк Заппа - о чем и поведал журналу Playboy в 1976 году.
		The Shaggs - это три пухлых cестренки Уиггин, этакий собирательный Эд Вуд от поп-музыки.
	www.guitaristka.ru /zapad-shaggs.shtml (663 words)

	The Shaggs' Strange Philosophy
		The Shaggs were three hefty, long-haired sisters who performed in Fremont, New Hampshire during the late '60s and early '70s.
		When it came to warped imagination, the Shaggs were in a league with Bunuel and Dali.
		It's a testament to the Shaggs' place in pop history that, without hit records and with only negligible sales to their credit, they remain today far better known than a group whose pop radio smash they once re-recorded.
	www.angelfire.com /nj2/rsmkjo/shaggs3.html (1248 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb
		All of which means the Shaggs were equally unaffected by "inside" influences; that is, inside the music business, the marketplace, the common sense of commonly abled musicians -- those inner circles where professional art is mutated and manufactured for distribution to professional consumers.
		The Shaggs remain freakish and singular because they so blithely violated all that, thrashing through waves of incompetence and uncool to reach a shore that never existed in the normal world, and still doesn't.
		Listening to the Shaggs and the New Creation in tandem, it's easy to wonder if both groups were partaking of the same outside influences, sharing some essential outsider mentality.
	www.prospect.org /web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9269 (1498 words)

	'The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World', a one-man rock musical, at the Beckett Theatre from the 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2005
		Taking place between 1969 and 1973, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World is an earnest look at one of the oddest and most unlikely bands to achieve rock cult status.
		They never were, but they did, and this wholly original musical chronicles their journey while incorporating songs influenced by The Shaggs’ canon, as well as a re-imagining of their 'hit single' Philosophy of the World.
		Following his death, The Shaggs were no more until the mid-seventies when a Boston radio station played a few cuts from their record.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /news/aug05/24aug05shaggs.htm (646 words)

	Shaggs: The Shaggs: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Both reactions are surprisingly extreme, because The Shaggs' catalog, collected in its entirety on this rehashing of a 1988 Rounder compilation, has always struck me as awkward and poignant, with subtle hints of tragedy lurking beneath the music's surface.
		The Shaggs' backstory is legendary: Sometime circa 1968, the Wiggin sisters Dot, Betty, and Helen, at the insistence of their enigmatic, overbearing father Austin Wiggin, Jr., formed a family pop band, presumably to fulfill one of dad's vicarious fantasies.
		The 2001 tribute album to The Shaggs emphasizes just how tenuous and complicated their compositions really are; most of the artists perform their chosen covers with the reluctance and reserve of a sight-reading community theater pianist.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/21643/Shaggs_The_Shaggs (491 words)

	Better Than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shaggs
		The Shaggs are an original and interesting for their music+performance+naivette.
		I'll admit that the original Shaggs CD was perhaps the strangest gut wrenching funny music I've heard....ever.
		In the origianl Shaggs, the media and the message matched...they were both terrible.
	www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=B00005QWXQ&field-keywords=Couperin&schMod=music&type=&sb=s (370 words)

	Electrical Audio :: View topic - Band: The Shaggs
		Another highlight was the stage band playing the Shagg's songs tight and "professional" (maybe how the girls envisioned their sound?), and then the same song being played how it really sounded on the lp.
		This idea always seems like it should be really liberating and incredible, but in my experience the artists with "no 'knowledge'" who end up doing something that not only doesn't suck complete shit, but actually creates new worlds of possibilty directly attributable to their ignorance of the rules, is like one in a billion.
		I equate a Shaggs LP listening experience with the experience of listening to the sounds of a tiger, a bicycle, a bag of trowels, and two fistfulls of 1971-World-Marble-Championship-Winning marbles down several flights of metal stairs.
	www.electrical.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2852&highlight= (1810 words)

	The Shaggs: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a Playboy magazine interview, Frank Zappa called Philosophy of the World his third all-time favorite album, and by the time NRBQ had reissued it in 1980, its legendary status was already confirmed.
		Other, later, and slightly more profieicent recordings emerged on the compilation Shaggs' Own Thing, and both albums were produced for compact disc on Rounder, issued as simply The Shaggs.
		She were one of the few all-female garage psychedelic American bands of the 1960s that played their own instruments and wrote their own material, although their official output was limited to one obscure 1970 independent single.
	www.music.com /group/the_shaggs/1/biography (551 words)

	The Shaggs \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
		The Shaggs started playing a regular, Saturday night dance back home in Fremont, NH, and added another sister, Rachel, on bass, to their ranks.
		In a Playboy magazine interview, Frank Zappa called Philosophy Of The World his third all-time favorite album, and by the time NRBQ had reissued it in 1980, its legendary status was already confirmed.
		Other, later, and slightly more profieicent recordings emerged on the compilation Shaggs' Own Thing, and both albums were produced for compact disc on Rounder, issued as simply The Shaggs.
	www.icebergradio.com /performer/5400/the-shaggs (294 words)

	SeacoastNH.com - The Shaggs Online
		To be honest, most people missed the hey-day of the Shaggs, what with Watergate and the moon walk and the demise of the Beatles.
		And yet, there is something unforgettably good about the Shaggs music written largely by oldest sister Dot Wiggin, now 55 and living in Epping with her husband and two sons.
		The Shaggs are unique, which is a word too often applied to musicians who are not.
	seacoastnh.com /Business/Site_of_the_Week/The_Shaggs_Online (1959 words)

	Radar:Meat The Shaggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Regarded far and wide as the worst band ever to make a record, The Shaggs were three young girls from Fremont, New Hampshire, who formed a band only because their unmusical dad told them to.
		The band’s 1969 album, The Philosophy of the World, stank to high heaven and might have disappeared forever (900 of the 1000 copies printed were stolen by the guy who ran the pressing plant) had it not been rediscovered during the general renaissance of badness that swept the world during the early 80s.
		Today, The Shaggs are feted by new fans, a tribute album, a Hollywood musical and endless talk of a movie (it was rumoured in 2000 that Tom Cruise had optioned this story by New Yorker writer Susan Orlean).
	radar.smh.com.au /archives/2005/01/meat_the_shaggs.html (291 words)

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		This feature is an ongoing attempt to bring these artists (who have been around long enough to be considered seminal but have yet to impregnate the culture at large) to light.
		The Shaggs play with such determination, you can tell that every note is placed deliberately.
		Because on Shaggs Own Thing (1975), made a few years after the girls had learned to play more "normally," they recorded accurate versions of "Paper Roses" and "Yesterday Once More," and re-recorded a tune off of Philosophy Of The World, "My Pal Foot Foot," a typical piece of focused chaos.
	www.lollipop.com /archive_temp.php3?content=issue33/33-01-08.html (508 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Various Artists: Better than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shaggs
		They object to my contention that, without their biography, the Shaggs are no more special than any other garage bands, or any of the hundreds of bands who send CD-Rs to Splendid every year.
		The Shaggs sang the song like they meant it, because they did mean it, and it makes me wish that the compilers had let Jetenderpaul take a crack at the song instead.
		It leads me to think that the Shaggs became quite a stellar rock band, worthy of interest with or without their history or legendary status, and I'd like to acquaint myself with that version of them.
	www.splendidmagazine.com /review.html?reviewid=3216060235431606 (896 words)

	LA Weekly - Stage - Outsider In - Steven Mikulan - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
		Joy Gregory’s new musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, is about the New Hampshire sister-act rock band whose 1969 album, Philosophy of the World, sank without a trace, only to be discovered years later by the outsider-music underground.
		Her musical does not pander to the faux-stupids who idolize the Shaggs; neither does she seek a darker truth in the Wiggin sisters’ story.
		So the Shaggs weren’t really a band in any artistic sense, but more of a science experiment conducted by a mad doctor; and, reminiscent of the abused subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, their reward for obedience was a wasted youth and stunted adulthood.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/53/theater-mikulan.php (1117 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Shaggs - the Band
		The Shaggs, it is generally agreed by those who have heard them, are probably the worst band ever committed to vinyl.
		It was only through the powerful will of their father that the Shaggs stayed together, from their formation in 1967 until Austin's death in 1975.
		Thus was the world given the Shaggs, now notorious for their distinct blend of 'aboriginal' rock.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A762653 (709 words)

	Cashiers du Cinemart Issue 13:
		Even a lot of Shaggs fans don't know that a second Shaggs album was eventually released, The Shaggs' Own Thing (available on Rounder Records), which proved they could not only play their instruments, but could play together, creating what sounds like conventional music...
		My biggest complaint with tribute albums is that most bands on them, many of whom are unknown to begin with (and often for good reason), usually only bother to learn their covers so they can be included on the tribute album.
		My apprehension came more in knowing that The Shaggs lowered a musical bar in regard to what passes for talent in the minds of the hip masses, and I feared that Better Than The Beatles would be a collection of hipster bands taking advantage of the minimal effort needed to cover a Shaggs tune.
	www.impossiblefunky.com /archives/issue_13/13_shaggs.asp?IshNum=13 (447 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Shaggs
		The Shaggs play what you might find to be the most unlistenable music you've ever heard.
		Then again, all of this would have resulted in a sound that approximated, or at the very least was influenced by, the general ideas of countless other musicians.
		The Shaggs, as is often noted, come from their own musical planet.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_06/wet_ink/music_rsp/154_the_shaggs.shtml (323 words)

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