The Shaggs wrote seemingly simple and bizarre songs using untuned guitars, erratic rhythms, wandering melodies and rudimentary lyrics. Their only album, Philosophy of the World (1969), has …

Mar 23, 2026 · With their accidentally avant-garde style and seeming naivety about the basic rules of music such as tuning and timing, the Shaggs became one of the most divisive bands in rock history, …

The Shaggs were an American rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire, in 1965. They comprised the sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin, Betty Wiggin, Helen Wiggin and, later, Rachel Wiggin. The Shaggs …

May 30, 2023 · Trying to name a more polarizing musical partnership than The Shaggs is extremely difficult, like herding cats, if not impossible, like shoveling smoke. With their awkward, atonal singing …

Nov 9, 2021 · A look at the story behind The Shaggs, the outsider band from New Hampshire who Frank Zappa described as better than The Beatles.

Before viral fame, there was The Shaggs—a band born from prophecy and paternal pressure, now revered as either musical outsiders or misunderstood icons. Dive into the story of how three reluctant …

Projects 60’s garage rock bands – the Shaggs/the Shags - 1964 When I graduated from high school in 1964, I returned home to Pekin, Illinois to work for a year in order to save up $$ to attend the …

The Shaggs's Career Group formed in Fremont, NH, 1967; played first gig, to unfavorable response, 1968; Fleetwood Records released single with group's best-known song "My Pal Foot Foot," 1969; …

The Shaggs are important to the history of outsider music (music created by self-taught or naïve musicians). Chusid described them as "the legendary—if unwitting—godmothers of outsider music".

My Pal Foot-Foot: The Shaggs Homepage.