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The Shaggs is a Garage rock act. Their sound grew out of Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Bonnie Raitt, Jonathan Richman and Carla Bley. Those roots explain a lot about how The Shaggs arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, R. Stevie Moore, Gary Wilson and Ariel Pink, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cherie Currie and Kurt Cobain, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around The Shaggs, reaching back through Frank Zappa and forward to Cherie Currie. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
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 (drums) and, later, Rachel Wiggin. 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 been described as both among the worst of all time and as a work of unintentional brilliance.
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The Shaggs grew out of Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Bonnie Raitt and Jonathan Richman, shares an orbit with Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, R. Stevie Moore and Gary Wilson, went on to shape Cherie Currie and Kurt Cobain. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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