OK, I only recently purchased the CD, but it has been on my want list for a decade or so. I'm also uncertain, if they are really that rarely heard - this clip has more than 600,000 views! The Shaggs are 3 sisters, managed by their father and forced them to play, who self-released only one album in 1969. It didn't sell well, but somehow got some attention and garnered a little cult. Some consider them the worst band of all times, but others think quite differently, Frank Zapp called them the "3rd best band of all time" and "better than the Beatles". Indeed, their music is not simply bad, but has an otherworldy, askew quality to it which elsewehere could be considered avantgarde. In any case the Shaggs are one of the first true outsider bands. And here's a great story on the Shaggs from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/09/27/meet-the-shaggs?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=tumblr&mbid=social_tumblr
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