BRIAN BOGGESS (Vox & Guitar)Originally from Texas, schooled in Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York City, Brian Boggess is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, misanthrope, psychological weapons analyst and liberation theologian.
After rejecting an offer of matriculation to Yale Divinity for post-graduate work researching the social effects of the corporate media labeling anti-globalization activists "Kentucky Fried Holocaust Deniers," Brian decided an insufficiently squeamish faculty might be better left to it own devices. It did not take long to discover most secular mysteries can be explained through fetishism, vice and manic depression within the song format.
Therefore, in the winter of 2004, The Brian Boggess Group began recording a few tracks engineered by Jason LaFarge at Seizures Palace and mixed by the one and only Tony Maimone at Studio G, both in beautiful Brooklyn, New York.
In the summer of 2005 some other recordings were engineered in Manhattan by producer Britt Myers (The Essex Green, Dressy Bessy, Mates of State).
Influenced by Frank Zappa, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Ramones, Iggy Pop, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, David Bowie, Brian Wilson, Neil Young and The Beatles, Boggess songs exhibit the tongue-in-cheek polish of many classic artists.
"The Brian Boggess Group sports the mild insanity and sharp musical instincts required to create brilliant rock songs. Brian Boggess manages to gather up the worst parts of his life, and then use his ultra vivid vocabulary and six-string to turn them into something very real to everyone else. His powerful voice is unmistakable, while the guitars, drums and bass drive forward with stinging gobs of raw attitude. Ain't nothin' spiffier." -David Weiss, Journalist, Author, "Music Supervision: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Licensing Music & Sound Design for Media," & New York Editor, Mix Magazine
"May have a potential pop hit with a cheerful bouncy song about S&M, 'Mistress Anya Knees.' This band is rowdy and fun..." -Michael McHugh, NYC Poet, Songwriter, Promoter, Howl Festival
“Excellent pop rock material.†-Dan Herman, host of NYC internet radio show Radio Crystal Blue.
“Somebody hand me my bedroom slippers!†-Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, Jon Langford) on “Mistress Anya Knees.â€
