Member Since: 17/05/2005
Band Website: www.thequags.com
Band Members: dennis mitchell: guitars, vocals, songs.
jon beyer: drums, tambourine.
andy ricker: guitar, bass, vocals, clams.
Influences: Record collection: Small Faces, The Jam, The Kinks, Buzzcocks, Troggs, Big Star, Go Betweens, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Verlaines, Television, Sex Pistols, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Costello, The Chills, Sonic Youth, The Wipers, Dead Moon, etc.
Other: The cool guys who hung out at the record shop and smoked pot when we were kids. The music our parents listened to. Whatever was on college radio in the 70's and 80's.
Sounds Like: Fred Mills, Magnet ..56:
“Hereby welcome, then, Portland, OR’s Quags as class valedictorian. The band is fronted by Dennis Mitchell, who croons and bellows like a cross between Alex Chilton, Tommy Keene and Ray Davies and slings muscular riffs as if he grew up worshipping Pete Townshend, Mick Ronson and Paul Weller. Mitchell gleefully struts and stomps out his tunes, invoking everyone from Sparks and Mott The Hoople to the Stones and Small Faces but shines most brightly when steering into classsic Big Star, Plimsouls, Let’s Active and Posies territory. Never mind all those emo bollocks, here’s the Quags.â€
Record Label: remote listening records