Note: while this is the official Bags myspace page, if you need to contact The Bags, please go to http://www.thebags.org and shoot Crispin an email there. While I am working with the band, I will only be handling the friend requests and comments here, and I will not forward ANY myspace-based messages, gig requests, and so forth to the band. While band members will no doubt be checking in on the myspace site periodically, please go to the official Bags website if you need to contact them directly.
Thanks!
- Tim
LATEST NEWS:
Latest news: In late April of 2007, The Bags released a mighty follow-up to Sharpen Your Sticks, the 14-cut, aptly-titled album Mount Rockmore. With ace producer Carl Plaster (Sebadoh, Buffalo Tom, The Mighty Mighty Bostones, etc.) at the helm, this new full-length marries the slash-and-burn aesthetic of Sharpen Your Sticks with some adventurous muscle-stretching that shows that The Bags haven't lost their knack for righteous rock opera exuberance (case in point being the eight-plus minute song suite "Dark Days In the Valley;" the guys apparently still jam with Maloney...). All in all, Mount Rockmore is a loud, sharp, and frequently (cold) tongue-in-cheek record that defies anyone in earshot not to hoist the two-fisted devil horns. Many a smiling head will bang. The disc is now available at numerous Newbury Comics locations and online at Stanton Park Records, CD Baby, and iTunes.
Greetings to the talented and ever silly Bag boys. Was just pouring thru old photos from my photog days in Boston. I have some Bags negs I have to print up. Will share if/when I get that done.
Sweet! Thanks for the Add. In addition to having met and worked with Crispin a few years back, I was already a big fan of the band, having seen the finals for the 'BCN battle of the bands at (I think) Avalon. I also once had the funny experience of buying a used LP of Night of the Corn People directly from Jim when he was working at some record store on Boylston St., not knowing I was buying the album from a member of the band. It stuck in my memory, but he probably experienced that a number of times...
I think NoHo was labelled Lesbianville, USA by The National Enquirer, or some other publication of esteem. I'm also friends with the guys from Sebadoh and The Unband (who are friends of The Upper Crust). And Crispin was brought in on a project at my last job by our mutual friend George Varga, a connection through the Flash/Multimedia scene. The world sure does seem to be getting smaller in some ways. The old six degrees of seperation seems to be more like one or two to me these days...
Have a good one. And tell Crispin he never gave me my promised copy of Sharpen your Sticks (teasing).
Any upstate NY/CT Bags fans want to carpool to the Abbey on 11/10? I'll be driving from lovely Newburgh, NY and as long as you shower regularly, I'd enjoy some company for the trip!
the bags mean an awful lot to me. i saw them on a freezing cold winter's night in 1987 at TT The Bear's in boston - a particularly momentous night for me because the night before i'd had my last drink. i remember the uncanny experience of watching the bags...sober??!!...with no shield or buffer of intoxication, my mind was completely destroyed. i love these guys!!!!! may they rock until they are older than mick jagger!!!!!
