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The Bags
Rock / Punk / Metal

"We'll walk in the footsteps of the Yeti"

BRIGHTON, Massachusetts
United States

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Last Login:  7/5/2008
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   The Bags: General Info
Member Since5/5/2007
Band Websitethebags.org
Band MembersJon Hardy


Jim Janota


Crispin Wood

InfluencesSwamp Oaf & Carl Plaster
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Record LabelOAF
Type of LabelIndie





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Sep 20 2008 8:00P
Church (formerly the Linwood) Boston, Massachusetts

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Bags live show in September '08 announced  (view more)

The Bags - live - Saturday 11/10/07 @ the Abbey  (view more)

The Bags/The Prime Movers/The Curses - Saturday June 2, 2007 @ TTs  (view more)

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   About The Bags
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.

For more history, please click here.

The Bags, performing "Ivan The Terrible" live at the Middle East, 2/11/06:


The Bags, performing "Saddle Up Your Ass" live at TTs, 6/2/07:



The Bags - "Colleen"
(Drummer Jim Janota sings lead as The Bags perform this unreleased song from 1988. Video by Glenn Gardner):




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Joshua





Jun 20 2008 3:41 PM

DJ ALLEN





May 16 2008 11:34 AM

The best rock show I've ever seen...The Bags at Craig and Todd's loft, circa 1991. Good to see you back at it...cheers from Texas, Dennis
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Apr 16 2008 3:20 PM

you guys are the SHIT!! can you put 'cavemen rejoice' on your player?
 
 
 

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mythical thingy!





Apr 1 2008 7:15 AM

poisson le avril!
le Bags rock!
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Mar 16 2008 11:09 AM

The Press Gang





Jan 15 2008 11:00 AM

Time to tour Canada lads..
when you get to Calgary, Alberta, let me know, and we'll open for ye. It'll be a fucking RIOT!

Cheers
~Elorps
Paul Lebel





Jan 8 2008 5:47 AM

Thanks for the add.
Paul
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Jan 7 2008 12:00 PM

Photobucket
Heavenly Kevin





Jan 4 2008 7:34 AM

the greatest band known to mankind

off to sharpen my stick
Captain Creation and the Godrobots





Dec 14 2007 5:45 AM

The Sprained Ankles





Nov 18 2007 3:16 PM

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Dana.Mei.Lan(a)





Nov 14 2007 5:21 PM

Most excellent rawk last Saturday gents, You get better with age...you sexy beasts! ----Dana
Leftenant Reg?





Nov 12 2007 12:24 PM

Hope the show past Sataday was a most righteous show!?!

Ears bled ...paint peeled ...boils burst!!!

Rock on ye brothas!

YOUR leftenant ...Reginald?
Scruffy the Cat





Nov 10 2007 5:08 PM

yo!
Tim





Nov 9 2007 1:32 AM

Would you kindly?





Oct 31 2007 9:14 AM

you guys are awesome. I love Sharpen Your Sticks and I plan on having your other albums soon.
Rock On!

-Steve
Jan





Oct 24 2007 6:23 AM

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Josh Collins '84 or 5...the caption in the album reads....Josh tries out for the BAGS!
Nettie





Oct 14 2007 10:03 PM

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.

Smooches - Lynette
What's Chappening?





Oct 12 2007 1:04 PM

Thanks for the add brotha's! Keep on rockin" from the homeland!
Joshua





Sep 24 2007 7:42 AM

Hey guys! Thanks for the add! Keep on rockin'!
Sven





May 11 2007 6:16 AM

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).

Love the ROCK! Live the ROCK!

-Sven
David





May 24 2007 4:00 PM

Wail!!!

The Bags are the best Rock N Roll (etc) band on the planet HANDS DOWN!!!
Dave





Sep 17 2007 7:33 PM

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!
erik rader





Aug 25 2007 12:32 AM

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!!!!!
Brandon says "Thumbs up!"





Aug 21 2007 8:28 PM

I just got Mount Rockmore today in the mail, great job guys, it is a damn good album.
Clay N. Ferno