caption years_active label article_title landscape past_members background genre image origin name
the shaggs in 1968 . 1968 -- 1975 , 1999 third victor world , red rooster , rounder , rca the shaggs
 yes dorothy rachel wiggin `` dot '' wiggin helen wiggin betty wiggin group_or_band garage rock , rock , protopunk , outsider music the shaggs.jpg fremont , new hampshire the shaggs
the shaggs

the shaggs were an american all-female garage rock and protopunk band formed in fremont , new hampshire in 1968 .
the band was composed of sisters dorothy `` dot '' wiggin -lrb- vocals/lead guitar -rrb- , betty wiggin -lrb- vocals/rhythm guitar -rrb- , helen wiggin -lrb- drums -rrb- and , later , rachel wiggin -lrb- bass -rrb- .
the shaggs were formed by dot , betty and helen in 1968 , on the insistence of their father , austin wiggin , who believed that his mother had predicted the band 's rise to stardom .
the band 's only studio album , `` philosophy of the world '' , was released in 1969 .
the album failed to garner attention , though the band continued to exist as a locally popular live act .
the shaggs disbanded in 1975 after the death of austin .
the band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music ; the band was described in one `` rolling stone '' article as `` sounding like lobotomized trapp family singers . ''
terry adams of nrbq compared the group 's melodic lines and structures to the free jazz compositions of ornette coleman .
