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The Brigands
12+ albums
Garage RockPsychedelic Rockrockpsychedelic60s
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The Brigands were an American garage rock band, best known for the 1966 song, "(Would I Still Be) Her Big Man", which appeared as the A-side of a single released on Epic Records. Little is known about them other than that the song was recorded in New York City. Their origins are unknown, but some have attributed their residence to Forest Hills, Long Island, New York. Others have speculated that they were an ensemble of session musicians who recorded the song as a one-time act under the moniker "the Brigands." One reason mentioned by exponents of this hypothesis is that there would be more known about them, if they had indeed been an been an actual performing unit. They point out that there are no printed artifacts available, such as flyers and listings of live performances, records of battles of the bands, and newspaper clippings. They also point out that, since the song was released on Epic Records and produced by Artie and Kris Resnick, who wrote the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" and other popular hits of the time, it is unlikely that such an unknown band would have received the attention of such well-known and established fixtures, unless the song had been recorded by a "ghost band" of session musicians under their tutelage. A 2002 transcript on CNN's website about a reunion of Forest Hills (Queens, NY) High School students features an Anderson Cooper interview with two alumni (Elliott Wertheim and John Hartmann) who were in The Brigands. Wertheim and Hartmann give some ba
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, Vol. 4
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (Disc 4)
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Songs In The Key of Lice
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts Fr
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
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Loaded to the Gunwales: Benefit For the Colonial Seaport Foundation
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (disc 4)
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Nuggets Volume 4
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 [Box] Disc 4
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, Volume 4