The Brogues is tagged as: garage rock, psychedelic, folk rock, 60s psychedelic and garage, nuggets There’s more than just one band called The Brogues: 1. A 60’s garage rock band. The Brogues was a Merced, California band formed in 1964 and split in 1965. The members Gary Grubb (better known as Gary Duncan) and Greg Elmore later joined the Quicksilver Messenger Service, a San Francisco-based band that received relatively wide commercial success. The other members of the band were Eddie Rodrigues on guitar, Rick Campbell on organ and Bill Whittington on bass.|The band recorded only six songs: a demo session for “Someday” and “Journey”, and two released singles “Someday/But Now I Find” and “(I Ain’t No) Miracle Worker/Don’t Shoot Me Down.”|“(I Ain’t No) Miracle Worker” is their best known song; it is included in the compilations Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 and Trash Box. It has been covered by several groups, including The Chesterfield Kings, The Barracudas and Pissed Off Wild. There is also an Italian version by I Corvi. The Italian title is “Ragazzo di Strada” “Don’t Shoot Me Down” was included in Pebbles, Volume 10 2. A current band from Dundee, Scotland, playing 60’s influenced indie-pop: The Bro... Read More About The Brogues Biography...  Send The Brogues ringtones to your cell
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