From Dale's Port Huron, MI blog: Smashin' Transistors

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

STAAGS! Robot Cassingle

A cassette single?! Over in the FAQ section we sorta dare people that want to send demo's on that format over a CD-R if for no other reason then that we can record over it...didn't expect anybody ever really would though but this band of drunk rockers did.
Featuring Final Solutions Quinn on guitar & hootin'-n-shoutin' and Memphis' funniest long haired and bearded prog rock fan Robin aka Jack Stands on bass the STAAGS! bring a case of beer each to the party then drink it all too! Yeah, lots of dudes can do that but the band brings the ROCK! too. Hard rock, punk rock, rock-n-roll-what have you. "Robot" is a short and bitter stomper sounding something like the Dead Boys with some serious Halo of Flies brain damage sitting up in the bleachers not rooting for either side but heckling both as hard as the can. "Get Off My Lawn" is like the grumpiest of grumpy old men in any given town, backed by a totally hammered hardcore band. He's not gonna call the cops or blast some buckshot at ya his you keep riding your bikes on his lawn. He's gonna bust out a flamethrower out on your ass instead!

From Razorcake:

STAAGS!:
Robot: Cassette
Leave it to a pretentious Memphis garage rock band to put out a sloppy cassette single recorded on a 4-track in 2007. It's comforting to find a band this intentionally un-tight allowing others to hear their home recordings. Lower than lo-fi, this tape has a retro appeal factor due to the old school demo format. This cassette is limited to just one hundred copies and the label's other two releases are already long gone. Garage collectors will surely want to subject themselves to these shenanigans. –Art Ettinger (Don't Hit Record!, http://www.myspace.com/dhrrecords)