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1. Need
Ya Baby 
(3Mb)
2. Gonna Need My Help
3. Rollin’ B-Side Blues
4. “Monster”
(5.3Mb)
5. Should’ve Learned My Lesson
6. White Boy Blues
7. Hard Love
8. Said & Done
9. Underway
10. If You Please
11. Doc Mode
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Other
Releases:
Danny with The
Paybacks:
Knock Loud LP, Get Hip Records
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MEMBERS/
MUSICIANS:
Danny
Methric:
guitars, vocals
Tony
DeNardo:
bass keys
Matt
Rost:
drums
HOMETOWN:
Detroit
FORMATION
DATE:
2000
WEBSITE:
www.themuggs.com |
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A little background on one of Detroit’s
favorite bands: The
Muggs –composed of Danny
Methric, the most colorful Budweiser-sweater-wearing
dude ever on guitar, Tony
DeNardo on low end keys, and Matt
Rost on drums– have known each other
for years, even playing together briefly in other
projects. Methric
also plays lead guitar for Detroit garage supergroup
The Paybacks.
In 2001, after a year that saw The
Muggs become one of Detroit’s hottest
and best-loved live bands (it doesn’t hurt
to have three of the nicest people in MurderCity
as members), the group had to take an unexpected
hiatus when then-bassist DeNardo
suffered a near-fatal stroke that paralyzed the
right side of his body.
Thanks to benefit concerts, help from friends,
and extensive and continuing therapy, DeNardo’s
condition has improved greatly, and he has adapted
by learning to play his bass lines on a Fender
Rhodes piano with his left hand, something he
has grown to do with much elan. Rost
brings to mind the best parts of Keith Mooon and
Mitch Mitchell. Kismet brought The
Muggs together and kept them afloat, and
now they are ready to spit their power chords
in your face on their debut album The Muggs.
The Muggs may
be the self-proclaimed UGLIEST BAND IN THE WORLD,
but this must be said: a Muggs concert is, quite
frankly, an amazing event. One would be hard pressed
to think of a group of musicians who look and
act more glad to be on a stage than The
Muggs do. Their glee has made them favorites
among the notoriously cliqueish Detroit crowd.
But make no mistake, we’re talking about
a Rock show... and The
Muggs? They just rock. Their unequaled
live energy has been translated to perfection
on their new recording. The Muggs, as
an album, has us all –band and label–
with our respective briefs and panties in bunches.
The Muggs’
album will take listeners back to the Golden Age
of guitar rock; it is an unapologetically raucous
adventure into the best that classic blues rock
ever had to offer: whether Humble
Pie, Peter Green-era
Fleetwood Mac, Creem, the influences are there,
but they are treated with a glee that can only
come from a band who feels genuinely lucky to
be playing together at all. The Muggs
may just be the record that brings back real guitar-driven
rock-n-roll.
“We just wanna
turn (The Muggs ) up and ROCK OUT to
the fire brigade. Killer stuff...our advice is
to get blasted and turn this little sucker all
the way UP. (Rating: 5)”
—babysue.com
“The
Muggs’ Danny Methric
is Detroit’s Angus Young”
—Ann Arbor Paper
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