Welcome to The Official Brigg Site
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Welcome to The Official BRIGG Site
BRIGG
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1968
Rob Morse, Rusty Foulke and Jeff Willoughby meet and attend junior high school together. They form a band called "Stratus" from elements of a previous group called "The Whey".
1969
Morse leaves the area to attend a private school and Foulke and Willoughby form 'Part Two', later renamed Hybrid Ice Company.
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1971
Hybrid Ice records its first demos, "Took It Away" and "One Last Thing" (both written by Foulke) in a room at WKOK radio station in Sunbury PA. The session is engineered by Bob Spangler. Later, Spangler purchases recording equipment and an old Aunt Nellie's grocery store at 48A Street in Northumberand PA and builds a recording studio, calling it Susquehanna Sound Productions.
1972
Morse returns to Danville on hiatus from school and gets together with Willoughby to show him songs he had written. The pair arrange, rehearse and record a cassette demo of "Universe," "New Found Rain," "Linda," and "The Desert Song" (It's Been a While). The two take the tape to SSP where they meet Chris Wheeland and play it for studio owner Bob Spangler and Wheeland. They decide to record the songs as an album, inviting Foulke (and Hybrid Ice) to join them.
JUNE. The entire mid-Atlantic region of the United States experiences major flooding as the result of Hurricane Agnes.
OCTOBER. Cover photos are taken in and around Danville PA by high school art teacher, Charles Berkey.
1973
January. On weekends during Morse's winter break from New England College, the Brigg album is recorded at 48A Street, Northumberland, Pennsylvania with Rob Morse, and Hybrid Ice members Rusty Foulke, Jeff Willoughby, Rick Klinger and Webb Kline. The project was funded and produced by Morse, Foulke and Willoughby and was given another name - Brigg - a name Willoughby had seen stenciled on drum cases in a dream he had during that time.
One thousand copies are pressed and the album is released May, 1973.
1990's
The album is bootlegged in many different formats and is found being sold in Europe.
2000's
The Internet contributes to the sale and distribution of original and illegal copies. The band members themselves dust off the still-in-storage albums and sell a very limited quantity per year.
2021
Morse, Foulke and Willoughby agree to authorize Gear Fab Records to release an Official Limited Edition Reissue of the original album. The album was released in LP vinyl and CD formats. A previously unreleased bonus track is contained on the CD.
2021
The original band members begin working on a 50th Anniversary album to be released Fall, 2023 to commemorate the release of the original album and thank the world's music collectors for keeping these teenagers' dream alive!
20233
In May 2023 Foulke resigns from the project. Morse extends an invitation to longtime friend and Massachussetts resident, Dave Sayward, to contribute to the project and he accepts adding two songs of his own.
Songs on the album are all original previously unreleased and are performed by Morse, Willoughby and Sayward.
1973
Three high school friends borrow the money to record their first album together in their home state of Pennsylvania, USA
It never got airplay and they never played a live show as Brigg.
They sold albums to their friends in high school and put the remaining copies in their closets.
TODAY
The album is a collector's item.
50th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM
INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONGS BY TWO OF THE ORIGINAL MUSICIANS.
MUSIC AVAILABLE IN
LIMITED EDITION VINYL, CD
AND DIGITAL DOWNLOADS