Born and bred of working-class Americana -Beagle lays down a good ose of raw rocking jam energy, honed from years of bringing it live. Their original songs that evolved over decades are a snapshot in time, as long or short as you perceive it. Be it current and contained, or timeless and universal. Their repertoire of cover tunes are interpreted in a gritty rock blues jam psychedelic style, flavored with unique lyrical dissonance!

1998

Beagle, originally formed as the Darwin/Beagle Band (Dave Puzycki L/R guitar, Dave Griffith L/R guitar, Dave The Dog keys/bass, Charlie Weidemer drums, John Consoli saxophone) in the mid 90’s at the New Jersey shore, cut their teeth playing jamified cover blues/rock in area bars. Starting in the smallest of places with the smallest of crowds eventually growing to clubs and venues in the tri-state area. From The Osprey in Manasquan NJ to Crocodile Rock in Allentown PA, to The Acme Underground NYC from John & Peters in New Hope PA to The Ritz in NYC. Over the years, original songs, some calling out social injustice worked their way into the repertoire and were drawing attention and garnering press. Most notably “Disease” (featured on their 2000 release “Parable” as well as 2001’s “Live At The Stone Pony” both currently being remastered) a tune that focused on profiling brought an even larger audience. This led to a stint of opening for national acts at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, as well as the addition of John “Cos” Consoli on sax. (See more about “Cos” below) A tumultuous time for the legendary Stone Pony, Beagle put their backbone into the “Save The Stone Pony” effort that eventually helped save the legendary venue from disappearing altogether. A potential victim of “urban redevelopment”. Click above for a sampling of some of those band originals capturing the bands raw energy.

Beagle delivers a raw rocking dose of enigmatic, dogmatic musical energy!

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Johnny “Cos” Consoli, gone but not forgotten. Cos was a cool cat who talked just like that. Far out and wild baby. He never missed a chance to lay it down sweet. A true road warrior playing tenor sax with various stage and recording artists. Stretching all the way back to the 60’s, as a founding member of the Jaywalkers, Cos was always a live wire. He had many friends and is greatly missed. Not just a charts guy, but he could jump in and jam…A fixture of the local scene, Cos was known to pull shenanigans from grabbing friends like Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez up on stage to sit in for a few numbers, to jumping out into the audience while soloing! Some of the best times! The huge sound of his tenor solos was Cos’s trademark. He was the hippest. A damn good guy too. RIP Cos!

(C) 1998

Besides a guy could get hurt like that!