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Thirty years ago The Get Quick started making music — and never stopped. Choosing to sidestep the rubble of the music industry, they devoted themselves to exploring the depths of their creativity independently. Now the band rips through the fabric of reality and invites you to discover and explore The Get Quick Universe.
24 albums, 290 songs, 35 videos, 20 shorts….and counting!
This is not press release plugging the latest single or album — or the artist’s latest triumph over adversity. Far, far more than that, this is the unveiling of one of the most unique and ambitious art projects of the 21st Century. This is the chance to uncover and herald — not only a new voice, but — an entirely new vision in popular music and culture.
BIO
The Get Quick project began as a modest rock band in a suburban basement. Erik Vanderwolf and Mitchell Joy, childhood school chums, bonded over rock & roll and ice cream sundaes, forming a band that would mature and solidify as The Get Quick in the fertile indie/psyche/pop/shoegaze scene of mid-1990s Philadelphia.
As the millennium loomed so did their epic self-released debut with lasting power pop gems like “Kemical” and “Hot Chicks & A Hand Grenade.” This was quickly followed by their wildly popular 22-minute album The Betty Popperetta — a compact, non-stop conceptual medley of songs, (dubbed an “opuscule”) a format the band has successfully pioneered in both the realms of studio recording and live performance. Throughout the next 3 decades The Get Quick would record and perform hundreds of songs across a multitude of media, genres and time zones.
A few highlights include the retrospectives The Legendary Masters, Claim II Fame, and most recently the brimming-with-hits Flash Action. And the music and myth keep rolling out, with the incredible Le Dossier Get Quick (created by fan/archivist Ida Prescott) which pieces together TGQ’s journey through numerous universes and dimensions weaving band fact, lore and fiction into incredible stories. And far out in the wings of the web, lies the “Quantum Anonymous” blog, written and narrated by “Q-Tom,” a mysterious whistle blower, intent on revealing the mysterious conspiratorial forces that first propelled The Get Quick to stardom… and then not only snatched it away, but reached back in time in an attempt to delete the group from existence itself.
Almost all artists are “of their time.” Even so-called “outliers,” by their very nature, are defined by the era in which they find themselves. But The Get Quick seemed to lead with the left foot from the very beginning — first belonging to the wrong time, then quickly moving beyond time altogether.
So what has prompted this current TGQ revival? Why is the band making their vast wealth of material available to the public after all these years? What has caused others to step forth with their own TGQ memories and artifacts? Perhaps because, despite the group’s detachment from and defiance of time, their music, meaning and methodology could not be more of the present moment.
The Get Quick are Here. The Get Quick are NOW.
Discover The Get Quick—Philadelphia’s best-kept secret turned multidisciplinary myth engine. A legendary back catalog. A cultish fan club. A surrealist blog network. A conspiracy-tinged archive decades in the making. It’s all emerging now—louder, stranger, and more alive than ever.
What began as a noisy basement band has become something far more subversive and rocking: a time-bending, medium-shifting art project whose influence stretches far beyond the confines of sound. The Get Quick are not just ahead of their time—they’ve made time their medium.
The lucky ones will hear them. The wise ones will listen. Be among the early explorers and join the lasting devotees.
