Effective period / Period of releases: 1966

Members: Chris Vandercolt, Mike Maroney (2), Cecil Cotton, Lee Hardesty, Jamie Herndon (2)

Garage Rock band from Denton, Texas. The Briks came from a band called the Embers who formed at Texas Tech in Lubbock in 1965, with Richard Borgens on vocals and lead guitar, Lee Hardesty on guitar, Bobby Daniels, and Steve Martin on drums. The band relocated to Denton, outside Dallas, and Gainesville, TX, where some of them attended Cooke County Junior College, a “home for the academically ill” as one teacher put it. There they met Cecil Cotten, who became their lead singer, and bassist Mike Meroney and changed their name to the Briks.