The Organ Thieves

Organ Thieves
The Organ Thieves perform live at the Horseshoe Tavern on October 9, 2009
Background information
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Hard rock, southern rock, reggae
Years active	2008–present
Labels	MapleMusic Recordings
Associated acts	Brown Brigade, Cauterize, Sum 41, The Quits, Blackjacket, The Bad Ideas
Website	The Organ Thieves' Official Myspace
Members	Chuck Coles Dave Baksh Mike Smith Theo McKibbon
Past members	Matt Worobec John Owens Ben Davies

Organ Thieves is a southern and soul-influenced experimental hard rock side project by Brown Brigade guitarists Chuck Coles and Dave Baksh, formed by Coles in mid-2008. It has since become their main project.

Dave Baksh is telling about the band's beginning as "it started when guitarist Chuck Coles was getting kind of antsy in Brown Brigade in that he wanted to write- he's a natural songwriter. So one day we were set to play a benefit show in Kitchener/Waterloo but Chuck had already booked an Organ Thieves show, and this is at the time when he was using another drummer other than Johnny [Chuck's former Cauterize co-member Matt Worobec]. Basically I hadn't even seen the band and they asked me to play a Labour Day show with them. After about two weeks of practice me and the drummer at the time, Matt Worobec, had gotten together and played this show. The lineup would have been Ben Davies, Mikesmith, Matt Worobec, Chuck Coles and myself. We pretty much played naked to a bunch of people at a cottage; it was fun." Dave also stated that he joined the band due to the different members and their musical tastes who all influenced the band's unique musical style, which was very different from what Dave used to play in Brown Brigade and Sum 41. Soon, drummer Matt Worobec had to quit the band due to other commitments and was replaced temporarily by Brown Brigade drummer Johnny Owens.

In January 2009, the band entered The Boom Cave, a recording studio in Oshawa, Ontario, owned by Chuck's former Cauterize bandmates Jesse Smith and Jason Bone, to record the band's first EP. The EP, entitled God's Favorite Sons was co-produced by the band, Jesse Smith and Jason Bone, and self-released by the band in March 2009, sold only at their live shows, as well as few local shops around the Ontario area.