Ed Sanders - vocals Tuli Kupferberg - tambourine & maracas Ken Weaver - percussion Lee Crabtree - piano, celeste, bells Pete Kearney - guitar Vinny Leary - guitar John Anderson - bass guitar
The Fugs are probably the greatest among the great rock bands that have been forgotten by succeeding generations. A case in point is Virgin Forest, the first collage piece in the history of popular music, one of music's most creative expressions, and almost totally unknown. The Fugs were also the first politicized group in the history of rock, also perhaps the greatest, the standard bearers of punk-rock. The sarcasm of their songs and the nonconformist mode in which they played them inspired Frank Zappa. Their free style compositions, although sometimes chaotic, anticipated progressive rock. Their specialty was the satire that reintroduced the political vaudeville of Brecht/Weill in the era of peace marches, sit-ins, and Bob Dylan. Few musicians were as original as the Fugs, at a time when the charts were dominated by the Beatles and the Monkees.
The Fugs were formed at the end of 1964 by two seasoned members of the intelligentsia: 43- year-old journalist Tuli Kupferberg and 32-year-old poet, movie maker, bookseller and editor Ed Sanders, who had served a year in jail for pacifism, where he penned "Poem from Jail." A self-declared "body-rock singing group," the Fugs circulated among beatniks and folk singers. Their music, a series of manifestos that proclaimed their intention to carry out a total offensive on mainstream culture, was even too methodical.
Their corrosive lyrics, the soul of their craft, mocked the American way of life and all its contradictions - the hypocrisy of government, the sexual repression, the consumerism, the persecution of drug users.
The Fugs put to music the demystification of capitalism and the removal of social taboos. They attacked the 45, the charts, the image of the bourgeois singer, manufactured stars like Presley and the Beatles, entertainment marketing and the entire anomalous machine of musical consumerism. They hurled themselves against secular taboos to create an alternative music regulated by alternative codes. In short, they laid the foundations for the genesis of rock and alternative rock for the remainder of the century.
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Luke Lukas is back with an album full of that gleeful gloom that made us love him at first sight. His trustworthy 4-tracks and him go their separate ways so he's now presenting 12 perfectly arranged folk songs to us. Luke reveals himself as a kind soul, but like the western movies taught us, a dreadful killer always hides under every placid looking Texan.
"Leaving his strongly lo-fi sound that impressed us the first time, he treasures the recipe, packing in this new plain, delightful work a caring love for vocals, which are worthy of Neutral Milk hotel, with a touch of Chordettes feel."Daniele Dileo - Lab Magazine
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
I changed the lyric for "Ain't it so nice outside today" , the catchy new tune about seeking disablity benefits. It's on my blog. All feedback appreciated...thanks...rk
...I remember those days...; ...sometimes I do... Thank you for your friendship! We( still unsigned)just released our new (double) cd "... we used to cut the green grass... /... the war is over..." by ourselves( you can order it via green-wave48@web.de, soon via itunes a.o.) you can listen to 9 out of 18 songs on our double cd on www.myspace.com/greenwavesaar from the southwest(Saarland) of Germany Rainer
Sky Sunlight Saxon of The SEEDS etc. passed over to be with YaHoWha 6/25/2009 at 9:10am. Sabrina Saxon and Joshua Aquarian were at his side. He passed peacefully and with no pain.
Donate to help with cremation and other expenses due to this unexpected crisis.
