The Fugs#Compilation albums

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = The Fugs

| image = The Fugs at Eagles Auditorium (ad).jpg

| caption = Ad for the Fugs appearance at Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, 1968

| alias =

| origin = Lower East Side, New York City, U.S.

| genre = {{hlist|Proto-punk{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Randall|title=L.A. band Wand plugs into retro-futuristic psychedelia; Carole King's City revisited|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-ca-ms-essential-tracks-20150927-story.html|access-date=3 August 2017|agency=Los Angeles Times|date=September 26, 2015}}|rock and roll|garage rock|folk rock|psychedelic rock}}

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1964–1969
1984–present

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| website = {{URL|thefugs.com}}

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Ed Sanders
Tuli Kupferberg
Ken Weaver
Steve Taylor
Coby Batty
Scott Petito

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The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late 1964, by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for fuck used in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead.

The band was one of the leaders of the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade.[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125628216 "The Fugs: At The Forefront Of The Counterculture"] by John Kalish, All Things Considered, NPR, April 6, 2010 The group is known for its comedic, even lewd, nature but also earned fame through its persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s. A famous song of theirs was "Kill for Peace",[https://genius.com/The-fugs-kill-for-peace-lyrics Kill for Peace lyrics] on their 1966 album The Fugs.

Some 1969 correspondence, found inside an FBI file on the rock group the Doors, called the Fugs the "most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive".[https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-foia-the-fugs-the-doors-v24n8/ Leopold, Jason, "Inside the FBI's File on The Fugs: The 'Most Vulgar Thing the Human Mind Could Possibly Conceive{{'"}}.] Noisey.vice.com, Retrieved November 12, 2017 They have been derided for their scatological lyrics.{{Cite journal |last=Burke |first=Patrick |date=Spring 2011 |title=Clamor of the Godz: Radical Incompetence in 1960s Rock |journal=American Music |publisher=University of Illinois Press |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=35–63 |doi=10.5406/americanmusic.29.1.0035 |s2cid=153519635}} But Tom Robbins wrote of them in 1968, "Incongruously… this trio of hairy gross ginch gropers is the most intellectual, sophisticated and literary ensemble in rock."{{cite news |last1=Robbins |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Robbins |title=The Fug Thing |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helix,_v.3,_no.1,_Feb._15,_1968_-_DPLA_-_1f81c42fd12c42aa72952ba5b29af6b2_(page_2).jpg |access-date=2024-02-13 |work=Helix |issue=v.3, no.1 |date=1968-02-15 |page=2}} The Fugs have been labeled avant-rock noise music.{{Cite journal|jstor=812592|title=Avant-Rock in the Classroom|author=David E. Morse|journal=English Journal|volume=58|number=2|date=February 1969|pages=196–200, 297|doi=10.2307/812592}}

Formation

The band's original core members, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver, were joined at various times in the 1960s by a number of others, some of whom were noted session musicians or members of other bands. These included Weber and Stampfel,{{Cite web|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/tuli.html|title=The Fugs – Tuli Kupferberg|website=Furious.com}} bassist John Anderson, guitarist Vinny Leary, guitarist Peter Kearney, keyboardist Lee Crabtree, guitarist Jon Kalb, guitarist Stefan Grossman, singer and guitarist Jake Jacobs, guitarist Eric Gale, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Robert Banks, bassist Charles Larkey, guitarist Ken Pine, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Bill Wolf, and drummer Bob Mason.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

For most of their career, the Fugs were composed of the primary singer-songwriters Sanders and, until his death, Kupferberg; the composer, songwriter, guitarist and long-time Allen Ginsberg collaborator Steven Taylor; singer-songwriter and percussionist Coby Batty; and Scott Petito, a musician and music producer.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

The band signed a record contract with ESP-Disk in 1965. The Fugs said that "our royalty rate was less than 3%, one of the lower percentages in the history of western civilization".{{cite web|website=Thefugs.com|title=History of the Fugs|url=http://www.thefugs.com/history2.html|access-date=November 26, 2013}} The owner of the label, Bernard Stollman, has frequently faced accusation of not paying royalties to artists.{{cite book|last=Weiss|first=Jason|title=Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk', the Most Outrageous Record Label in America|year=2012|publisher=Wesleyan|isbn=978-0-8195-7159-5|url=http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/dignity-conviction-and-mrs-stollmans-checkbook/}} In February 1967, the group was signed to Atlantic Records and recorded one album, The Fugs Eat It, but it was never released.Sanders, Ed. [http://www.thefugs.com/history3.html "History of the Fugs", part 3]. TheFugs.com. Retrieved January 3, 2019.

Career

A satirical rock band with a political slant, the Fugs have performed at various war protests – against the Vietnam War and since the 1980s at events around other U.S. involved wars. The band's often frank and humorous lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics occasionally generated hostile reactions, most notably from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1960s. The group is referenced several times in the FBI file on the Doors; an excerpt mentions eleven songs from The Fugs First Album that are "vulgar and repulsive and are most suggestive".{{cite web |url=http://vault.fbi.gov/The%20Doors/The%20Doors%20Part%201%20of%201/view |title=The Doors Part 1 of 1 |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |access-date=January 19, 2012}}

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In 1968, they toured Europe twice: in May to Denmark and Sweden, where they wrote the song "The Swedish Nada" and played with Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, and The Nice;[http://rockprosopography102.blogspot.com/2010/09/fugs-family-tree-performance-list.html "The Fugs Family Tree – shows list"], Rock Prosopography 102 and in September to Germany, where they played with Peter Brötzmann, Cuby and the Blizzards, Family, Guru Guru Groove, Alexis Korner, David Peel, and Tangerine Dream, at the Internationale Essener Songtage in the Grugahalle in Essen.[http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texts/readings/ed-sanders-a-visit-to-prague_116.html "A Visit to Prague"] by Ed Sanders, Woodstock Journal, November 29, 2007; via Prague Writers' Festival, October 2018

In 1971, at a General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Fugs song was castigated by Ezra Taft Benson - a high-ranking elder who would go on to become its President. In a speech condemning rock music as Satanic, Benson said "the cynic defends his degeneracy by ridiculing his critics with confusing metaphors." He complained that critiquing "The words of the rock recording 'I Couldn't Get High{{'"}} caused people to call for the LDS hymn 'High on the Mountain Top' to be dropped from songbooks. Benson disputed the retort that "If one sees filthy implications in a popular song, it is because he has a dirty mind," saying "No filth is [merely] implied in many of the lyrics. It is proclaimed."{{cite web|title=Satan's Thrust—Youth|author=Elder Ezra Taft Benson|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1971/10/satans-thrust-youth?lang=eng|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints|date=October 3, 1971}}

In a 2012 interview with National Public Radio, Ed Sanders read a leaflet from an August 1965 show: "The Fugs present: Night of napalm, songs against the war, rock n' roll bomb shrieks, heavy metal orgasms! Watch all The Fugs die in a napalm raid!"{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/05/152029486/fug-you-the-wild-life-of-ed-sanders|title='Fug You': The Wild Life of Ed Sanders|last=Kalish|first=Jon|date=May 4, 2012|website=NPR|access-date=October 17, 2012}}

Their participation in the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's 1967 March on the Pentagon, at which they and others purportedly attempted to encircle and levitate the Pentagon, is chronicled in Norman Mailer's book The Armies of the Night. A recording of this event is featured on the Fugs' 1968 album, Tenderness Junction, entitled "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967".The Fugs. "Exorcising the Evil Spirits From Within the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967", Tenderness Junction, Reprise, 1968. Beforehand, Sanders and Kupferberg had prepared an elaborate exorcism ritual, and rented a flatbed truck along with a sound system. As is heard on the album, the two gathered a large crowd in front of the Pentagon and repeatedly chanted, "Out, demons, out!"

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One of their better-known songs is an adaptation of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach". Others were settings of William Blake's poems "Ah! Sun-flower" and "How Sweet I Roam'd". Another, "Nothing", is a paraphrasing of the Yiddish folk song "Bulbes".{{cite book|last=Goldsmith|first=Kenneth|author-link=Kenneth Goldsmith|title=Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb|year=2020|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|page=246|isbn=978-0-231-54691-1}}

After pursuing individual projects over the years, in 1984 Sanders and Kupferberg re-formed the band and staged a series of Fugs reunion concerts.Kot, Greg. "The Fugs Still Riotous After All These Years". Chicago Tribune, November 27, 2012. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/11/27/the-fugs-still-riotous-after-all-these-years/] On August 15, 1988, at the Byrdcliff Barn in Woodstock, New York, the Fugs performed one of their first real reunion concerts. This incarnation of the Fugs included, at various times, the guitarist and singer Steve Taylor (who was also Allen Ginsberg's teaching assistant at the Naropa Institute), the drummer and singer Coby Batty, the bassist Mark Kramer, the guitarist Vinny Leary (who had contributed to the first two original Fugs albums), and the bassist and keyboardist Scott Petito. The re-formed Fugs performed concerts at numerous locations in the United States and Europe over the next several years.

In 1994 the band intended to perform a series of concerts in Woodstock, New York (where Sanders had lived for many years) to commemorate the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which had actually occurred near the town of Bethel, some 50 miles away. They learned that a group of promoters were planning to stage Woodstock '94 that August near Saugerties, about eight miles from Woodstock, and that this festival would be much more tightly controlled and commercialized than the original. Consequently, The Fugs staged their own August 1994 concerts as "The Real Woodstock Festival", in an atmosphere more in keeping with the spirit of the 1969 festival. The basic Fugs roster of Sanders, Kupferberg, Taylor, Batty, and Petito performed in this series of concerts with additional vocal support from Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter and also with appearances by Allen Ginsberg and Country Joe McDonald. In 2003, the group released The Fugs Final CD (Part 1) with positive feedback. In 2004, The Fugs began to record Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part 2).

In 2009, Kupferberg suffered two strokes, the latter of which severely hindered his eyesight. He was under constant care, but was able to finish recording his tracks for Be Free in his New York City apartment. A benefit for Kupferberg was held in Brooklyn, New York, in February 2010, featuring all of the Fugs minus Kupferberg, as well as Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, and others. Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part 2) was released on February 23, 2010. The album art, designed by Sanders, featured a snail reading Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl". The album was produced by Taylor and Sanders.

Kupferberg died on July 12, 2010, in Manhattan, at the age of 86.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2010b.html |title=The Dead Rock Stars Club 2010 July to December|website=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com|access-date=January 22, 2020}} In 2008, in one of his last interviews, he told Mojo magazine, "Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope."Mojo, no. 203, October 2010, p. 34.

The remaining Fugs from time to time seriously consider further performances. On June 11, 2011, the four remaining Fugs performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as part of the annual Meltdown Festival, curated that year by Ray Davies of the Kinks. Their set received a four-star review in The Guardian.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/13/the-fugs-review Review of the Fugs], The Guardian

They performed at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on November 30, 2012, and at the City Winery in Chicago on December 1, 2012. They performed at the Brooklyn Folk Festival on November 10, 2021.

Film appearances

The band can be seen performing in the cult film Chappaqua (1967) by Conrad Rooks. Tuli Kupferberg made appearances in W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) by Dušan Makavejev and played God in Voulez-vous coucher avec God? (1972) by Michael Hirsh and Jack Christie.

Their song "CIA Man" was featured during the closing credits of the 2008 Coen brothers film Burn After Reading, and during the closing credits of the fifth episode of the 2017 docudrama miniseries Wormwood.

Primary lineups

The Fugs went through a number of lineup changes. Below are those that lasted the longest. For instance, guitarist Stefan Grossman was with the band for only several weeks, so this lineup is not included.

1964 – February 1965

Kendell Kardt – vocals
Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – vocals, conga
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals
Peter Stampfel – fiddle, harmonica, vocals

Summer 1965

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals, percussion
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals
Vinny Leary – guitar, vocals
John Anderson – bass, vocals

September – December 1965

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals, percussion
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals

December 1965 – July 1966

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Lee Crabtree – keyboards, percussion
Vinny Leary – guitar, vocals
John Anderson – bass, vocals
Pete Kearney – guitar, vocals

July – October 1966

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Lee Crabtree – keyboards, percussion
Jon Kalb – lead guitar
Vinny Leary – rhythm guitar, vocals
John Anderson – bass, vocals

October 1966 – Spring 1967

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Lee Crabtree – keyboards, percussion
Jake Jacobs – guitar, vocals
Chuck Rainey – bass

Summer 1967 – Summer 1968

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Ken Pine – guitar, vocals
Danny Kortchmar – guitar, violin
Charles Larkey – bass

Winter 1968 – March 1969

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Ken Weaver – drums, vocals
Ken Pine – guitar, vocals
Bill Wolf – bass, vocals
Bob Mason – drums

1984 – 2010

Tuli Kupferberg – vocals
Ed Sanders – vocals
Steven Taylor – vocals, guitar
Coby Batty – drums, percussion, vocals
Scott Petito – bass, keyboards

2010 – present

Ed Sanders – vocals
Steven Taylor – vocals, guitar
Coby Batty – drums, percussion, vocals
Scott Petito – bass, keyboards

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Discography

= Studio albums =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! US Top 200

! Label

align="center"| 1965

| The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction

| align="center"| —

| Broadside/Folkways

align="center" rowspan="2"| 1966

| The Fugs First Album*

| align="center"| 142

| rowspan="2"| ESP-Disk

The Fugs

| align="center"| 95

align="center" rowspan="2"| 1967

| The Fugs Eat It (unreleased)

| align="center"| —

| Atlantic

Virgin Fugs

| align="center"| —

| ESP Disk

align="center" rowspan="2"| 1968

| Tenderness Junction

| align="center"| —

| rowspan="3"| Reprise

It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest

| align="center"| 167

align="center"| 1969

| The Belle of Avenue A

| align="center"| —

align="center"| 1986

| No More Slavery

| align="center"| —

| rowspan="2"| New Rose

align="center"| 1987

| Star Peace – A Musical Drama in Three Acts

| align="center"| —

align="center"| 2003

| The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)

| align="center"| —

| Artemis

align="center"| 2010

| Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part 2)

| align="center"| —

| rowspan="2"| Fugs Records

align="center"| 2023

| Dancing in the Universe

| align="center"| —

* The Fugs First Album is a retitled reissue of the Broadside/Folkways LP.

= Live albums =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Label

align="center"| 1970

| Golden Filth (Live at the Fillmore East)

| Reprise

align="center" rowspan="2"| 1984

| Refuse to Be Burnt Out

| New Rose

Baskets of Love

| Olufsen

align="center"| 1993

| Fugs Live in Woodstock

| MUSIK/MUSIK

align="center"| 1995

| The Real Woodstock Festival

| Big Beat

= Compilation albums =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Label

! Notes

align="center"| 1975

| Fugs 4, Rounders Score

| ESP-Disk

| Consists of recordings from first two albums plus two unreleased cuts from first album sessions.
(Four unreleased tracks by The Holy Modal Rounders are included, and date from first album sessions as well.)

align="center"| 1982

| The Fugs Greatest Hits Vol. 1

| PVC

| Compilation drawing from the first three albums.

align="center"| 1990

| Songs from a Portable Forest

| Gazell

| Chronicles the 1980s reunion albums.

align="center"| 1994

| Live from the 60s

| Big Beat

| This album is made up of recordings from assorted (unprofessionally recorded) tapes of various shows, and home demos.

align="center"| 2001

| Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings

| Rhino Handmade

| Includes the four Reprise albums in their entirety plus special promo edits, mono mix of Tenderness Junction (except for "Aphrodite Mass") and tracks from the unreleased Atlantic LP (in censored, mono form).

align="center"| 2006

| Greatest Hits 1984–2004

| Fugs Records

align="center"| 2008

| Don't Stop! Don't Stop!

| Big Beat

| Repackaging of the first two albums with various outtakes, demos and live recordings.

align="center"| 2010

|Tenderness Junction/It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest

| Floating World

| Two-fer combining the first two Reprise albums. Unlike the Rhino Handmade set, which used tapes, this release is sourced from vinyl.