Posted on 7/15/2010, 5:27:04 PM by ConservativeStatement
Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of the New York underground rockers the Fugs, has died at age 86.
Kupferberg died Monday in a Manhattan hospital, according to his friend and bandmate Ed Sanders. He had suffered several strokes in the past year.
Sanders, owner of the Peace Eye Bookstore in New York, joined with beat poet Kupferberg and drummer Ken Weaver to form the group in 1964.
They were among the first underground rock bands and paved the way for groups such as the Mothers of Invention and Velvet Underground. The Fugs were strong supporters of the anti-war and protest movements of the 1960s.
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Surprised that he was that old! Figgered he’d be in his 60s...
I knew Rock and Rollers were getting old, but 86???
Wow and Far Out, Man!
Dust off the turntable and breakout Golden Filth. Vulgar, profane, pornographic, liberal,primitive, funny rock and roll. A guilty pleasure from my High School days..
Delayed Brown Acid at Woodstock?
I actually remember The Fugs.
They were pretty bad; they called themselves The Fugs because they couldn’t call themselves The Fu#$%.
Haven’t even thought about them in years!!!!
Warner-Reprise signed The Fugs...but you could not play them on the radio. The lyrics were full of sexual innuendo or worse.
And we care about this...why?
I don’t remember the Fugs.
But I sure do remember the Mothers of Invention and Velvet Underground.
CCD, Saran Wrap the prologue to “I Couldn’t Get High” about the Tomato Lesbian Dwarf Orgy was hardly innuendo. LOL
“The Mud Elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks..”
I do too. They had a song called, “Coca cola Douche.”
"This is a Fuggin' Big Deal!"
Yeah, The Fugs were pretty much small potatoes, compared to Velvet Underground and Mothers of Invention, and I don’t think The Fugs as a band lasted as long as the VU and MOI.
He was a Beat poet and provocateur. You can say this for guys like Kupferberg and Ed Sanders - they walked the walk. I may not agree with them, but I can respect that.
Fugs - Sly & The Family Stone - MC5 - and the "Psychedelic" Stooges (Iggy Pop and the Ashton brothers)
Were the Fugs the guys with the “Nothing” song? It went something like this: “Bobby Kennedy, Nothing, Vietnam, Nothing”, etc.
For those unfamiliar with the Fugs, they were the original vulgar band. Many of their songs were not acceptable for even tue most underground FM station.
I had a Fugs album named, “It crawled into my hand, honest.” I also remember one of their other songs was named, “Squak man meets the lunatic vagina.”
They may have spawned the Mothers of Invention or at least had an influence on Frank Zappa.
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