Fugs 1968 part one

[eyefulpower]

These guys are still ahead of their time.

[MrBrianlowdown]

this is it. you and i were there, or we were not ...we were if our fucked familys had us when they were on drugs ...me 1969 haight st...i want to start a club ,a meeting for punks. of hippys and bikers. frommthe 60,s those of us that nobody understands and never will...not all these wana be,s let me know if u want to

[ThePethom]

The beginning sounds just like the beginning of "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix. If I'm not wrong this is a recording from one of their visits in Sweden

[terrryc]

In the Great Bowling Alley of your mind.....I am your Pin Boy......These boys could write!

[Entropy56]

“I like to engage in astro perversion. And my fondness is to be sucked off by ring tailed fruit bats, while engaging in oral erotic relationships with homosexual aardvarks in bathtubs full of lukewarm jell-o and late night motel plate-jobs, slurp-circles, and jell-o orgies.”

He forgot Jafa-Caking…

[b00mhauer]

We'll miss you Tuli!

[Barnekkid]

Truly classic. Wonder Warthogs fave band.

[DanGoguen]

The guy with the mustache is now a renowned author.

[glitchesandglitter]

Tenderness Junction has never been released on cd, and if you find mp3 copies floating around out there they are probably ripped from a record. your best bet is to get a copy of Electromagnetic Steamboat, a box set, which has that whole album on it.

[bigtoozly]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD........SHE­EEIIT

[ed11561]

These guys SUCKED. hARDLY ANYONE EXCEPT ASSHOLE ACID FREAKS EVER LISTENED TO THEM. They never made it anywhere except the Village in NYC. losers

[sydfarrett]

@ed11561

fug you!!! shut the fug up, you narrow-minded fug head!!!

[jimothy60]

@ed11561 so why are you watching / listening to them?

[tombotucker]

@jimothy60 Well you see, jimothy60, clearly ed11561 is an asshole acid freak. And undoubtedly a member of a slurp circle, to boot. His full name likely is "dick" ed11561 or some such clever homosexual aardvark nickname.

[rnrmst]

HEY! Don't forget Ed Sanders was the greatest genius & brilliant wordsmith as well! Just listen to that interview at the beginning as well as the great songs he wrote for the Fugs! Can't ignore that! I work with a lot of fresh faced just-out-of-school kiddies & they all run to the screen & say "WHATZDAT?? when I play this video! They love the Ed quote about the "late-night motel plate-job slurp circles & jello orgies"

[songcycle]

i love that tuli's whole segment is about how paranoid he is that they're asking for his ID (yes, i know he's playing). he was the only dude dancer for any band in the 60's, and he's so fucking funny. the fugs are funny and crazy as shit, but c'mon: "i must've left it at home" kills. ed sanders' astral projection gobble is a close second. i love hearing all these stories, including the nonsense. best garage band?

[cadi56]

R.I.P. Tuli Kupferberg

[SushiMyers]

RIP Tuli

[naisammon]

R.I.P Tuli

[iZealot]

"I like to engage in astral perversion, and my fondness is to be sucked off by ring-tailed fruit bats while engaging in oral/erotic relationships with homosexual aardvarks in bathtubs full of luke-warm jello and late night motel plate job slurp-circles and jello orgies." - Ed Sanders

[miamad]

What a bunch of morons.

[frostyEnumerator]

silly fuggers

[Flunder]

To Ed Sanders? If you ever see this post? I can never put the book down my friend.best book Ive ever read. many thanks. Lee.

[LAMF1968]

These guys should play Austin Psych Fest

[Pineappleintheskies]

My dad played in this band

[sydfarrett]

@Pineappleintheskies

well, what did he play or do? bass guitar?

[Nechepsos]

very mothers of invention sound. groovy though baby yeah!

[andremaritime]

had lunch with Ken the other day, he's stll going strong!

[karmices]

@andremaritime Ken Weaver or Ken Pine?

[RoknRolUSA]

What I want to know is...? ...Will I find anything else that closes the deal on my vote for the best TV station in the --Try and ban all subversive submissive slerp suckingandfugingfans! and losing catagory.

[MadSpoon23]

"This is dedicated to transcendental meditation and the maharishi maheesh freak puke. " hahahahahahahah so fuggin great

[jon1156]

This is a pretty spot-on Jefferson Airplane parody and a lot more rocking if you ask me.

[neothugx]

what makes everyone think the most famous ones are the originals?

[neothugx]

hm..... these dudes were trippin though.... sounds a bit like kyrie eleison with the electric prunes at the beginning XD

[dullsvillain]

fuggin cool

[crossharpchronicles]

I thought the Fugs were so avant garde at the time. But I just got done watching three hours of Viva la Bamm on MTV and realized that these guys, although not musicians must have descended from the same family tree. In fact, Bam Magerra and Don Vito and the family must have fallen on their heads when they did. It is so refreshing to think that this kind of lunacy is still alive and well. (All names were likely misspelled to avoid parental consent.)

[LustForHate]

Duh! You're an idiot!

[crossharpchronicles]

Thanks for the complement. You are obviously a fine judge of character. I wish you and the other invertebrate that crawled out from the same rock you crawled out from the Merriest of Christmases. Kiss your sister for me.

[MadSpoon23]

hate is a very underestimated emotion.

[calamagrostis88]

Ed Sanders: I like to engage in astral perversion, and my fondness is to be sucked off by ring-tailed fruit bats, while in engaging in oral-erotic relationships with homosexual ardvarks in bathtubs full of lukewarm jello in late-night motel plate-job slurp circles and jelaworztes(?)

[PAULLONDEN]

VABLEAPHU.....thisis what I had to

fuckin' type to get my comment over.jeezz.

ok....

Smart cookies ;~]

[Timmybear]

Oh, my god, Ed Sanders should be my boyfriend - our erotic tastes are identical! ;)

[pretorious700]

I brought a Fugs album home in '67 and my parents considered having me committed

[Timmybear]

Aren't authority figures funny? I did a book review of THE BELL JAR in Grade 9, and they sent me to the guidance office, thinking it was a 'cry for help' (please - if I were going to kill myself, I wouldn't be crying for help - I'd stay quiet).

[waynealarsen]

finger's in the ringlets when I kiss the microphone, pretty little girls all screaming, when I kiss the microphone, it's all right come on up, we got Baskets, baskets of LOVE!

[bakersakter]

@pretorious700 hahahaha thats fuckin rad

[moluvsage]

@pretorious700 I picked up Tenderness Junction at Kmart in 68,it is thier best effort.get it if you can but it's very rare.

[andremaritime]

@pretorious700 HA HA HA ! i love this kind of craziness !

[jimmymcclukcluk]

this is what i'm talking about. the world needs more fugs and more mothers.

[neighdur]

FK YOU RAMUNE FAG.

[48squinnav]

Great! saw 2 shows at the Boston shows in 1967. Steve Quinn

[iorioriorio]

That a weaver dude...why he look like a penis hat?

[rickhorror]

lol

[iorioriorio]

yeah, man crystal liason....kinda like kyrie eelaison gregorianchant for the now, acid generation, groovzi gonadski

[mikimcal]

Their last album was one of the most cohesive Jazz Rock music I've heard back then. They were quite advanced musically, and literally as well... Ed Sanders became a professor of English Literature for real.

[nolanpotter1]

They actually rocked pretty good.

[TallFastLoud]

Those interviews at the beginning are so funny...

[porousorifice]

Let your freak flag fly!

[squarepyramid99]

Excellent! Kenny Weaver's "Couldn't Get High", never seen the clip! Sounds like the same version as on "Golden Filth"...

[Musicdudeguy]

Long live the Fugs.

[BMWLDRider]

They were making this shit up as they were on stage......

[humerus1987]

Intro is the same as "Purple Haze"...

[420Sabbath]

I think you mean foxy lady...

[humerus1987]

u got that right...I wasn't even thinking...just automatically wrote "Purple haze"....cause I instantly recognized Hendrix riff...

[crabula]

I had never heard of them before now. This is My First Fugs Experience! There's no doubt that this song, "Crystal Liaison", does proper justice to The Great Psychedelic Galactic Bun Frenzy! Amazing! Thanks!

[minutegongcoughs]

still up. Great

[gwugluud]

Heard OF them alla my life, but this is the 1st time I've FINALLY HEARD them. That's it, I'm going on Amazon and cleaning out their entire inventory of Fugs CDs. Shame on me for being alive since 1960 and this is the 1st time I've heard them.

[beatlefreak777]

Did Charles Larkey play on this track?

[rezeski]

F****** madmen! Can someone tell me who is sort of like these guys today? Was anyone ever like these guys?

[LenaIsGlad]

No one.

Just 40 years of recycled junk.

[MattHatter]

Does anyone know what year and album "I Shit My Pants" comes from by The Fugs. I just heard that and laughed so hard I shit my pants!

[sydfarrett]

@MattHatter

yes sorry for extreme delay but, that song can be found under the title,"caca rocka," on the album,"VIRGIN FUGS" ONLY ON LP.

[Misus88]

I'm looking for lyrics "Garden is open" and "four minutes to twelve", could someone tell me where i can find them? It seems, that web is empty...

[aphrodiac]

Yes .i´m also hear looking for ``The garden is open `` that is a song that has a very nice mood in it , not really like other Fugs songs at all.cant anyone bring it up here ?

[sydfarrett]

@Misus88 ON THE ALBUM tenderness junction

[rastablastamoscow08]

not 3 bad

[iskandar339]

poikilothron' athanatAphrodita /pai Dios doloploke lissomai se....

LOL....great Fugs

[RATTLEY67]

Cool! love the fucks sorry I mean The Fugs Thankyou

[onezime555555]

i love this band i have their album it's called golden filth i don't know too many people who have it

andre.windsor ont.canada

[mtg1953]

Ed Sanders. The Ambrose Bierce of the Beat Generation. Wow!

[ToutmaskX]

One can only recognise Genius...Not Comment on "IT"....sigh

[madeinmexicoband]

Does anyone besides me make the connection between the Fugs and the Butthole Surfers?

No? OK back to geeting sucked off by homosexual ardvarks... later.

[finylvinyl66]

Never really thought about it, but both bands were (are) totally unique, are crucial alternative groups, and shared a fuck-you attitude. The Fugs were political and poetic and funny as hell; the Butties were acid-crazed psychedlic punks who loved scaring the shit out their audiences but were also funny as hell. They were beyond politics, and maybe beyond reality. Both bands were extreme in their

[finylvinyl66]

approaches.

[theledzeppguy]

The Fugs are brilliant.

[Smokula]

Vhere's "Nothing"? the greatest song in the voild!

[bwanna23]

L.A. had the Mothers and N.Y. had the Fugs. As Allen Ginsberg said, "holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas!"

[Duaniss1]

i had "Golden Filth" listened to it about a million times, they were funny, funny songs. that's what these guys were, comedians, the lenny bruces of rock.

[jimothy60]

The Fugs were true pioneers. Tuli and Ken are complete geniuses.

[minutegongcoughs]

Very brilliant. Timeless and like Syd Barrett, Iggy, John Lydon, Bowie and especially Viv Stanshall, for different reasons so far ahead of the possee. Check out the July issue of UK Record Collector magazine.

[frankothemountain]

Kinda sounds like The Dead Kennedies, but in the 60s.

[stanjarin]

Yeah, weird because some of the Kennedys were still alive at various times in the 60s, so go figure.

[glitchesandglitter]

must have left it at home... hahaha!

[262922]

Maybe your mum should play the fugs very loud in her car outside the mall ?? that would be something. Or the Beach Boys. . . it`s summer is´nt it? Best wishes from Sweden!

[redleesh]

My mom STILL has their albums!

[finylvinyl66]

The Fugs basically evolved out of the Beat period into the "hippie" era. There was definitely a punk aspect to their music, as they were not exactly virtuosi. They were one of the very first bands to write about politics, drugs and sex, very taboo at the

time. Ed Sanders and Tuli Kuperferberg were true originals, way ahead of their time and

quite influential. The first (very) alternative band.

[padleynj]

I thought the Velvet Underground was doing the same thing at the same time as the Fugs!!! heroin, boots of leather, etc.

[pehbunny]

This is a goddamned GODsend,...who'd ever thought someone would post their old Swedish video of my favorite band!!!???? They are fucking awesome and have more balls than ...well, me, cuz I have huge nards...

[pehbunny]

This is a goddamned GODsend,...who'd ever thought someone would post their old Swedish video of my favorite band!!!???? They are fucking awesome and have more balls than ...well, me, cuz I have huge nards...

[randall2020]

The Fugs got together again and did a rock opera, "Star Peace". It is story-telling in the style of Frank Zappa in "Billy the Mountain".

[FukuAzole]

never had a problem gettin high....

[zelencom]

Great to see the Fugs. They are rarely if ever mentioned in discussions of that period. Very unfair. The lyrics were provoking and clever. Tuli Kupferburg's song "Morning, Morning" (on The Fugs 2nd Album) was covered by Richie Havens and used in the Will Smith movie, 'Pursuit of Happiness'. The Fugs had liner notes by Allan Ginsburg. My friend Bernard Stolman owned the Fugs first label, ESP. NYC Greenwich Village 1965 -'68 was real fun for a 10-year-old kid like me. Thanks for posting this video

[wormajor]

i dunno, these guys are pretty punk rock.

[rrivets]

Going to the village every weekend to see bands it was Hippie bands like the Fugs that we couldn't stand. What 17 year old kid wants to see a band that looked like their grandfathers. I always hated Hippies especially the dirty chicks. We were into The Stones and went on to form The NY Dolls as our way of rebeling against the hippie crap that was the East Village then. Cheers

[MEEEEKO74]

I love the New York Dolls

[PAULLONDEN]

ED Sullivan said it right, in

his Steppenwolf interview when he asked

their bassplayer what bands he liked...

The Fucks....?.

[MightyAlz]

The Fugs weren't a hippie band - they were the first punks!

[vj1062]

I love this band.I am the only one I know of who still listens to them. What a shame.

[cubs68]

I still listen to 'em, so there's at least two of us. Especially the second album, which is one of the great albums of all time, by anyone.

[stupididiot13]

you talk about before ones time...live from the lower east side encapsulates this band perfectly...

[nosaiddate]

stroboscopic bon-bon of yr brain

[human808]

fuggin awesome!

[nickzedd]

The GREATEST!!! I love this band.

[blundsluggo]

I was the producer of the show. Could not get a studio at Swedish TV so we used two film cameras and the room where the symphony orchestra kept percussion. Clip shows raw film, edited was sorted out many years ago

[fodah]

cool!!

what year was this? when was it broadcasted?

[Hemulen40]

lol !! Dolls !!

[Syntox]

The motherfucking FUGS! Rock and ROLL!

[jimisnumber1fanatic]

are they playing Foxey Lady in the beggining?

[dragster58]

These guys were faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarout man!! :)

[crapidious]

my wife needs a coca cola douche!

[chowmange]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[itchyweasel62]

FUGS!

[kayjay83]

"kick out the jams mutha fuckers"

Ed Sanders NYC 1969

[PunkSkaOi]

Mc5, Detoroit, 1965.

[deadgrateful69]

fugs fugs fugs briliant

[Hemulen40]

It´s not meant to be funny . Actually, it´s very serious . Like. You know ? Dude ? AND I THINK THEY´RE GREAT . And serious . And am amazed how well they actually play . After all. Considering that none of them had ever touched an instrument before . And such a cool hat ! Love you guys .

[PAULLONDEN]

Funny,, but shite noise €:~/

[stupididiot13]

if john waters ever does a tribute/ documentary on the fugs...jack black has to be the lead singer and if john wont man up then peter jackson will do just as well...

[RATTLEY67]

I turned onto the Fugs in the mid 70's but very few people understood.Iloved 'em and still do.I'm a poet and they just didn't understand.

[Masamunecb]

The Butthole surfers are pretty cool.

[hoctor]

where are these guys when you really need them?

[sbuffoni]

re-super-wow!

[windblownjack]

When I was 14 I dreamed of this ... because of this ... then i woke up & wrote a poem about this & then went on & wrote a thousand poems since then ---- & its all because of this & who could have known ?

[herbdade]

Cool, years ago I heard of the fugs, but never actually heard them! Such talented piss artistes! I think I like the Alex Harvey Band a bit more than these guys, but I gotta say these guys were way ahead of the rest when it comes to not givin a shit and doin it well!

[glitchesandglitter]

the fugs were amazing. way better than a lot of the other more serious psychedelic bands of the late 60's

[lecagot2]

Thanks! Crystal Liason has always been my favorite Fugs song.

[iggypot]

ive been searching for this forever! take it from an american: the fugs were our greatest band from the 60's. ed sanders is a great poet and prose stylist as well to this day. ken weaver who sang "couldn't get high" hilariously shows up in a lot of crumb comics as an insane drunk biker dude.

[retinasoup]

The Butthole Surfers would have dug these guys.

[friendlier]

Yes.

[ozzyscruggs1]

Clearly, the Fugs were the Butthole Surfers of their day.

[harrycapstan]

Great to see this. I still have all their original albums. Crystal Liaison was one of the best singles of all time.

[ozzyscruggs1]

Belle of Avenue A remains quintessential.

[lightbearerusa]

WOW!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

[ManilaSyndicate]

Nice to see an in-depth feature on the band here.

Is Ed gay? He seems to project it quite a lot. He's funny. The bassist bore a resemblance to a young Howard Stern, while Tuli looked like Rasputin.

I guess one could say Tuli invented headbanging.

[friendlier]

I'd suck Ed off.

[1musiclvr]

I had all their albums when I was in high school!

[YaelAeriel]

Me too!

[oravattnet]

Where the F*CK did you find this??? I remember I saw it on TV when I was a kid, and have been searhing for it since then. Wow!

[realdinho]

trust the swedes to show something like this on tv!

brilliant! i love how garagey they sound, cool!

[Zerkzeez]

This is great. I found out about them by reading Psychotic Reactions. Now I understand why Lester Bangs was in awe of them.

[theolddirty]

I like late night motel plate job slurp circles too! And the Fugs!

[jazmaan]

"Alone with you in a great big crowd of ME!"

[sandinista5]

Fantastic footage - I love The Fugs!

[dougzilla]

Thanks for posting this. Great bit of history.

[mothermoore]

Ah the original poonscoomp!

[brucelespinasse]

the very FREAKY band of the USA