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rocker
Old Love
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 Posted - 14/07/2010 : 14:17:26
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Did you guy note that Kupferberg of the Fugs just died? I'm sure there was more than a couple of "tokes" in his life.... ..that
was a wild "folk?" group..... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 14/07/2010 : 18:49:41
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Originally posted by rocker
Did you guy note that Kupferberg of the Fugs just died? I'm sure there was more than a couple of "tokes" in his life......that
was a wild "folk?" group.....
RIP....I'll have to get my "Sheild" album out. They made more
than a few teenage girls blush with their music!
And don't forget they gave birth to the Holy Modal Rounders...
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
so why don't you...do...love.
-Tom Rapp |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 14/07/2010 18:51:20 |
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boombox
Old Love
United Kingdom
548 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2010 : 14:57:37
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quote:
Originally posted by lemonade kid
quote:
Originally posted by rocker
Did you guy note that Kupferberg of the Fugs just died? I'm sure there was more than a couple of "tokes" in his life......that
was a wild "folk?" group.....
RIP....I'll have to get my "Sheild" album out. They made more
than a few teenage girls blush with their music!
And don't forget they gave birth to the Holy Modal Rounders...
____________________________________________________________
Everything you do returns at last to you,
so why don't you...do...love.
-Tom Rapp
Very sad news indeed. I had always hoped he would make it over to the UK some time, just to do poetry or something. Of course, it was THAT song in Easy Rider which introduced me to the HMR and then the Fugs, who I actually prefer. I just read that he and Ed Sanders were working on a new Fugs album - hope it gets finished. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 15/07/2010 : 15:59:29
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Their sound collages were unique in the history of rock...or music period.
They were quite an influence, and still are. Zappa may have influenced the Fugs. The Velvets were influenced by the Fugs and visa versa as they (Velvets, Fugs, Holy Modals)were the only authentic Lower East Side bands. David Bowie was playing a Fugs song as early as 1967.
And there are strange stories from Sanders about the Mafia pressing hootleg copies of the second "shield" album and cutting into all the profits...also that ESP was selling albums out the back door to distributors.
A great band and a great history to write there!!
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
so why don't you...do...love.
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boombox
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15/07/2010 : 17:14:26
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'Virgin Forest' is quite a tough listen though!
I'd definitely agree the Zappa connection and would think perhaps their influence reached across the pond further than Bowie. I am thinking early Softs and Gong and am willing to bet Gilli Smythe and Daevid Alllen have some Kupferberg in their personal collections. And along the same lines, White Noise's 'An Electric Storm in Hell' from 1968 took Fugs and Zappa type collages to the extreme with fantastic effect. |
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FOLK & TOKE
