NP: Sanders/Fugs

[Steve Maas]

There was some interest in Sanders and "The Family" here. Don't miss page 2 
of the story.

Did any of you NYPLers catch Wednesday's gig?

Steve Maas

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/college/coll15FUGS.html?ex=1136088000&en=654400495bae98c9&ei=5034

Rock 'n' Roll Dissidents, Fearless for 4 Decades, By BEN SISARIO

[excerpts]

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Four decades ago Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg founded 
the Fugs in an East Village bookstore on a bedrock of sex, drugs, rock 'n' 
roll and poetry.

They sang raunchy encomiums like "Slum Goddess" and set Blake and Swinburne 
to a groovy beat at a time when "Leader of the Pack" and "I Want to Hold 
Your Hand" were the cutting edge of pop. With the coming of the Vietnam War 
they developed a confrontational, absurdist pacifism in songs like "Kill for 
Peace" and became what many pop historians call the first underground rock 
band.

And though Mr. Sanders, who is 63, and Mr. Kupferberg, who turns 80 in 
September, have reached what one of their lyrics calls the "time to think of 
ultimate things," they still sing about sex and peace and poetry (though not 
about drugs so much anymore).

On July 8 they released their latest album, "The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)," on 
Artemis Records — "Never let yourself get painted into a corner," Mr. 
Sanders said of the title — and on July 16 the Fugs will sing with their 
band at the Village Underground on West Third Street in Greenwich Village, 
in what they say might be their last gig.

[...]

In 1971 Mr. Sanders wrote "The Family," an investigative book about Charles 
Manson and his cult that has become a true-crime classic and has sold more 
than a million copies. He also began writing what he calls investigative 
poetry, completing "1968: A History in Verse," two volumes of his projected 
nine-part series "America: A History in Verse," and four volumes of "Tales 
of Beatnik Glory."

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