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4-CD Boxed Set of Early Fugs Recordings, Don't Stop! Don't Stop! released to great acclaim by ACE Records in London The 4-CD set contains over 34 previously unreleased Fugs songs and performances covering the years 1965-1969. Included are such tunes as "We Don't Allow No Robots at Sunday School (1969)," "As My Moog Weeps (1969)," "J. Edgar Hoover is Paranoid," "Street Punk," plus alternate takes from the first Fugs album, including the "'Write Underwater' Supergirl." Also a suite of 5 sizzling performances of "Nothing" end to end! and a 13-minute salute to Tuli Kupferberg's enormous talents as an American songwriter! Over two new hours of unreleased material! Thirsting for Peace, CD
Ed Performing above on the Microtonal Instrument, the Microlyre (31 notes to the octave) Also, Ed Sanders has a recent CD that is available now. It's called "Thirsting for Peace," and has the following poem/songs featured on it: "The Question of Fame," "Wild Women of East Tenth Street," "Homage to Erik Satie," "The Final Section of Gregory Corso's 'Bomb'," "Song for Allen Ginsberg," "America at Peace March," and the lengthy microtonal cantata, "Thirsting for Peace in a Racing Century." Available for $15, Heavy Metal Music, Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12408 •••••• And wow! the Fugs Final CD (Part 1) received a favorable review in Rolling Stone! It's about time. It's the Fugs GREATEST WORK!!! (Best for Nearly Last) And now, 2009, look for Be Free, the Fugs Final CD (Part 2), which has been completed at NRS Studios after four years of recording! Be Free features 14 new tunes!
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Tuli Kupferberg Suffers Stroke— You Can Help! Tuli Kupferberg, co-founder of the Fugs, suffered a stroke in April of this year at his home in New York City, which has left him severely visually impaired, and in need of regular nursing care. We are helping set up some benefits to raise money for his continuing medical expenses, which are not covered by Medicare You can make a secure donation to Tuli's care by clicking here
After treatment for a number of days at a hospital in New York, followed by convalescence at a nursing home, Kupferberg now is back home, where he is continuing to write songs. For the last few months, the band he co-founded 45 years ago, has been in the studio completing a new CD, entitled Be Free, which features 5 of Tuli Kupferberg’s new tunes, including the magnificent anthem, “Backward Jewish Soldiers,” and a setting of his famous poem, “Greenwich Village of My Dreams.” Tuli Kupferberg, at age 85, is an American treasure, a National wonder, a Gaian glory, a genius in the footsteps of Stephen Foster and other major tunesmiths, for songs such as “Nothing,” “Morning Morning, “ “Carpe Diem,” “Kill for Peace,” “The Ten Commandments,” “When the Mode of the Music Changes,” and, of course, “CIA Man,” which was featured on the recent Coen Brothers movie, Burn After Reading. There are, and will continue to be, considerable expenses to pay for nursing care. Tuli’s History as a Publisher and Cultural Leader: Beginning in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Kupferberg became a leading Beat era poet and underground publisher, with periodicals such as Birth, Swing, and then nine issues of the magazine Yeah, from 1961-64. His famous 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft was published by Grove Press in 1967; and 1001 Ways to Make Love, also published by Grove, in ’69. He was arrested at the historic Exorcism of the Pentagon in October of 1967. His poems and songs with the Fugs made him an integral part of the social revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s One of his memorable books is the 1973, Listen to the Mockingbird, satiric poem-songs to known tunes. He became a noted political cartoonist beginning around the late 1970s, and has a long running bi-weekly television show on public access in New York City. At the time of his recent stroke, the Fugs were completing a CD of 14 new songs, Be Free. Be Free will appear later in the year. Many of Tuli’s recent songs are available on YouTube.
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SOME FUGS INFORMATION We have released The Fugs Greatest Hits 1984-2004! on our own label, Fugs Records It's available from CD Baby in hard copy or as download. Individual tunes may be downloaded from CD Baby. Here's the link: http://cdbaby.com/cd/fugs
Here are the tunes on The Fugs Greatest Hits 1984-2004, featuring studio and hot live performances as well:
The Fugs: Edward Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Steve Taylor, Coby Batty, Scott Petito Also available for $15 plus $3 shipping, from One of our next projects is to release, through CD Baby a DVD of a recent Fugs reunion concert. We are currently, fall of 2007, working on this project. We apologize for delays in Fugs projects, such as tee shirts and DVDs. We are attempting to get more done. Our view is that a band is a 50 or 60 year project, and some decades you get more done than in others. The Fugs have begun recording The Fugs Final CD (Part 2)!! Over eleven songs by Fugs co-founder Tuli Kupferberg were recorded in New York City, including potential airplay hits such as "Backward Jewish Soldiers," "Where Have All The Commies Gone," the Campfire Girls classic "Ghost Chickens in the Sky," "Emma's Song," a paeon to the great Emma Goldman, and other excellent Kupferbergian poems. In the new CD, watch for a further tune in the Johnny Pissoff series. This one will be titled "Deep Six Pack," and trace Mr. Pissoff's adventures as a new age healer. Ed has also written a rock version of the Bill of Rights, including the entire text of this freedom-quaranteeing eternal document. Also, a song about land mines, the text of which can be downloaded from the Woodstock Journal website, woodstockjournal.com Other news: Tuli is just about done with his new collection of Parasongs, that is, songs with known melodies but new, often radical lyrics. The Tales of Beatnik Glory movie project continues onward. The script, set in 1962, was written by Ed Sanders, Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont, and has had two professional table reads. (All four volumes of Tales of Beatnik Glory, 57 stories, are in print from Thunder's Mouth Press) Ed has finished America, a History in Verse, Vol. 4 (1971-1985) and Vol. 5 (1986-2000). America, a History in Verse is a 9-volume work which traces the history of what would become the United States from 1450 through the stolen election of 2000. All five volumes of America, a History in Verse, comprising the entire history of the 20th Century, have been published in pdf format, with a 20 page full color booklet, by Blake Route Press, with all five volumes fully indexed. Over 2000 pages! America, the 20th Century, $24.95 plus $3 s&h. Blake Route Press, Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12498. See Americahistoryinverse.com for further details.
The Fugs have had the same fine band since 1985, Steve Taylor on vocals and guitars; Coby Batty on drums, percussion, guitars and vocals; Scott Petito on bass, keyboards, guitars; Tuli Kupfer-berg and Ed Sanders founders. Steve Taylor has created a marvelous and beautiful choral setting to the "Holy Holy Holy" section of Allen Ginsberg's great poem, "Howl," which had its world premiere at the Lower East Side's Howl Festival last August in Tompkins Square Park. It was utterly wonderful, and sent shivers down the spine of the hundreds who got to watch and to hear it. The work was performed by an exceptional group of singers conducted by Steve himself. Scott Petito continues his ever-burgeoning career as producer and owner of NRS studios, where the Fugs have recorded since 1985. The Fugs Final CD (Part 2) will be produced at NRS. Coby Batty, long time Fugs percussionist, singer and songwriter, works with several bands in Richmond, Virginia.
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