Fugs Forever

Subject: Fugs Forever
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 11:28 AM

Just received this link to an interesting New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/arts/music/15FUGS.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=b6d8dec44573b670&ex=1059624000

I was able to go straight to the article via this link -- I know the NYT sometimes requires a username and password. I believe there's a common name and password available for any and all Mudcat members and lurkers -- if it's necessary, maybe someone could post it.

I attended my first Fugs show in Greenwich Village many years ago, when I was a bright-eyed young student-athlete attending an all-boys Catholic high school in New Jersey. I found them to be shocking and hilarious -- it was the very beginning of my long descent into bohemian madness!

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 03:13 PM

Monday, nothing

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: M.Ted
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 03:22 PM

Talk about serendipity! I am listening to "Kill for Peace" right now, and have been listening to everything of theirs I could find on Limewire(No, I am not stealing--I own a fair number of their albums, but its all vinyl and my turntable isn't working right now)

Anyway, Thanks for the link PG--I was a high school Fugs fan, too, and would have killed to see them live--as it was though, I listened to the records, memorized the lyrics, and learned to play the songs(OK, it was not that hard to learn them, but it was dangerous to play them!)--Funny this should come up today!

I had been thinking about them lately because I came across a copy of the Life Magazine with Ed's picture on the cover in a junk shop and have had it sitting in a place of honor on my piano ever since--anyway, it is good to see that they are still at it and I am anxious to hear the new stuff(hmm,wonder if my wife will like them?) Here's their website: History of the Fugs--interesting reading, it was obviously one of the sources for the article--

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 04:52 PM

Fugs History website says they were founded in 1965, so I was just barely still in high school -- second half of senior year. (I graduated in '65.)

It had to have been late in my HS years for me to be able to go into the city at night unacompanied by adults. It was a 30-35 mile trip by communter train -- very convenient.

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: M.Ted
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 05:31 PM

A while back, someone who played guitar with them briefly at that time posted a description of a routine that they used to do having to do with a dance called "The Gobble"--I was looking through the archive for it, but didn't have time to check all the possibilities--the description was hysterical--it must have been great to see them!

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 06:28 PM

I always liked their Gregorian chant on the syllables "marijuana" -

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: GUEST,Woodsie
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 06:54 PM

I had a few Fugs albums years ago "Virgin Fugs" "The Fugs" "Tenderness Junction" great stuff - I'd forgotten all about them 'til I saw this thread! - I'll have to check out the various MP3 file sharing sites and DOWNLOAD!!!

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: PoppaGator
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 10:50 AM

The Fugs tune I remember best from when I first encountered them is/was "Boobs A Lot" (Do you like boobs a lot? Yes I like boobs a lot -- etc.)

I really didn't know any boobs at the time, but I was sure I'd like 'em once I made the acquaintance of one. I mean, two.

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: Cool Beans
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 11:24 AM

At Brooklyn College in the mid-60s, a bunch of us would gather every Friday and sing the Fugs' song, "Nothing." "Monday, nothing; Tuesday, nothing; Wednesday and Thursday, nothing..."
Flash forward to 2002. My daughter comes home from college in Massachusetts where she took a Yiddish class. She sings an old song she learned that sounds suspiciously like "Nothing." I ask her what the words mean. She replies, "Monday, potatoes; Tuesday, potatoes; Wednesday and Thursday, potatoes..." Sonofabitch! "Nothing" was cribbed!
I know, I know, it's the folk process.

Subject: RE: Fugs Forever
From: M.Ted
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 01:21 PM

That was part of the joke, Cool Beans--at the time you were supposed to know that it was "Potatoes"--A lot of people did--What is disturbing is that in the mid-sixties there were a lot of people around who spoke Yiddish--it is now a dead language--It's good that your daughter is studying it, it would be too bad if all that culture was lost--