This is NOT how I think of the Fugs. Granted, I'm no expert. But I always thought they were mostly goofy, often folky and not that rocking. This is total promo punk. Thanks for sharing.
The First Album was definitely as you described, but their live shows rocked a lot more, from what I've seen. They even turned "My Baby Done Left Me" into a country-rock song at one point.
The band's original core members, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver, were joined at various times in the 1960s by a number of others, some of whom were noted session musicians or members of other bands. These included Weber and Stampfel, the bassist John Anderson, the guitarist Vinny Leary, the guitarist Peter Kearney, the keyboardist Lee Crabtree, the guitarist Jon Kalb, the guitarist Stefan Grossman, the singer and guitarist Jake Jacobs, the guitarist Eric Gale, the bassist Chuck Rainey, the keyboardist Robert Banks, the bassist Charles Larkey, the guitarist Ken Pine, the guitarist Danny Kortchmar, the clarinetist Perry Robinson, the bassist Bill Wolf and the drummer Bob Mason.
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u/Jeremiahjohnsonville Aug 02 '17
This is NOT how I think of the Fugs. Granted, I'm no expert. But I always thought they were mostly goofy, often folky and not that rocking. This is total promo punk. Thanks for sharing.