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The death of my sister-in-law yesterday from cancer got me thinking about Carpe Diem, by the Fugs. Tuli Kupferberg, co-founder of the group, wrote Carpe Diem in 1966. It’s about mortality. Seize the day because we never know how much time we have left. 44 years later they sang it at his memorial service [...] NPR “The Fugs were right on the barricades of what was possible,” says Danny Goldberg, a longtime music-industry executive and author of two books about popular culture. “There was a fearlessness, an intensity, an unwillingness to pander to any commercial norms that was very exciting.” “It was the ’60s, and it was like [...] Wonder of wonders, who would have thought when the Fugs started in 1964 that the New York Times would review a benefit for co-founder Tuli Kupferberg all these years later. He’s 86 and mostly blind now from recent strokes. So, friends did a benefit to raise money for his medical expenses. Among the performers were [...] Tuli Kupferberg was a mentor to all of us who grew up in the ’60s and sensed there was more to life than shuffling off to Vietnam and, if you returned, getting a job as an accountant and paying off a white picket fenced home in Levitttown. Like a Colossus he bridged the worlds [...] Ed Sanders explains how the Fugs ran into censorship problems from mass media and police problems when they started doing music (but were never hassled when just doing poetry prior to that.) This from about ’65 or so. Somethings never change, eh? Also has live footage of some of that very same music. [...] … were The Fugs, maybe the first DIY / protest band ever. (This was recorded sometime in the mid 60′s.) They are still recording and their recent The Fugs Final CD Vol. 1 is maybe their best ever. Seriously. Vol. 2 is coming soon. Website. They had a profound impact on my tender young [...] |  | ||||
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