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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 [...] From 2004. Kupferberg was a beat poet, early hippie, peacenik, anarchist, and co-founder of the Fugs. He died on July 12 at age 86. He influenced countless bands, artists, and politicos. He appears to have been liked by all and will be missed. M.P. – How do you feel about those days [the 30's [...] John Perry Barlow on Twitter. Alas, Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), NYC’s 1st Hippie, Fug, and co-author of “1001 Ways to Beat the Draft!” bit.ly/BeatDraft” Tuli Kupferberg; poet, beat, hippie, co-founder of the Fugs, and much more passed today after a series of strokes. The Fugs showed us that protest could and should be fun. Else [...] 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 [...] Both were written by Kupferberg and recorded in ’64-’65. “Kill for Peace” remains one of the best antiwar songs ever written. From the YouTube description. “Timeless classic…the ‘enemy’ may change, but the sentiments remain the same…” “CIA Man” was featured in “Burn After Reading”, the recent Coen Brothers movie with Tuli on [...] |  | ||||
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