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...Sanders. Sanders was a Fug. the original social satire-cum-atrocity rock band. He's done some truckstop music, too as well as some stuff that's plain weird like that book on Charlie Manson Whether he's going to read or sing or variations isn't clear yet. Danny Kaib lead guitarist from the Blues Project the one that spawned Al Kooper and Steve Katz, also appears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

...Tasaday are a timid people, wary of strangers and so afraid of the fugú, or epidemics like smallpox, that have ravaged the area in the past that they are reported to abandon sick people to die alone and unaided. Their precarious existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Lost Tribe of the Tasaday | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

...creeping meatball!" goes the rallying cry, and it has brought to the Yippie standard such underground gurus and goblins as Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Realist Editor Paul Krassner and Jerry Rubin, a key organizer of the Pentagon March. Hard-core Yippies may number as few as 400 nationwide, but Fug Sanders reckons that the total following may now have reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Politics of YIP | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...boat train in Paris in search of her new patient; passengers walk by her, but she doesn't give them a second look, this indicating Rooks' distinction from accepted social and physical norms. Cutting to New York, just prior to Harwick's plane trip to Paris, we see the Fugs playing, standing around a huge pile of sugar cubes arranged to form the word LSD. A Fug steps on the sugar, grinding the cubes into dust, and Harwick falls into the frame (his first appearance), desperately groping for an intact cube of acid. He is, we recognize, an addict. Effortlessly...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: 'Chappaqua' | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

Sung to the tune of Chuck Berry's "School Days," "Dirty Old Man" is a riotous parody, a reductio ad absurdum of the other side's stereotype of the Fug-like hippie, the bearded beatnik with "thrill pills for all you chickies, funny cigarettes for you boys...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: The Fugs | 3/25/1967 | See Source »

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