Tuli Kupferberg, co-founder of THE FUGS, be knock, knock, knockin' on hebben's door...
Hoodoo
January 22 in NYC
CD/Download/Album News Posted: 2009-12-23
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=47072
SOURCE: Now Forward Music
Counter-Culture Icons THE FUGS Release Stunning New Album Be Free (The
Fugs Final CD Part 2) on February 23, 2010
Major Rock and Film Stars to join THE FUGS for a Hal Wilner Produced
Benefit Concert for Ailing Songwriter, Poet and Founding Fug Tuli
Kupferberg at St. Anne's Warehouse in New York City
Woodstock, NY -- Legendary rock pioneers THE FUGS -- the world's first
major underground/punk group -- will release their final, and arguably
best-ever studio recording, Be Free (The Fugs' Final CD, Part 2) on CD
and digital download on February 23, 2010.
Producer Hal Wilner is organizing an All-Star tribute concert to benefit
Tuli Kupferberg, who founded THE FUGS with fellow poet Ed Sanders in
1964. Tuli, now 86, has suffered several strokes and has lost his
vision, and has enormous monthly medical costs. Major rock artists and
film stars have agreed to perform along with THE FUGS. The benefit
concert is scheduled to take place on Friday, January 22, 2010, at St.
Anne's Warehouse in Dumbo (Brooklyn, NY).
Be Free (The Fugs' Final CD, Part 2), available February 23 at CD and
digital retailers, is truly the final album of THE FUGS. Several years
in the making, it is a rich and rewarding album that is destined to be
considered one of their best. From the opening psych-rocker �Be Free"
(written in the studio by the group -- it 'passes the baton' with its
mantra �we are all Fugs now"), to Tuli Kupferberg's transcendent,
chill-inducing closer �Greenwich Village of My Dreams" -- THE FUGS
deliver 14 tracks of pure sonic joy, brilliant new songs with impeccable
performances and production. Featuring the band's 25-year-strong lineup
of Steve Taylor (former musical collaborator with Allen Ginsberg) on
guitar and vocals, Coby Batty on drums and vocals, and co-producer Scott
Petito on bass and keyboards -- this is a monumental recording of two
great American poets and songwriters: Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg.
Tuli's condition prevented him from joining the band in the studio, his
vocals were recorded with remote equipment from his Manhattan home.
Be Free is a fitting bookend to a remarkable 45-year career. The Fugs
have had a significant impact on the evolution of rock music, their
influence was apparent in their Village contemporaries Frank
Zappa/Mothers of Invention and The Velvet Underground, just as it is in
today's indie rock and freak folk.
The release of Be Free comes amidst a flurry of activity for the
revolutionary rock band. On November 3rd, THE FUGS released five classic
concert and studio recordings to digital retailers, spanning their first
concert at the Peace Eye Bookstore, to The Real Woodstock Festival
(1994) with special guest Allen Ginsberg. Ed Sanders has just issued a
new collection of poems (Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: New and
Selected Poems 1986-2009, Coffee House Press); Ed will publish a new
memoir covering his time with the THE FUGS with Da Capo Press in Spring
2010. THE FUGS debuted new material, which included recorded
performances by Kupferberg, at a reunion concert at The Bell House in
Williamsburg. In late November, Ed Sanders debuted a new song-cycle
collaboration with Jules Shear, dedicated to their home: The Surreal
Housewives of Woodstock.
Visit website - http://www.thefugs.com/
--
"Think with your dipstick, Jimmy."
The old geezer
> Counter-Culture Icons THE FUGS Release Stunning New Album Be Free (The
> Fugs Final CD Part 2) on February 23, 2010
>
> major underground/punk group -- will release their final, and arguably
> best-ever studio recording, Be Free (The Fugs' Final CD, Part 2) on CD
> and digital download on February 23, 2010.
*YAWN*
TOG
Piper
Father Haskell
Sing along, chilluns!
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