Index Rerum Blake set to music—Ed Sanders and The Fugs


The Fugs still riotous after all these years Chicago Tribune

Ed Sanders, co-founder and leader of The Fugs, moved from Missouri to the East Village in the late 1950s, where he started the band with Tuli Kupferberg. Relocating to Woodstock in 1974, Sanders has contributed to the community since his arrival, and edited Woodstock Journal for many years. Turning 84 this week and still living in Woodstock, he.


LIFE Magazine Vol 62 No 7 February 17 1967 Ed Sanders/Fugs cover

By Susan Farkas Aug 1, 2023. Legendary punk band The Fugs are reuniting in Woodstock for their first shows since 2019. Above, from left to right: Steven Taylor, Ed Sanders, Scott Petito, and Coby.


Ed Sanders from The Fugs performs at the One World Poetry event at

Ed Sanders co-founded the legendary avant-rock band The Fugs, and went on to be an important member of the Youth International Party — the Yippies. He's also a classical scholar who's written a.


Index Rerum Blake set to music—Ed Sanders and The Fugs

The Fugs- Ed Sanders interview. ED SANDERS Interview by Jason Gross (June 1997) PSF: Could you talk about your writing and work before the Fugs? I had a small book out from City Lights in '63. I had written it in jail in Connecticut, having tried to board a Polaris submarine at its commissioning in August of '61. So I wrote this poem which I.


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About 10 years ago, Ed Sanders decided it was time to take stock. The poet, editor, publisher, journalist, and musician (of the seminal psych-folk band The Fugs) was in his early 60s (he's 72.


Ed Sanders of The Fugs performs on stage during Ray Davies Meltdown

Ed Sanders outside his studio in Woodstock, New York. .. Ed Sanders outside his studio in Woodstock, New York.


An Interview with Ed Sanders of the Fugs, poet, musician, journalist

Edward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, activist, author, publisher and longtime member of the rock band the Fugs. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and hippie generations. [1] Sanders is considered to have been active and "present at the counterculture's creation." [2]


Photo of The Fugs 8; Ed Sanders of The Fugs Copenhagen May 1968 News

Ed Sanders likes to refer to himself as the only beatnik who can yodel. A countercultural icon, he co-founded the raunchy, avant-garde rock band The Fugs and was instrumental in the Youth International Party — commonly called the Yippies. The 72-year-old is also a classical scholar who wrote a best-selling book about the Manson family.


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Ed Sanders, a former Yippie; member of the Fugs; and author of the bestseller about Charles Manson called, The Family, has embarked on a multi-volume history of North America in verse. Volume Two.


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Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver of the Fugs, New York City, January 1967. Photo via PoPsie Randolph / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images


The Fugs At Ed Sanders Peace Eye by The Estate Of David Gahr

Led by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, The Fugs became an important part of the American counterculture of the mid- to late '60s. The group retired in 1969, but re-formed in the mid-'80s and.


Ed Sanders, 2005. Poet, writer, musician, social activist

The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late 1964, by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of The Holy Modal Rounders.Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for fuck used in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead.. The band was one of the leaders of the underground.


THE FUGS. You need no more than hearing the name to get them, Fugs says

Ed Sanders co-founded the legendary avant-rock band The Fugs, and went on to be an important member of the Youth International Party — the Yippies. He's also a classical scholar who's written a.


Ed Sanders of The Fugs performs on stage during Ray Davies Meltdown

Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and.

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The Fugs: Edward Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Steve Taylor, Coby Batty, Scott Petito. Also available for $15 plus $3 shipping, from Fugs Records Box 729. The script, set in 1962, was written by Ed Sanders, Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont, and has had two professional table reads. (All four volumes of Tales of Beatnik Glory, 57 stories.


Ed Sanders of the Fugs during 2003 Howl! Festival Lou Reed And

By Royal Young. December 14, 2011. ABOVE: ED SANDERS (FAR RIGHT) WITH THE FUGS IN THEIR HEYDAY. The Lower East Side was once a neighborhood for revolutionaries. In the 1960's, America's youth was high on freedom, forging new ways to create art and exchange rebellious ideas. In Ed Sanders' Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye.