SCARCE BEATNIK GARAGE THE FUGS HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS Ed Sanders BEAT FREAKS

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          CLEAN '65  GARAGE UNDERGROUND BEATNIKS

                 WITH THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS

                           THE FUGS

        The FUGS FIRST ALBUM                

                            USA - ESP DISK - 1018 

Ages old sixties ESP pressing of the very first '65 FUGS album containing key members of the HOLY MODEL ROUNDERS .... this is the rare blue-tone textured issue which we think is far more rare than the black & white cover. 

Includes the scarce printed ESP inner sleeve

If there was a rock underground in 1965, The Fugs were it. The combo —initially the work of vocalists Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders, plus 'percussionist' Ken Weaver— would've never defined themselves as rock'n'rollers; they were poets, burnouts, beatniks, punks; impish provocateurs out to slyly satirize America by co-opting popular music form.

The Fugs First Album was largely recorded in one three-hour jam session in April of '65. It's clearly the sound of a bunch of beatnik and hippies having stoned-out fun.

The Fugs' mashed everything from folk and beat poetry to rock and rhythm & blues -- all with a casual disregard for sounding note perfect, though not without definite goals in mind. It's an utterly worthy release that pushed any number of 1965-era buttons at once (and could still tick off plenty of people). Some of the songs sound like calm-enough folk-boom fare, at least on casual listening, though often with odd extra touches like weirdly muffled drums or out of nowhere whistles and chimes. Others, meanwhile, are just out there -- thus, the details of the perfect "Supergirl." Then there's "Boobs a Lot," the post-toke/acid lament "I Couldn't Get High," and the pie-in-the-face to acceptable standards of the time, "Slum Goddess." Throughout it all, the Fugs sound like they're having a perfectly fun time; the feeling is loose, ragged, but right, and while things may be sloppy around the edges, often that's totally intentional. Certainly little else could explain the random jamming and rhythmic chanting and shouting on "Swinburne Stomp."

• Slum Goddess                                        
  Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time                         
  Supergirl                                           
  Swinburne Stomp                                     
  I Couldn't Get High                                 
  How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field
• Carpe Diem
  My Baby Done Left Me
  Boobs a Lot
  Nothing 
• The Fugs:             
• Ed Sanders - Vocals, Producer
  Tuli Kupferberg - Vocals
  Ken Weaver - Conga, Drums, Vocals
  Peter Stampfel - Fiddle, Harmonica, Vocals
  Steve Weber - Guitar, Vocals
  Vinnie Leary - Guitar, Vocals
  John Anderson - Bass, Vocals                                            
  
  

CONDITION: The cover: The textured cover is solid all over ... we're thinking this blue tone cover is considerably more scarce than the white and black & white release ... the front has just a little light handling, VG++ while the back cover is just as clean but having a name and date up at the very top, out of the way of all graphics and not the focus...no split seams, no bends, no writing....

The vinyl: all very clean, "EX" (excellent) ...looks CLEAN, plays TOP level and has clean labels... 

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record