The Fugs-Doin` All Right

[@valeriemci1]

A band I met YEARS ago, when I was 17, introduced me to this band and to the Mothers of Invention. My life hasn't been the same since. All I learned in life I learned from musicians of all kinds....The Fugs were the band I wanted at my high school graduation...but I never went to it...besides, I doubt if they would have been the band to play. So when all the other kids in school were doing whatever they did. I listend to the Fugs, read Allen Gingsburg book HOWL and listened to the Mothers.

[@wingbuster18]

The real first punk band. Badass and deceptively brilliant

[@l.salisbury1253]

The Fugs, plus the Sonics, were the two earliest punk bands.

[@kelechi_77]

​@@l.salisbury1253 Kingsmen and Los Saicos...

[@dj-um7el]

​@@kelechi_77 Not earlier than the ones you mentioned, but The Monks.

[@hermenutic]

I bought this album in 1968. Still right on. Still doing all right

[@MichaelLantz]

Did you know that Jimi Hendrix was good friends with their guitarist Kenny Pines?He gave Jimi Hendrix a fuzz box to play on some of those Curtis Knight songs back than.

[@cybertronian2005]

Kenny Pine actually plays 12 string guitar on "My Friend" from the First Rays of the New Rising Sun album. he didn't join The Fugs until their Reprise albums though.

[@euqip]

Why is there no music today with such gentle subtly?

[@ShowBizComic]

Crystal liason forever! I remember when they were playin the Cafe au Go Go in the Village, New York City! "In the great bowling alleys of your mind...."

[@rcnotes]

RIP Tuli Kupferberg

[@sheckypavel9452]

" I got hairs growin' round my nose and throat ,I'm doin alright ! "

[@ilovewiki]

I'm gettin' high...and I'm doin alright! :) Cheers!

[@Sleepwalker1977]

Fantastic! The Plastic People Of The Universe did a great cover of this tune.

[@hpburman]

The piano intro to this song is actually the beginning of norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor!

[@distantradiowaves]

whoops I just commented that, and saw that you beat me to it by 13 years! Cheers!

[@fg6971]

music to listen to while reading Zap comix.

[@narinderdhanjal221]

Ace tune & a fab video - nice one!

[@distantradiowaves]

the intro melody is from the beginning of Edvard Grieg's “Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16”

[@EdsLiveMusicNight]

the fugs and the mothers of invention, still I listen to them today. My life wasn't sane then, it ain't fucking sane now.

[@psychpop]

Thanks for the Edvard Greig reference. There was something about the beginning, but I couldn't quite place it.

[@andreaprodan5616]

These are the guys Mel Brooks made fun of in 'The Producers' (original version with Zero Mostel and Gene whatshisname.... A great band!

[@harveygarbage8618]

my boy ted berrigan wrote the lyrix! idk about the melody

[@wallofvideo]

"how are you fixed for blades?" - - how long has it been since gilette used that slogan in their ads?

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Here’s cover by the underground band Plastic People Of The Universe kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXWxdYh_mM6JqLc It is by far not their best stuff though. Some original tracks from them worth checking out. Půlnoční myš Eliášův Oheň Nenávist vola k řeznickýmu psu Nikdo Moucha v ranním pivě Podivuhodný Manadrin Včera v neděli NF 811 Růže a mrtví Formed in 1968. The band was unfortunately placed in communist Czechoslovakia, banned from performing in 1974. Despite that, they continued with underground secret concerts. Wchich later became raided by the government. They were sentenced to jail time and demonized in the media, only for playing their music. And after they were released, they still continued in their endeavors. The persecution only strirred for more political songwriting (wchich originally wasn’t political at all), and even stronger cult following. All their stuff from 1968-1989 is live recordings from underground concerts, and officially released only after 1989.

[@ChuckDeFuque]

Still Doin' alright!!!

[@richardfontane2882]

got our own band yay

[@heartyblack]

one of the great things. ever. ever.

[@divingduck1970]

Is that Daryl Hooper of The Seeds on keys?

[@rockinbiff]

I love it & I hate it.

[@deatheater459]

OOOOOOOOOO BABAYY

[@mikefelix1716]

Because I'm HIGH!

[@bwanna23]

How ya fixed for blades?

[@mussman717word]

I would personally like to thank you, sir, for the lack of decent employment your sell-out boomer generation caused mine. Good day, and God bless.

[@mrseal662]

🙌

[@AshleyStafford-jl1bo]

0:18 0:20

[@UnEasyOne]

ROFLMAO!

[@MrBrianlowdown]

you need to go back to the door....the one that is for you not the doors you cant handle or ever understand ...go home and have mom make pancakes,its a wicked wild world little boy

[@gilfaver362]

Don't smoke dope. It's bad for you.

[@johnmoore4]

Don't you mean, "fug you?" Chill out, dude, just a slight difference of opinion.

[@1mattadams]

First punk band were the Kinks

[@gilfaver362]

Biden's chant.

[@johnmoore4]

Loved this in my youth; outgrew it later. Agree that this was great talent wasted on the cynical commie 60s

[@Zalnut1]

Your loss, pal.

[@bwanna23]

How ya fixed for blades?