The Fugs
1967-07-22 Boston, Massachusetts Back Bay Theater (M2-AUD)
01. Slum Goddess
02. Carpe Diem
03. Saran Wrap
04. The Garden Is Open
05. I Couldn't Get High
06. Foot Long Dong
07. Nothing
08. Kill For Peace
09. The Clap
10. Morning Morning
11. Kill Myself Over Your Dead Body
12. Medley: When A Teen Loves A Teen -> Jack-Off Blues -> When A Teen Loves A Teen
13. Super Girl
Total Time ::: 55:38
::: Bit distant, not hi-fi & occasional issues but quite listenable low gen recording. Taste & try cube samples available for preseminal rushes.
::: Warts: Taper cut off a couple of songs at the ends. Some distortion.
::: Some songs have long spoken work intros but I set the markers directly before songs start. Feel free to re-track yr copy.
::: DATE INFO - Tape labeled "1968" but http://rockprosopography102.blogspot.de lists July 17-24, 1967 Back Bay Theater (no 1968). Band mentions "It's good to be here on a Saturday night" & says something about a preceeding Wednesday gig & following night gig at the same location AND states it's been about 1&1/2 years since their first West Coast concert tour which was, I believe, October 1965, so 1967-07-22 date is extremely likely.
Recording Information ::: unknown mono reel-to-reel recorder -> master mono audience reel -> 1st generation 7" reel -> 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2012-10-22 ::: 2nd generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel alignment, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2012-10-27.
Line-up (unconfirmed) ::: According to http://rockprosopography102.blogspot.de : The Fugs #15 (summer 1967) Ed Sanders - vocals // Tuli Kupferberg - vocals // Ken Weaver - vocals, drums, congas // Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar - guitar, electric violin, vocals // Jake Jacobs - guitar, vocals // Geoff Outlaw (bass?).
According to Wikipedia: (summer 1967 to summer 1968) Tuli, Ed, Ken Weaver, Danny PLUS Ken Pine - guitar, vocals // Charles Larkey - bass.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline. (NOTE: Sources are not always noted on live material on the "Don't Stop, Don't Stop!" box, but none of the versions are the same as those here, I compared them).
CoolSonics 184 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Pretty sure mine came from Boston Gold, greetings to him where he is these days. ::: Corrections welcome ::: This one goes out to Messrs Coley & Moore, long may their freak flags wave, and to Mr Hamer (we miss you!). This is a VERY psychedelic line-up of The Fugs - Check out "The Garden Is Open"! A band whose time should come again - irreverent, psychedelic, poetic insanity right in the face of the warmongers. Don't miss Ed Sanders book, "Fug You"... Enjoy!
Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Weeks, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees
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