FUGS ACTIVITIES IN THE 1980s & '90s

1984
Refuse to Be Burnt-Out
1984 seemed like such a symbolic year, especially with an administration in Washington determined to destroy as much of the New Deal social legislation as it could get away with.
A career is often 50 or 60 years long, and why not extend the voyage of the Fugs. We wanted to leave behind a complicated legacy of poetry, melody, recordings and social stances that extended beyond the 1965-'69 time-frame.
Tuli and I had both kept writing music. During the 1970s I began inventing musical instruments, including The Talking Tie, the Pulse Lyre and the Light Lyre, all of which appear on "Refuse to be Burnt-Out," our reunion album of '84.
In 1983 Kupferberg and I were involved in a movie project that ultimately was not filmed, but we worked together and talked seriously about a reunion.
I had met Steve Taylor, who for years had been touring and singing with Allen Ginsberg. He had a beautiful voice. I met percussionist/songwriter Coby Batty, who also had a beautiful voice. Mark Kramer joined us as bass player for our first concerts in 15 years, since the gig with the Grateful Dead in Hershey Arena in 1969. (I had met Kramer when he was a student at the Creative Music Studio in the 1970s). Tuli and I invited Vinny Leary, who had performed on the first and second albums, to join us for the reunions, which occurred, in great triumph and praise, in early June of 1984.
Ken Weaver declined to perform in the reunion.
I approached Richard Alderson, as a co-producer of a live album.
We decided to divide the repertoire almost evenly between new songs and old and we updated some lyrics� Tuli rewrote CIA man, for instance.
It was so much fun doing the reunion at NYC's Bottom Line, that we resolved to get together every year or so all the way to the Golden Wheelchair in the Sky.included additional live songs from our concerts in 1986 and 1987.
After the Bottom Line performances we toured Europe, playing Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Zurich, Helsinki and other venues. Mr. Kramer departed the Fugs during that tour.

�Edward Sanders
History of the Fugs � 2000-2010 Edward Sanders
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1984 Reunion European tour. Nothing to do with the official release "Refuse To Be Burnt Out, Live in the 1980s", that contains the performances from Oslo 87 and the Bottom Line reunion shows 1984.
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the fugs
1984-11-13
berlin ( then kind of west germany)
loft

source
AUD>1st gen MAXELL XL II C-60 cassette (x2)
from the R.S. collection
transfer
1st gen cass played back on nakamichi cr7e (azimuth aligned) dolby off-->edirol 04-->HD- level corrections in audacity--tracked in cdwave--flac(8) (hanwaker transfer 2013-11)



TT
109:33

Set One


01 My Old Lady
02 Kill For Peace
03 Nova Slum Goddess
04 Crystal Liaison
05 Nicaragua
06 If You Want To Be President
07 new song ?
08 You Can't Go In The Same River Twice
09 spoken poem
10 The Five Feet
11 Morning Morning
12 Nothing
13 Wet Dream
14 Cold War

Set Two

15 -banter-
16 Fingers Of The Sun
17 Baskets of Love
18 CIA Man
19
20 Working for the Yankee dollar (?)
21 No more Slavery
22
23 Ban The Bomb
24 Wide, Wide River
25 Keeping The Issues Alive
26 -band intro-
27 Spoken Poem >
28
29 How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field
30
31


may be some songs titles are not correct, any help is welcome....


a hanwaker upload to dime 2013-11