It never once occurred to me to do a search for any videos of The Fugs on YouTube. The reason being that I never expected to find any! What TV station would have allowed THEM on the screen? Answer: A Swedish one! (Perhaps one where no one spoke English?)

As you watch this clip from a show called Swiiisch—especially the part with Ed Sanders’ rap about being into “astral perversion” and getting sucked off by ring-tailed fruit bats—try to picture what sort of conniption fit Richard Nixon or J. Edgar Hoover would have had if this had run on American television.

The Fugs would have been put in jail, probably. Dig Tuli’s rad dance moves!

Part II is here.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:

Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kupferberg

All I want is a recording of “Slum Goddess from the Lower East Side”. That or a copy of Tuli’s magazine “Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts”.

Then I can die happy.

I’m amazed at how great they sound live!! Ed’s vocals are fierce. I was always led to believe that although entertaining, The Fugs were a bit of a shambles musically. Not so!!! Check out those note perfect harmonies. Tuli is a God. Thank you for this rare look at a great bunch of guys. A.