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Tenderness Junction
Tenderness Junction their music, and large number of sexual references in
their songs.
Due to their overt sexual content, The Fugs were at
risk of censorship. They were released by Atlantic
Records in 1967, but signed by reprise in 1968. Some of
the later tracks recorded for Atlantic appear on Tender-
ness Junction. While on Reprise Records, the company
president Mo Ostin showed a willingness to release Fugs
material uncensored.[1]
Musical style
In 1968, The Fugs’ sound had developed considerably
from their early works such as The Fugs First Album, with
several complex and interesting compositions. The band
Studio album by The Fugs was growing in confidence, and their recordings began to
feature guest performers, most notably poets Allen Gins-
Released 1968 berg and Gregory Corso, and sitar player Jake Jacobs.
Recorded 1968 The main band had grown to six in number, with San-
ders, Kupferberg and Weaver being joined by Ken Pine
Genre Rock, protopunk, psychedelic Folk-rock
on guitar, Danny Kootch on guitar, violin, and Charles
Label Reprise Larkey on bass.
The album featured a newly focussed rock sound,
Producer Ed Sanders, Richard Alderson
while the underlying approach of The Fugs remained ir-
The Fugs chronology reverent and humorous. Themes of sexual freedom, so-
cial protest and general surreal humour abound. "Turn
Virgin ’’’Tenderness
Tenderness It Crawled into My Hand, on, Tune in, Drop out" was a psychadelic rock gem, very
Fugs Junction’’’ Honest
(1967) (1968) (1968)
much in tune with the times, while "Wet Dream" is an ex-
ample of The Fugs at their comic best, a musical parody of
Platters style teenage love songs, with the usual roman-
Tenderness Junction is a 1968 studio album by The Fugs, a
tic notions replaced by a fantasy about the "Queen of the
band formed in 1964 by anti-war musician/poets Ed San-
Prom" sitting on the throne (and "sitting on my face").
ders, Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver. It was released in
Despite the increased musical skill of The Fugs during
the USA by record company Reprise. As of March 2009,
this period, there are many wild and obscure moments,
the album is not currently available as a stand-alone CD,
most notably "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pen-
but the tracks appear in the 2006 3-CD box set, Electro-
tagon Oct. 21, 1967", a real-life recording of an anti-war
magnetic Steamboat.
protest at The Pentagon where protesters including The
Fugs chanted ’Out Demons Out’ and had a love-in, plus
History the long and experimental "Aphrodite Mass".
As the 1960s progressed, the band’s core of Sanders,
Kupferberg, and Weaver continued to write the Fugs’ Reaction
songs, but were supplemented by increasingly accom-
Tenderness... was described by the Robert Shelton of the
plished musicians. Tenderness Junction was their fourth
New York Times as the band’s "most musical work yet" as
studio album.
he commented favourably on their power and honesty:[2]
The band built up a cult following, gaining admira-
tion from counter-culture figures such as William S. Bur- ...the Fugs are ready to do battle in the commercial
roughs and Abbie Hoffman. They were known especially marketplace with their anti-commercial rants,
for their pro-drugs, anti-war stance, use of poetry in their satirical slashes that draw blood, their Lenny
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Bruce-isms that hit the conventional middle-class 14. "Aphrodite Mass: V. Homage to Throb Thrills"
right between its myopic, suburban eyes.
Personnel
Track listing • Tuli Kupferberg - vocals
1. "Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out" [4:49] • Ed Sanders - vocals
2. "Knock Knock" [4:28] • Ken Weaver - drums, vocals
3. "Garden Is Open" [6:22] • Ken Pine - guitar, vocals
4. "Wet Dream" [3:27] • Danny Kootch - guitar, violin
5. "Hare Krishna" [3:26] • Charles Larkey - bass
6. "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct.
7.
21, 1967" [3:25]
"War Song" [5:37]
References
8. "Dover Beach" [4:08] [1] http://www.thefugs.com/history3.html
9. "Fingers of the Sun" [2:26] [2] ’Separating Pop From Pap ’ by Robert Shelton, May
10. "Aphrodite Mass: I. Litany of the Street Grope" 26, 1968, accessed at http://jonimitchell.com/
11. "Aphrodite Mass: II. Genuflection at the Temple of library/view.cfm?id=813
Squack"
12.
13.
"Aphrodite Mass: III. Petals in the Sea"
"Aphrodite Mass: IV. Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite"
Additional sources
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