Vinyl records

The Fugs vinyl records

7 albums with 163 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

The Fugs were a band formed in New York City in 1964 by and , with on drums. Later that year they were joined by and of . The band was named by Kupferberg who borrowed it from the euphemistic substitute for the word “fuck” famously used in ’s novel, The Naked and the Dead. Incidentally, the band is featured in a chapter of Mailer’s book, Armies of the Night as they play at the 1967 march on the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War (with Scott Rashap on upright bass). The Fugs were a satirical and self-satirizing rock band that performed at protests against the Vietnam War nationwide.