LP - THE FUGS - TENDERNESS JUNCTION - Orig. 1967 First Pressing ANTI-WAR - VG
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VINTAGE LP - 1967 - RARE!
"TENDERNESS JUNCTION"
U.S. PRESSING
The 'Summer Of Love' musical era was not all 'Peace, Love, Dove...". There were other elements at work, like the Dylan anti-war 'movement', Peter, Paul & Mary, and an act known as THE FUGS. THE FUGS were unique.
The album featured a newly focused rock sound,
while their underlying approach remained irreverent and humorous.
with themes of sexual freedom, social protest and general surreal humor abound.
A satirical and self-satirizing rock band with a political slant, they have performed at various war protests — against the Vietnam War and since the 1980s at events around other U.S. involved wars. The band's often frank and humorous lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics have caused a hostile reaction in some quarters, most notably the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1960s. The group is referenced several times in the F.B.I. file on The Doors, where an excerpt mentions eleven songs from The Fugs First Album that are "vulgar and repulsive and are most suggestive.
REPRISE RECORDS - #6280 - ORIGINAL ISSUE FROM 1967
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL 3-TONE (YELLOW, PINK & GREEN) REPRISE LABEL WITH RIVERBOAT LOGO (MID-60’s STYLE)
MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1A'. ON SOME LABELS, SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)
FEATURES APPEARANCE BY ALLEN GINSBERG ON HARMONICA AND VOCALS (HE IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE PHOTOS OF THE GROUP MEMBERS ON THE INSIDE GATEFOLD)COVER BY RICHARD AVEDON.
RECORD IS NICE FOR ITS AGE. - VG to VG+ - has a couple of places on side that skips.
THE JACKET LOOKS GOOD FOR ITS AGE, SHOWING SOME SHELF WEAR AND A COUPLE OF CRACKS IN THE SPINE. BUT NO STICKERS, INK OR OTHERWISE DE-FACINGS EXCEPT FOR ONE SLIGHT SEAM SPLIT OF ABOUT 1"INCH . PRETTY NICE ACTUALLY. NICE CLEAN LABELS.
Includes original Reprise Records inner-sleeve, which features other Reprise albums from the era, such as:
FRANK SINATRA - THAT'S LIFE
DON HO - TINY BUBBLES
THE HIT SOUND OF DEAN MARTIN
TOM LEHRER - THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS
MIRIAM MAKEBA IN CONCERT
TRINI LOPEZ GREATEST HITS!
THE KINKS GREATEST HITS
DINO, DESI & BILLY
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES
....and others
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TRACK LISTING:
Turn on/Tune in/Drop Out [4:49]
"Knock Knock [4:28]
Garden Is Open [6:22]
Wet Dream [3:27]
Hare Krishna [3:26]
Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967 [3:25]
War Song [5:37]
Dover Beach [4:08]
Fingers of the Sun [2:26]
Aphrodite Mass: I. Litany of the Street Grope
Aphrodite Mass: II. Genuflection at the Temple of Squack
"Aphrodite Mass: III. Petals in the Sea
Aphrodite Mass: IV. Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite
Aphrodite Mass: V. Homage to Throb Thrills"Included is a real-life recording of their appearance
at an anti-war event near The Pentagon in Washington D.C.
"Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967",
where protesters including The Fugs chanted 'Out Demons Out'
and had a love-in, plus the long and experimental "Aphrodite Mass".
Includes original Reprise Records inner-sleeve, which features other Reprise albums from the era, such as:
FRANK SINATRA - THAT'S LIFE
DON HO - TINY BUBBLES
THE HIT SOUND OF DEAN MARTIN
TOM LEHRER - THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS
MIRIAM MAKEBA IN CONCERT
TRINI LOPEZ GREATEST HITS!
THE KINKS GREATEST HITS
DINO, DESI & BILLY
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES
....and others
The Fugs began their career as a gaggle of post-beat era bohemians whose talents were as poets and activists first, musicians second, but after recording a handful of unexpectedly successful albums for Folkways and ESP, the group found themselves signed to Reprise Records, and had to face the prospect of becoming a genuine, professional rock & roll band. Tenderness Junction was the Fugs' first album for Reprise, and also unveiled a new lineup, with founders Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver joined by three capable young rock & rollers, guitarist Danny Kortchmar (aka Danny Kooch), bassist Charles Larkey, and multi-instrumentalist Ken Pine. While the early Fugs albums often made a virtue of the limited abilities of the musicians on hand, Tenderness Junction proved they could add a bit of polish and firm up their sound without losing touch with what made them memorable; the music is strong and expressive without being unnecessarily flashy, and Sanders clearly enjoyed having more reliable accompanists for his pastiches on various musical conventions, such as blues ("Knock Knock"), doo wop ("Wet Dream"), country ("War Song"), and traditional English folk ("Fingers of the Sun"). The Fugs also made the most of Reprise's pledge not to censor the group's material by including a recording of their appearance at an anti-war event in Washington D.C., in which they conducted an exorcism of the Pentagon in the midst of a "Grope for Peace." Tenderness Junction puts greater focus on the extended poetics of "The Garden Is Open" and the five-part "Aphrodite Mass" over short, funny songs like "Slum Goddess," "CIA Man," or "I Couldn't Get High," presumably because they could, and they had collaborators with the chops to make them work musically, but this also makes this album less immediately engaging than the Fugs' earlier works. Still, it's musically ambitious while still allowing Sanders, Kupferberg, and Weaver to sound like themselves, and it's the rare album where chaos and discipline both get their moment in the spotlight and bring out the best in one another.
This is a vinyl record album that plays at 33 1/3 rpm/speed on a turntable.
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