Chalupa Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 He was 86. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/tuli-kupferberg-poet-and-singer-dies-at-86/?hp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 very sad, and actually his daughter lives in Portland - interesting guy, one of my favorite bands - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Saw Tuli Kupferberg with the Fugs in late '65/early '66. They put on an entertaining show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Ah, the Fugs. The ESPs, It Crawled Into My Hand Honest...wonderful stuff. RIP, Mr. Kupferberg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Ah, what a day. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 (edited) when I was working on my rock and rill history I spent a lot of times listening to the Fugs - terrific band by any standard, not just an East Village gross-out group, which was their rep when I was growing up. One of the first and best true "roots" groups, with a knack for pulling together a lot of different approaches into one very sharp and focused music. Edited July 13, 2010 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Ptah Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 His best recordings are extremely good indeed, such as "Nothing", one of my favorites. In the early days of ebay, I purchased a multi-cassette set of Harvard student radio station shows on the Fugs. It turned out that the seller was Tuli Kupferberg. He was efficient and friendly in the transaction, a model ebay seller. I left him high praise in my ebay feedback as a highly recommended ebay participant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 One of my earliest independent / what the hell, I now have some disposable income of my own / what's that all about music purchases was a cut-out cassette of The Fugs' GOLDEN FILTH (for DFW long-timers, this was at the old Sound Warehouse on Lemmon.) I was in 7th grade. Not their best work, and much of the drug and hippie culture references escaped me... but it was just silly and horny enough to congratulate whatever sensibilities I had developed by then. Thanks, Tuli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Though Ed Sanders and I graduated from the same high school (years apart), Tuli was my favorite Fug. Thanks for the wonderful memories, Tuli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Here's an appreciation of Tuli and Harvey Pekar: The Forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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