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    #13063548 - 08/17/10 11:03 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

  • 1939:  Ed Sanders is born




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Edward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author, publisher and longtime member of the band the Fugs. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and hippie generations. Sanders is considered to have been active and "present at the counterculture's creation."

Biography

Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He dropped out of the University of Missouri in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City's Greenwich Village to attend New York University. He graduated in 1964, with a degree in Greek.

Sanders wrote his first notable poem, "Poem from Jail", on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting the launch of nuclear submarines armed with nuclear missiles in 1961. In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts. Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore at 383 East Tenth Street in what was then the Lower East Side; the store became a gathering place for Bohemians, writers and radicals. On January 1, 1966, police raided Peace Eye Bookstore and charged Sanders with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the ACLU. Notoriety generated by the case led to his appearance on the February 17, 1967 cover of Life Magazine, which proclaimed him "a leader of New York's Other Culture."

In late 1964, Sanders founded the Fugs with Tuli Kupferberg. The band broke up in 1969 and reformed in 1984. On October 21, 1967, on the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on the Pentagon, Sanders helped The Fugs and the San Francisco Diggers in an attempt to "exorcise" The Pentagon. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

In 1969, Sanders recorded and released his first solo album for Reprise Records, Sanders' Truck Stop. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "This is literally a country-rock takeoff—not a parody but a departure. But though I hesitate to criticize a man who is not only a saint and a genius but who says hello to me at the post office, I must point out that the yodeling country twang Sanders developed with the Fugs has never known the difference between parody and departure, which makes some of these songs seem crueller than they're intended to be. Of course, sometimes they're cruel on purpose—like 'The Iliad,' a saga of good old queer-bashing with a Greek-to-me intro. And sometimes, like 'Jimmy Joe, the Hippybilly Boy,' they're—snurfle—lyrical and sad."

In 1971, Sanders wrote The Family, a profile of the events leading up to the Tate-LaBianca murders. He attended the Manson group's murder trial, and spent time at their residence at the Spahn Movie Ranch. There have been two updated editions of The Family, the most recent in 2002. The Process Church of the Final Judgement sued Sanders's U.S. publisher for defamation over a chapter linking them with Manson's activities. The case was settled by the publisher, who removed the disputed chapter from future editions. The Process Church then sued Sanders's British publisher, but lost the suit and were forced to pay the defendant's legal fees.

Sanders is the founder of the Investigative Poetry movement. His 1976 manifesto Investigative Poetry, published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books, influenced investigative writing and poetry during the ensuing decades. In the 1990s, Sanders began utilizing the principles of Investigative Poetry to create a series of book-length poems on literary figures and American History. Among these works are Chekhov, 1968: A History in Verse, and The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg. In 1998, Sanders began work on a 9-volume America, A History in Verse. The first five volumes, tracing the history of the 20th century, were published in a CD format with over 2,000 pages in length.

Sanders received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 1983, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry in 1987. His Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Selected Poems 1961–1985 won an American Book Award in 1988. He was chosen to deliver the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at SUNY Buffalo in 1983. In 1997, he received a Writers Community residency sponsored by the YMCA National Writer's Voice through the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund.

In 1997 he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In 2000 and 2003 he was Writer-in-Residence at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany, New York.

Sanders lives in Woodstock, New York, where he publishes the online Woodstock Journal with his wife of over 47 years, writer and painter Miriam R. Sanders. He also invents musical instruments, including the Talking Tie, the microtonal Microlyre, and the Lisa Lyre, a musical contraption involving light-activated switches and a reproduction of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Selected bibliography


    Poem from Jail, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963
    Peace Eye (1965)
    Shards of God (1970)
    The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion (1971, New Edition, 1990)
    Egyptian Hieroglyphics (1973)
    Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volume 1 (1975)
    Investigative Poetry (1976)
    20,000 A.D. (1976)
    Fame & Love in New York (1980)
    The Z-D Generation (1981)
    The Cutting Prow (1983)
    Hymn to Maple Syrup & Other Poems (1985)
    Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems 1961–1985 (1987)
    Poems for Robin (1987)
    Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volumes 1 & 2 (1990) New York: Citadel Underground. ISBN 978-0-8065-1172-6
    Hymn to the Rebel Cafe (1993)
    Chekhov (1995)
    1968: A History in Verse (1997)
    America, A History in Verse, Vol. 1 (1900–1939) (2000)
    The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, The Overlook Press (2000)
    America, A History in Verse, Vol. 2 (1940–1961) (2001)
    America, A History in Verse, Vol. 3 (1962–1970) (2004)
    "Poems for New Orleans" (2004)
    "Edward Sanders | Glyphs" The Brother in Elysium (2011)
    Ed Sanders (December 13, 2011). Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81943-8.
    "A Book of Glyphs (trade edition) Granary Books (2014)
    A Book of Glyphs (limited edition) Granary Books (2014)
    Glyph Notes: Commentary on A Book of Glyphs (pdf of booklet included with the limited edition) Granary Books (2014)
    Sharon Tate: A Life (2015)
    Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy Arcade Publishing (2018) illustrated by Rick Veitch

Selected solo discography


    Sanders' Truckstop 1969
    Beer Cans on the Moon 1972
    Yiddish-speaking socialists of the Lower East Side 1991
    Songs in ancient Greek 1992
    American Bard 1996
    Thirsting for Peace 2005
    Poems for New Orleans 2007
    Surreal Housewives of Woodstock 2011 (never released, with Jules Shear)

Discography with the Fugs

    See Fugs Discography


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Re: Today in counterculture history (08/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #13063576 - 08/17/10 11:10 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks for another great thread Leary! I never knew about Ed Sanders.

Fuck You magazine.... :rofl:


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    #13063614 - 08/17/10 11:20 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

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The Fugs are a band formed in New York in late 1964 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders.

The band was named by Kupferberg, from a euphemism for "fuck" used in Norman Mailer's novel, The Naked and the Dead.

Band history

The band's original core members, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, and Ken Weaver, were joined at various times in the 1960s by a number of others, some of whom were noted session musicians or members of other bands. These included Weber and Stampfel, bassist John Anderson, guitarist Vinny Leary, guitarist Peter Kearney, keyboardist Lee Crabtree, guitarist Danny Kalb, guitarist Stefan Grossman, singer/guitarist Jake Jacobs, guitarist Eric Gale, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Robert Banks, bassist Charles Larkey, guitarist Ken Pine, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, and drummer Bill Wolf.

For most of the last twenty-five years, The Fugs have been composed of primary singer/songwriters Sanders and Kupferberg, composer, song writer, guitarist, and long-time Allen Ginsberg-collaborator Steven Taylor, singer/songwriter and percussionist Coby Batty, and Scott Petito, a musician and music producer.

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 almost always humorous lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics have caused a hostile reaction in some quarters.

Their participation in a protest against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, during which they purportedly attempted to encircle and levitate the Pentagon, is chronicled in Norman Mailer's novel, Armies of the Night.

The Fugs have remained committed to literature and poetry with a socio-political thrust and often mine the history of European and American literature as inspiration for song lyrics. One of their better-known songs is an adaptation of Matthew Arnold's poem, Dover Beach. Others were renditions of William Blake's poems: Ah! Sun-flower and How Sweet I Roam'd.

After pursuing individual projects over the years, in 1984 Sanders and Kupferberg decided to reform the band and stage a series of Fugs reunion concerts. On Wednesday, August 15, 1988 at the Byrdcliff Barn in Woodstock, New York, the Fugs performed one of their first real reunion concerts. This incarnation of the Fugs included, at various times, guitarist and singer Steve Taylor who was also Allen Ginsberg's teaching assistant at the Naropa Institute, drummer and singer Coby Batty, bassist Mark Kramer, guitarist Vinny Leary (who had contributed to the first two original Fugs albums), and bassist/keyboardist Scott Petito. The re-formed Fugs performed concerts at numerous locations in the U.S. and Europe over the next several years.

In 1994 the band intended to perform a series of concerts in Woodstock, New York, (where Sanders had lived for many years) to commemorate the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which had actually occurred near the town of Bethel, some 50 miles away. They learned that a group of promoters were planning to stage Woodstock '94 that August near Saugerties, about 8 miles from Woodstock, and that this festival would be much more tightly controlled and commercialized than the original. Consequently The Fugs decided to stage their own August 1994 concerts as "The Real Woodstock Festival", in an atmosphere more in keeping with the spirit of the 1969 festival. The basic Fugs roster of Sanders, Kupferberg, Taylor, Batty, and Petito performed in this series of concerts with additional vocal support from Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter and also with appearances by Allen Ginsberg and Country Joe McDonald. In 2003, the group released The Fugs Final CD (Part 1) with positive feedback. In 2004, The Fugs began to record their last CD, Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part 2).

In 2008 their song "CIA Man" is featured in the movie Burn After Reading by the Coen brothers. In 2009, Kupferberg suffered two strokes, the latter of which severely hindered his eyesight. He was under constant care, but was able to finish recording his tracks for Be Free in his New York apartment. A benefit for Kupferberg was held in Brooklyn, New York in February 2010, featuring all of the Fugs minus Kupferberg, as well as Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, and others. Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part 2) was released on February 23, 2010. The album art featured a snail reading Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", and was designed by Ed Sanders. The album was produced by Steve Taylor and Ed Sanders.

Kupferberg died on July 12, 2010 in Manhattan, at the age of 86.

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Re: Today in counterculture history (08/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #13063654 - 08/17/10 11:29 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

So that's where that song "Couldn't get high" came from. I love Slightly Stoopid's cover of it. One of my favorite songs.


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    #13063984 - 08/17/10 12:34 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

:cool:  Oh yeah, I remember you mentioned their cover of it when I had that song as my mp3 of the month. 















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    #13065777 - 08/17/10 06:34 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

Here are some more Fugs songs.  This first one is the first song to mention DMT (1965).




















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    #14935815 - 08/17/11 05:44 AM (12 years, 5 months ago)

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    #16713287 - 08/17/12 06:03 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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    #18718028 - 08/17/13 07:52 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

1 hour 17 minute interview with Ed Sanders about his book The Family. 














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    #20432339 - 08/17/14 11:34 AM (9 years, 5 months ago)

Happy 75th Birthday Ed Sanders!

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    #26139763 - 08/17/19 10:00 AM (4 years, 5 months ago)

Happy 80th Birthday Ed Sanders!  Don't forget that Ed Sanders' bookstore Peace Eye Bookstore was the New York chapter headquarters of the first marijuana legalization organization, LeMar.  LeMar would stage the very first marijuana protest called Marihuana March, on December 27, 1964.










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