The Fugs

Tuli Kupfergerg and Ed Sanders were iconclastic, Beat-influenced poets who were in on the start of the '60s counterculture in New York City's East Village. Influenced by folk, rock, and avant garde art, they decided to start their own group, inadvertently planting one of the first seeds of punk rock. Their willfully gritty, amateurish sound was girded by the contributions of freak-folk group the Holy Modal Rounders, and they frankly addressed sex, war, drugs, and more, all with a winning sense of humor. The broke up at the beginning of the '70s, but began sporadic reunion activity in the '80s.

• 13th Floor Elevators
• Bonzo Dog Band
• Count Five
• Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
• Fallen Angels (60's)
• Frank Zappa
• Kennelmus
• Love
• The Godz (60's)
• The Holy Modal Rounders
• The Monks (60's)
• The Pink Fairies
• The Red Crayola
• Iggy & The Stooges
• The Velvet Underground

• Allen Ginsberg
• Bo Diddley
• Bob Dylan
• Chuck Berry
• Dave Van Ronk
• Elvis Presley
• Jack Kerouac
• Joan Baez
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Lenny Bruce
• Pete Seeger
• Roy Acuff
• The Beatles
• The Cleftones
• William S. Burroughs

• David Peel & Apple Band
• Half Japanese
• High Rise
• Kramer
• Lothar & The Hand People
• MC5
• New York Dolls
• Patti Smith
• Pink Floyd
• Sonic Youth
• Television
• The Fall
• The Ramones
• The Residents
• The Sex Pistols

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