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Equipment of The Fugs [CC. Mid 1960's]

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maztr_0n|103

I've been trying to add the gear of the 60's Proto-Punk/Garage-Psych/Underground Rock group The Fugs and particularly the ones used by the members of the band during their early "indie" days and the "thrown off atlantic" era [late 1965-67] There are some pictures of the band around 1966 and appearances in the film Chappaqua and their own Ed English directed film, but its hard to make out the specific gear used by the band.

For example i can assess that John Anderson [likely not the John Andersons of other profiles] uses an early Gibson EB-0, but he also has a "red burst" hollowbody bass guitar that i am unable to identify. Vinny Leary seems to use both an epiphone hollowbody and a gibson SG variant? Kearney also uses an Epiphone.

some details might be laid out in Ed Sander's autobiography as well as this amazing blog but i cant make out some details...

i'll provide links below for analysis

https://brunoceriotti.weebly.com/the-fugs.html

https://youtu.be/Xdn4ecKsjyM

https://youtu.be/pP5lp8No6NY

thanks again.

pkennethk
pkennethk|26997 MODERATOR
GEAR:
  • Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer
  • Roland SH-101
  • Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer
In reply to maztr_0n:

I'd recommend going instrument-by-instrument: post up a picture of 1 item you're having a hard time identifying, tell us much as you can about who's in the photo, when and where it was taken, and see what happens.

It's unlikely multiple folks are going to copy and paste these urls into their browser and start hunting for hard to identify instruments to share with the thread.

GEAR:
  • Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer
  • Roland SH-101
  • Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer
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