Kill for Peace
1966 · ESP-Disk 4508 · USA
- Artist
- The Fugs
- Title
- Kill for Peace
- Release
- Kill for Peace / Morning Morning
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- ESP-Disk # 4508
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The Fugs, a garage rock band formed in New York in 1964 by "beat" poets Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders, took their name from the euphemism for "fuck" used by Norman Mailer in his book The Naked and the Dead. The group also featured Pete Stampfel and Steve Weber (of the band The Holy Modal Rounders), and Ken Weaver on drums. The group hit the road in the fall of 1965 on an anti-Vietnam protest tour, doing concerts with Country Joe & The Fish and Allen Ginsberg. The song "Kill for Peace" (ESP-Disk' # 4508), which appeared on their second album The Fugs (ESP-Disk' # 1028) (below), mocked the US government's logic of going to war for peace and freedom. The song later appeared in the magazine Broadside # 75, October 1966 (p. 13). The song also featured on The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 in 2000. Sanders said that the inspiration for the song came from a letter, which read "pray for peace", which for Kupferberg, "sprouted the idea for a modification". (1) In 1965, The Fugs signed to the New York based label ESP-Disk', owned by Bernard Stollman. Sanders described the royalties received under their record deal as "one of the lower percentages in the history of western civilization". (2)…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Satirical rock band formed in 1964 on the Lower East Side, New York City, by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg; their antiwar songs include Kill for Peace (1966). [Source: Wikipedia]