Frenzy (2:00) -- I want to know (2:00) -- Skin flowers (2:20) -- Group grope (3:40) -- Coming down (3:46) -- Dirty old man (2:49) -- Kill for peace (2:07) -- Morning, morning (2:07) -- Doin' all right (2:37) -- Virgin forest (11:09).
Track Information:
101 Frenzy / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
102 I Want to Know / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
103 Skin Flowers / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
104 Group Grope / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
105 Coming Down / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
106 Dirty Old Man / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
201 Kill for Peace / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
202 Morning, Morning / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
203 Doin' All Right / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
204 Virgin Forest / Fugs (Musical group), Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg. Guitar,Percussion instruments.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1464
ESP.1028
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York ESP 1966
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), New York, United States.
General:
Program notes on container by Allen Ginsberg.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
4 AM blues--New York youth call annunciation--Put down that cigarette rag--Slack key guitar--Bus ride ballad to Suva--Tear gas rag--Everybody's just a little bit homosexual--Prayer blues
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0792
General:
REEL 4; CDR copy
Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
CIA dope calypso--New York youth call annunciation--Come back Christmas--MacDougal Street blues--Put down your cigarette--Broken bone blues--Prayer blues--2Am Dirty Jersey blues--Hard-on blues--Tuff Street blues--Flying to Fiji
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0797
General:
REEL 9; CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Kaddash, pt. 1--Howl, pt. 1--Howl, pt. 2--Howl, pt. 3--Sunflower sutra--Footnote to Howl--A supermarket in California--Transcription of organ music--America--In the back of real--A strange new cottage in Berkeley--Europe Europe--Kaddash, pt. 1--Rock for Joel--For the sheik of Khalif--The thru-gu--Dedicated to Margery--Love poem for Margery--Songs from a San Francisco burning--I got you babe--On the everyday theater--Sing C'est la vie--Unknown excerpts--Kaddsash--Howl--Recordings at Jerry Benjamin's home
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-RR-2122
FLP.47332
General:
CDR copy (2)
Restrictions:
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Talking--Everybody is a bit homosexual (5 parts)--New York blues (2x)--CIA dope calypso
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-3900
General:
Tape "D" of studio or show practice session in New York on 1/4/1976 with Allen Ginsberg and members of The Village Fugs. Many are retakes of bawdy protest songs found on " Allen Ginsberg: First Blues" FSS 37560. Incorrect note on box "D. Weythe" likely refers to a street in Brooklyn, New York.
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
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CIA dope calypso--Don't smoke-Hard-on blues--Dope fiend blues--Talking--Dope fiend blues (2x)--AH--Talking--CIA dope calypso--Conversation
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-3901
General:
Tape "E" of studio or show practice session in New York on 1/4/1976 with Allen Ginsberg and members of The Village Fugs. Many are retakes of bawdy protest songs found on " Allen Ginsberg: First Blues" FSS 37560. Incorrect note on box "D. Weythe" likely refers to a street in Brooklyn, New York.
CDR copy
Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, August, 1975.
Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Allen Ginsberg reading--Bat by D,H. Lawrence--The snake--Proper way to eat a fig--Analogy for D,H,. Lawrence--Fine work with pitch and tar--Young woman at the window--Perpetuum mobilethe city--Classis scene--The term--The poor--Africa--Defective record--Details by Patterson--Last word of my English grandmother--Various poems by Williams--Comparing williams to Walt Whitman
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5834
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Ginsberg's classroom discussion (In my father's pants)--Patterson readings--Charles Shelor's paintings--Williams, Pound readings--The right of way- Jaundiced old woman
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5838
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, June, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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Intro--Graph--Flower--Clouds--April is the saddest month--To be hungry is to be great--Song--Song again--To close--The injury--Rip rap--John Muir on Mt. Ridder--Songs of Maximus--Death of Europe--Now a graph of the mind moving--Poem for painters--Poem for the old man--Poem for trapped things--17th chorus--81st chorus--82nd chorus--Singing 84th chorus--85th chorus--Class--Pictures of Bruegel and Williams read--Emily Dickenson/ Williams read--Portrait of a woman at her bath/ Cocktail party/ others--Salad for the soul/ Stolen ponies and others
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5840
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, August 15, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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Intro--Ginsberg reads Williams works--Dedication of a plot of ground--The knife of the times--Class discussion--The old men--The late singer--Complaint--Thursday more discussion--Discussion of Ezra Pound--Williams poems read--Young laundrymen--Time the hangman--To a friend--The poor--Waiting--The thinker--The widows lament in springtime--Light hearted William--Portrait of the author--The great figure--unk-- Three small feathers-Squirrel--Window cleaner to nude mannequin--Discussion of various works--Testimony--Trout season opens--Particulars--Calcium poem--Believe and technique for modern prose--Poezes
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-5841
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Boulder (Colo.), Colorado, United States, July 30, 1975.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only; No Duplication.
Collection Rights:
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An interview of Bruce Conner conducted 1974 March 29, by Paul Karlstrom and Serge Guilbaut, for the Archives of American Art, in San Francisco, California.
Interview of Bruce Conner, conducted by Paul Karlstrom and Serge Guilbaut for the Archives of American Art, in San Francisco, on March 29, 1974. Conner speaks of his education and move to San Francisco; the art scene in California in the 1960s; the development and theory behind much of his work; his early paintings and collages; his assemblages; the sculpture A Child [1959] and its showing at the de Young Museum in 1959-60; his interaction with Beat writers; about the coining of the words "beatnik" and "hippie" and subsequent commercial exploitation of the Beat generation; and his attitude towards political protest. He also recalls Michael McClure, Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Allen Ginsberg and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was a painter and filmmaker from San Francisco, California.
General:
Poor sound quality due to loud background noise.
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 26 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
An interview of Larry Jordan conducted 1995 Dec. 19-1996 July 30, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in Petaluma, Calif.
Jordan discusses his family background in Denver; his attraction to contemporary avant-garde; his brief time at Harvard, and his mental breakdown and return to Denver; his move to San Francisco in 1954 because of the artistic and literary atmosphere there; meeting Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan and other poets and his initial introduction to the creative community in San Francisco; his friendships with Jordan Belsen, Michael McClure, Wally Hedrick and Jay DeFeo; the San Francisco Renaissance, the beat era, and what it means to be "beat;" the distinction in intensity between bohemianism and the resurrection of the self during the beat era, the social impact of the anti-establishment movement; and the difference between artists and political activists.
Jordan discusses his influences and important moments in his experimental film career; the surrealist methods for social changes as seen in film; the west coast filmmakers focus on the interior and mystical; the rivalry in the film world; his association with Bruce Conner and their founding a film society together in 1956 and establishing an experimental theater; meeting Joseph Cornell and his invitation to assist him with films, their time spent together, Cornell as a filmmaker, preparing Cornell boxes, and the influence of Cornell on is own art. He discusses his own art; his role as an artist in society; the religious aspect in his art; his place in the avant-garde film world; the major influences in his art; and the concept of death and the celebration of the mind as a major theme in his film and artwork.
He recalls Wallace Berman, Stan Brackage, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Maya Deren, Robert Duncan, Max Ernst, Allen Ginsberg, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Jess, Patricia Jordan, Michael McClure, Bruce Nauman, and Kenneth Rexroth.
Biographical / Historical:
Larry Jordan (1934- ) is a filmmaker and collagist from Petaluma, Calif.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for the transcription of this interview provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Topic:
Filmmakers -- California -- Interviews Search this
Collagists -- California -- Interviews Search this
