The Fugs!

Thanks to The Fugs rock music became for the first time the voice of counter-culture, they have been the first "underground", "alternative", "political" band.
Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, two anarchical pacifist beat poets from New York, formed The Fugs on late '64 to exploit the expressive and communicative possibilities of rock music. They announced themselves as "a total assault on culture" and, despite their rough musical technique, they became history thanks to their sarcastic and provocative attitude; each concert was a theatrical happening to attack and to tease the hypocrisies and taboos of the estabilishment.
They became so popular to even sign a contract for the Reprise label in 1968. A couple of brilliant albums like Tenderness Junction and It Crawled Into My Hand Honest proved they also became fine musicians, they losed maybe a bit of their early weirdness to play an eclectic acid folk-rock.
At the end of that year they toured Europe, and the powerful and funny perfomance shown in these clips had been broadcasted by Swedish TV.
During their trip with a van through the old continent they even tried to reach Czechoslovakia, occupied by the Soviet army, but they were stopped on the border!
By the way, The Fugs are still alive!

Fugs - Crystal Liaison (1968)
Fugs - The Garden Is Open (1968)

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