Frank had this to say about The Fugs:
You mentioned the Fugs in comparison to us. The Fugs are not in good taste. They have a few bugs in their plan. One of them appeared on the David Susskind Show. I suppose their basic premise is “You talk dirty on a rock and roll record and this will lead the way to freedom of speech.” This guy is sitting there in his chair and he couldn’t care less about freedom of speech. He wants to be as cool as possible saying things like, “Yeah man, sure. Yeah, we live in the Village.”
Regardless: here’s a full download of their “Electromagnetic Steamboat”, should you be curious enough…
And on YouTube
……..and then he nicked their schtik for the vocals on Absolutely Free
The Mothers vocals thing was there on Freak Out! too.
The Fugs are fun the same way Wildman Fischer is.
The Fugs weren’t really into the music of it all, which was always FZ’s primary motivation, but the socio-political aspects and being revolutionary-cool. This is probably why very few people play old Fugs records any more, whereas considerably more people have eagerly bought Trance-Fusion even after waiting 13 years for it!