904 The Fugs “Kill for Peace” 1966

“The Fugs, led by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, made protest an ecstatic, sarcastic comedy (‘Kill for Peace’ was their hit), bridging the gap between Beats and hippies, creating a template later followed by Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. At the Bridge Theater, at 4 St. Marks Place, on August 7, 1965, a little more than a week after Lyndon Johnson sent 50,000 more troops to Vietnam, the Fugs held a ‘Night of Napalm.’ After their set, in what they termed the ‘new Fug spaghetti death,’ they pelted each other and their audience with spaghetti. ‘I spotted Andy Warhol in the front row,’ Sanders once wrote. ‘It appeared that he was wearing a leather tiethen blap! I got him full face with a glop of spaghetti’” (New York, March 2014). 

The Fugs “Kill for Peace”