The Fugs: Four Minutes to Twelve (And There's a Madman at the Wheel)

[teach1st]

The Fugs: Four Minutes to Twelve (And There's a Madman at the Wheel)

Ken Weaver wrote this song, published on the 1969 Fugs album, "The Belle of Avenue A," a song about the madness of Vietnam. It is probably more appropriate today. (I can't find the lyrics anywhere.)

Wikipedia:

The Fugs are a band formed in New York City in late 1964[1] by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for fuck used in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead.

The band is known for its comedic, even lewd, nature but also earned fame through their persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s.

Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It's currently 2.5 minutes to 12.

[WheelWalker]

1. Fugs are forever !