Talk:It Crawled into My Hand, Honest

From fugs website: (http://www.thefugs.com/history3.html):

Reprise To our gratitude, Mo Ostin, president of Reprise Records, never censored the Fugs, and released every master we sent. First we recorded, at Richard Alderson's studio, the album Tenderness Junction, which was put forth to the public, with album design and photos by Richard Avedon, in early 1968. We immediately began work on the next album, our most expensive, costing something like $25,000, a huge amount in the war-bucks year o' '68. We were going to call it Rapture of the Deep, but finally settled on It Crawled into My Hand, Honest. For back-up harmonies, we used some fine singers who had worked as Harry Belafonte's harmonists. You can hear them, say, on "Wide, Wide River," and "When the Mode of the Music Changes," on It Crawled into My Hand Honest."

High Quality Band By late 1968 and early 1969 the Fugs had their best band of the 1960s. We had Bill Wolf on bass, who had a good harmony voice. We had Ken Pine, truly an outstanding guitarist. We copied the Mothers of Invention and had two drummers: Ken Weaver and the excellent Bob Mason. Tuli toured with an assortment of costume trunks and he was virtually a modern dance company as he pranced and danced about the stage in extremely witty arpeggios of quick costume changes and satiric routines. (For a more extensive look at '68, see my book, 1968, A History in Verse)

1969 By chance, one of the final Fugs concerts of the 1960s, held at Rice University in Houston, Texas in February, 1969, was recorded, showing the band at its full power in the 1960s. I included five tunes from this concert, including the never-before-released "Homage to Catherine and William Blake," in the Ace Records release, Fugs Live from the '60s. A few weeks after the Rice University Concert The Fugs had their final concert and were not to perform for the next 15 years. They played Hershey Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania with the Grateful Dead. We had finished our final album for Warner Brothers/Reprise, The Belle of Avenue A, and I was ready to retire for a few years as a band leader. We recorded The Belle of Avenue A at Apostolic Studio, in Greenwich Village, with David Baker the engineer. Our long-time producer, Richard Al

Album title as sexual reference
Where does it say "It Crawled into My Hand, Honest" is a thinly veiled sexual reference? I've always taken it to be a shoplifting alibi. Thisisnotatest (talk) 21:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)


 * It's clearly a comically lame excuse for *something*, my first thought was "drugs", e.g. someone found holding a joint. -- Doom (talk) 17:06, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

what were the fugs, what were the guys in it

 * "The Fugs, a band composed of anti-war poets."

More or less true, but being "anti-war" wasn't the *only* thing they were about (and were they *all* poets?).

The 'pedian writing there appears to be reluctant to call them "beatnik/hippies" which would be my first thought. I've also heard them called "The first underground East Village band", which isn't a bad description either. The main page for the Fugs, in the second paragraph, goes for "underground" and "counter-culture" which may be the best you can do in wikipedia-speak. -- Doom (talk) 17:36, 30 June 2023 (UTC)