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David Morton's Short History of
Jugband Music in the Twin Cities  
This piece was handed out at the 1995 event after considerable research
by Jook Savages member and jug battle elder David Morton.Jugbands In it, we see references to the
infamous naked jug band battle that occured at the Cedar theatre in
1968, as well as such luminaries as Jim Kweskin, Bob Dylan, The Holy
Modal Rounders and Fritz Richmond.The spelling of people's names was phonetic and isn't nesscessarily correct.... It kind of makes up for years of writers misspelling it as "Juke" instead of "Jook" Here's more about the PH Phactor Jug Band, mentioned in the writeup |
 Besides all the folks mentioned
above, our Jook Savages were a part of the early San Fransisco scene. At
one point the late celebrated psychedelic poster artist Rick Griffin
was actually a member of the band. The word is that after doing a poster
for a benefit the Jooks were playing, the powers-that-be at the Avalon
and Filmore were impressed enough to utilize his services.
This was posted to the (now defunct) jugband.org guestbook:
"Rick Griffin
first played with us in 1965 next door at his neighbor Rick Timberlakes.
5 core Jooks were there, along with Allen Ginsberg (i didn't know who he
was) who played his harmonium & Gregory Corso who did moaning  noises that were
probably some mantra (i didn't know who he was either - hey! I was from
mpls!) either right after or right before we played the Watts Acid Test
with Hugh Romney (soon to become wavy gravy & then currently doing
stand-up schtick in hollywood dives, double-gigging with tiny tim ((who
would only use the toilet at his mother's house)) who had yet to meet
bonniejean beecher (dylan's girl from the north country -and our mutal
bigcity hometown- & who now has some name i can't pronnounce) &
Ur hog-farmers, & ken & the merrys & a loud rock group with
really big speakers then known as the Warlocks, & two barrels of
cool-aid...Signed,
just an impoverished bass player who misses the Committee Theater,
didn't think LaVerne & Shirley was that great, & just wants to
wear a green beret (not made in china, please) & be an oscar myer wiener.
Mark" |