{"id":20984,"date":"2021-05-13T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20984"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:17:49","slug":"book-review-rudi-protrudi-the-fuzztone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/book-review-rudi-protrudi-the-fuzztone\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Rudi Protrudi &#8212; The Fuzztone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Note: While perusing the newest book by the Fuzztones&#8217; Rudi Protrudi, I made a discovery: a review I wrote more than four years ago has somehow failed to be published here on Musoscribe. So here &#8217;tis. Come back tomorrow to read about his newest title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Formed in 1980, the Fuzztones were on the crest of the garage rock revival wave. Though their records never sold in massive numbers, the band \u2013 originally based in New York City, but relocated to Germany \u2013 faithfully evoked the sneering sound of 1960s proto-punk. Today, founder Rudi Protudi and the current lineup of the Fuzztones have found a much more receptive audience in Europe than back in the USA. Protrudi has written and published <i>The<\/i> <i>Fuzztone<\/i>, a lavish, two-volume autobiography, subtitled <i>Raisin&#8217; a Ruckus<\/i> and <i>A Life at Psychedelic Velocity<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20985\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fuzztone_books2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fuzztone_books2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fuzztone_books2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">While many such books are short on content, these hardcover volumes are richly detailed in both word and image. Nearly every page \u2013 some 400-plus in all \u2013 features full-color graphics: concert bills, ticket stubs, advertisements, archival photos and more. And Protrudi (or, as he reveals for the first time in <i>The Fuzztone<\/i>, the man born Glen Dalpis) has a deft skill at storytelling; for a band that has largely flown well under commercial-market radar, the author has a fascinating story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">That story, of course, starts long before 1980. Protrudi is just the right age to have experienced the original mid-sixties American garage scene. Indeed he did, coming of age in a region he dubs (with equal parts disdain and good-natured teasing) \u201cPennsyltucky.\u201d There he got his start as a teenage rocker, making music and mayhem in a manner that would preview the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><i>The Fuzztone<\/i> is filled with amusing, unlikely encounters: Leonard Cohen, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins and others. And the bonus <i>Alive and Deadly<\/i> CD \u2013 documenting a 1984 Fuzztones gig filled with covers that will be familiar to devotees of <i>Pebbles<\/i>, <i>Nuggets<\/i> and <i>Back from the Grave<\/i> compilations \u2013 serves as the perfect companion to Protrudi&#8217;s books full of stories and memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: While perusing the newest book by the Fuzztones&#8217; Rudi Protrudi, I made a discovery: a review I wrote more than four years ago has somehow failed to be published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,59,65],"tags":[873,1899],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-garage","category-punk","category-review","tag-fuzztones","tag-rudi-protrudi","cat-10-id","cat-33-id","cat-59-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20986,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions\/20986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}