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<\/p>\nI\u2019m on record as being an ardent Fuzztones fan. And while the band has created plenty of music to satisfy fans\u2019 cravings for garagefuzzpunk, those similarly inclined are apt to be interested in anything in and around the band. Happily, Fuzztone Numero Uno, Rudi Proudi understands and appreciates that fact. That, or he finds that his muse leads him in some extramusical directions. Hey, maybe both.<\/p>\n
Point being, in recent years, Protrudi has seemed intent on chronicling his \u2013 and the band\u2019s \u2013 story in book form. His latest is As Times Gone: 40 Years of Garage Grunge<\/i>. Subtitled The Lysergic Legacy of the Fuzztones<\/i>, this thick paperback volume (350pp+) is a lavishly illustrated compendium of reviews, articles, interviews and images chronicling the beloved band.<\/p>\n
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While it helps to have some working knowledge of the band prior to wandering into As Times Gone<\/em>, it\u2019s not strictly necessary. The words and pictures therein will hip you to what you need to know about the band, or they\u2019ll at least provide the information that the music itself cannot.<\/p>\n Save for a one-page preface by Shindig!<\/i> editor Jon \u201cMojo\u201d Mills (and an equally brief introduction by Protrudi), the book simply presents reprinted (re-typeset) material that has appeared elsewhere. But since you\u2019re not likely to have back issues of fanzines, magazines and since-deleted online publications, As Times Gone<\/i> is your one stop shop for all of that.<\/p>\n The material is presented in roughly chronological order, though without any sort of table of contents, index or chapter division. As such, it\u2019s perhaps best thought of as a words-and-images scrapbook, with Protrudi not so much its author as its editor<\/em>.<\/p>\n The sheer volume of material contained in the pages of As Times Gone<\/i> means that if it\u2019s not an exhaustive account of the Fuzztones story up to now, it\u2019s damn close. And thanks to the wide net that he has cast to collect the material \u2013 plus the fact that it\u2019s been compiled by the man himself \u2013 it\u2019s in every way both an authorized and authoritative<\/em> companion to the Fuzztones\u2019 body of work.<\/p>\n Now, go listen to the music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m on record as being an ardent Fuzztones fan. And while the band has created plenty of music to satisfy fans\u2019 cravings for garagefuzzpunk, those similarly inclined are apt to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,49,59,65],"tags":[873,1899],"class_list":["post-20987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-garage","category-new-release","category-punk","category-review","tag-fuzztones","tag-rudi-protrudi","cat-10-id","cat-33-id","cat-49-id","cat-59-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987","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=20987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29968,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions\/29968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}