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Singer and guitarist Rudi Protrudi consciously lived through the tail end of the 60s and remained a 60s freak for the rest of his life. In the 70s he moved to New York and hung around in the legendary club CBGB's where he played bass with Dead Boys on a blue Monday. In 1980 he started The Fuzztones just in time to join the sixties garage rock revival (with The Nomads and The Chesterfield Kings) that… broke loose in the early eighties and kept on slumbering afterwards. With yet another line-up, Protrudi celebrates his group's 40th anniversary on NYC. It is also an ode to New York that opens with the famous New York, New York by Frank Sinatra. This is followed by songs by Dead Boys, The Cramps, Richard Hell, Patti Smith and Ramones. But whichever CBGB's legend gets its hands on, it invariably sounds like dirty garage rock with heavy injections of The Doors and early Rolling Stones. As Fuzztones ('the' they have since dropped) in other words. (MR)more