The Fuzztones

The Fuzztones est un groupe de garage rock américain, originaire de New York.

Biographie
Fuzztones en 1984.

Le groupe est formé en 1980[2] par le géant Rudi Protrudi, chanteur et guitariste, et Deb'o Nair, claviers, qui avaient fait leur début dans le combo Tina Peel. Inspirés par le son des groupes garage rock des années 1960, dont The Sonics, les Fuzztones, armés de guitares Phantom à l'apparence et aux sonorités sans pareilles, délivrent pendant quinze ans un rock psychédélique énergique enrobé par des nappes d'orgue remettant à l'honneur des compositions oubliées ou restées inconnues. À l'occasion, ils collaborent avec le bluesman Screamin' Jay Hawkins, avec Ian Astbury le chanteur de The Cult ainsi qu'avec Sky Saxon, le mythique leader de The Seeds et James Lowe de The Electric Prunes.

Sous le titre Songs we taught the Fuzztones, Rudi Protrudi sort en 1993 une compilation (en double CD) des versions originales (tirées de sa collection personnelle) des morceaux des formations garage des années 1960 qui l'avaient inspiré.

Après une pause à la fin des années 1990, les Fuzztones refont un honorable album Salt for Zombies en 2003 et, en 2005, célèbrent 25 ans de carrière par une compilation intitulée LSD 25 (25 Years of Fuzz and Furry) agrémentée d'un DVD d'images live et de clips.

Ira Elliot, ancien batteur des Fuzztones, est depuis début 1995 le batteur du groupe de rock américain Nada Surf.

Membres

Membres actuels
  • Rudi Protrudi - chant, guitare, harmonica
  • Lana Loveland - claviers, chœurs
  • Eric Geevers - basse, chœurs
  • Marco Rivagli - batterie, chœurs

Musiciens de tournée
  • Nico Secondini - claviers, chœurs
  • Vince Dante - guitare, chœurs

Discographie

Albums studio
1984 : Leave your mind at home
  1. Voices Green and Purple
  2. Blackout of Gretely
  3. No Friend of Mine
  4. We're Pretty Quick
  5. My Flash on You
  6. The Bag I'm In
  7. You Burn me up and Down
1985 : Screamin' Jay Hawkins with Fuzztones - Live
  1. Alligator Wine
  2. I Put a Spell on You
  3. It's That Time Again
  4. Constipation Blues
1985 : Lysergic emanations
  1. 1-2-5
  2. Gotta get Some
  3. Journey to Tyme
  4. Ward 81
  5. Radar Eyes
  6. Cinderella
  7. Highway 69
  8. Just Once
  9. She's Wicked
  10. Living Sickness
1986 : Live in Europe!
Live Holland 1985
  1. Bad Little Woman
  2. Blues Theme
  3. Cellar Dwellar
  4. Love at Psychedelic Velocity
  5. 1523 Blair
  6. Run Chicken Run
  7. 13 Women
  8. 7 and 7 Is
  9. Gotta get Some
  10. Journey to Tyme
  11. Human Fly
  12. Psychotic Reaction
  13. I'm Loose

BONUS FLEXI 7" 5000 COPIES

  1. Gloria (Live London 1985)
1989 : In heat
  1. In Heat
  2. Nine Months Later
  3. Cheyenne Rider
  4. Everything You Got
  5. Black Box
  6. Shame on You
  7. It Came in the Mail
  8. Me Tarzan, You Jane
  9. Heathen Set
  10. Hurt on Hold
  11. What You Don't Know
  12. Charlotte's Remains
1989 : Creatures that time forgot
  1. 99th Floor (1982 Demo)
  2. Riot on Sunset Strip (1982 Demo)
  3. Don't Do It Some More (1982 Demo)
  4. Sheez Wycked (The Twisted's 1984 Single)
  5. The Thing (The Twisted-B Side)
  6. Fabian Lips (1983 Demo)
  7. Irving Plaza Radio Spot (12-10-84)
  8. Brand New Man (1984 Single-B Side)
  9. Action Woman (From Television France 1985)
  10. Green Slime (Battle Of The Garages-Compilation LP, 1984)
  11. Bad News Travels Fast (1984 Single-A Side)
  12. Ward 81 (Rebel Kind-Compilation LP, 1983)
  13. The Witch (1982 Demo)
1991 : Braindrops
  1. Third Time's the Charm
  2. Skeleton Farm
  3. Romilar D
  4. Fear
  5. Rise
  6. Ghost Clinic
  7. 7 and 7 Is
  8. Look for the Question Mark
  9. I Looked at You
  10. The People in Me
  11. All the Kings Horses
  12. Blackout
1992 : Monster a go-go!
  1. Jack the Ripper
  2. All Black and Hairy
  3. Charlotte's Remains
  4. Dinner With Drac
  5. Night of the Phantom
  6. The Witch
  7. Happy Halloween
  8. D.O.A.
  9. Cellar Dweller
  10. I'm the Wolfman
  11. She's my Witch
  12. Goin' to a Graveyard
  13. Night of the Vampire
  14. Horror Asparagus Stories
1994 : Teen trash, vol. 4: from Los Angeles - Primitive rock'n'roll performed by today's teens!
  1. Nine Months Later
  2. Girl, You Captivate Me
  3. Cheyenne Rider
  4. Greatest Lover in the World
  5. I Can't Control Myself
  6. You Must Be a Witch
  7. Jack the Ripper
  8. Action Speaks Louder Than Words
  9. I Never Know
  10. Yeah Babe
  11. My Nothing
1994 : Lysergic ejaculations (live)
  1. Intro
  2. In Heat
  3. I Never Knew
  4. Try It
  5. My Little Red Book
  6. Be a Caveman
  7. Look for the Question MArk
  8. It Came in the Mail
  9. Romilar D
  10. Rari
  11. Shape of Things to Come
  12. All the King's Horses
  13. Love at Psychedelic Velocity
  14. Epitaph for a Head
  15. Have Love, Will Travel
  16. 99th Floor
  17. She's Wicked
  18. Boss Hoss
  19. Psychotic Reaction
  20. No Friend of Mine
  21. You Burn me up and Down
  22. Strychnine
1996 : Flashbacks
  1. 1-2-5
  2. Nine Months Later
  3. Heathen Set
  4. Action Speaks Louder than Words
  5. I Never Knew
  6. Bad News Travels Fast
  7. Charlotte's Remains
  8. Ward 81
  9. Strychnine
  10. In Heat
  11. All ther King's Horses
  12. Rise
  13. Down on the Street
  14. Look for the Question Mark
  15. She's my Witch
  16. Blue's Theme
  17. Blood from a Stone
  18. Hurt on Hold
  19. Romilar D
  20. I'm the Wolfman
  21. She's Wicked
  22. Cinderella
2003 : Salt for zombies
  1. My Brother the Man
  2. Get Naked
  3. Face of Time
  4. Be Forewarned
  5. Johnson in a Headlock
  6. This Sinister Urge
  7. Black Lightning Light
  8. Idol Chatter
  9. Hallucination Generation
  10. A Wristwatch Band
  11. Group Grope
  12. Don't Blow Your Mind
  13. What Ever Happened to Baby Jesus?
2005 : LSD 25 - 25 Years of fuzz and fury (CD + DVD)
CD
  1. Johnson in a Headlock
  2. I Never Knew
  3. One Girl Man
  4. Gotta get Some
  5. Nine Months Later
  6. Ward 81
  7. Action Speak Louder than Words
  8. I'm Gonna Make You Mine
  9. Heathen Set
  10. They're Gonna Take You Away
  11. She's my Witch
  12. Rise
  13. Third Time's the Charm
  14. Don't Blow Your Mind
  15. Brand New Man
  16. Bad News Travels Fast
  17. Thirteen Women
  18. Romilar-D
  19. Hurt on Hold
  20. She's Wicked
  21. This Sinister Urge
  22. Salem Witch Trial
  23. Strychnine
  24. In Heat
  25. Cinderella

DVD

  1. The Witch (Promo Video 1984)
  2. Ward 81 (Promo Video 1984)
  3. Rudi Protrudi & Michael Jay Interview (Videowave NY TV 1984)
  4. Bad News Travels Fast (Psychomania Festival - German TV 1987)
  5. Hurt on Hold (Promo Video 1989)
  6. Rudi Protrudi & Jordan Tarlow Interview (Music Box - English TV 1990)
  7. Girl You Captivate Me (Promo Video 1988)
  8. Nine Months Later (Promo Video 1990)
  9. Action Speaks Louder Than Words (The Alternative - LA TV 1990)
  10. Down on the Streets (Live At Scream LA 1990)
2009 : Horny as Hell
  1. Garden of my Mind
  2. Bad News Travels Fast
  3. Brand New Man
  4. I Never Knew
  5. Girl, You Captivate Me
  6. Black Lighning Light
  7. Ward 81
  8. Blood from a Stone
  9. Highway 69
  10. Alexander
  11. Yeah Babe
  12. She's Wicked
2009 : Lysergic legacy
  1. Johnson in a Headlock
  2. Gotta Get Some
  3. 1-2-5
  4. Bad News Travels Fast
  5. I Never Knew
  6. Caught You Red Handed
  7. Garden of my Mind
  8. Romilar-D
  9. Look for the Question Mark
  10. Nine Months Later
  11. Get Naked
  12. This Sinister Urge
  13. Ward 81
  14. Hallucination Generation
  15. Hurt on Hold
  16. All the King's Horses
  17. Strychnine
  18. Third Time's the Charm
  19. Heathen Set
  20. Highway 69
  21. Brand New Man
  22. Action Speaks Louder than Words
  23. Cinderella
  24. In Heat
  25. She's Wicked
2011 : Preaching to the perverted
  1. My Black Cloud
  2. Between the Lines
  3. Flirt, Hurt & Desert
  4. Launching Sanity's Dice
  5. Invisible
  6. Set me Straight
  7. Don't Speak Ill of the Dead
  8. Old
  9. This Game Called Girl
  10. Lust Pavillion
  11. Bound to Please
  12. Come to Me

Notes et références
  1. (en) Matt Carison "The Fuzztones - Biography" AllMusic.com.
  2. Larkin, Colin, Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave 2E, Firebird Distributing, (ISBN 0-85112-657-X)

Liens externes
  • icône décorative Portail du rock
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