The Deviants - Disposable / The Deviants 3 (1968-69 London, UK) | Psych Rock | Vinyl Stream

For today’s psychedelic trip this morning I spun both of The Deviants’ second and third albums back to back - Disposable on Stable Records SLP 7001 from October 1968 and The Deviants 3 on Transatlantic TRA 204 from September 1969. Both original UK pressings. I already streamed the debut Ptooff! on its own - you can watch that one here: https://youtube.com/live/DPUIac6ryic The Deviants formed in Ladbroke Grove, London in late 1966 as The Social Deviants. Mick Farren put the band together out of the UK counterculture scene while writing for the underground newspaper International Times. He described the Deviants as a community band doing total assault performances. The sound he described as teeth-grinding psychedelic rock somewhere between The Stooges and The Mothers Of Invention. The debut Ptooff! sold 8,000 copies by mail order through underground press ads before any wider distribution. Disposable followed in October 1968. Recorded at Morgan Studios on Triumph Amplification, engineered by Andy Johns - who went on to engineer Led Zeppelin II, III, and IV, Blind Faith’s debut, Sticky Fingers, and Exile On Main Street. The guest list is remarkable - Pete Brown of Cream songwriting fame on vocals, Dick Heckstall-Smith of Colosseum on saxophone, and underground poet Karl Dallas. “Let’s Loot The Supermarket” is the most notorious track. “Pappa-Oo-Mao-Mao” is the lone cover - the 1962 Rivingtons novelty hit. The Deviants 3 came one year later in September 1969. Sid Bishop had left to get married. Mick Farren recruited Canadian guitarist Paul Rudolph from Winnipeg to replace him. Tony Ferguson came in on organ. Farren produced it himself this time. Roy Baker engineered - better known today as Roy Thomas Baker, who went on to produce Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, The Cars debut, and Journey. “Metamorphosis Exploration” closes the album at nearly nine minutes. The cover was shot by Keith Morris - who photographed Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter the following year. Then came the US tour to promote The Deviants 3. Mid-trip, the other three members fired Mick Farren. Rudolph, Sanderson, and Hunter kept playing together and became the Pink Fairies in 1970 with Twink from Tomorrow and The Pretty Things on drums. Larry Wallis joined the Pink Fairies in 1972 and left in 1975 to co-found the first lineup of Motörhead with Lemmy. Paul Rudolph joined Hawkwind in 1976, replacing Lemmy on bass. The through-line from Ladbroke Grove in 1966 to Motörhead and Hawkwind runs through these two records. Mick Farren died in July 2013 after collapsing onstage with a reformed version of the Deviants. He was 69, performing to the end exactly as he had started. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #TheDeviants #MickFarren #VinylStream #VinylPiper #PsychRock