The Deviants - Ptooff! (1968 London, UK) | Psych Rock | Vinyl Stream

For today’s psychedelic trip this morning I’m spinning Ptooff! - the debut Deviants album, this one on Sire SES 97001, the original 1968 US stereo pressing on gatefold, Pitman plant with the inverted P stamp in the runouts. I already streamed the second and third Deviants albums - Disposable and The Deviants 3 - back to back. You can watch that one here: https://youtube.com/live/y22ZqRA0t4c The Ptooff! origin story is one of the great UK underground tales. The Deviants formed in Ladbroke Grove, London in late 1966 as The Social Deviants. Mick Farren put the band together out of the counterculture scene while writing for the underground newspaper International Times. By early 1968 he had enough material for a full album but no label would touch it. So the band pressed it themselves on their own label - Underground Impresarios - and sold it entirely by mail order through ads in the UK underground press. Eight thousand copies moved that way. Unheard of for a self-released band in 1968. Sire Records founder Seymour Stein picked it up for US distribution later that year. This is that pressing. Stein was running Sire out of New York, two years into the label he would eventually use to sign the Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna, and Depeche Mode. The Deviants were part of the early underground wave he was collecting. The album was recorded at Sound Techniques Studios in London - the same room where Pink Floyd cut “Arnold Layne,” Nick Drake made Bryter Layter, and Fairport Convention recorded Liege and Lief. Produced by Stephen Sparkes. John Peel wrote the liner notes. “Deviation Street” closes the album at over nine minutes - the longest and most sprawling piece of psychedelia the Deviants ever recorded. “I’m Coming Home” opens the album proper at nearly six minutes and became their signature track. This is the record that started the whole run. Disposable came four months later. The Deviants 3 followed in September 1969. Then came the US tour where the band fired Farren mid-trip and became the Pink Fairies - which eventually fed into Motörhead and Hawkwind. Ptooff! is where it all begins. Watch the Disposable / Deviants 3 livestream: https://youtube.com/live/y22ZqRA0t4c Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/