Elf Hellion sent me this highly complimentary link…
“One of the most influential bands of the English Underground were Mick Farren and the Deviants, it's what we listened to in bedsits and cellars in the converted Victorian houses in Erdington back then. Ok, it wasn't Ladbrook Grove or Notting Hill the epicentres of the London based anarchist underground movement of the mid-to-late 60s and the stomping ground of Mick Farren, this wasn't happening in 'Swinging London'. But it was plugged into a much wider network across Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and way beyond and it sets the tone for the late 1960s very well I think. Mick Farren was influential in the underground press and music scene in England during the 1960s writing regularly in International Times and other samizdat publications. As one of the first proto-punk bands Mick Farren and the Deviants were about ten years ahead of their time when they made their first album in 1967. To me this is what the 1960s were really about... the countercultures that existed in what was a revolutionary time and very exciting time to be young.” Click Here for more and also an interesting video for my old song “I Don’t Want To Go This Way”
“One of the most influential bands of the English Underground were Mick Farren and the Deviants, it's what we listened to in bedsits and cellars in the converted Victorian houses in Erdington back then. Ok, it wasn't Ladbrook Grove or Notting Hill the epicentres of the London based anarchist underground movement of the mid-to-late 60s and the stomping ground of Mick Farren, this wasn't happening in 'Swinging London'. But it was plugged into a much wider network across Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and way beyond and it sets the tone for the late 1960s very well I think. Mick Farren was influential in the underground press and music scene in England during the 1960s writing regularly in International Times and other samizdat publications. As one of the first proto-punk bands Mick Farren and the Deviants were about ten years ahead of their time when they made their first album in 1967. To me this is what the 1960s were really about... the countercultures that existed in what was a revolutionary time and very exciting time to be young.” Click Here for more and also an interesting video for my old song “I Don’t Want To Go This Way”
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4 comments:
M.farren and gangs had it all going on then, sea change soundz, sea change media,engaged cultural activism, and everybody had a whole lotta' fun. and i think some people got high, some stayed.MF still kicks out the jams !!
In 1978 I swapped several rare punk 7"ers and some money for a scratched copy of Ptoof. Wow, Garbabe blew my fuckin mind. Keep on rocking Mick.
yes of crs. PTOOF is one of the truly alltime fucking GREAT albums. owning the original, this here person cdnt help recently buying the double CD (ptoof!/disposable) for easier comfort? oh and another funny/precious item in this here collection: that ancient IT receipt from 27 endell st where the man himself, yessir, signed payment of 3 pds sterling sub fee received, back on august 24, nineteenseventy.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but wasn't I don't wanna go this way on Vampires stole... - quite a few years after 1970? Or was there an earlier version?
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