The Deviants 3 is the third and final album by the UK underground

UK underground

The Underground was a countercultural movement in the United Kingdom linked to the underground culture in the United States and associated with the hippie phenomenon. Its primary focus was around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill in London...

 group The Deviants, recorded and released in 1969.

Lead vocalist Mick Farren

Mick Farren

Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren is an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the UK Underground.-Music:...

 regards the album as the beginning of a divergence between himself and his fellow musicians, stating "I had one idea and the rest of them wanted to be a kind of Led Zeppelin guitar band". Soon after the band would split, with Farren going on to record the Mona – The Carnivorous Circus

Mona – The Carnivorous Circus

Mona—The Carnivorous Circus is a 1970 album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren.The album was recorded to fulfill contractual obligations. Farren had recently returned from a tour of the west coast of North America with his band The Deviants, who had relieved the singer of his duties.Farren...

album before leaving the music business, while the others continued as the Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the London underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as playing for free outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight...

.

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by members of The Deviants

1. "Billy the Monster" – 3:26
2. "Broken Biscuits" – 2:10
3. "First Line (Seven The Row)" – 2:44
4. "The People Suite" – 2:24
5. "Rambling B(l)ack Transit Blues" – 5:37
6. "Death of a Dream Machine" – 2:50
7. "Playtime" – 3:06
8. "Black George Does It With His Tongue" – 1:20
9. "The Junior Narco Rangers" – 0:28
10. "Lets Drink To the People" – 1:32
11. "Metamorphosis Explosion" – 8:57

Personnel

• Mick Farren
  Mick Farren
  Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren is an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the UK Underground.-Music:...
  
   – lead vocals and production
• Paul Rudolph
  Paul Rudolph (musician)
  Paul Fraser Rudolph is a guitarist,bassist, singer, and cyclist. He made his mark in the UK underground music scene, and then as a session musician, before returning to Canada to indulge his passion for cycling...
  
   – Guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , vocals and mouth music
• Duncan Sanderson – Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   and vocals
• Russell Hunter – Percussion, vocals and stereo panning

Additional personnel

• Tony Ferguson – Organ
  Electronic organ
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• Tony Wiggens – Equipment, lead vocal on "First Line"
• David Goodman – Equipment, backing vocals
• Jenny Ashworth – Vocals

Technical presonnel

• Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker is a multiple award-winning Anglo-American music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy Governor, who has produced Platinum and Gold certified pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present.- Career :Baker began his career at Decca Records in England at the age...
  
   – Engineering
• Victor Gamm – Engineering
• Keith Morris
  Keith Morris (photographer)
  Keith Morris was an English rock photographer. Morris was responsible for several iconic images of Marc Bolan. He photographed musical figures including Led Zeppelin, Van der Graaf Generator, Janis Joplin, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band, B. B...
  
   – Photography

Recording

• Recorded at Morgan Studios
  Morgan Studios
  Morgan Studios, also known as Morgan Sound Studios, were recording studios in Willesden, North London. The studios were notable for many recordings of the 1960s and 1970s by many British bands and artists such as Ten Years After, Yes, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Joan Armatrading, Cat...
  
   and Sound Techniques, London
• Arrangements by The Deviants

Release history

• September 1969, UK, Transatlantic Records, TRA204
• 1999, UK, Castle Communications, ESMCD746, with Mona – The Carnivorous Circus
  Mona – The Carnivorous Circus
  Mona—The Carnivorous Circus is a 1970 album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren.The album was recorded to fulfill contractual obligations. Farren had recently returned from a tour of the west coast of North America with his band The Deviants, who had relieved the singer of his duties.Farren...
  
  

External links

• Collectable Records - Original cover