kentgirl22 is pleased to offer for sale the following RARE UK original 1969 DECCA label 1st pressing MONO LP:

THE DEVIANTS

PTOOFF!

'The Deviants Underground LP'

SERIOUSLY RARE 1969 ORIGINAL UK DECCA RECORDS MONO 1st PRESS 'UNBOXED' RED LABEL LP

CAT.NO. LK-R 4993

MATRIX NOs. IMP-001.A-1-1A & IMP-001.B-1-1A

"Sleeve printed in England by Robert Stace"

John Peel sleeve notes on the rear

THE DEVIANTS - PTOOFF! - DECCA UK 1969 RED LABEL MONO ORIGINAL
***IMPORTANT 1960's UK UNDERGROUND COUNTER CULTURE PSYCH FREAK OUT CLASSIC***

1969 Original UK MONO pressing on the RED DECCA Label! This is the ORIGINAL 1st PRESS unboxed DECCA with silver lettering & red label. Cat.No.LK-R.4993 with printed matrixes. Reputedly only 1,000 copies were EVER MADE of this DECCA MONO LP!!! Thus making it one of the RAREST on the Decca label and amongst the RAREST of ALL the late 60's BRITISH psych / prog albums released during this golden era!! This excellent condition original copy is from my own collection, owned by myself for over 40 years, breaks my heart to sell it!! You simply don't see this album offered for sale EVER and rarely, if ever, in such excellent clean condition anywhere!

INCREDIBLE LATE 1960s UK UNDERGROUND HIPPIE PSYCH MONSTER!!

Highly collectable original 1969 UK DECCA MONO 1st pressing LP from these legendary UK 1960s counter-culture underground legends, fronted by the one and only MICK FARREN. Excellent condition UK Decca label 1969 original never seen these days MONO pressing of this truly amazing album formerley issued on Underground Impresarios.

In the late '60s, the Deviants were something like the British equivalent to the Fugs, with touches of the Mothers of Invention and the British R&B-based rock of the Yardbirds and the Pretty Things. Their roots were not so much in the British Invasion as the psychedelic underground that began to take shape in London in 1966-1967. Not much more than amateurs when they began playing, they squeezed every last ounce of skill and imagination out of their limited instrumental and compositional resources on their debut, Ptooff!, which combined savage social commentary, overheated sexual lust, psychedelic jamming, blues riffs, and pretty acoustic ballads — all in the space of seven songs. Their subsequent '60s albums had plenty of outrage, but not nearly as strong material as the debut. Lead singer Mick Farren recorded a solo album near the end of the decade, and went on to become a respected rock critic. He intermittently performed and recorded as a solo artist and with re-formed versions of the Deviants....

PTOOFF! the first and best of the three albums recorded by the original DEVIANTS lineup. A juxtaposition of ballads and psychedelia, of tunefulness and atonality in the spirit of the Beatles White Album. A raucous, rebellious, primeval punk celebration of all forms of "rock and roll".

Ptooff! is a 1960's British underground counter-culture, psychedelic, hippie anarchist punk classic!

Tracks

Side 1.

1. Opening
2. I'm Coming Home
3. Child Of The Sky
4. Charlie
5. Nothing Man

Side 2.

1. Garbage
2. Bun
3. Deviation Street

Very Rare Original 1969 UK 1st Press Decca Records Unboxed Red Label MONO LP

Record Label: Decca Records

Catalogue No: LK-R 4993

Matrix Numbers:  IMP-001.A-1-1A & IMP-001.B-1-1A

(Signifies original very first Decca pressing)

Year: 1969

Made In England

CONDITION

Vinyl: EX

(The vinyl surfaces on this original 1969 Decca first pressing MONO release still retain their original full shiny deep gloss and intense dark sheen. Under a strong light you can see a scattering of a few very light inaudible superficial hairlines/light surface marks only. Nothing major, and nothing to affect the playing of this great lp. As is the case with these wonderful Decca 60s heavy vinyl pressings both sides play superbly well delivering fantastic POWERFUL audio throughout with great clear sound clarity. A strong EXCELLENT condition DECCA 1st MONO pressing of this great 60's counter-culture psych rock LP. I very much doubt if you can find a significantly better original UK copy of this legendary and, especially in MONO, very rare LP)

Labels: Mint-

(Both Decca labels are beautifully bright, sharp and virtually unmarked with just a very few faint spindle traces)

Sleeve: EX (+)

(Superb front laminated sleeve 'Printed in England by Robert Stace' is graded at EXCELLENT plus, very crisp and clean with only a few tiny flaws, a few light lamination creases on the front near the lower right and edges. The seams are all very straight with hardly any shelfwear to speak of. The spine has a few tiny stress scuffs, the text is all fully and completely legible. The predominantly white rear is very clean with just some typical age toning and a few age related brown spots and the letter D has been inscribed in pen near the top corner (see pics). A fabulous and iconic 1960s psychedelic sleeve)

Decca Red Mono Poly-Lined Inner Sleeve: VG+

(Original inner sleeve is has the cat number wrting in top corner, light creases and one tear near the centre) 

NOTES

THE DEVIANTS

PTOOFF!

Rare Original 1969 UK Decca Records Unboxed Red Label 1st Press MONO LP

LK-R 4993

PERSONNEL:

Sid Bishop: Guitar and Sitar 
Mick Farren: Lead Vocals and Piano
Russ Hunter: Drums and Vocals

With:

Cord Rees: Spanish Guitar 
M.J.McDonnell: Bass
Duncan Sanderson: Bass 
Ashworth, Sanderson and Sparkes: Vocals and Mumbling

Arrangers: Sid Bishop, Mick Farren, Russ Hunter, Cord Rees and Duncan Sanderson 

PRODUCER: STEPHEN SPARKES 
Engineers: John Pantry, Victor Gamm

Cover Design and Artwork: Kipps

On offer here, from my own collection, is this very rare original 1969 UK Decca Records Red Label 1st press MONO LP

On the original 1st pressing UK Decca MONO 'Unboxed' Red label

Housed in original 'Robert Stace' front laminated sleeve

Catalogue Number: LK-R 4993

Matrix Numbers:  IMP-001.A-1-1A & IMP-001.B-1-1A 

On offer here, from my own collection, is an EXCELLENT condition original UK 1st DECCA RED label MONO pressing of the classic 1st DEVIANTS album 'PTOOFF!', issued by the Decca Record Company in 1969.

Although Mick Farren had quite a high profile in the sixties, his involvement in counter-culture activities, especially his work for the International Times and other alternative presses, overshadowed his role as lead singer for the Deviants (originally the Social Deviants). Ptooff! is surely one of the great lost 1960's albums, at the time it never achieved the level of sales necessary to trigger the establishment publicity machine.

The band did have quite a following thanks to their live gigging, and if memory serves, were frequent visitors to Birmingham's Mothers, Mick Farren calling out "We don't care about rules and regulations!" as management turned off the mains power after an over-extended set. 

Those that consider 1967 to be the Summer of Love will be surprised at the sneering cynicism throughout the record, especially on tracks like 'I'm Coming Home', 'Garbage' and the nine-minute tour de force 'Deviation Street'. Imagine early Who and Stones filtered through a musique concrete scrambler and supercoded with oblique hippie satire, and you're getting there.

The band's R&B roots show through most clearly on the first track proper, "I'm Coming Home", an urgent, sinister blues groove, Farren all strangulated lustful menace, building to an explosive climax which recalls uncannily the Ron Asheton fuzz-wah panzer-guitar incursion on the Stooges' 1969. A true case of parallel evolution. Rumour that the Deviants used this song as an extended thrash during their stage shows makes one salivate for a contemporary live bootleg.

"Charlie" is a throwaway jogalong boogie replete with Farren narrative which prefigures some of his later fictional mutated-Wild West themes. The case for the Deviants' "incompetence" comes nearest to being made here. Not that there's anything wrong with it, really - just that, with contemporaries like the Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac and a hundred others already mining the blues seam, you better be pretty hot instrumentally if you're gonna stand out. "Child Of The Sky" is a pretty acoustic ballad with recorder accompaniment, rather cute in its own way. So is "Bun", a mock-Tudor instrumental included as a show-off for Cord Rees's solo guitar. Things start to get seriously interesting on the last three tracks. "Nothing Man" is a collage of multilayered treated percussion, electronic noise and tape loops framing disembodied lyrical snatches, reminiscent of the Velvets' "Murder Mystery" and very close to the kind of stuff Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle would be putting out ten years down the line.

"Garbage" is a real oddity, a stop-start rummage through rock's dustbin of used riffs, more electronic noise, probably the first vomiting ever committed to vinyl (thereby sealing the Deviants' punk credentials!) and harmonica interjections from Mick which must surely rank as the most perfunctory inter-stanza harp on record since Bob Dylan first crawled into a studio. Is it a comment on the disposability of pop? A swipe at the band's detractors? Finally, "Deviation Street", a mindbending psychedelic variant on the "Louie Louie" riff interspersed with feedback, sinister poetry, Beatlemania screams, a glorious "Speed - speed - speed - speed" hookline (who needs veiled drug allusions when you got the Deviants?) which eventually mutates into a panoramic soundtrack tour through the lower depths of Swinging London, sampling Bo Diddley and Jimi Hendrix en route!! 

While many were listening to the Dead and the Airplane, Mick Farren clearly had the Fugs, the Mothers of Invention, Spirit and the Motor City Five (as they were still called) on his turntable, and came up with a sound that at times pre-figures the Stooges (Iggy Pop and Mick Farren shared a love of Bo Diddley and that shuffling Mona-beat undercurrent is also present on a couple of Ptooff!'s tracks, just as it was on early Stooges records). I'm Coming Home is a fair reflection of the Deviants live, with the line-up of Mick Farren leather-posture vocals, Sid Bishop's psyche-power guitar, Cord Rees anchoring it all on bass, with Russell Hunter's garage drums, but there is a range of styles on the record, none more innovative than on the proto-electronic piece The Nothing Man, realized in collaboration with Jack Henry Moore, who had studied with John Cage. Loops of radio excerpts are collaged with cut-ups, reference tones and percussion as the multiple deficiencies of the said character are snarlingly intoned.

Helping out on the albums' recording at Sound Techniques were Jenny Ashworth, Stephen Sparks and Duncan Sanderson, who was to replace Cord Rees in the band for the next album. Ptooff! is unique, a flower with a barb-wire stem, and the message is, "No, let's not go to San Francisco". Ptooff! is a GREAT ALBUM and could have been heavily influential, if only it had been more widely heard!!

"If you can't trip on garbage, then you can't trip on nothing!!"

Ptooff! is a top-notch UK 60s underground counter-culture hippie-psychedelic classic, an important document of the swinging 60s London hippie scene, totally essential stuff......believe me this album shouldn't be overlooked!!

RARE UK DECCA UNBOXED RED LABEL 1969 MONO PRESSING VINYL LP. CAT.NO. LK-R 4993 (MONO). FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE 'PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY ROBERT STACE'. ORIGINAL AS ISSUED DECCA RED MONO POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE.

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MINT (M): The record / cd displays barely any signs of use, if any, with no marks or deterioration in sound quality. Extra items and cover are near perfect.

EXCELLENT (EX): Shows only minor signs of being played with very little lessening in sound quality. The Cover and extras will have some light wear and or creasing

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GOOD (G): Has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and any extras may suffer from folding, scuffing, split spine, discoloration etc.

FAIR (F): The record is still just playable and has considerable surface noise and may even jump. Cover and contents will be torn stained and/or defaced.

POOR (P): The record will not play properly. Covers badly damaged or partly missing

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