HUMAN GARBAGE
Human Garbage is a 1984 live album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren and friends, released under the name The Deviants. Farren had relocated to New York but a return visit to London gave him the opportunity for this one-off performance with Larry Wallis’ Previously Unreleased group at Dingwalls on February, 1984. In addition, former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, a long-standing collaborator with Farren, flew in for this performance. (More from Wikipedia)
Otherwise, most of Mick Farren’s latter-day music has been released under the Deviants or Mick Farren and the Deviants. The Deviants along with Wayne Kramer returned to Dingwalls in 1984, and a record of this concert called Human Garbage was released on CD – mine is the 1997 reissue on Captain Trip Records. Mick Farren proclaims at the beginning of the show that “we even rehearsed this time”, and he is a little hoarse, plus the sound quality is not perfect; but they are in great form, particularly on “Police Car”, “Takin’ L.S.D.” and “Hey Thanks”.
(March 2014/1)
