Larry Wallis met Mick Farren & Steve Took, both leading 'Underground Figures' at the time. After seeing him perform at the ' Speakeasy' with the 'The Entire Sioux Nation' a line-up of 'Shagrat' which included Mick Farren was formed. This was shortlived after a disagreement between Tookie & Mick where Mick gave the other two members of the band, Larry & Tim Taylor the choice "Are you coming with him or me?" Larry and Tim replied, "Steve Took." For some time there was little contact between Larry and Mick although Larry would go to the IT offices where Mick was editor. However in 1972 Larry got a phonecall from Mick --the mentor of the Pink Fairies. "We (Mick and Deviant Russell Hunter) want you to join the Pink Fairies." For the 'Kings of Oblivion' Pink Fairies album "When's the Fun Begin" was co-written by Larry Wallis and Mick Farren using a Wallis chord sequence and Farren Lyrics.
| MICK FARREN & THE DEVIANTS - Screwed Up(Stiff LAST4) Nov 1977 (EP produced by Larry Wallis) |
 | MICK FARREN - Vampires Stole My Lunch Money (Logo 1010) 1978 Tracks: 1. Trouble Coming Every Day. 2. Half Price Drinks. 3. I Don't Want To Go This Way. 4. I Want A Drink. 5. Son Of A Millionaire. 6. Zombie Line. 7. Bela Lugosi. 8. People Call You Crazy. 9. Fast Eddie. 10. Let Me In, Damn You. 11. (I Know From) Self Destruction. 12. Drunk In The Morning. Produced by Larry Wallis. The musicians were Larry Wallis (guitar), Andy Colquhoun (bass), Alan Powell (drums), Wilko Johnson (guitar), Will Stallybrass (harmonica), Sonja Kristina (vocals) and Chrissie Hynde (vocals). |
 | MICK FARREN - Half Price Drinks (Logo GO321) 1978 |
 | MICK FARREN - Broken Statue (Logo Go345) May 1979 |
| 1997 CD Captain Trip Records
| THE DEVIANTS/HUMAN Garbage Tracks:- 1. Outrageous Contagious 2:59. 2. Broken Statue (Farren/Wallis) 4:14. 3. Ramblin' Rose. 3:46. 4. Hey Thanks 3:16. 5. Screwed Up 2:14. 6. I Wanna Drink 4:05. 7. Takin' L.S.D. 6:09. 8. Police Car 7:25. 9. Trouble Coming Every Day (Zappa) 12:06 The musicians on this album were Mick Farren (vocals), Larry Wallis (guitar), Wayne Kramer (guitar), Duncan Sanderson (bass) and George Butler (drums). | 1984 LP Psycho Records, PSYCHO25
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 | MICK FARREN & THE DEVIANTS - Fragments of broken probes with Jack Lancaster, Larry Wallis. 1998 (Japanese only) |
 | MICK FARREN & THE DEVIANTS -The Deviants have left the planet with Jack Lancaster, Larry Wallis 1999 (Japanese only) |
Taken from the Forced Exposure # 11, (winter 1987) Nigel Cross interview.
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NIGEL CROSS: How did the Deviants' SCREWED UP come about?
LARRY WALLIS: Once again, that was Dave and Jake just deciding to do a record. So we went into Pathways with Paul Rudolph and me on guitars, Alan Powell - who used to play with Hawkwind - on drums, Andy Cahoon on bass, and Mick Farren. Mickey and me and Rudolph wrote a few new songs and we did a new version of "Let's Loot the Supermarket". For me, the Deviants were Mick Farren and he still is The Deviant.
NIGEL CROSS: Was it then that the seeds were sown for doing Mick's VAMPIRES [STOLE MY LUNCH MONEY] album?
LARRY WALLIS: Yeah, I think so. Mick considered Logo Records to be a bunch of young assholes with a bunch of money to spend. Which we did.
NIGEL CROSS: Where did the title come from?
LARRY WALLIS: Mick, I think, took it from Linus in "Peanuts". I wanted to call it "Without Annette". Then, after a while we had to do the "Broken Statues" single, so we went into my father's studio to do that and I had a nervous breakdown about halfway through. I ripped the phone out my wall, smashed it to pieces and didn't leave my flat for three weeks. They all just had to do the best they could.
Mick Farren - October 2001 - 'GIVE THE ANARCHIST A CIGARETTE' Readings & Signing Pix
