Influenced by the likes of the Mothers Of Invention and the Doors, the Deviants were part of a small but powerful UK underground music scene in the late ’60s that also included the likes of the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind.Can't beat those influences. Look what they've done for us. Mick had had to flee Southern California for his native Britain a couple of yrs. ago to insure himself of health care. Maybe it extended things a bit.
And so begins the erosion of the Just Another Blog (From L.A.)™ blog-roll. Mick's web log.
Not surprising that he keeled over and died on stage, his asthma was bad and missing most of a lung (due to a tumor removed by the NHS after he couldn't get health care in L.A.) didn't help. When he said he was going to put together a Deviants reunion, everybody looked at each other and said "Dude can't walk across a room without being out of breath, how's he going to get through a whole gig without keeling over?" I guess we know the answer to that question now. Still, 69 isn't a bad age for a musician to reach. Musicians have a bad habit of dying young :(.
ReplyDeleteHe died on stage, he's in Rock-and-Roll Valhalla now.
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting me hip to his blog a couple of years ago.
In The Saddle Editor:
ReplyDeleteWonkette's Editrix (who edited an "alt." wkly. which ran him yrs. ago) told us last yr. ago that M.F. "looked pretty bad" last she'd seen him, but we didn't know he was that illin'.
Checking out at 69 will probably look good to people in the devolved future.