Deviant

Hm. MARY's "Collateral Damage" gets covered... played as straight-ish punk-lite rather that the raging, odd-time of the original bit of bombast, but it still kinda sorta works.

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Evil plans? Or maybe just plans. For all the “controversy” AI has been injecting into music, there are some non-generative tools that are opening up some doors. Like being able to separate and remix things where the original sources are long gone… a coupla few long stalled reissues are seeing some forward motion again (including Mary’s Necromaniac). But for today, all I has to offer is 1985 stylee Deviant & The Clones t-shirts…

Deviant & The Clones by fractional-farthing Deviant & The Clones logo/image from 1980s. VINTAGE!

[warning: I am about to ramble…] It’s weird to go through the old (physical) files. Over the years, I’ve become well know for hoarding data and mementos. But it’s been disconcerting to discover that I didn’t really have it down as tightly as I thought I did in those early years when my life-sucking day jobs were still in kitchens, before capitalists foolishly trusted me with their computers. Actually, it didn’t fully turn around until I went into business for myself. Data post-2000 is pretty tight (save for the infamous data crash caused by an employee who had my entire network bit-torrenting movies 24/7 while I was on tour — not only wiped out a lot of my business data, but several recording projects — at least he left me a “sorry about the network” note before he disappeared the day before my homecoming). I kept very few records in the mid/late 90s — dark period, stranded in Chicago by an ex who’d gone off to tour the dicks of Italy (and write very academic papers on the history of church-run Italian brothels). But the surviving “80s files” (1984-1992) are packed with physical stuff. But I have to date been unsuccessful in doing a full forensic analysis. Amid the random gig flyers/posters, press clippings, press kit pieces, etc., is a sheet with a truly useless statistic: there is a list of venues that the most active band played 1988-92, but no details other than the number of times each venue was played. What the hell was I thinking? I’ve tried to cross reference things to build a better picture a couple of times, but have come to realize that while my memory may not be swiss cheese (yet), I have crazy intense recall about some things and *p**f* nothing of others. Keep a journal, kids. Especially if you got stories enough for memoir(s). And back up your damn data.

Hm. Now that there are 8 volumes of clones-era demos and 3 Mary reissues available, plus a couple of other relics in the works, the idea of a Deviant box was inevitable. But would it have to also include Necromanic (the lost Mary album) or GMOs? Or would 13 CDs covering 1984 to 1995 be a logical enough set?