DR CROW proves that those who don't remember Syd Barrett will have to invent the whole thing all over again. It also demonstrates that, over the thirty five-some years they have spent in some of the most dangerous trenches of rock & roll, The Deviants have become frighteningly good at what they do. The driving force behind DR. CROW is the age-long, classic guitar/singer partnership between MICK FARREN and ANDY COLQHOUN. Their song-writing is now at a level where Colqhoun provides the ultimate post-Hendrix power and context to Farren's wasteland visions of TV vacant lots where Shakespeare is trying to cop a dime bag, and urban wolves have made their lair.
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