Solo Records,
bands featuring Don as a primary member & guest appearances
with other artists.
SOLO:
Don Fleming
Don Fleming 4 Four song EP. Includes collaborations with Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Free Kitten), Julie Cafritz (Pussy Galore, Free Kitten) and R. Stevie Moore. My Little Lamb finds Don on vocals and R. Stevie Moore on all instruments with lyrics by Don. Torn by the Hands That You Could Not See is built around a guitar piece by Kim Gordon with vocals and all other instruments by Don, with lyrics by Kim Rancourt of When People Were Shorter. Clockwork Cockwork features a Julie Cafritz guitar composition with Don on vocals and all other instruments, with lyrics by Don. Adam’s Fall is Don on vocals and all instruments. This track is also featured on the compilation album 78’ LTD (Thick Syrup Records). 01. My Little Lamb (feat. R. Stevie Moore) 02. Torn by the Hands That You Could Not See (feat. Kim Gordon) 03. Clockwork Cockwork (feat. Julie Cafritz) 04. Remember Adam’s Fall. Produced, mixed and mastered by Don Fleming for Instant Mayhem Productions. Digital Release: July 12, 2011 on Instant Mayhem, CD Release: August 2, 2011 on Thick Syrup Records.
Super Bad @ 65 CD
Compilation "People Wake Up and Live"
(All instr, producer) Zero Hour 98
jojo ASS RUNne CD (All instr, producer) God
Bless Records 98
Audio: MP3 of "jojoASSRUNne"
Review: "The
first full length solo album from NY rock guru
Don Fleming. From Velvet Monkeys, Half Japanese,
B.A.L.L. & Gumball to producer (Teenage Fan
Club, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees), this guy is
a fukk'n living legend. jojoASS RUNnne is full on
Soho/Boho sonic assault -- like if Glenn Branca
had been in the Monks with Klaus Dinger on Neu!
on drums...except there are no drums. Like the
Cosmic Jokers with Nazz-era Todd Rundgren on
guitar." -Forced Exposure
Because Tomorrow
Comes CD-3 (All instr, producer)
Instant Mayhem Records 96
Audio: MP3 of "Because Tomorrow
Comes"
Review: Inaugurating
his Instant Mayhem label in early '96, Fleming released Because
Tomorrow Comes: two tracks of solo "Donaldtronic" on guitar, theremin, mellotron, fuzz bass, keyboards
and tapes that sound like backstage tuneup time at the Fillmore
East, circa 1968, and the title song, an acoustic folk-pop
strummer with a Moody Blues undercurrent.
Don Fleming (Vocals, guitar, keyboards and
producer- except as noted) Jay Spiegel (Drums,
vocals), Eric Vermillion (Bass, vocals), Malcolm
Riviera (Keyboards, guitar).
Germs (Tribute) "Caught
in My Eye" CD, LP Grass Records 96
Tokyo Encore CD Gumball
Ink 95
"Nights on Fire"(Produced
by DF with John Anyello) CD Single Columbia 94
Revolution on Ice
(Produced by DF with John Anyello) CD, LP, CS
Columbia 94
The Damage Done (Produced
by Butch Vig) CD-6 Columbia 93
Real Gone Deal
(Produced by Butch Vig) CD-2 Columbia 93
Super Tasty (Produced
by Butch Vig) CD, LP, CS Columbia (US) Sony
(Japan) 93
Formed as a result of the split of B.A.L.L., Gumball
allowed singer/guitarist/producer Don Fleming and drummer Jay
Spiegel to jettison the calculated-sloppiness shtick and smug
trashing of '60s icons that were that band's obsessive
specialties. Special Kiss, recorded as a trio with new
bassist Eric Vermillion, is actually closer in spirit and
execution to the tart garage-rock sound of Fleming and Spiegel's
earlier band, Washington DC's Velvet Monkeys, albeit with a higher
quotient of slashing post-no wave guitar. In fact, the album — a
locomotive blur of abrasive pop and gnarly guitar psychosis —
sounds like a close relative of Sonic Youth's Goo.
(Thurston Moore even plays keyboards on one number.) "You
Know," in particular, recalls the singalong corrosion of
Teenage Fanclub, a sense amplified by the appearance of all four
Fanclubbers on the track. Having been previewed abroad with the
four-song Gumball EP, Special Kiss was followed in
the UK by Light Shines Through: three album tracks (one an
alternate take) and four non-LP numbers.
To mark time before their full-length Columbia
debut and show off their catholic musical taste, Gumball went the
covers route on the five-song Wisconsin Hayride. Besides
Foetus, Black Flag and Small Faces material, "New Rose"
is a frisky carbon of the Damned's debut single.
Super Tasty is exactly that, a snappy
commercial effort produced by Butch Vig with the polished
hum'n'snarl of classic '70s pop-punk clatter by Cheap Trick and
Blue Öyster Cult. Gumball's attack is, if anything, a little too
slick for the times, but Fleming's boyish tenor and the
chrome-torpedo riffing guards the manifest kick of discontent in
"The Damage Done" (neatly disguised with an exuberant
intro of guitar-drums clamor and bright, wheezing harmonica) and
the bittersweet ballad corn of "Marilyn." Super Tasty is a
buzzin' good time.
Revolution on Ice... makes Fleming's
cynicism more explicit. The title and cartoon artwork are a
combined blast at the corporate co-opting of the alternative-rock
revolt; songs like "Revolution on the Rocks" and
"Nights on Fire" bristle with embittered surrender and
accusatory rage. The album's open-wound air, however, makes it
Gumball's strongest effort to date. Revolution on Ice... crackles with a dark,
seductive intensity, heightened by the extra guitars and keyboards
of new recruit Malcolm Riviera (an old Velvet Monkeys crony). The
BÖC connection is reinforced by a letter-perfect rendition of
"She's as Beautiful as a Foot," complete with guest
vocals by that band's original drummer, Albert Bouchard.
[David Fricke/Ira Robbins] Trouser Press
Online
Velvet Monkeys
Since 1981. Don Fleming (Vocals, guitar, bass
& producer), Jay Spiegel (Drums,
vocals), Malcolm Riviera (Guitar, keyboards),
Elaine Barnes (keyboards, vocals), Charles Steck
(bass), many others.
Greg Dulli (Vocals) Don Fleming (Guitar, vocals),
Dave Grohl (Drums), Mike Mills
(Bass, vocals), Thurston Moore (Guitar), Dave Pirner
(Vocals) Produced by Don Was.
Backbeat Music from the
Motion Picture CD, LP, CS Virgin Records 94
Please Mr. Postman CD-3
Virgin 94
Money CD-3 Virgin 94
Idlewild
Kim Rancourt (Vocals) Don Fleming (Guitar, bass,
organ) Jay Spiegel (Drums)
Richard Hell (Vocals, bass) Thurston Moore
(Guitar, vocals, bass) Don Fleming
(Guitar, vocals and keyboards) Steve Shelley
(Drums). Produced by Dim Stars.
RICHARD HELL
Spurts: The Richard Hell Story Rhino
presents the first career-spanning collection from the voice of
the Blank Generation. Includes 5 tunes with the Dim Stars (Hell,
Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley, Don Fleming and Robert Quine). Rhino
2005
3 New Songs, Richard
Hell CD-3 Overground 91
Rip Off CD, LP
Caroline, Paperhouse, New Rose 91
Dim StarsEP
Three 7" singles Ecstatic
Peace, CD Single..Paperhouse 91 Links @ www.richardhell.com
Box of Hammers (gtr., theremin on 3 songs) CD
Cellsum Rcords 10/96
Shotgun Rationale
Roller Coaster CD, LP
Appear on "You're Wearing a Mask" with
Cheetah Chrome (Guitar), Scott Asheton (Drums),
Richard Hell (Bass), Don Fleming (Guitar), Sonny
Vincent (Vocal, guitar) Vince Lombardy High
School Records 94
Jad Fair
I LIke it When You Smile
CD, LP (DF-Guitar) Paperhouse 92
The Making of the Album
CD-5 (DF-Guitar) Seminal Twang 91
(& Kramer) Roll Out the Barrel CD,
LP (DF-Guitar) Shimmy Disc 89
Los Straitjackets
Supersonic Guitars in 3D
Guest appearances from Don Fleming,
Billy
Zoom, DJ Bonebrake and Jon Spencer. Produced by Mark
Neil.
Maureen Tucker
I Spent A Week There the Other Night
CD, LP (DF-Guitar), New Rose 92
Dogs Under Stress CD
(DF-Guitar) Sky Records 91
Life in Exile CD, LP
(DF-Vocals) Dutch East India 88
Steriod Maximus (Foetus)
Gondwanaland CD, LP
(DF-Guitar on "I Will Love You Always")
Big Cat 92 Link:www.foetus.org
Sonic Youth
Smiles, Vibes & Harmony
"I Know There's an Answer" (vocals)
DeMilo Records 90
Tinklers
Casserole LP (Guitar) Shimmy Disc
Walking Seeds
Bad Orb Whirling Ball CD, LP
(Guitar) Paperhouse 90
