SOLO:
 
Don Fleming
- 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.
[David Fricke/Ira Robbins] Trouser Press Online
Guitarrorists
CD Compilation "Sound
as Steel" No. 6 Records 91
"Real Cool Time" b/w
"What Can I Do?," Monopoly 12"
Blue Vinyl Iridescence 86
BANDS:
 
Foot
Don Fleming (guitar, synth), Jimbo (synth,
tapes), Thurston Moore (guitar, effects)
   
Gumball
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
- "Accelerator" CD single Columbia/ CD-3
Big Cat 93
- "Girl Don't Tell Me" b/w
"Strawberry
Fields Forever" 7" Vinyl Get
Hip 92
- "Light Shines Through" CD single
Paperhouse (UK) 7" Waterfront
(Australia) 91
- "Under My Wheels" 7" compilation
with Sonic Youth Sup Pop 91
- Special Kiss CD, LP
(Produced by DF) Primo Scree/USK 91
- "All the Time" 7" & 12"
Paperhouse 90
Gumball- Live w/ Teenage Fanclub at the
Old Trout, UK, Nov. 1990
http://www.malco.net/gumball/oldtrout.htm
Review:
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.
- Houseparty CD Godbless
98 AUDIO: MP3 of "We Call it Rock"
- RAKE LP, CS, & CD
Rough Trade
- Rock the Nation b/w Why
Don't We Do It in the Road 7" Sub Pop
- Better Living Double
7" Ecstatic Peace
- Rotting Corpse Au-Go-Go
LP, CS & CD Shimmy-Disc
- Deadly Spawn Compilation LP
includes "Rock Party" Bona Fide
- Big Big Sun CS, with
1/2 Japanese K
- Let's Sea CS
compilation, includes "We Call it Rock"
K
- "Spooky" b/w
"The Trance Band" 7", Produced by
Rob Schnapf, Go Records 85
- "Colors" Parts I & II 7"
Bona Fide
- Future LP Fountain of
Youth
- Train to Disaster
Compilation LP includes "World Of" Bona
Fide
- Sub/Pop 9 CS
compilation includes "Everything is
Right"
- The Other 2 CS
compilation includes "Any Day Now"
- Everything is Right CS
Monkey Business
- Connected Compilation
LP, includes "Drive In", Produced by Skip
Groft, Limp Records 81
MP3 of original Velvet Monkey Theme
Song demo.
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Velvet Monkeys 2002
Don Fleming , Jay "the Rummager" Spiegel,
Matt Azzarto and A.J. Azzarto knockin' the rust off the Velvet Monkeys. Live at CBGB'S JULY 24th,
2002.
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Thurston Moore and Don Fleming
- Telstar 7" silver glitter vinyl w/ postcard
Via Satellite Recordings 4/97
The Backbeat Band
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)
- Delicacy & Nourishment Vol. 3
performing "Third Month March" CD
Comp ESD 92
Dim Stars
Richard Hell (Vocals, bass) Thurston Moore
(Guitar, vocals, bass) Don Fleming
(Guitar, vocals and keyboards) Steve Shelley
(Drums). Produced by Dim Stars.
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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 Stars EP
Three 7" singles Ecstatic
Peace, CD Single..Paperhouse 91
Links @ www.richardhell.com
Tom Smith/Don Fleming
Dinosaur Jr
- "The Wagon" b/w "Better Than
Gone" (Vocals, guitar & co-producer)
7" Sub Pop 90
B.A.L.L.
Don Fleming (Vocals, guitar), Kramer (Bass,
producer), Jay Spiegel (Drums).
- B.A.L.L. Four "Hardball"
CD, LP and CS Shimmy Disc 9
- Trouble Doll CD,LP and CS Shimmy
Disc 89
- The Bridge Compilation CD includes
"Out of the Blue", Caroline 89
- Bird CD, LP and CS Shimmy Disc 88
- Period CD, LP and CS Shimmy Disc 87
 
Half Japanese
Since 1983. Jad Fair (Vocals, guitar), DF (Guitar,
vocals), many others.
- Greatest Hits CD Time
Bomb (Japan) 93
- Everybody Knows CD Single
Seminal Twang 91
- Potatoes Compilation
CD, Includes "T for Texas"
Elemental/Ralph
- The Band That Would Be King LP
Dutch East India
- Human Music Compilation
LP, includes "Charmed Life" Homestead
- U.S Teens are Spoiled Bums
EP Dutch East India
- Charmed Life LP, CS
& CD Dutch East India
- Big Big Sun CS, with
Velvet Monkeys K
- Let's Sea CS
compilation, includes "Later in a
Magazine" K
- Sing No Evil LP
Iridescence
- Our Solar System LP
Iridescence 83
Links
@ http://www.jadfair.com/
Citizen 23
DF (Vocals, guitar & producer)
- No Room to Dance
Compilation LP includes "American
Neutron", Twilight Zone" Blue Wave 1980
Stroke Band
DF (Guitar, bass, synth &
vocals) Bruce Joyner (vocals, keys) Lester Folsom
(producer)
- Green and Yellow LP
Abacus Records 1978
AUDIO: MP3 of "Spaced"
Guest
appearances with the following artists:
Brain Surgeons
- 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
 
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
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Tinklers
- Casserole LP (Guitar) Shimmy Disc
Walking Seeds
- Bad Orb Whirling Ball CD, LP
(Guitar) Paperhouse 90
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