Thanks for the link, TJ. Some really nice shots in there.email from Jamie Palmer Film Maker of Exploring Madness
"The Doctors of Madness, like the new york dolls, were one of the bands who find themselves treated like lepers throughout their careers, then, when its all over, magically become the band everybody saw/was into."Dave Thompson
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Dave Thompson: "Hey, Tim, will we ever get to here the other TV and Kid Strange demo's?"TV Smith: "Well, I hope so, I'd hate to think of them being lost fprever. At the moment, though Kid's doing other things, and so am I, but I hope at some stage, we'll be able to get together, and do something with them."
TV: "I was still very excited about song-writing. I was using the mellow period preparing the second Adverts album to do some song-writing with Richard Strange from the Doctors of Madness, who were also getting near their break-up point. Whenever I had some spare time we'd put down some songs on 8-track and I felt that was much more creative than the end of the Adverts, I was really enjoying that. We never recorded it with any commercial purpose; that never entered into it. So that was keeping me going creatively and I'd started writing songs that I knew were not going to work with The Adverts. I was still up, still writing, but not knowing what I was going to do with it.
TV Smith: “As the group began to buckle under the strain of going from nought to sixty in a year, I´d been keeping the creative juices flowing by writing with Doctors Of Madness front man Richard Strange. Back From The Dead is the only song from this collaboration that ever came out.”
