SEVEN YEARS - X-RATED - BACKS TO THE WALL AND MORE TO COME...
GUITARS - VOCALS
DRUMS
BASS
VOCALS
THE HISTORY IN CHAPTERS BY IAIN DILLEY
AS I RECALL, THE ORIGINAL VOCALIST WAS WAYNE BROWN.THIS WAS ABOUT 1983, WHEN THE BAND FIRST SPAWNED AS A RESULT OF LOCAL BAND OVERLORD�S DEMISE. WAYNE BROWN WOULD LATER BE SEEN AGAIN IN THE LINE UP, FILLING IN FOR ONE GIG BETWEEN THE TWO ERA�S OF VOCALIST PUNKIE WAYNE AND MYSELF.
I AM PROBABLY NOT THE BEST PERSON TO SUPPLY A HISTORY OF THE BAND PRIOR TO 1985. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW DEUCE EXISTED UNTIL I SAW THEM AT THE FOREST TAVERN ON MANSFIELD ROAD IN NOTTINGHAM c1984. I PAID 50P TO GET IN. (NOTE: THIS MK2 LINE UP ORIGINALLY RECORDED THE MAKE IT BLEED DEMO - IT WAS LATER RE-RECORDED WITH IAIN AND DIETER SO THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.)
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THE FOREST TAVERN GIG WAS MY FIRST MEETING WITH RIMMO AND EMMY � RIMMO REMINDED ME OF A GOLFCLUB � THIN LITTLE LEGS AND MASSIVE STACK HEELS!! I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER RIMM CRYING AND MOANING WHEN GREGG USED TO BACKCOMB AND SPIKE HIS HAIR,...RIMM WAS SOLID AND DEPENDABLE,..THE DRIVER FOR A START AND ALWAYS ENDED UP PLAYING THE STRAIGHT MAN TO GREGG OR GORGZY,...BUT MY TOP MEMORY OF RIMMO IS HIM BEING BLOWN UP BY A GERB ,...AND THEN A FLASHBOMB AT THE MARDI GRAS,..HE WAS COVERED IN SOOT FOR THE REST OF THE GIG ,..CLASSIC. EMMY AND MYSELF INSTANTLY GOT ON, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A LOT OF TIME FOR THE SOUP DRAGON, HE HAS A WICKED SENSE OF HUMOUR AND IS AN ALL ROUND GOOD EGG. PUNKIE AND MYSELF WOULD ALSO BECOME FIRM FRIENDS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME, EVEN THO WE WERE BOTH SINGERS AND CROSSED BANDS OFTEN, WE NEVER CAME TO BLOWS AND I VALUED HIS FRIENDSHIP HIGHLY,..I HAVE HAD SOME OF THE CRAZIEST TIMES OF MY LIFE WITH WAYNE AND I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON HIM..PROBARBLY BECAUSE WE WERE NOT IN A BAND TOGETHER AND ALL OUR ANTICS WERE PURELY BASED ON FRIENDSHIP. GREEG WOULD BECOME THE LENNON TO MY McCARTNEY AND WE WROTE SOME KILLER SONGS TOGETHER, AGAIN HE WAS SOMEONE I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON TO BACK ME UP AND I LOVED HIS GUITAR PLAYING, EVERY TIME I TOOK TO THE STAGE WITH GREGG I THOUGHT I WAS PLAYING WITH A STAR, HE DESERVES TO BE UP THERE WITH HE BEST. PAUL WALKER WOULD DRIFT IN AND OUT OF DEUCE FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, APPEARING ON THE SWEET PAIN DEMO AND REJOINING THE LINE UP PRIOR TO THE CHERRYBOMBZ GIGS. I SAW PAUL INFREQUENTLY, BUT WHEN EVER I DID HE WAS ALWAYS REALLY EAGER TO HERE ABOUT THE BAND AND VERY KEEN,...HE WAS AGOOD LAD.
PUNKIE LEFT THE BAND IN 1985 AND FORMED THE INFAMOUS SLEEZEPATROL...WHICH FEATURED EX BRAZZEN HUZZY GUITARIST KENNY VEE, ALTHOUGH HE WENT UNDER THE MONICKER �KEN TUCKIE� IN SLEEZEPATROL. BASS DUTIES WERE FILLED BY BRIAN ROWLANDS, THE TRANS AM DRIVING KISS ADDICT FROM CARLTON!!
BRIAN ALSO APPEARED IN THE DEUCE FAMILY TREE AS HE WAS A SHORTLIVED SECOND GUITARIST, APPEARING AT A COUPLE OF LOCAL GIGS AND ON THE WATNALL
BRICKYARD VIDEO SHOOT FOR �BACKS TO THE WALL�
DAVE BRETT OF WAY AHEAD FAME WAS FUNDING THE DEMO AND HE ARRANGED FOR A NOW INFAMOUS VIDEO SHOOT OF BACKS TO THE WALL AT WATNALL BRICKYARDS......******NEXT CHAPTER ** THE BRICKYARDS VIDEO SHOOT******
GREGGO HAD THE SKULL AS A TATTOO ON HIS SHOULDER WITH "DEUCE" UNDER IT.......