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Gumball were the highest-profile profession of indie gadabout Don Fleming, already a veteran of several rings, a visitor collaborator for most more, and a substantial maker who have — ironically — helped shepherd alternate rock and roll into it is major-label growth years. As Gumball’s vocalist, guitarist, and major songwriter, …

Guitarist/manufacturer Don Fleming and drummer Jay Spiegel formed the pop lifestyle tribute music group Velvet Monkeys in Washington, D.C., in the first ’80s. Both had been veterans of Jad Fair’s long-running sound pop outfit Fifty percent Japanese, with whom they might continue steadily to record through the entire 1980s (Fleming …