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Jane Scott, Teen Editor (no she wasn't a teen, she wrote about teens !)for the Cleveland Plain Dealer digs the dirt on Jaguar Ride, The sensational Eel's cover band. Hard hitting Reporting. Some excerpts include;
"They also learned that the prime movers of the Eels - Morton, Dave E, McMahon and drummer Paul Marotta - went to Lakewood High School. Three of the tribute band members- Parkinson, Collins and Lindow also went to Lakewood."
and
"Wainstead never caught any of the Eels shows, either. He's 31 years old and would have been 5 in the Eels' prime."
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and from
The village VOICE * April 1-17, 1992
Auuuuugh!
Rock
By Mike Rubin
"the Eels were innovators and Hole are hacks."
"Morton's guitar chimes in, thicker than six overdubs and wider than Ron Asheton's waistline."
"John Morton, a visual cross between Alan Hale Jr. and Meatloaf." (Hey! I resemble that remark little buddy!)
"Compared with the Eels the Stooges were virtuosos" (Hey! We resembled that remark little buddy!)
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More quotes!!
From a revue of 'Organic Majesty's Request'
MOJO issue 54 - May 1998
The Hate Parade
by Jon Savage
"The Unfortunate band who anticipated punk and ended in violence."
"The Eels perfected a trebly, abrasive, punk jazz - the perfect setting for Dave E to spit 20 years of Bad America back in your face."
"the wonderful moment in Cyclotron when Dave E lost for spleen, starts screaming about refrigerators; "Kelvinator! Kelvinator! Kelvinator!"
then there was
100 Records That Set The World on Fire* *while no one was listening
The Wire Issue 175 September 98 (UK)
The Electric Eels CYCLOTRON/AGITATED 7" (Rough Trade 1977)
"When this single appeared (on Rough Trade of all places) it challenged every outsider notion of the American pre-punk scene. If Pere Ubu was avant garage, what on earth was this? Could it really have been recorded in 1975? The primitive instrumental raunch dynamics combine with Dave E's aggressive sissy-boy vocals in a way that should have made every dada-loving teen start a group immediately. If not sooner."
And this review of
The Beast 999 Presents The Electric Eels In
Their Organic Majesty's Request
appeared in New Musical Express March 14, 1998
by
Jim Wirth
"A HARSH TRUTH FOR YOU.
The Stooges' 'Raw Power' was not the biggest, toughest and ugliest recording
of the pre-punk '70s. It was, by comparison to Cleveland, Ohio contemporaries
The Electric Eels, the work of namby-pamby asthmatic tabby cats, who couldn't
rock if their field-mousey little lives depended upon it."
Billboard July 5, 1997
"Indies Provide Crucial Documentation of Music Past"
by Chris Morris
"And the deliberately - nay, extravagantly - offensive Electric Eels were art- terror incarnate;"
And from a revue of "Organic Majesty's" from
old punks web zine
"We can argue this all day, but The Electric Eels were the 1st real punk band of the 70s. Sure, they borrowed from The Velvets, Captain Beefheart, and The Stooges, but their snottiness, dumb violence, and high artistic nihilism were the antecedents for the DIY, corner bar archetype epitomized by CBGBs in New York. Another example of a brutally important band being in the wrong place in the wrong time, The Electric Eels are a band you either know about and place in the correct context of their importance to punk history, or a band you've never heard of, ensuring your ignorance on the subject. Sadly, very few people will ever hear this band."
" Dave E. sang with a snottiness that pre-dates The Dead Boys and The Sex Pistols by not only years but a generation. "
"Later on in his career, the hulking John Morton played guitar for Sheena Easton. "
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