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Music stuff that John D Morton was involved with
 
            

 

I Like Ives... the movie! (up above here)

 
 

L to R: Gary Siperko, Craig Bell, John D Morton,
Rich Rodriguez, (oxford comma) & Andrew Klimeyk
Photo cred: John D Morton
(click pic to download)

 

             
 

 

  
 

Just a drawing of a horse to balance out the columns
(some time during the 'happy junkie days' of the early 80s I think . . .)

  
     

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES/LINKS
Band Website
Band Facebook
Band Wikipedia
John D Morton Wikipedia
QUOTES
"Legendary Cleveland art-punk band X__X first existed for six months in 1978, led by equally legendary guitarist John Morton"
"Obviously this was our kinda band,"
- ESP-Disk

"unholy blasts of spiky, disordered, nihilistic art-punk"
- Dangerous Minds

"But back in the early 1970s, with only the Stooges and the Velvet Underground as role models, [John D Morton] and his colleagues turned their youthful alienation into a brazenly experimental, loudly confrontational and proudly antisocial roar that forged a new and distinct style."
- New York Times

"X__X terrorized the city’s punk scene with a smart and muscular take on no wave, which Morton had already prefigured with the eels."
- CMJ Magazine

"Before the Sex Pistols formed in London, before CBGB opened in New York, Cleveland had the Electric Eels."
- NPR

"Predicting the mood and the musical extremity of punk, two years ahead of time, [the electric eels track] Agitated bypassed 1976 and 1977 entirely. When it was eventually released on a single in late 1978, it slotted right in with the lo-fi, experimental aesthetic of the time. Indeed, that was the year when a whole range of Ohio music was revealed to British audiences, with spring tours and albums by Devo and Pere Ubu, the June release of the Stiff Records' The Akron Compilation, and the first Pretenders 45 by former Akron resident Chrissie Hynde."
- The Guardian (UK)

 

Maynard G. Krebs who always wanted to go see The Monster That Ate Cleveland

Maynard G. Krebs who always wanted to go see The Monster That Ate Cleveland.