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the electric eels
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The electric eels (lowercase "e"s in reference to e e cummings [1]) were an early glam rock band that was active between 1972 and 1975. They formed in Cleveland, Ohio, during a period in which punk rock was not yet distinguished as a style of music, but glam rock was. The founding members were John Morton (guitar), Dave E. McManus (vocals and clarinet) and Brian McMahon (guitar). Paul Marotta and John Knox were also members during their short existence. The electric eels played only five public shows, but during their brief existence they earned a reputation locally for being angry, confrontational, and violent. Morton's clothes were held together by safety pins, and McManus wore mousetraps attached to his. The band would play lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners onstage. They were notorious for starting fights with their audience and police officers; members were also abusive to each other off-stage. Their style was a dischordant, noisy amalgam of glam rock and free jazz that was generally considered to be very obnoxious. The electric eels later became very influential with punk groups in the U.S. due to their uncompromising music, nihilistic world-view and confrontational stance. The Dead Boys' Stiv Bators was especially influenced by McManus' vocal style from when the eels shared a practice space with Rocket from the Tombs and Frankenstein (early incarnations of the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu). Their recordings were mostly recorded during the last few months of the eels' existen
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Die Electric Eels (1975)
God Says Fuck You
The Eyeball of Hell
PUNK 45: Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! The American Nation Destroys Its Young. Underground Punk in the United States of America, Vol. 1. 1973-1987
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Eyeball of Hell
Jaguar Ride
Spin Age Blasters
Electric Eels
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CBGB's and the birth of U.S. Punk
Soul Jazz Records Presents PUNK 45: Extermination Nights in the Sixth City - Cleveland, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-82
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Chillout Zone 5 Remix Album