Eels band
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Mark Oliver Everett
American rock musician
Musical artist
Mark Oliver Everett, also known by his stage nameE (born April 10, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and the frontman of the rock band Eels. He is known for writing songs tackling subjects such as death, loneliness, divorce, childhood innocence, depression, and unrequited love, often from personal experience.
Early life
Everett is the son of physicist Hugh Everett III, originator of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Mark's maternal grandfather was Harold "Kid" Gore, a men's basketball, football and baseball coach at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.[1]
When Everett was in his early teens, he was attending a concert by English rock bandThe Who when a special effects laser struck him directly in the eye and, as a result, he has needed to wear glasses ever since.[2]
Everett's father died of a heart attack when Everett was 19. Mark was the one to find him.[3] Everett later made a documentary about his father's theory and h
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| Summary The Eels, the project of Los Angeles-based songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, worked out a storytelling style that was both humble and sophisticated on Beautiful Freak (1996), locating his tone and arrangements somewhere between Beck and the Flaming Lips. Electro-Shock Blues (1998), a bleak concept album and a moving requiem for friends who died, upped the ante by adopting Tom Waits' skewed orchestral arrangements and topping Neil Young's manic depression. By exploiting the disorienting sonic events generated by keyboards, samplers and turntables, and by integrating jazz and neoclassical motifs, Everett coined a solemn, disturbing, jarring form of folk music. If English is your first language and you could translate my old Italian text, please contact me. | Gli Eels sono un trio di Los Angeles formato da Mark Oliver Everett che suona un "lo-fi" rock fabbricato in garage altamente drammatico e personale, sostenuto dal canto sofferto e "fatale" del leader. Everett, virginiano trasferitosi a Los Angeles, aveva gia` pubblicato due album solisti, sotto lo pseudonimo
A little more than two years after I conducted my first interview for it, my book on the Eels, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels, arrives today in stores in the U.S. (You can order it herefrom Amazon.) I can't believe it. After all the interviews and research and writing, I still can't quite come to terms with the fact that a book I've wanted to write for about 10 years is out there in the world.
When my interview subjects would ask me about my interest in writing a book on Eels, I always told them the same story. When my wife and I were first dating, she asked me, "If you could write a book about any artist, who would it be?" She assumed I would want to write one on Bob Dylan because he's my favorite musician of all time, but I responded that everyone has written a Dylan book -- what else is there to say about him? "No, I'd really like to write a book about E. He's really underrated, and someone needs to explain why he's such a fantastic songwriter." Years later, I was approached by Omnibus Press to write an Eels book -- it was a dream come true. My hope Copyright ©dadtori.pages.dev 2025 |