Booming and zooming American Christmas blitzkrieg at mall central, is one little dixie cup full of mull wine from William Sonoma REALLY enough? Don't worry, I took the edge off earlier with a 'monster' lift at the gym. Sat in the hot tub until I started to prune and unloaded a few nasty cannonballs off the diving board. Swimming felt so good, floating, bobbing, kicking around the Olympic size pool, a decidedly non-Christmas-y thing to do. They could have set up an 'eggnog daquiri shack' next to the haphazard string of holiday lights blinking on and off seizure mode. Feeling pensive and sleepy but will make an appearance at the 'Ballroom' for that pre-Christmas (Ghosts of Cleveland past) Punk? rock extravaganza hosted by John Morton of 'Electric Eels' (de)fame. If you need directions, here is some bullshit from 'All-Music'.
'What can you say about a scuzzy bunch of troublemakers, who used rock and roll as means of venting their seemingly endless frustration, boredom, and hatred upon an unsuspecting public? How about, "Cool, did they make any records?" The Electric Eels might well have been the biggest bunch of low-lifes to come out of the late pre-punk scene in Cleveland, which is saying something for a scene that contributed antisocial snotballs like the Pagans and substance-fueled art-punks like Rocket From the Tombs. They played a total of six gigs (all of which ended in violence and/or arrest) and recorded a handful of crudely played (and mostly bass-less) garage-punk that predicted the angry, fuzzed-out and revved-up sound of the Dead Boys and Rubber City Rebels. So it is safe to call the Electric Eels an influential band, but in a warped, disturbing kind of way.'
Electric Eels MP3s like 1972s 'Agitated' now available on the newly released 'The Eyeball From Hell'. Charlotte Pressler formerly of 'Red Dark Sweet', offers up a few personal reflections on a the birth of the proto punk music scene in Cleveland 'Those were different times a memoir of Cleveland life 1967-1973 Part One'.
Miss Melvis is having a VERY Merry Christmas!
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