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Rocker of Ages: Playback Talks To Eels' E |
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Written by Jim Dunn
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
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Shootenanny! does have a more
organic sound to it, and the recording process was said to differ from
the tinkering/mad scientist session that yielded the previous albums.
I had theorized that E would be the sort of person that I would (a)
bond with or (b) have a horrible interaction with. We are both 40, and
we are both at that age where crankiness might come at any moment like
a lightning bolt. We have both maintained our official cheerfulness and
somehow survived. Mark Oliver Everett, or E as he is known, has been a
rock entity for ten years now. Appearing as a solo artist in the early
’90s with two albums of quirky pop, he fell upon the idea of creating a
band that would fluctuate with his creative needs. Thus, Eels were
born, and the band’s debut on Dreamworks, Beautiful Freak, was an
immediate sensation, yielding the hit “Novocaine for the Soul.” The
success was tempered by the near-simultaneous deaths of his sister
Elizabeth by suicide and his mom through cancer. E transferred his pain
into songs, and the next album, Electro Shock Blues, was a critical
success but hard on an MTV-fed public, who are taught that public
displays of emotion are never based on anything quite so real. The
songs, filled with death and depression, were not exactly the hit of
the college party circuit. The album was followed by Daisies of the
Galaxy, which revealed a happier E and a more cheerful outlook. It was
received well by both critics and the audience and paved the way for
growing successes with both Souljacker in ’91 and this year’s
Shootenanny!
Shootenanny! at its core seems to be the
thoughts of a man coming to terms with life’s middle years and the
acceptance of his inability to control all things. On it, E expounds on
the importance of loving the loveless, the travails of being Mrs. E,
and the crap state of Hollywood. The album mines his inner turmoil, and
it appears to chronicle a coming of age that, he readily admits,
“probably should have happened sooner than 40.” The songs do work as
therapy. Writing music, according to E, “serves me on so many levels;
obviously, it is the thing to do at this point. Everything about it I
like…it is what I love to do.”
Shootenanny! does have a more
organic sound to it, and the recording process was said to differ from
the tinkering/mad scientist session that yielded the previous albums.
“Most of the songs were written in a week,” E explains. “I usually
don’t demo songs because often the recording process is sort of part of
the writing. You don’t really know what the song is until you finish
recording it. It all sort of happens at the same time. In this case, it
was more traditional—songs that were skeletal and succinct. I just
wanted to get to the point—get in and get out—and make songs that were
pretty much explained in the song titles. So I just made little
cassette demos down in the basement—just me and a guitar. Then I played
them for the other musicians and then recorded them as a band. That is
more traditional and not normal for me.” Included in the sessions were
Koool G Murder, Butch, Lisa Germano, and Joe Gore, all of whom helped
shape the sound and added some new twists to the Eels sound.
The
album has been getting attention nationally on the alternative circuit;
Eels shows are monumentally popular around the world, as they have
always been. Eels have become, more or less, a regular on the
alternative music scene and that rare exception to the big-label rule
of “record platinum or die.” Dreamworks seems quite content to keep the
band on. So much so that in an NME article earlier this year, E was
quoted as saying he felt a bit like this decade’s version of Randy
Newman. Newman spent more than two decades on Warner Bros.’ Reprise
label without ever having an overwhelming hit (let’s leave any
conversation about “Short People” out of this conversation). Newman
survived many artist cuts and was seen as the label’s trophy artist. Is
it a position that E relishes? “Yeah, I like it. I am just happy to be
able to keep making records. Doing what I like to do.” However, even
the trophy artist is not immune to the downside of the record biz. His
response to a question about the music industry in general is blunt:
“‘Rock Hard Times,’” E says, referring to one of the songs on the
album, “was inspired by the state of music these days. Being around the
Hollywood industry people and seeing first-hand where it all goes
wrong. It is just hard to get anything done these days.”
This doesn’t seem to stop him and the band as they wing their way
around the world on a tour that took him across North America and
Australia this summer and now back to the States. Notorious for
disliking the road, E seems very content during this tour. Of course,
this could all fall through at any minute with the sometimes-dangerous
antics that take place between E and his archnemesis/good friend (these
descriptions rotate from day to day) MC Honky.The oldish Silverlake DJ
was discovered (or rediscovered) by E, who spent the better part of two
years helping him to release I Am the Messiah (Spin Art). Now he opens
for Eels on their tour, but apparently all is not heaven in this
arrangement. E described the antics of a recent Washington, D.C., show
by saying that “[Honky] really pulled some crazy shit. He got onstage
in between our encores and started playing my Wurlitzer electric piano.
Everybody knows that you are not supposed to touch my
equipment—especially him. He’s a good musician, but that is just
inappropriate.” When asked if it was the competition, perhaps that
Honky’s Messiah sometimes gets better reviews than Shootenanny!, E
demurred. “That might be part of it, but it is mostly just
personalities. I am trying not to lose my temper.”
As for the
direction the band is going, they will tour some more, and then E will
work on another CD. Recently, a story cropped up that had E saying it
was going to be his masterpiece. “I really regretted saying that,” he
tells me now. “Some journalist took that one comment and made it into a
headline. I’ve sort of painted myself into a corner now, and everyone
will say, ‘OK, now show us the masterpiece.’ I really regret it.”
No matter. Eels’ output has always been strong. Besides, even Randy
Newman sometimes leaped even higher than his vaunted position would
seem to have allowed. Maybe there is a masterpiece in E’s future.
Eels make their St. Louis appearance on Thursday, October 23 at Mississippi Nights. Opening the show will be MC Honky.
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| Damien Dempsey | Irish Troubadour |
| Damien Dempsey | To Hell or Barbados (UFO) |
| Damien Jurado | And Now That I'm in Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian) |
| Damn Right They'll Rise Again | The Hold Steady |
| Dan Craig | Wirebird (s/r) |
| Dan Heaton | Films |
| Daniel Johnston | 02.06.08 |
| Daniel Lanois | Belladonna (Anti-) |
| Dans Paris (IFC Films, NR) |
| Dark Wraith Of Shannara (Del Rey) |
| Darkness Calls | Mike Mignola |
| Dashboard Confessional | The Shade of Poison Trees (Vagrant) |
| Dave Bielank Wants You To Love His Baby: MARAH |
| Dave Brubeck Quartet | 06.03.07 |
| Dave Derby and the Norfolk Downs | s/t (Reveal) |
| Dave Gahan | Hourglass/Hourglass Remixes (Virgin Mute) |
| Dave Jasmon | Albums |
| Dave Jasmon | Films |
| David Carr | The Night of the Gun (Simon & Schuster, 385 pgs.) |
| David Ebershoff | The 19th Wife (Random House, 507 pgs.) |
| David Lichius | Albums |
| David Lichius | Music |
| David Saw | Broken Down Figure (Iris) |
| Dead Boys: Return of the Living Dead Boys: Halloween Night 1986 |
| Dead Confederate | 09.29.08 |
| Dear and the Headlights | Illuminated |
| Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (MSNBC Films, NR) |
| Death at a Funeral (MGM, R) |
| Death By Chocolate: Redux (Top Shelf) |
| Death Cab for Cutie | 05.31.08 |
| Death Cab For Cutie | 10.13.2008 |
| Death Cab for Cutie | 11.27.06 |
| Death Note II: The Last Name (VIZ Pictures, NR) |
| Death, Cold as Steel #1 (Panel Press) |
| Death, Cold As Steel (Panel Press) |
| Deborah Harry | Necessary Icon |
| Ded Bugs: Four Desoto Dorks With Weapons of Music Destruction |
| Deep Read-Headed Belle |
| Definitely, Maybe (Universal Pictures, PG-13) |
| Deftones | 06.19.07 |
| Deitch's Pictorama (Fantagraphics) |
| Delirious Nomad | 03.07 |
| Delirious Nomad | 05.07 |
| Delirious Nomad | 06.07 |
| Delirious Nomad | 07.07 |
| Delirious Nomad | 08.07 |
| Delirious Nomad | 09.07 |
| Dethklok | The Dethalbum (Williams Street/Roadrunner) |
| Devastations | Coal (Brassland) |
| Devendra Banhart | 09.13.07 |
| Devotchka | 05.23.08 |
| DeVotchKa | 12.13.06 |
| dFest | 07.25-26.08 |
| Dianogah | qhnnnl (Southern) |
| Dick Prall | Weightless (Authentic) |
| Digitalism | Idealism (Astralwerks) |
| Dirty on Purpose | Like Bees EP (North St) |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Lose the Tie |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Waterloo to Anywhere (Mercury) |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Fox Theatre |
| Disney's High School Musical - On Tour! |
| Dive Index | Mid/Air (Neutral Music) |
| Diving Head First Into the Abandoned Pools |
| Doctors & Dealers | Confessions of a Drunken Mind (Bluesong) |
| Dolly: The Biography (Cooper Square Press) | Alanna Nash |
| Don Hertzfeldt Reveals The Meaning of Life |
| Don't Box Me In: Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney |
| Donny Hue and the Colors | Folkmote (The Kora) |
| Dozemarypool | Three Pieces (s/r) |
| Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap | 6.28.07 |
| Dr. Dog | We All Belong (Park the Van) |
| Dracula | Repertory Theatre of St. Louis |
| Drawing Restraint 9 (IFC Films, NR) |
| Drawing Words & Writing Pictures (:01 First Second) |
| Dressy Bessy |
| Dressy Bessy Gets Gussied Up |
| Drive By Truckers | 2.29.08 |
| Drive-By Truckers | The South Rides Again |
| Driver Side Impact | The Very Air We Breathe (Victory) |
| Dropkick Murphys | 3.10.08 |
| Duncan Sheik | On Stage at World Café Live (Decca Vision) |
| Dungen | Tio Bitar (Kemado) |
| Duran Duran's Andy Taylor | Wild Boy, Indeed |
| Dutch Henry | All That Space (s/r) |
| E for Explosion | Reinventing the Heartbeat (Eyeball) |
| E!normous |
| Eagle Eye (DreamWorks SKG, PG-13) |
| Eagle vs. Shark (Miramax, R) |
| Early Day Miners | 02.08.08 |
| Earthworms | Bottle of Bourbon (F5) |
| Eastern Blok | Folk Tales (s/r) |
| Eastern Conference Champions | Ameritown (Suretone/Fontana) |
| Eastern Conference Champions | SXSW 2008 |
| Eat Sugar (s/r) |
| Eating Steve (SLG Publishing) |
| Ed Harcourt | SXSW 2008 |
| Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway and Neil Finn |
| Edison Glass | Time Is Fiction (Credential Recordings) |
| Editors | Working Class Rock |
| Editors | Working Class Rock |
| Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story (Ballantine Books) |
| Egypt Central | s/t (Fat Lady Music) |
| Elbow: Wide Awake In America |
| Electrelane | 06.07.07 |
| Electrelane | “6 Cut And Run” |
| Electric Six | 06.07.07 |
| Electric Touch | SXSW 2008 |
| Elegy (Red Envelope Entertainment/Samuel Goldwyn Films, R) |
| Eleni Mandell | Salt Truck = Love |
| Eleni Mandell | Salt Truck = Love |
| Eleni Mandell | SXSW 2008 |
| Elf Power | Walking With the Beggar Boys (Wishing Tree Records) |
| Elizabeth Cook | Balls (31 Tigers) |
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Universal Pictures, PG-13) |
| Ellie Come Home | Primary Sources (Emergency Umbrella) |
| ELO | All Over the World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra (Epic Legacy) |
| Elsa and Fred (DistriMax, PG-13) |
| Elvis Costello With... |
| Embroideries (Pantheon Books) |
| Emily the Strange Vol. 1: Lost, Dark, & Bored (Dark Horse) |
| Emily Weedon & Delta | All Out in the Open (s/r) |
| Empowered Vol. 1 (Dark Horse) |
| Enamel | 02.02.07 |
| Encounters at the End of the World (ThinkFilm/Discovery Films/Image Entertainment, G) |
| Endwell | Homeland Insecurity (Victory) |
| English Beat | SXSW 2008 |
| Enjoy the Silence | One Lone Car |
| Enter the Haggis | on tour 11.06 |
| Envelopes | Demon (Brille) |
| Ephemera: Norway's Most Enchanting Export |
| Eragon (20th Century Fox, PG) |
| Eric Anders | Tethered To the Ground (Baggage Room) |
| Eric Arnold | First Big Crush |
| Ernest V. Stoneman | The Unsung Father of Country Music (Long Gone Sound) |
| Erykah Badu | 05.29.08 |
| Erykah Badu | 5.29.08 |
| ES: Eternal Sabbath Vol. 2 (Del Rey) |
| ES: Eternal Sabbath Vol. 3 (Del Rey) |
| ES: Eternal Sabbath Vol. 4 (Del Rey) |
| ES: Eternal Sabbath Vol. 5 (Del Rey) |
| ES: Eternal Sabbath Vol. 6-7 (Del Rey) |
| Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From the Farm (Top Shelf) |
| Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories (Top Shelf) |
| Eulogies Tour Dates |
| Evan Almighty (Universal Pictures, PG) |
| Evangelicals | The Evening Descends (Dead Oceans) |
| Everthus the Deadbeats | A Dazzling New Band Delivers a Musical Diamond |
| Every Girl Is The End of the World For Me (Top Shelf) |
| everyman #1 (Low Key Comics) |
| Existentialism for Beginners (For Beginners) |
| Exit Wounds (Drawn & Quarterly) |
| Explosions In The Sky | 3.29.08 |
| Extra Blue Kind | Surfacing |
| Factotum (IFC Films, R) |
| Faded Paper Figures | Dynamo (Shorthand) |
| Fallen Instant Star |
| Fame, Chicks, and a Barbie Corvette | The Lashes |
| Family Force 5 | Business Up Front, Party In the Back-Diamond Edition (Gotee/Maverick) |
| Fast Food Nation (Fox Searchlight, R) |
| Fay Grim (Magnolia, R) |
| Fear(s) of the Dark (IFC Films, NR) |
| Feathers | Synchromy (Hometapes) |
| Feeble Attempts (Top Shelf) |
| Feeling Out the Extremes: On the Road with Guster |
| Feist | "1 2 3 4" |
| Feist | 04.12.08 |
| Feist | 4.12.08 |
| Feist | The Reminder (Cherry Tree/Interscope) |
| Fell Vol. 1: Feral City (Image Comics) |
| Fergie | 06.11.07 |
| Festival Winners Announced |
| Find Me Guilty (Freestyle Releasing, R) |
| Finlandia Vodka Cup Bartender's Competition | 04.14.08 |
| Finn's Motel | Escape Velocity (Scat) |
| Fionn Regan | Exchanging Stories |
| Fionn Regan | Exchanging Stories |
| Fionn Regan | The End of History (Lost Highway) |
| Firefall | Colorado to Liverpool: A Tribute to The Beatles (Winged Horse) |
| First Call, First Shot | Brian Azzarello, pt. 1 |
| First in Space (Oni Press) |
| First Look Special | Marvel December Civil War Specials |
| First Look | A Mighty Marvel March |
| First Look | Image Comics 7/19: Ant, Casanova, Elephantmen, Girls, Sidekicks |
| First Look | Image Comics 8/23: Amazing Joy Buzzards, Fear Agent, and more! |
| First Look | Image Comics 8/2: Bomb Queen vs. Blacklight, Negative Burn, and Phonogram |
| First Look | Image Comics 8/30: Rocketo #11 |
| First Look | Image Comics 9/13 |
| First Look | Image Comics 9/20 |
| First Look | Image Comics 9/27 |
| First Look | Image Comics 9/7: More cool comics than you can shake a stick at |
| First Look | Image Comics for June 14, 2006 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 1/31, plus Civil War schedule and White Tiger |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 10-18 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 10-25 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 10/11 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 11-1 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 11-29 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 11/15, plus a special advance look |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 11/22 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 12-13 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 12-6 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 2.21 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 2.28 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 2.28 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 6/28: X-Factor #8, Wolverine #43, and Moon Knight: Director's Cut |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 7/12: A new beginning for Ghost Rider, an end for Spider-Girl, and more |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 7/19: Runaways, Civil War with an X, and the King's lost creations |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 7/5: X-Men, Beyond, Planet Hulk, and Marvel Westerns |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 9/13: Wolverine, Claws, and Civil War |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 9/20 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics 9/27 |
| First Look | Marvel Comics for 8/23 and 8/30: X-Factor, Daredevil, and the 2002 Ultimates Annual. |
| First Look | Marvel Comics for late December |
| First Look | Marvel Comics second printings and freebies |
| First Look | Marvel says "Happy Franksgiving!" |
| First Look | Moon Knight #1 |
| First Look | More Marvel Comics for 6/28 |
| First Look | Neil Gaiman and JRJr's Eternals |
| Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks SKG, R) |
| Flaming Lips | Wizards of Sound |
| FLEXIBLE and FRESH: Sponge |
| Flicka (20th Century Fox, PG) |
| Flight Explorer Vol. 1 (Villard) |
| Flock of Guilty Pleasure |
| Florence and the Machine | SXSW 2008 |
| Fly Me to the Moon (Summit Entertainment, G) |
| Fool's Gold (Warner Bros. Pictures, PG-13) |
| For Your Consideration (Warner Independent Pictures, PG-13) |
| Force Field PR CMJ Showcase | 10.23.08 |
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Universal Pictures, R) |
| Four Letter Lie | Let Your Body Take Over (Victory) |
| Four Wives - One Man (Women Make Movies, 2007) |
| Fox Bunny Funny (Top Shelf) |
| Foxy Shazam | Introducing (Ferret Music/New Weatherman) |
| Fragile Porcelain Mice Unload Some Baggage |
| Franz Ferdinand Shows |
| Fred Claus (Warner Brothers, PG) |
| Free Collars Kingdom Vol. 1 (Del Rey) |
| Frida Hyvönen | Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian) |
| From Neverland to No Man's Land | Lost Girls |
| Frozen River (Sony Pictures Classics, R) |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin) |
| Funeral of the Heart (Fantagraphics) |
| Funny Games (Warner Independent Pictures, R) |
| G. Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers (Dalkey Archive Press) |
| G. Love & Special Sauce | 02.01.08 |
| G. Love & Special Sauce | The Sweet Sound of Summer |
| Gaba Gavi | The Things We Want to Hear (Creative Life) |
| Gabe Bullard | Comics |
| Gabe Bullard | Music |
| Garage Band (:01 First Second Books) |
| Gargoyles: Clan Building Vol. 1 (SLG Publishing) |
| Garrison Starr | 06.16.07 |
| Gary Jules And The Group Rules |
| Gavin Watson | Skins & Punks: Lost Archives 1978-1985 |
| Gear (Image Comics) |
| Gene Simmons House of Horrors (Simmons Comics Group/IDW Publishing) |
| Genshiken Vol. 6-7 (Del Rey) |
| Gentleman Auction House - Christmas in Love |
| Gentleman Auction House | 06.29.07 |
| Gentleman Auction House | On the Block |
| Gentleman Auction House | The Rules Were Handed Down (s/r) |
| Geoff Koch | Potential Realized |
| George W. Bush and the Weapons of Mass Distraction Trading Cards (IDW Publishing) |
| Georgia Rule (Universal Pictures, R) |
| Gerald Collier: How Can There Be Another Day? (In Music We Trust) |
| Get Myself Into It | The Rapture |
| Get Smart (Warner Bros., PG-13) |
| Getting Past the Fear with The Dears |
| Ghost of the Russian Empire | The Mammoth (s/r) |
| Ghost Town (PG-13, Paramount) |
| Girl Talk | 11.08.07 |
| Girls #1-2 (Image Comics) |
| Girls Vol. 1: Conception (Image Comics) |
| Girls Vol. 2: Emergence (Image Comics) |
| Girls Vol. 3: Survival (Image Comics) |
| Girls Vol. 4: Extinction (Image Comics) |
| Giving It Back | Nine Black Alps |
| Glen Campbell | Meet Glen Campbell (Capitol) |
| Glenn Branca | "Night of 100 Guitars" |
| Glenn Tilbrook Seeks Beaded Seat Cushion |
| Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere (Downtown) |
| Go! Motion | Kill the Love (s/r) |
| Going for the Cup: Interview With Screenwriter Angelo Pizzo |
| Going Places | People in Planes |
| Gojira | The Way of All Flesh (Prosthetic) |
| Golden Door (Miramax, PG-13) |
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson |
| Good As Lily (DC Comics/Minx) |
| Good-bye, Chunky Rice (Pantheon Books) |
| Gooding | Tiny Heart Attacks (S3) |
| Gorillaz Demon Days Live (Virgin) |
| Gorillaz | D-Sides (Virgin) |
| Gospel Christian Music Fest | 12.02.06 |
| Gov't Mule | 11.03.07 |
| Grampall Jookabox | Ropechain (Asthmatic Kitty) |
| Grand Champeen | Dial "T" for This (In Music We Trust) |
| Grand Ole Party | Humanimals (DH) |
| Grandaddy | Just Like the Fambly Cat (V2) |
| Grassroots Grant Program |
| Great Lakes Myth Society | Compass Rose Bouquet (Quack!Media) |
| Greetings! | St. Louis Actors' Studio |
| Gregg Allman & Friends | 01.14.07 |
| Gregor Samsa | Rest (The Kora) |
| Gridiron Gang (Columbia Pictures, PG-13) |
| Gringo Star | Gringo Star (s/r) |
| Grizzly Bear | Yellow House (Warp) |
| Growing Up With The Redwalls |
| Grownups Can't Play | James Kochalka |
| Guardner |
| Guilty Pleasure # 6: Blondes Have More Fun...Or Do They? |
| Guilty Pleasures |
| Gunn Fu Comes Home |
| Guru Guru Pon-Chan Vol. 5 (Del Rey) |
| Guru Guru Pon-Chan Vol. 6 (Del Rey) |
| Guster | Throwing Out All the Rules |
| Guster | Throwing Out All the Rules |
| GZA The Genius | 12.20.06 |
| Haale | No Ceiling (s/r) |
| Hackensaw Boys | 02.20.08 |
| Hailing a Death Cab in Queen's English |
| Hair | New Line Theatre |
| Hairspray (New Line, PG) |
| Half Nelson (ThinkFilm, R) |
| Hamlet 2 (Focus Features, R) |
| Hammock | Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo (Darla) |
| Hancock (Columbia Pictures, PG-13) |
| Hanson | 9.23.08 |
| Hanson | Walking Around the World |
| Hard-Fi | The World in Their Eyes |
| Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor Vol. 2 (Dark Horse) |
| Harptallica | 09.10.07 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros. Pictures, PG-13) |
| Hatebreed | 06.13.08 |
| Hatebreed | Average Supremacy |
| Have Mercy on the Mooney Suzuki |
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