User:Green Guts/John D. Morton

John D Morton (born 27 March 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and artist born in Lakewood Ohio best known as one of the founders of protopunk band electric eels in 1972.

Biography
Played in bands during school while simultaneously getting into beatnik books and art thru films such --find movie from interview.

Wore jean jacket held together by safety pins circa 1970.

Ordered entire ESP-Disk LP catalog from Peter Laughner at '''-pre-Drome ? ?'''

John Morton started the band electric eels with Dave E McManus and Brian McMahon in 1972, the final impetus for becoming an actual band being after the three had been to see a Captain Beefheart gig and were unimpressed enough by the support band (Youngstown's Left End) that they decided they could do better themselves.

In 1979, he had a short lived band called X-X. " It could be anybody like, appearing tonite, one-night only, X- Charles Mason and the Family -X"  fix exact quote from interview

In 1980, he moved to New York with the artist Michelle Zalopsky, his wife at the time.