![]() ![]() With E playing electric guitar and a Wurlitzer electric piano through a guitar amp, drummer Butch (aka Jonathan Norton) and bassist Tommy Walters joined to help play E's BEAUTIFUL FREAK songs live. Going by one letter, he added a few letters and formed EELS, an ever-changing project for his songs, with a live band to present them in concert. Having grown moreĪdventurous musically and lyrically, and tired of the logistical nightmares of In 1995 E decided to work under a different name. Was eventually a number one alternative rock hit in 1996. The single "Novocaine for the Soul," having been recorded and mixed in 1993, In 1993, Polydor followed upĪ MAN CALLED E by releasing E's second album, BROKEN TOY SHOP.įrom 1993 to 1995 E recorded most of what became the BEAUTIFUL FREAK album. Never performed live as the front man of a band, E went out to open for ToriĪmos on her first American tour, to much acclaim. The first record, A MAN CALLED E, came out inġ992, and yielded the top ten alternative rock hit "Hello Cruel World." Having Was a great relief for him, as it meant he could now devote all his obsessiveĮnergy to writing and recording. In 1991 E signed a contract to record two albums for Polydor Records. Someone heard some of his songs and asked him to record for a record label. Quality of the songs and production of his tapes slowly improved. ![]() That he hated, coming home, writing and recording more, and going to sleep.Īs time went on, from the time he started his obsessive song writing, the Up, writing and recording 4 track cassettes, going to one of many shitty jobs On the East side of Los Angeles, and resumed his antisocial routine of waking He eventually moved into a tiny apartment above a garage in Atwater Village, He wrote and recorded virtuallyĪt the age of 24, feeling stifled by the lack of inspiration and creativeĬommunity in his Virginia neighborhood, E packed up everything he owned into aĬar and drove 3,000 miles across the country to Los Angeles, where he knew not On his secondhand 4 track cassette recorder. Teens Mark Everett was "M.E." Gradually it was shortened to the even easier "E".īy the time he was 20, E was obsessed with writing songs and recording them To avoidĬonfusion, they would refer to each other by their initials. Mark had several friends that were coincidentally named Mark. Songs on the family's upright piano for years. Unfortunately for the Everett family, Mark played those drums everyday for the next 10 years.Īs a young teenager, after a period of trouble with the law, being arrestedĪnd thrown out of school, Mark started to pay attention to the acoustic guitar That get a drum set play it for a week and then leave it in the closet until their parents have a garage sale. ![]() Parents for the $15 it cost to buy the set, and they relented. Where he saw the toy drum set that would change his life. Piano that Neil Young played on AFTER THE GOLD RUSH.Īt the age of six, Mark found himself at the next door neighbor's garage sale He never would have dreamt that oneĭay he would record an album (DAISIES OF THE GALAXY) playing the same upright Much more interested in the records his sister was playing in the house.Įveryday after school one year, Elizabeth played Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLD Mark Oliver Everett showed no talent for physics, or even mathematics. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and a son, Mark Oliver. Katharine Kennedy, a troubled poet and author, and his father, Col. Until the age of eight, Hugh Everett lived in Washington, DC with his mother, It was something random or unifying that held the universe together. ![]() Who authored The Many Worlds Theory, Everett inspired countless science fictionīooks, movies and Star Trek episodes with the concept of parallel universes.Īs a young teenager he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, debating whether Of the most important scientists of the 20th century." A quantum physicist Hugh Everett III, Ph.D., was what Scientific American magazine calls "one ![]()
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