Handbill Handout

Last night I went to see The Eels. Eels are actually Mark Everett and a rotating cast of other musicians depending on how Mark (also known as E) wants to present his music on any given tour. They’ve been a rock band with a turntablist, an “orchestra” with a full horn section, a string quartet, a four piece rock band and a 3 piece punk band in prior incarnations. This tour, Eels are a duo consisting of E and “The Chet”, who is a “multi-instrumentalist” as they like to say. Between the two of them there’s guitar, drums, saw, and a few different keyboard instruments. E’s songs are happy little ditties about mental illness, suicide, serial killers, freaks and birds. So you can see how he has universal appeal and are as surprised as I am that he’s only had one big radio hit in the US and that was 12 years ago. How was the show? Fantastic, of course. But this isn’t a concert review post, no sir. Because there’s another part to E’s story that is not on your average “Rock Star” resu...