#99. When people deal with the loss of a loved one, their grief is often very personal. When a musician deals with illness and death, they may work through it through song. Lou Reed did it on Magic & Loss. Patti Smith did it on Gone Again (and through some incredible performances around the time of that album). And Mark Everett, who performs as Eels (or as it was at the time, eels) worked through the loss of his sister and illness of his mother with Electro-Shock Blues in 1998.
He played LA a couple of times on the tour for this album, and I caught the show at the El Rey. I recall this being the end of the tour, and the man called E seemed a little tired. It was a good show, and I guess the circumstances of the album didn't allow for a lot of rocking out. Subsequent tours have been a little less solemn.
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