Talk:Electric Eels (band)

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all the glam and glitter rock references are some kind of joke right? 70.20.3.215 14:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Not really. You kinda had to be there. This was Cleveland in the early 1970s. What else would they have drawn on? swain 22:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sort of finding it shaky as well. http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/electriceels.htm 71.68.15.63 13:42, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I somehow doubt you "were there". Maybe you were in America in the '70s but at a Special Extermination Night? Yeah right.98.246.184.50 (talk) 13:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't there; I was only eight years old. swain (talk) 02:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

As for "what else would they have drawn on" . . . there was a vast tradition of rock music going on by the mid-seventies (psych, garage, hardrock, acidrock, early metal, blues, jazz, Captain Beefheart) besides the 99% British trend of sparkly glam rock. Punk and the Eels' aesthetic was directly opposed to the flaky shaky platforms of glamrock and its a lie to say they weren't. Why don't you stroll down to the supermarket and point your finger at all the soup cans: "Glam! Glam! Glam!" 98.246.184.50 (talk) 13:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

glam is just transvestite punk cf ny dolls --Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

i can't find any supporting reference for the glam/glitter angle... seems to be a strong consensus on proto-punk and or/ art rock, both on their own web sites and 3rdparty articles. swain (hi steve), got any cites to back this up? Data2action (talk) 00:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Glam and punk have similarities (loud guitars) but also some BIG differences. Such big differences that if anyone tries to re-add the stuff saying the Eels were a glam band I WILL KILL THEM. 98.246.184.50 (talk) 13:37, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Why are the glam references still in this article? Electric Eels were a sort of art rock / punk band; I don't see the glam angle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.180.61.208 (talk) 15:48, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

John Morton has referred to the band as glam rock and art rock. I don't know where I would find quotes on it though.76.175.186.16 (talk) 21:29, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

some say laid the blueprint

"some say" would probably qualify as weasel words. Adding citation needed. Frankly, I remember a photo of Peter Laughner in a leather jacket and safety pins and such -- bondage gear -- predating the London punk scene by two or three years. The Eels were in that same scene in Cleveland; the punk blueprint seems logical, but what influence they could have had on the New York or London scenes, who can say?

Page issues? I'll say!

There are so many citations needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.152.107.126 (talk) 03:14, 25 November 2018 (UTC)