In Mike’s Diary (Not Jeannie’s)

I’ve been sifting through various journals/blogs I’ve been keeping since 2001, and I thought someone might be interested to see the bits and pieces I’ve written about the Eels along the way.

It’s something short of revelatory, but I’m just a fan. What do you expect?

Brussels, June 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Shootenanny! came out in early summer, and soon after E and his cohorts kicked off The Tour of Duty, one of their longest, most traveled and hardest rocking tours in its support. I managed to catch them in Washington DC in August of that year, in the snug, sweaty 9:30 Club, and they really rocked my socks off. It was like a bluesy thunderclap rolling off stage and over the audience. You’d scarcely recognize them as the band touring two years later with strings and girls in pajamas.