John D Morton

Quick Facts

Full Name	John D Morton
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1953(1953-03-27)
Age	71
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

John D Morton Biography

John D Morton is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on March 27, 1953 in United States.

Morton wore a jean jacket held together by safety pins as early as 1971, years before the use of safety pins became a widespread part of punk fashion. The use of safety pins in clothing and piercings was later popularized by artists such as Richard Hell, the Sex Pistols and others during the punk rock explosion of the late 70’s. It was a jacket that Morton had admired a few years prior on his friend and mentor, Royce Dendler, an assistant professor at Oberlin College, whom Morton met when he was 14 years of age. Morton later visited Dendler while he was attending SVA and Dendler was also living in New York at the time. Upon inquiring as to the jacket’s current whereabouts, Dendler answered by pointing to the doormat below them. Morton offered to replace the doormat and asked if he could have the jacket even though it was now tattered, in need of much repair. Morton subsequently repaired the jacket using safety pins to make it wearable and liked the look so much that he gleefully added even more safety pins. It’s also been said that Morton wrote the lyrics to one of his earliest songs, Mr. Crab, after Dendler “walked him around New York and told him to write them.” He recorded the song a few weeks later in September 1972 and it was eventually released in 1997 on the Those Were Different Times 3×10″ vinyl set on Scat Records credited to The Styrenes.

Also around that time, he met Peter Laughner at Disc Records’ Westgate store, where Laughner clerked after school, when Morton ordered about half of the ESP-Disk jazz catalogue from him. Laughner’s interest was piqued by this esoteric taste in music, as well as by Morton’s hulking appearance and peroxide blonde long hair, both at that time in Cleveland (especially) being quite unique, so he struck up a conversation. A few years later the two would both perform at the Special Extermination Night shows at the Viking Saloon. Morton appeared with electric eels, Laughner as a member of Rocket From The Tombs. Mirrors completed the bills which took place in December 1974 and January 1975.

John D Morton Net Worth

John D Morton is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John D Morton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John D Morton (born March 27, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, writer, and visual artist born in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio best known as the leader and founder of protopunk band electric eels in 1972.

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Throughout the 80’s and 90’s Morton continued to focus on his visual art as well as writing, surfing, traveling and eventually overcoming his various addictions. He formed Amoeba (raft boy), “seven months after I got sober in 1994”, followed a few years later by The New Fag MotherFuckers. Some of his writing has been published in the Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal (#5 and No. 6, poems 2002), Cle Magazine (66 Dog, short fiction 1998), Psychotronic Video Magazine (Sun Ra – Alien Against Manifest Destiny, article 1994).

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Lani Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John D Morton celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

In 2012 Morton played on the sessions for two Scarcity of Tanks albums and performed as part of the group at a show in Brooklyn, NY.