Ex-Blank-Ex

Cleveland experimental music and efficiency art troupe Ex-Blank-Ex assembled 6 from the city’s essential underground voices — previous Electric powered Eels John Morton and Dave E., ex-Mirrors drummer Michael Weldon, Andrew Klimeyk (young sibling of Styrenes frontman Jamie), CLE Mag publisher Jim Ellis, and Anton Fier. Shaped in 1978, Ex-Blank-Ex’s documented output is slender, consisting of simply two singles released on the neighborhood Drome label; live, the group blended their very own art-punk originals with Electric powered Eels addresses and confrontational efficiency parts. The group disbanded in 1979 after half of its roster relocated to NEW YORK — there, Fier became a member of New Influx cult heroes the Feelies, Klimeyk agreed upon on using the avant-garde combo Crimson Dark Lovely, and Weldon afterwards achieved popularity as the publisher from the infamous B-movie mag Psychotronic Video. Morton and Dave E., in the meantime, continued to be in Cleveland and shortly reunited in the Jazz Destroyers.