Sun Behind the Sun aka Sean Croghan has interesting friends and roommates he sings tribute songs for. Sound's like a family of Satanic MK-ULTRA victims to me...
Steven Paul Smith was born at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child of Gary Smith, a student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Bunny Kay Berryman, an elementary school music teacher. His parents divorced when he was six months old, and Smith moved with his mother to Duncanville, Texas. Smith later had a tattoo of a map of Texas drawn on his upper arm and said: "I didn't get it because I like Texas, kind of the opposite. But I won't forget about it, although I'm tempted to because I don't like it there."[10]
Smith endured a difficult childhood[11] and a troubled relationship with his stepfather Charlie Welch.[12] Smith stated he may have been sexually abused by Welch at a young age, an allegation which Welch has denied.[11][13] He wrote about this part of his life in "Some Song": "How they beat you up week after week, and when you grow up you're going to be a freak."[14] The name "Charlie" also appears in songs "Flowers for Charlie" and "No Confidence Man." In a 2004 interview, Jennifer Chiba, Smith's partner at the time of his death, said that Smith's difficult childhood was partly why he needed to sedate himself with drugs as an adult: "He was remembering traumatic things from his childhood – parts of things. It's not my place to say what."[11]
For much of his childhood, Smith's family was a part of the Community of Christ[15] but began attending services at a local Methodist Church. Smith felt that going to church did little for him, except make him "really scared of Hell".[15] In 2001, he said: "I don't necessarily buy into any officially structured version of spirituality. But I have my own version of it."[16]
Smith began playing piano at age nine, and at ten began learning guitar on a small acoustic guitar bought for him by his father.[17] At this age he composed an original piano piece, "Fantasy", which won him a prize at an arts festival.[16] Many of the people on his mother's side of the family were non-professional musicians; his grandfather was a Dixieland drummer, and his grandmother sang in a glee club.[16]
A side view of Lincoln High School—a brick, two-storey building with an American flag
Smith graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon.
At fourteen, Smith left his mother's home in Texas and moved to Portland, Oregon to live with his father, then working as a psychiatrist. It was around this time that Smith began using drugs, including alcohol, with friends. He also began experimenting with recording for the first time after borrowing a four-track recorder.[16] At high school, Smith played clarinet in the school band and played guitar and piano; he also sang in the bands Stranger Than Fiction[12] and A Murder of Crows,[18] billed as either Steven Smith or "Johnny Panic".[19] He graduated from Lincoln High School as a National Merit Scholar.[20]
After graduation, Smith began calling himself "Elliott", saying that he thought "Steve" sounded too much like a "jock" name, and that "Steven" sounded "too bookish".[20] According to friends, he had also used the pseudonym "Elliott Stillwater-Rotter" during his time in the band A Murder of Crows.[21] Biographer S. R. Shutt speculates that the name was either inspired by Elliott Avenue, a street that Smith had lived on in Portland, or that it was suggested by his then-girlfriend. A junior high acquaintance of Smith speculates Smith changed his name so as not to be confused with Steve Smith, the drummer of Journey.[22]
Official site-http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3527770,00.html
Review-In the notes in To: Elliott From: Portland, Expunged Records president Anthony Davis writes, "Elliott Smith was someone who told your sad story and made you feel like you were not alone."
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But the star of the show is a cover of the previously unreleased "High Times," by former roommate Sean Croghan, whose angry guitar and angry voice reflect the feelings shared by everyone Smith had affected: the sadness for the promise lost with his friend's early death.
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Sun Behind the Sun aka Sean Croghan has interesting friends and roommates he sings tribute songs for. Sound's like a family of Satanic MK-ULTRA victims to me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith
Early life
Steven Paul Smith was born at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child of Gary Smith, a student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Bunny Kay Berryman, an elementary school music teacher. His parents divorced when he was six months old, and Smith moved with his mother to Duncanville, Texas. Smith later had a tattoo of a map of Texas drawn on his upper arm and said: "I didn't get it because I like Texas, kind of the opposite. But I won't forget about it, although I'm tempted to because I don't like it there."[10]
Smith endured a difficult childhood[11] and a troubled relationship with his stepfather Charlie Welch.[12] Smith stated he may have been sexually abused by Welch at a young age, an allegation which Welch has denied.[11][13] He wrote about this part of his life in "Some Song": "How they beat you up week after week, and when you grow up you're going to be a freak."[14] The name "Charlie" also appears in songs "Flowers for Charlie" and "No Confidence Man." In a 2004 interview, Jennifer Chiba, Smith's partner at the time of his death, said that Smith's difficult childhood was partly why he needed to sedate himself with drugs as an adult: "He was remembering traumatic things from his childhood – parts of things. It's not my place to say what."[11]
For much of his childhood, Smith's family was a part of the Community of Christ[15] but began attending services at a local Methodist Church. Smith felt that going to church did little for him, except make him "really scared of Hell".[15] In 2001, he said: "I don't necessarily buy into any officially structured version of spirituality. But I have my own version of it."[16]
Smith began playing piano at age nine, and at ten began learning guitar on a small acoustic guitar bought for him by his father.[17] At this age he composed an original piano piece, "Fantasy", which won him a prize at an arts festival.[16] Many of the people on his mother's side of the family were non-professional musicians; his grandfather was a Dixieland drummer, and his grandmother sang in a glee club.[16] A side view of Lincoln High School—a brick, two-storey building with an American flag Smith graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon.
At fourteen, Smith left his mother's home in Texas and moved to Portland, Oregon to live with his father, then working as a psychiatrist. It was around this time that Smith began using drugs, including alcohol, with friends. He also began experimenting with recording for the first time after borrowing a four-track recorder.[16] At high school, Smith played clarinet in the school band and played guitar and piano; he also sang in the bands Stranger Than Fiction[12] and A Murder of Crows,[18] billed as either Steven Smith or "Johnny Panic".[19] He graduated from Lincoln High School as a National Merit Scholar.[20]
After graduation, Smith began calling himself "Elliott", saying that he thought "Steve" sounded too much like a "jock" name, and that "Steven" sounded "too bookish".[20] According to friends, he had also used the pseudonym "Elliott Stillwater-Rotter" during his time in the band A Murder of Crows.[21] Biographer S. R. Shutt speculates that the name was either inspired by Elliott Avenue, a street that Smith had lived on in Portland, or that it was suggested by his then-girlfriend. A junior high acquaintance of Smith speculates Smith changed his name so as not to be confused with Steve Smith, the drummer of Journey.[22]
http://cocoamusic.blogspot.com/2007/09/various-artists-to-elliott-from.html
Various Artists--To: Elliott From: Portland (2006)
Artist-Various Artists Album-To: Elliott From: Portland Release Date-Feb 7, 2006 Genre/Style-Tribute Albums/Indie Rock
Official site-http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3527770,00.html
Review-In the notes in To: Elliott From: Portland, Expunged Records president Anthony Davis writes, "Elliott Smith was someone who told your sad story and made you feel like you were not alone."
<snip>
But the star of the show is a cover of the previously unreleased "High Times," by former roommate Sean Croghan, whose angry guitar and angry voice reflect the feelings shared by everyone Smith had affected: the sadness for the promise lost with his friend's early death.