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Keith Morris (other)
Keith Morris (born 1955) is the co-founder and former lead singer of the punk rock bands Black Flag and Circle Jerks. Keith Morris may also refer to: * Keith Morris (photographer) (1938–2005), British rock photographer * Keith Morris (musician) (died 2005), British jazz musician and composer * Keith Alan Morris (born 1972), American writer/film director *Keith Lee Morris Keith Lee Morris is an American author who has published three novels, ''The Greyhound God'' (University of Nevada Press, 2003), ''The Dart League King'' (Tin House Books, 2008) and Traveler's Rest (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) as well as two ..., American author * Keith Morris (diplomat) (born 1934), former British ambassador to Colombia {{hndis, Morris, Keith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Morris
Keith Morris (born September 18, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter known for his role as frontman of the hardcore punk bands Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!. Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1979 debut EP ''Nervous Breakdown''. Shortly after leaving Black Flag in 1979, he formed the Circle Jerks with guitarist Greg Hetson; the band released seven albums between 1980 and 1995 and have broken up and reformed on numerous occasions. In 2009 Morris formed the supergroup Off! with guitarist Dimitri Coats, bassist Steven Shane McDonald, and drummer Mario Rubalcaba. Morris has also appeared as a guest vocalist on several albums by other artists. Biography Early life Morris was born September 18, 1955 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, California. His father, Jerry, had been a budding jazz drummer in his youth and practiced with visiting jazz groups at the Lighthouse Café ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Morris (photographer)
Keith Morris (15 August 1938 – 17 June 2005) was an English rock photographer. Morris was responsible for several iconic images of Marc Bolan. He photographed musical figures including Led Zeppelin, Van der Graaf Generator, Janis Joplin, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band, B. B. King, Jimi Hendrix, John Cale, Fred Astaire and album covers such as ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' by ELP. With the new wave of the late 1970s, Morris also photographed The Damned, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, The Kursaal Flyers and Dr. Feelgood. Career Morris was born in Wandsworth, south west London in 1938 and he studied photography at the Guildford School of Art. He was inaccurately known in the music industry as the only professional to have photographed Nick Drake before his death in 1974. An exhibition of his Drake photographs was exhibited in 2004 at the Redfern's Music Picture Gallery in west London. Morris said: "Although I knew Nick on and off for ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Morris (musician)
Keith Morris was a British multi-instrumentalist jazz musician, composer and bandleader. Music career During the 1980s, Morris was a member of the Tyneside radical performers' collective Red Umbrella. He played on picket lines and at demonstrations with The Stumbling Band and at benefits for strikers, solidarity movements and other progressive causes as a founder member of the band Red Music. Kent Moped Orchestra Morris formed the Kent Moped Orchestra after noticing when on tour in Bulgaria that his name written in Cyrillic script looked like "Kent Moped". The 11-piece band performed all over England, including Newcastle Jazz Festival in 1992 and Huddersfield Jazz in the Park in 1994. The group were funded as part of the Arts Council's Great Britain Touring Fund in 1993/94. Grand Union Orchestra Morris joined Tony Haynes's Grand Union Orchestra in 1984 and played soprano and tenor saxophone on their debut album, ''The Song of Many Tongues.'' He became a core member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Alan Morris
Keith Alan Morris (born October 9, 1972 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American writer/film director and producer. His most notable films include ''Gutter King'', ''Flying Tiger'', and ''The Clinic'', all of which screened at the Cannes Film Fest Market. He wrote and directed the documentary ''R.U.B.s'' in the Guggenheim Museum's "Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit. Early life Morris was born in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Ronald and Susan Morris. He grew up there, where he attended Adams High School and also Niles First Assembly High School in Niles, Michigan, where he was salutatorian. He won a scholarship to Kalamazoo College to study political science and theater communications, earning a B.A. with Honors in 1994. While there he made short films and two feature films, ''The Outside Man'' and ''The in Crowd'', which won him the Cooper Award and Schneider Prize before graduating in 1994. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Lee Morris
Keith Lee Morris is an American author who has published three novels, ''The Greyhound God'' (University of Nevada Press, 2003), ''The Dart League King'' (Tin House Books, 2008) and Traveler's Rest (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) as well as two collections of short stories, ''The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories'' (University of Nevada Press, 2004) and ''Call It What You Want'' (Tin House Books, 2010). His work has been published in ''A Public Space'', ''Tin House'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Ninth Letter'', ''Story Quarterly'', '' The New England Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', and ''The Georgia Review''. Morris received his MFA in Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is currently an Associate Professor in creative writing in the Clemson University English Department. Accolades Morris's novel, ''The Dart League King'', garnered a starred review and "Pick of the Week" in ''Publishers Weekly'' and a starred review from Booklist.Joanne Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
