The Ellen James Society

Ellen James Society Was A Rock Band Based In Atlanta That Was Fronted By Cooper Seay And Chris McGuire. Gary Held Jan Dykes Scott Bland And Bryan Lilje Were Also Members At Various Times. They Formed In 1987 And Disbanded In The Early 1990s After Releasing Two Albums On Daemon Records. Cooper Seay Went On To Form The Band Viva La Diva While Chris McGuire Formed The Band Mary Fortune Express In The Mid-Late 1990's. Both Of These Bands Are No Longer Together Though Each Released An Album. They Took Their Name From A Fictitious Group Of Women Who Cut Off Their Tongues To Protest The Rape Of An Also Fictitious Eleven-Year-Old Girl Ellen James Whose Tongue Was Cut Off By Her Attackers In Order To Prevent Her From Identifying Them. The Group Was The Creation Of John Irving In His Novel The World According To Garp. read less