Jack Taylor was an American

United States

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 musician and member of several popular bands. He was born Richard Violet in Urbana, Ohio

Urbana, Ohio

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Ohio, United States, west of Columbus. Urbana was laid out in 1805, and for a time in 1812 was the headquarters of the Northwestern army. Urbana was named after the town of Urbanna, Virginia. It is the burial-place of the Indian fighter...

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In his early twenties he played guitar

Guitar

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 with The Gibson Bros and went on to form the Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, avant-garde noise band Monster Truck Five. Late in his career he fronted, with Jeffrey Evans, the Memphis rock n roll act the '68 Comeback

'68 Comeback

68 Comeback is an American garage rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1992 by singer, songwriter, and musicologist, Jeffrey Evans. For the purposes of the band, Jeffrey Evans is frequently billed as either "Monsieur Evans" or "Monsieur Jeffrey Evans." The group contains a revolving cast of...

 and appeared in, and provided the title song for, the John Michael McCarthy film The Sore Losers. He died in 1997 of an overdose.