the Mirrors) was an American rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, United States, forming in 1971 and originally active playing live gigs between 1972 - 1975.
[1][3] In his review of a 2009 LP of their 1970's material for Mother Jones former Maximumrocknroll editor Mark Murrmann described them as "not as bent as the Electric Eels...nor as throttling as Rocket from the Tombs.
"[4] The other members were Jim Crook, guitar; Mike Weldon (who started Psychotronic Video magazine in 1980), drums; and a succession of bassists—first Craig Bell (later of Rocket from the Tombs), followed briefly by Paul Marotta, who soon switched to keyboards (and also played with the Electric Eels), then Jim Jones (who later played guitar in Pere Ubu), then Bell again, and finally Jones again.
Between 1986 and 1988, the original Mirrors lineup recorded the album Another Nail in the Coffin, produced by Marotta, which was briefly available in 1989 before the Dutch label which released it, Resonance, went bankrupt.
[8] In 2004 ROIR released Another Nail in the {Remodeled} Coffin, a reissue of the 1989 album plus a second CD with demos, live tracks and alternate takes.