Mar 2, 2023 · Back in 1985, Elliott Smith was just Steven Paul Smith, a shy new kid entering his sophomore year at Portland’s Lincoln High School. He soon befriended a small group of fellow music...

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, who was then working as a psychiatrist. It was around this time that …

Oct 21, 2003 · Elliott Smith in PDX (WW Archive) 1. Lincoln High School. Smith enrolled here after moving from Duncanville, Texas, at age 14 to live with his father and siblings.

Oct 21, 2013 · In 1984, Elliott Smith—born Steven Paul Smith—moves to Portland from Duncanville, Texas, to live with his father, Gary Smith, and Gary’s wife Marta Greenwald. There, at Lincoln High School,...

Mar 4, 2023 · Back in 1985, Elliott Smith was just Steven Paul Smith, a shy new kid entering his sophomore year at Portland’s Lincoln High School. He soon befriended a small group of fellow music obsessives, and over the next four years, this …

Oct 2, 2013 · Smith graduated from Lincoln High School and began his career in Portland. His death in 2003 shook the city's music scene to its core.

Jul 6, 2023 · In this episode of the Pitchfork Review podcast, our critics draw surprising connections between unearthed songs Elliott Smith made with his high school friends and the music that turned...

Elliott attended Lincoln High School. He graduated in 1987 as a National Merit finalist. While in high school he changed his name to "Elliott" and formed his first band, Stranger than Fiction. He attended Hampshire College and graduated in 1991 with a major in political philosophy.

As a student in Lincoln High School, he sang, played multiple instruments, and occasionally performed for the bands ‘Stranger than Fiction’ and ‘A Murder of Crows’. In spite of domestic instabilities, he managed to perform well in his studies, and graduated from high school as a National Merit Scholar.

Dec 26, 2018 · And the memorial plaque is at Lincoln High School In SW Portland. There’s a bar called Space Room I’ve heard he went to often. If you've seen the short film Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait you may find it interesting to see the concrete pillars with the white drawn artwork on them.