Editing Keith Morris (section)

===Early life===
[[File:Punk icon Keith Morris in Los Angeles 2017 photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas.jpg|thumb|Morris in Los Angeles, 2017]]
Morris was born September 18, 1955, and grew up in [[Hermosa Beach, California]].{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=10}} Morris is [[Jewish]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brannon |first1=Bella |title=Keith Morris- A Jewish Perspective from the Punk Rock Legend |url=https://haam.org/keith-morris-a-jewish-perspective-from-the-punk-rock-legend/ |website=Ha'Am: UCLA's Jewish Newsmagazine |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321185808/https://haam.org/keith-morris-a-jewish-perspective-from-the-punk-rock-legend/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His father, Jerry, had been a budding [[jazz]] drummer in his youth and practiced with visiting jazz groups at the [[Lighthouse Café]]. Jerry later opened a [[fishing bait|bait]] shop in the 1970s and struck up a friendship with jazz record producer [[Ozzie Cadena]] (both men's sons, Keith and [[Dez Cadena|Dez]], later became singers in Black Flag).{{sfn|Chick|2009|pp=9–10}} Keith attended [[Mira Costa High School]], where brothers [[Greg Ginn|Greg]] and [[Raymond Pettibon|Raymond Ginn]] were also students, and graduated in 1973.{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=10}}{{sfn|Chick|2009|pp=14—15}} He then studied fine art and painting at the Pasadena Arts Center while working at his father's bait shop.{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=11}} One of his co-workers at the shop was [[Bill Stevenson (musician)|Bill Stevenson]], a Mira Costa student eight years Morris' junior who would also go on to be a member of Black Flag.{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=13}}

Morris and his friends spent their spare time hanging out by [[The Strand (bicycle path)|the Strand]] under [[Hermosa Beach pier]], where they took drugs: "I'd get off work, and we'd get up to trouble," he later recalled, "smoking [[Phencyclidine|angel dust]], snorting elephant tranquilizers. Just real goofy, 'why-would-you-want-to-do-that?' kinda stuff, the kind of thing you get up to when you're young, and into experimenting. If it was a good experience, then cool; if not, well, then it was just a real hard lesson learned."{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=12}} His early musical tastes included various [[rock music|rock]] acts such as [[Bob Seger]], [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]], [[Montrose (band)|Montrose]], [[Styx (band)|Styx]], [[Deep Purple]], [[Black Sabbath]], [[Queen (band)|Queen]], [[Ten Years After]], [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]], [[Uriah Heep (band)|Uriah Heep]], [[UFO (band)|UFO]], the [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]], [[Aerosmith]], [[Ted Nugent]], and the [[MC5]], "any kind of fist-pumping, 'flick-your-bic' rock. I was into anything that was loud".{{sfn|Chick|2009|pp=12—13}} He became a freely opinionated and passionate fan of heavy rock and [[protopunk]], and took a job working at local record store Rubicon Records.{{sfn|Chick|2009|p=14}}