Clayton Counts

Clayton Counts (August 19, 1973 – November 22, 2016) was an American musician and composer, a former DJ, and one half of the experimental band Bull of Heaven. Early life Counts was born with detached retinas in both his eyes. A series of surgeries at a young age complicated this, leaving him blind in his right eye, and weakened in his left. Counts was initially located in Austin, Texas. In the 1990s, Counts became notorious with his prank phone calls to the Austin Community Access Center, in particular Alex Jones’s show. An incident occurred – though with varying claims from both sides – in which Counts was involved in the assault of Jones in a parking lot with three other individuals. As a follow-up, it was claimed that Jones used FBI connections to label Counts a terrorist and claimed he possessed child pornography. Federal agents raided the FringeWare Review bookstore, headquarters of an early cyberculture magazine that Counts wrote articles for. The case was later dropped. In 2000, Counts relocated to Chicago. While there, he met Neil Keener, who would later join Counts in the band Bull of Heaven. DJ work In the 2000s, Counts worked as a DJ to afford a living. He worked at vari