This is where you will find Midnight and I tonight, happy to be able to finally see Roky, as we both missed him when he played at SXSW with Billy Gibbons earlier this year. D'oh! Our friends over at LA Record are presenting the show tonight and have been running a bunch Roky related stuff on [...]
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Palm Pictures is releasing a DVD about rock/psychedelic legend Roky Erickson on July 10th. Erickson was the force behind the revolutionary “13th Floor Elevators” in the sixties. Roky's tragic story that included drug binges, schizophrenia, and stay at Rusk hospital for the criminally insane is illustrated in the new film. You're Gonna Miss Me claims to "reveal the shocking & triumphant truth b
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By Kurt LoderDoing time in Hell with Roky Erickson, the great lost star of '60s psychedelia.Roky Erickson in 1967 (Palm Pictures)Texas singer and songwriter Roky Erickson, a man half-shrouded in myth and legend, is back. A lot of people may not be aware of it, though. A lot of people don't even know who he is. How can this be?Roky's best-known song, without a doubt,is "You're Gonna Miss Me," w...
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The pre-dawn double-header is tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the 13th. Batter up!Roky's got a hammer. Uh-oh...Swing and a miss!strike 1.Plunked!Roky wants to be a head shrinker. Calling Dr. Roky!Error!strike 2.Sent to the showers!Roky sends you to the attic. The demon is waiting.strike 3...You're out!!Baseball the way Roky likes to play... He grew up reading horror comics such as Foul Play! (orig...
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Roky Erickson & The Explosives(Great American Music Hall, SF, 3/1/07)This is a moment I've been waiting for about 15 or 16 years, ever since I picked up vinyl copies of I Think Of Demons at the main branch of my public library and of Gremlins Have Pictures at one of the mainstay record stores of my youth. I've been waiting for it ever since I was struck all those years ago by the combination, t...
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Damn, I love this album. I stumbled across it after listening to the 13th Floor Elevators for years. In case you do not know, the 13th Floor Elevators were a really awesome psychedelic/r&b/folk band from Texas in the 1960's. After a decade long hiatus (including a long stay in a mental hospital) Roky Erickson formed this band in the late 70's. This is a terrible analogy, but I would describe t...
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Man, everytime I hear 'The Interpreter' by Roky Erickson it brings me back to a simpler time in life. Sitting in an friends apartment freshman year (he was an upper classman) , getting stoned out of our minds. Listening to the likes of Roky with another friend of mine that year, who just happened to be a sorta exchange student from Australia. He was the one who turned me onto Roky. Same time...
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I feel like having a link fest today. Something I should do a little more of, especially with my local compadres. Austin Sound has more Roky Erickson/Black Angels details , and some new local reviews . Sonic Itch has two seperate ACL reviews , Big Diction's got Shearwater & Jungle Rockers , Party Ends has a new look , Both Sides likes Lykke , Recycled Love picks their top 25 indie breakup son...
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Roky Erickson & The Explosives(Great American Music Hall, SF, 3/1/07)This is a moment I've been waiting for about 15 or 16 years, ever since I picked up vinyl copies of I Think Of Demons at the main branch of my public library and of Gremlins Have Pictures at one of the mainstay record stores of my youth. I've been waiting for it ever since I was struck all those years ago by the combination, t...
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Well, one more Roky Erickson song before we call a halt to October. This is actually not his scariest song (That is "Bloody Hammer" which I think is about a haunted insane asylum and is actually too horrifying for me to listen to very often), but I think it's a great one to have playing in your brain when you're out trick-or-treating. Or handing out candy. Or walking on a deserted path in the dar
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So I was going to call my whole Halloween project to a halt because Sunday October 21 was the fourth anniversary of my late wife Kirsten's death from breast cancer. (I never say "passing" because a)it implies an afterlife she didn't believe in and b) it just reminds me of farting, which doesn't seem appropriately serious for what actually happened.) So, Kirsten's deathday having passed, I was ...
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The pre-dawn double-header is tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the 13th. Batter up!Roky's got a hammer. Uh-oh...Swing and a miss!strike 1.Plunked!Roky wants to be a head shrinker. Calling Dr. Roky!Error!strike 2.Sent to the showers!Roky sends you to the attic. The demon is waiting.strike 3...You're out!!Baseball the way Roky likes to play... He grew up reading horror comics such as Foul Play! (orig...
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