https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXAFvaKVoAAtjs1.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
That's uh something. I also saw someone retweet her tweets grumbling about a certain Neil Young song she doesn't like-- "Downtown" from his Mirror Ball"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
honestly, i wouldn't be super shocked if those ol texas hippies in the elevators owned guns back then
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
the dead's guys def were into that gun totin' cowboy shit
Tommy Hall was a campus Young Republican prior to the Elevators.
As for the guns, two words: Stacy Sutherland.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
woah i did not know this!!!
Stacy Sutherland formed his own band, Ice, which performed only in Houston and never released any material. In 1969, after a battle with heroin addiction, he was imprisoned in Texas on drug charges, the culmination of several years of drug-related trouble with the law. After his release Sutherland began to drink heavily. He continued to sporadically play music throughout the 1970s, occasionally with former members of the Elevators. Sutherland was accidentally shot and killed by his wife Bunny on August 24, 1978 during a domestic dispute, and is buried in Center Point, Kerr County, Texas.[14]
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
Sadly, Roky has passed.
https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190531/reports-roky-erickson-texas-psychedelic-music-legend-has-died
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
Thought he'd go on forever!
Rip the original dude.
― Mark G, Friday, 31 May 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
Awwwwww, man.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWJ6gtcKeoA
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
fuck no
― the late great, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
gonna miss him
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
I used to say I wanted "You're Gonna Miss Me" played at my funeral, the ultimate passive-aggressive self-pitying gesture imaginable. Love this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn9ui8PTwj0
― clemenza, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
RIP Mr. Erickson
I can hear your voiceEchoing my voice softlyI can feel your strengthReinforcing mine
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
what an absolute legendreally sad about thiswhat a triumph over some hard circumstancesthose solo records are a real miracleIt seems like a bell ringstime and deja vuEverything is familiarI been here with you
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
A zombie walks with him
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
^Good one.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
We’ll never see his kind agains
― Mule, Friday, 31 May 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
(again, goddamnit)
The mythmaking got a little creepy at times (see also: Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis), but The Evil One and Don't Slander Me are fucking great records.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Bedoin tribes ascendingFrom the egg into the flower,Alpha information sendingState within the heaven showerFrom disciples the unendingSubtleties of river powerThey slip inside this house as they pass byIf your limbs begin dissolvingIn the water that you treadAll surroundings are evolvingIn the stream that clears your headFind yourself a caravanLike Noah must have ledAnd slip inside this house as you pass by.Slip inside this house as you pass by.True conception, knowing whyBrings even more than meets the eyeSlip inside this house as you pass by.In this dark we call creationWe can be and feel and knowFrom an effort, comfort stationThat's surviving on the goThere's infinite survival inThe high baptismal glow.Slip inside this house as you pass by.There is no season when you are grownYou are always risen from the seeds you've sownThere is no reason to rise aloneOther stories given have sages of their own.Live where your heart can be givenAnd your life starts to unfoldIn the forms you envisionIn this dream that's ages oldOn the river layer is the only sayerYou receive all you can holdLike you've been told.Every day's another dawningGive the morning winds a chanceAlways catch your thunder yawningLift your mind into the danceSweep the shadows from your awningShrink the fourfold circumstanceThat lies outside this house don't pass it by.Higher worlds that you uncoverLight the path you want to roamYou compare there and discoverYou won't need a shell of foamTwice born gypsies care and keepThe nowhere of their former homeThey slip inside this house as they pass by.Slip inside this house as you pass by.You think you can't, you wish you couldI know you can, I wish you wouldSlip inside this house as you pass by.Four and twenty birds of MayaBaked into an atom youPolarized into existenceMagnet heart from red to blueTo such extent the realm of darkWithin the picture it seems trueBut slip inside this house and then decide.All your lightning waits inside youTravel it along your spineSeven stars receive your visitSeven seals remain divineSeven churches filled with spirit,Treasure from the angels' mineSlip inside this house as you pass by.Slip inside this house as you pass by.The space you make has your own lawsNo longer human gods are causeThe center of this house will never die.There is no season when you are grownYou are always risen from the seeds you've sownThere is no reason to rise aloneOther stories given have sages of their own.Draw from the well of unchangingIts union nourishes onIn the right re-arrangingTill the last confusion is goneWater-brothers trust in the ultimustOf the always singing song they pass along.One-eyed men aren't really reigningThey just march in place untilTwo-eyed men with mystery trainingFinally feel the power fillThree-eyed men are not complaining.They can yo-yo where they willThey slip inside this house as they pass by.Don't pass it by.
https://youtu.be/hMfL9Yx7Xlk
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
<3
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
had a suspicion this was why the bump
godspeed roky
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:12 (four years ago) link
Longer Obit: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/roky-erickson-legendary-psychedelic-musician-dies-at-71-1203230465/
Stay tuned for more stuff from the Austin papers.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
Although I see now that Ned's link from the Statesman has been greatly expanded. The Austin Chronicle site still hasn't updated yet.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
something I wrote elsewhere:
I just started crying when I was trying to elaborate on my deep love for this guy's work, I was talking to my wife about how "Easter Everywhere" was my literal favorite album of the 60's and how the cracked, desperate, deeply longing sound of Roky's voice totally sold the whole package but then you also had to consider the profound lyrics, the beyond-rooted guitar sound and overall harmonic/melodic/chordal structure of their whole deal, plus yeah tragic backstory and a lifetime of struggle, and well yeah it's kinda cliche to tear up about a dead rock star but I have so many powerful memories in my personal life related to this band and everything they represented and influenced, and I'm just really feeling it. I've been posting the "Slip Inside This House" lyrics everywhere (P.S. read them), but "You're Gonna Miss Me" has never sounded more appropriate than right now.
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
Austin Chronicle obit, with links to 15 prior Roky stories: https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2019-05-31/roky-erickson-ascends-to-the-13th-floor-1947-2019/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
RIP Roky ;_;
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 June 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Gonna miss him. Was obsessed w his music in my 20s
― nathom, Saturday, 1 June 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
To live underground you must be a mole
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 1 June 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 June 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
The Evil One might be the best guitar record ever
― Mule, Saturday, 1 June 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
Never listed to Easter Everywhere before, my god what an amazing album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 June 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
Wow, I envy anyone just discovering Easter Everywhere.
― The Guts of Duran Duran (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
apparently i am blocked from reading austin360 by the "security rules"
― mark s, Sunday, 2 June 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
bloky erickson :(
RIP :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FkiPAxpLIA
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 June 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
^^The Austin City Limits w/The Explosives and Billy Gibbons, for thos w/images and/or youtubes blocked.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 June 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
this makes me very sad.
i reckon roky’s voice saved my life on more than one occasion. will always be grateful he was here.
― budo jeru, Monday, 3 June 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, June 2, 2019 12:52 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Guts of Duran Duran (Tom D.), Sunday, June 2, 2019 5:34 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the definitive version of Dylan’s “(It’s All Over Now) Baby Blue.”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 3 June 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
agreed
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 3 June 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
my all time favorite cover version.
― visiting, Monday, 3 June 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
made the trek up to amoeba hollywood yesterday. made a shopping list, but still ended up in that idle "big record store" saunter that we kind of fall into from time to time in those places. just finding that momentary sanctuary in the perfect type of place for me to have one of those moments.
they were playing jimi's first rays of the new rising sun in the store. 'drifting' came up mid-idle saunter for me and i found myself —obviously by total coincidence— directly in front of the roky erikson section. as a i looked up, this album was at the front of the bin and his image made eye contact with mine.
and, so it was, as jimi sang about sailing home, i silently wept in front of the roky erikson section.
much to my delight, the section was mostly empty. didn't take folks long to remember why he was so remarkable.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
The Evil One has been blowing my mind again all week.
For all the weird, occult feeling it has, something very "other" at the same time it's a phenomenally well written and produced hard rock record.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
It's weird and yet completely un-murky at the same time. Guitars and drums both mixed loud, yet don't overwhelm the vocals. It sounds like Only Ones or Television or Saints but gone psychic.
― bendy, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
The Only Ones is exactly who I thought of when listening to it!
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
I wonder if he was even aware of that stuff or it was just him hanging out w ex CCR dudes and doing what came natural?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
I think the latter... LITA version has pretty extensive liner notes, I will try to remember to take a look
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
I doubt he was aware of it, the Only Ones comparison is about well written catchy rock songs with a lot of fluid/melodic lead guitar on it. Also kind of reminds me of the first (pre-Helios Creed) Chrome album, an underrated record!
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Light In The Attic to issue a new tribute LP for RSD (CD coming later)
https://pitchfork.com/news/new-roky-erickson-tribute-album-features-jeff-tweedy-margo-price-neko-case-and-more/
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Would rather have Nels Cline, but can actually see Tweedy maybe doing okay by some of the relatively mellow songs on 90s collectionsAll That May Do My Rhyme and Never Say Goodbye, and the 2010 True Love Cast Out All Evil, with material spanning 40ss, and, wiki notes,members of Okkervil River on most songs as Erickson's backing band. The album also includes field recordings of songs from Erickson's time in a Texas insane asylum. (Good, more rockin' Roky collections:ou're Gonna Miss Me[Restless, 1991], and I Have Always Been Here Before [Shout! Factory, 2005]
Neko Case! That might work, whatever song she chooses.
Been a long tyme since I listened, but Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye seemed like a pretty good tribute, with ZZ Top, Doug Sahm, Butthole Surfers, blues-rocker Chris Thomas King + his swamp pop Dad Tabby Thomas, and, since I had it on cassette, with more songs on the CD, I got to hear the Angry Samoans and some others.
And if I didn't mention it, upthread, the DVD of 2007 doc You're Gonna Miss Me is an improvement on the original screen version, for illuminating/intriguing bonus material (don't know if biographers have ever adequately dealt w family situations, for better and worse, but we get glimpses here, among other things).
― dow, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
material spanning 40 *years*, I meant to say. Cassette had more songs *than* the CD.
― dow, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
"family situations, for better and worse": classical musician brother seems helpful, mother not so much, though she tries (eerie home movies of her from way back too)
― dow, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, Richard Lloyd is on Where The Pyramid... too, doing "Fire Engine"---think Television used to cover that.
― dow, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
She's doing doing "Be and Bring Me Home"
The full tracklisting (from the link):
01 Billy F Gibbons: “(I’ve Got) Levitation”02 Mosshart Sexton: “Starry Eyes”03 Jeff Tweedy: “For You (I’d Do Anything)”04 Lyyn Castle / Mark Lanegan: “Clear Night for Love”05 The Black Angels: “Don’t Fall Down”06 Neko Case: “Be and Bring Me Home”07 Margo Price: “Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)”08 Gary Clark Jr. / Eve Monsees: “Roller Coaster”09 Ty Segall: “Night of the Vampire”10 Lucinda Williams: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”11 Chelsea Wolfe: “If You Have Ghosts”12 Brogan Bentley: “May the Circle Remain Unbroken”
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
Oddly enough, Billy Gibbons is covering the same track he handled with ZZ Top on the earlier tribute.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Oh wait, my bad. That was "Reverberation (Doubt)", another parenthetical Elevators title.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
Holy Shit
actual Golden Age of TV was 1990 Bongwater w/ Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing Roky Erickson on David Sanborn's Night Music https://t.co/FSe7lVQWLg— Emmet Matheson (@emmetmatheson) February 12, 2022
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 February 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glYVGKMTAD0
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
That's neat! Viewers beware that YT apparently muted the last minute or so of the video for copyright reasons.
Also cool seeing what Waterloo Records looked like back then. Not sure if they'd yet split off the vinyl to a separate shop around the block in '90, as they definitely had by '92, when I first visited (the vinyl shop) as a tyke, tagging along with my older sister. Obviously they eventually brought the records back to the main store, which during the separation was known as Waterloo CDs; Waterloo Video took over the space vacated by the vinyl store.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
..The records back to the main store, which during the separation was known as Waterloo CDs; Waterloo Video took over the space vacated by the vinyl store. Waterloo Sunset? Now the vinyl could have taken back over, like Napoleon's return (for a while, of course).Prob mentioned it way upthread, but don't miss the DVD edition of Roky doc You're Gonna Miss Me, with updates and misc. bonus video short subjects....just step inside this house---dunno if any of that made it to blu-ray, don't suppose somme streams incl. all that, but hopefully they do (I've reached my own Waterloo Sunset of onlife, but glad for others to go furthur).
― dow, Monday, 14 February 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
https://michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/rokys-return-to-the-river-of-golden
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 July 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
"if the blues are empty/hell is filled"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Is it pronounced Roe-key or Rock-ee?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
It's a contraction of his forenames, Roger Kynard, so it's Rocky, I suppose.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
Ah, ta.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
yup
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link