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Subject: Roky Erickson
Written By: Steve_H_2002 on 09/25/02 at 08:42 p.m.
Anyone else a fan of Roky Erickson? I tripped over him (no pun intended) by buying a used copy of his bootleg cd I Think of Demons.
Who's Roky? Born in Texas, founder of the psychedelic band The 13rd Floor Elevators. Busted a second time for marijuana possession in 1969, he pled and was sentenced to a Texas state mental hospital. A theory has it that he pled insanity to avoid prison, but he is one seriously weird hombre.
He's been bootlegged many times more often than legitimately recorded. Some of the titles on Demons include Two Headed Dog, I Walked With a Zombie, Bloody Hammer and Stand for the Fire Demon.
Erickson put out All That May Do My Rhyme in 1995. He doesn't write or perform and lives in state subsidized housing. Neil Kent has an interview with him in his excellent The Dark Stuff. Although it's a subject that is still debated, I think Erickson is quite insane. And brilliant.
A couple years back they did a tribute album to him. REM's take on I Walked With a Zombie is worth whatever it'd cost you.