Roky Erickson
17 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Howie Klein, KSAN San Francisco, 1 April 1978
The deeply batty Mr Erickson terrorizes KSAN's presenters, shouts at listener's phoning in, and breaks into "song".
File format: mp3; file size: 41.1mb, interview length: 44' 48" sound quality: ****
List of articles in the library
Psychedelic Punks Refuse to Die: The Revenge of the 13th Floor Elevators
Profile by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2009 note: The odd thing about this (unpublished) fall 1972 thing sent to Phonograph Record Monthly (unassigned) is that co-editor Greg Shaw would – I ...
America's Local Talent 1977: The Sounds Of Austin
Overview by Joe Nick Patoski, Phonograph Record, May 1977
THANKS TO the migration of musicians who actually believed Austin's blind boast that it was the new country music capital of the world, the central ...
Motorhead, Mighty Diamonds et al: Singles Reviews
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977
REVIEWED BY PAUL SIMENON (BASS) AND RODENT (ROADIE) OF THE CLASH. TRANSCRIPTIONS: GIOVANNI DADOMO (AMATEUR) ...
Roky Erickson: One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo's Nest
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Sounds, 23 July 1977
'After you trip, life opens up – you start doing what you wanna do...c'mon, C'MON let it happen to you...' – 'Roller Coaster', 13th Floor ...
Roky Erickson: Darkness at the edge of your mind...
Profile by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 6 January 1979
...and other remembrances of psychedelic times past and future. ROKY ERICKSON, the Martian Van Morrison, will be visiting your town in "person" next month with ...
Roky Erickson: The Roky horror show
Interview by Patrick Humphries, Melody Maker, August 1980
PATRICK HUMPHRIES bumps into Roky Erickson. ...
Roky Erickson: The Creature With the Atomized Brain, or I Talked With A Zombie
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 August 1980
Are you ready for the Thirteenth Floor Elevators revival? Roky Erickson, cult and occult figure from the swirling mists of psyechedelia, takes time out from ...
Roky Erickson: I Walked With a Zombie
Retrospective and Interview by John Morthland, L.A. Weekly, 22 November 1990
Roky Erickson, at ultra-high frequency ...
His Own Private Realm: Roky Erickson
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, June 1995
Come with us now to the home of erstwhile 13th Floor Elevator Roky Erickson: a little shack on the outskirts of reality. And marvel how, ...
Profile by Ian Fortnam, Uncut, January 1999
While it's an established fact that an extended tour of duty within the darkest recesses of the psychedelic jungle will extinguish myriad illuminations within the ...
Roky Erickson: I Have Always Been Here Before – The Roky Erickson Anthology
Review and Interview by Luke Torn, Uncut, May 2005
Astral Peaks: thirty years of incandescent psychedelia from rock's mercurial "madman". ...
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, June 2005
AS ANOTHER SXSW drew to a close on an abnormally cool Texas afternoon, a roaring half-hour thunderstorm presaged one of the most unexpected comebacks in ...
The Man Who Went Too High: Roky Erickson
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 8 June 2007
THE MOST IMPROBABLE of rock comebacks began on the night of March 19, 2005 at an Austin, Texas restaurant called Threadgill's. Every year, the eatery ...
Roky Erickson: He has never been here before …
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 28 October 2009
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE certainly other candidates, the man born Roger Kynard Erickson 62 years ago in Dallas, Texas, just might be the greatest rock 'n' ...
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River: True Love Cast Out All Evil (Chemikal Underground)
Review by Bill Holdship, MOJO, July 2010
THIS IS one of those wonderful, unexpected releases that many people once believed could never exist. ...
The Roky Erickson road to greatness
Profile and Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 7 July 2010
The pop musician has survived madness and drugs — if only just. His rocking tunes still make sense to the kids. ...
see also 13th Floor Elevators
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