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Release: ROK086
Roky Erickson
Interviews 1985-1987
Austin, TX
Bill Jaeger (an old friend of Roky Erickson's) donated the 1st generation tape of this performance, and Knox Mitchell transferred it to digital, and also supplied the masters for this release. Much appreciated, to all involved.
The tape with the KLBJ interview also had about 6 minutes of Roky reading tacked onto the end, probably at his house, from a notebook. This reading sounds like Roky writing about his early life. Bill remembers that also having been recorded off the radio the same day as the KLBJ recording.
Lineage:
FM Recording: TEAC AG-55 receiver > Sherwood DS1630r tape deck
Dubbing: TEAC AG-55 receiver > JVC TD-W707 tape deck (Maxell XL-IIS)
Digitizing: Tascam 112-mkII (Maxell XL-IIS) > Edirol UA-5 > Goldwave (WAV output)
Release Processing: Audacity (track splits, normalize to -2 db, mono) > FLAC 8 > tagging, checksums
Interview 1:
KLBJ FM
Austin, TX
1987-03-10
Topics:
(Elevation)
1-01. "You're Gonna Me Me", the Spades, The Roulettes
1-02. Dallas to Austin
1-03. San Francisco, the Elevators
1-04. San Francisco, NYC "Mental Home Towns"
1-05. The 13th Floor Elevators, psychedelic music, Airplane, Dead
1-06. Psychedelicia, drugs
1-07. Rusk
1-08. Openers, intro to "Bloody Hammer"
(The Evil One - Bloody Hammer)
1-09. About 'The Evil One', horror movies/writing
1-10. Evil Hook Wildlife ET
1-11. Source of horror, visions, The Dream Nightmare Walker
1-12. Roky and The Aliens
1-13. Money from records?
1-14. Intro to "Don't Slander Me"
(Don't Slander Me/Starry Eyes)
1-15. Other artists recording Roky songs
1-16. About "You're Gonna Miss Me"
1-17. The Blues as influence
1-18. Is life generally scary or fun?
1-19. The Universe, Good and Evil, Math
1-20. Satan in you, God as well? How you feel.
1-21. "Clear Night For Love intro
(Clear Night For Love - You Don't Love Me Yet)
1-22. Different groups Roky works with (Blieb Alien, Aliens, Resurectionists)
1-23. Evil Hook Wildlife ET
1-24. Intro to "I Have Always Been Here Before", Math, Roky as alien, reincarnation
(Note that it doesn't sound like the DJ ever got around to playing I Have Always Been Here Before)
1-25. John Lennon's Imagine, atheism, monsters
1-26. Are you the only sane one, or vica versa? "Twin Units" story
1-27. Have you been writing some new songs?
1-28. New records, magazine covers, outro
1-28. New records, magazine covers, outro
Length: 27:48
Reading 1:
2-01. "Another Hole In Baby's Head"
Length: 6:30
Interview 2:
KUT-FM
Austin, TX
1985-07-07
Topics:
3-01. About 'Evil Hook Wildlife ET' band name
3-02. The new record, new video (Openers)
3-03. Barker History Center exhibition of Elevators, Roky material
3-04. Evelyn, Butch Hancock
Length: 6:11
Total: 40:29
