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Roky Erickson, Legendary Psychedelic Musician, Dies at 71
Variety ^ | 5/31/2019 | Chris Morris

Posted on 06/01/2019 11:05:18 AM PDT by bassmaner

Had the pleasure to see Roky perform on several occasions: he was a unique talent and extremely underrated.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 13thfloorelevators; austin; greatbandname; obit; psychedelia; psychedelic; roky; rokyerickson; texas
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To: sparklite2
Jesus is trying to tell you something.

I'm sure He is. Psychedelics = mind expanding drugs. Maybe He's telling me to eat more psilocybin mushrooms.......

41 posted on 06/01/2019 2:22:39 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: yetidog

I do believe he underwent shock treatments for something.


42 posted on 06/01/2019 2:23:32 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Well, that better than what He told me...
My throat is still burning.

43 posted on 06/01/2019 2:28:03 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Agree. Disco sucks, has always sucked, and will always suck.


44 posted on 06/01/2019 2:44:25 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: dp0622

I was a musician and toured the country many times. Never heard of him.


45 posted on 06/01/2019 3:18:05 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dp0622

You probably would not have known of him. The 13th Floor Elevators were a local act in South Texas / Austin. I grew up in South Texas in the 1960s and was familiar with them. They were loosely in the genre called “1960s garage band”.

They were a psychedelic band more so than a popular pop act and yielded influence on people from Texas like Janis Joplin and Billy Gibbons. Joplin had considered joining the Elevators band but went to San Francisco instead. The Elevators did LSD at gigs and while recording their records. They were basically an “underground” group.


46 posted on 06/01/2019 3:30:29 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Thanks for the reply.

After I read your post I looked up psychedelic and garage bands and they were under garage bands :)

Says they were together until 1984.

There was a tribute album for him back in 1990 with some well known artists on it.

I watched “You’re Gonna Miss Me” when they were on American Bandstand.

Another FReeper sent it and it’s the first song I’ve been sent that I liked in a while.

Raw and powerful song.

Thanks for the info.

A MILLION bands under the garage band genre that I have never heard of.

I’m gonna poke around and listen to some songs.


47 posted on 06/01/2019 5:44:42 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
Foo Fighters (ACL) Tribute to The Elevators & Roky -Two Headed Dog
48 posted on 06/01/2019 10:17:26 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: bassmaner

Dang, I have gotten the old lady liking him. I told her we needed to go see him just the other day.

I love everything he has done. One of a kind. Very influential to me and a lot of other Texans.

RIP Roky.


49 posted on 06/02/2019 1:04:23 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Is writing music about drug experiences satanic? The French composer Hector Berlioz did so in 1830.


50 posted on 06/07/2019 10:51:15 AM PDT by Borges
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To: bassmaner

Born in Dallas, Texas, Erickson was interested in music from his youth, playing piano from age five and taking up guitar at 10. He attended school in Austin and dropped out of Travis High School in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.[3] His first notable group was the Spades, who scored a regional hit with Erickson’s “We Sell Soul”; the song is included as an unlisted bonus track on Erickson’s 1995 album All That May Do My Rhyme and was adapted as “Don’t Fall Down” by the 13th Floor Elevators for their debut album. The Spades’ original version of “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, later a hit for the 13th Floor Elevators, was featured on the compilation album The Best of Pebbles Volume 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roky_Erickson


51 posted on 06/07/2019 11:01:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Liberty Valance

Roky with Billy Gibbons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FkiPAxpLIA


52 posted on 06/07/2019 11:03:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Borges

The source of the word pharmakos in the Greek can be linked to the following

The Greek lexicons give these defintions:

Liddell, Scott, Jones: links it to magic from drugs and specifically states using poisons.

Friberg: one who prepares and uses drugs for magical purposes or ritual witchcraft
United Bible Society: sorcerer, one who practices magic or witchcraft

Lou-Nida: sorcerer

Thayer: pertaining to magical arts. And points out how it is used for kashaph.

Lust, Eynikel, Hauspie: mixer of magical potions, sorcerer, magician

Gingrech: magician

Only one of the major lexicons mentions “poisoner” as a meaning of the Greek word, several point out the drug use, but all agree that it is magical. There was also the cult of Pharmakos which used drugs on their ritual victims.


53 posted on 06/08/2019 6:42:06 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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