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| You're Gonna Miss Me - Trailer |
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The Fascinating Story of Rock 'n Roll Pioneer Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson And His Struggles With Drug Addiction and Mental Illness. www.rokymovie.com
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| Roky Erickson And Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams |
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The hundred and seventy-eighth of my "not uploaded till now" videos. I am to upload a series of songs that yet have to find their way onto youtube. Teaming up with Okkervil River and cycling through some select songs of his back catalogue, Roky Erickson (of 13th Floor Elevators fame) delivers on a stunning wonderful combination that is as surprising as it is inspired. Rather than copy what has gone before, Okkervil have carefully selected songs and then musically transformed them into an album that mirrors Erickson's hectic, miraculous and near terminal life. The album has its dark moments, as is to be expected when covering the life of Erickson, but songs like "Goodbye Sweet Dreams" match a new found outlook on life with the spirited rock & roll that made "13th" and Erickson, as a soloist, so successful. Okkervil's cleverly picked songs cannot go without special recognition and they perform with a vigour and gusto that breathes new life into these pieces. As an album it's one of the best of 2010 and quite possibly one of the best works that either part of this compilation could ever have hoped to produce. Enjoy!
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| Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) |
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I haven't seen any of the tracks of The Evil One CD so i thought i may upload them, afterall, roky is so infamous he needs to get a bit in the spotlight.
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| Roky Erickson - You Don't Love Me Yet |
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Roky Erickson plays "You Don't Love Me Yet", as performed on "All That May Do My Rhyme".
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| ROKY ERICKSON - Don't Slander Me (1985) |
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6-85 Austin, TX
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| Roky Erickson - Creature with the Atom Brain 1980 |
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The one & only.... www.rokyerickson.net
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| 13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me |
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13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me
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| Nardwuar vs. Roky Erickson & Will Sheff |
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Nardwuar interviews Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators & Will Sheff of Okkervil River at Brooklyn Vegan's 2010 SXSW Day Party in Austin, Texas, USA !
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| Roky Erickson - Documentary (Part 1 of 3) |
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Legendary rock n roll pioneer Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson hails from Austin, Texas. He is, in the words of music writer Richie Unterberger, one of "the unknown heroes of rock and roll." As singer, songwriter, and guitar player for the legendary Austin, TX band The 13th Floor Elevators, the first rock and roll band to describe their music as "psychedelic", Roky had a profound impact on the San Francisco scene when the group traveled there in 1966. While bands such as The Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane had the their roots in traditional acoustic folk music, the Elevators unique brand of heavy, hard-rocking electric blues pointed to a new direction for the music of the hippie generation. The Elevators only had one chart hit, the Roky-penned You're Gonna Miss Me, but their influence was far reaching. REM, ZZ Top, Poi Dog Pondering, The Judybats, T-Bone Burnett, Julian Cope, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cramps, The Minutemen, Television, The Cynics, The Lyres, Teisco Del Rey, The Fuzztones and Radio Birdman have all either recorded or played live versions of Roky's songs. In addition to these performers, Roky is an acknowledged influence on such diverse musicians as Robert Plant, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Henry Rollins, Mike Watt, Sonic Youth, The Butthole Surfers, Jon Spencer, The Damned, Red Krayola, Pere Ubu, and current indie hit-makers The White Stripes. His songs have appeared on the soundtracks to the movies High Fidelity, Drugstore Cowboy, Boys Don't Cry <b>...</b>
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| Roky Erickson - "Goodbye Sweet Dreams" Live @ SXSW 2010 |
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Roky Erickson & Okkervil River perform "Goodbye Sweet Dreams" from the upcoming album 'True Love Cast Out All Evil' at SXSW
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