Roky Erickson - Gremlins Have Pictures (12" Vinyl & bonus 7")
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ROKY ERICKSON

Gremlins Have Pictures (Double Vinyl)



DETAILS
  • CD & LP housed in deluxe gatefold “tip-on” jackets with book-deep liner notes by Joe Nick Patoski
  • LP includes 8-pg booklet, download card for full album, and bonus 7" (with tracks 13-16 from the CD)
  • CD includes 32-pg booklet
  • Rare / unseen archive photos and ephemera


The core member of 13th Floor Elevators, and an undisputed pioneer of psychedelic rock, Erickson struck big with the howling single ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’. “Any kid that played music in the Houston area would tell you the Elevators ruled,” says Erickson’s future drummer Freddie Krc in the liner notes. “Unlike the West Coast groups, they were our band.” But Erickson’s ‘60s dream came to an abrupt end when he was caught with a single marijuana joint on his person. Pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital, where he was ‘treated’ with electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatment.

Released from the institution in 1974, Roky found his legend had grown while he’d been away – not least because ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ was included on 1972’s Nuggets compilation. He formed a band, the Aliens, and set about honing a hard rock sound that placed the psychedelic garage blues of the Elevators firmly in the last decade. It wasn’t just the sound that had changed: Roky’s lyrics spoke of vampires, demons, beasts and even presidents – his ‘Song To Abe Lincoln’.

Collected here, the odds and ends of Erickson’s post-incarceration work tell a story of a man finding his musical feet, ranging from Dylan-like folk strumming to the big, Neil Young-like rock of the unparalleled ‘Anthem (I Promise)’. The span of time is great – from The Ritz Theatre tracks, recorded in Austin in 1975, at the debut performance by The Aliens, to those troubled Don’t Slander Me off-cuts. Other tracks were cut with the Explosives, the band Roky started working with at Raul’s punk club in Austin after he’d returned to Austin in 1979, following the departure of the Aliens. Together the various tracks deftly summarize Roky Erickson’s recording career. Following reissues of The Evil One and Don’t Slander Me, Gremlins is now brought back to life by Light In The Attic Records. This is a chance to pick up a missing jigsaw piece in the history of American rock ‘n’ roll in deluxe packages. Don’t let it pass you by.


 TRACKS
  1. Night Of The Vampire
  • The Interpreter
  • Song To Abe Lincoln
  • John Law Man
  • Anthem (I Promise)
  • Warning
  • Sweet Honey Pie
  • Cold Night For Alligators
  • I Am
  •  Heroin
  • I Have Always Been Here Before
  • Before In The Beginning
  • Bermuda
  • Burn The Flames
  • I'm A Demon
  • The Beast



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