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She asked me why the singer’s name was Alice.

I said, “Listen, baby, you really wouldn’t understand.”

Today on Cause & Effect, DJ Miss Kitty will enter the nightmare of Alice Cooper and discover how Vincent Damon Furnier from Detroit became the legendary Alice Cooper, an American singer, songwriter, and performer whose career spans over 50 years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features creepy props and grotesque stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered to be “The Godfather of Shock Rock,” and has influenced rock n roll, performance, and musicians still to this day.

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We’re Not Worthy! Cause & Effect with DJ Miss Kitty + Alice Cooper »

Carrie Thornbrugh Cause and Effect November 20th, 2021

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: absurd, GOTHIC LIZARD, Heavy metal, HORROR, METALBOX, music, Music show, obscure, weirdo, WRIR

The Breakfast Snob presents:

Space out with far-out psych sounds with guest host DJ Miss Kitty.

Carrie Thornbrugh The Breakfast Snob April 15th, 2021

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: absurd, music, Music show, obscure, old time, weirdo

Cause and Effect presents:

“I’ve gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I’m an alien.” –Roky Erickson

Today’s Cause & Effect is dedicated to the Evil One, Roger Kynard “Roky” Erickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019). Founding member and the leader of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of psychedelic rock. When asked in the 60’s to define this new genre, he replied, “It’s where the pyramid meets the eye.” Far out, man.

We’ll take a trip together and discover the humble beginnings of Roky Erickson from his upbringing in Austin, Texas to his mind-expanding awakening in San Francisco in the early 60s. After a few years of intense psychedelic drug experimentation, he was hospitalized in a mental asylum in Rusk, Texas. For the next several decades he struggled with mental health, but finally turned a corner with the help of his younger brother. He made the comeback of a lifetime in the early-mid 2000s, performing and touring regularly before his death in 2019.

Roky Erickson was a beautiful, strange, lost soul who left a mind-altering impression on countless musicians, mystics, aliens, and teenagers alike. All hail, The Evil One!

Fangs in the dazed moonlight
Blood never touches my lips
A red demon never sips

“I Think of Demons”

by Roky Erickson and the Aliens

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Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Trip with Roky Erickson & DJ Miss Kitty »

Carrie Thornbrugh Cause and Effect October 31st, 2020

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: absurd, HORROR, music, Music show, obscure, outsider, variety, weirdo, WRIR

Curved Air presents:

String quartets are worth exploring and obsessing over. I can help. The history of the string quartet spans centuries and continents. We start with two pieces from 1991, then work our way back to 1825.

DJbob Curved Air September 9th, 2019

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: 20th century music, absurd, avant garde, classical, esoteric, modern classical

Rockin’ Modern Neon Sounds presents: