Cause and Effect presents:

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

“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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Time: October 31 - 9:03:26 am
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  Roky Erickson, “Stand For the Fire Demon”

  from The Evil One

  Light In The Attic - 2013

Time: October 31 - 9:07:51 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “You're Gonna Miss Me”

  from Easter Everywhere

  Charly Records - 2006

Time: October 31 - 9:10:21 am
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  Little Richard, “Jenny, Jenny”

  from Cast a Long Shadow

  Epic/Legacy - 1971

Time: October 31 - 9:12:50 am
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  James Brown & The Famous Flames, “Bewildered”

  from The Ultimate James Brown Collection (Remastered)

  NFM - 2014

Time: October 31 - 9:14:41 am
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  Mirella Freni, “Manon Lescaut (1968 Remastered Version): In quelle trine morbide (Act 2)”

  from Mirella Freni - Opera Arias

  Warner Classics - 1989

Time: October 31 - 9:16:59 am
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  Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”

  from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

  Columbia - 1963

Time: October 31 - 9:21:24 am
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  The Beatles, “Chains”

  from The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963

  UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) - 2013

Time: October 31 - 9:23:18 am
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  Buddy Holly, “Rave On”

  from The Very Best of Buddy Holly and the Crickets

  Geffen - 1999

Time: October 31 - 9:24:27 am
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  Roky Erickson, “Starry Eyes”

  from All That May Do My Rhyme

  play loud! - 2017

Time: October 31 - 9:32:06 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “(I've Got) Levitation”

  from Easter Everywhere

  Charly - 1967

Time: October 31 - 9:34:07 am
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  The Moving Sidewalks, “99th Floor”

  from Flash

  Akarma Records - 2000

Time: October 31 - 9:36:07 am
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  Big Brother & The Holding Company, “Oh, Sweet Mary”

  from Cheap Thrills

  Columbia/Legacy - 1968

Time: October 31 - 9:40:02 am
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  Grateful Dead, “Friend of the Devil”

  from American Beauty

  Rhino/Warner Records - 1970

Time: October 31 - 9:43:20 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “Slip Inside This House (Original Mono Single Mix)”

  from 7th Heaven: Music of the Spheres

  Charly - 1966

Time: October 31 - 9:50:59 am

• Radio Birdman, “Descent Into the Maelstrom”

  from Radio Appears

  Trafalfgar - 1977

Time: October 31 - 9:55:16 am
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  The Cramps, “I was a Teenage Werewolf”

  from Songs the Lord Taught Us

  EMI Records - 1998

Time: October 31 - 9:58:24 am
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  Patti Smith Group, “Ask the Angels”

  from Radio Ethiopia (Remastered)

  Arista - 1996

Time: October 31 - 10:01:52 am
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  Roky Erickson, “For You (feat. Okkervil River)”

  from True Love Cast out All Evil (feat. Okkervil River) [Deluxe Edition]

  Anti/Epitaph - 2010

Time: October 31 - 10:09:55 am
• 

  Roky Erickson, “Don't Shake Me Lucifer”

  from The Evil One

  Light In The Attic - 2013

Time: October 31 - 10:11:37 am
• 

  Television, “Elevation”

  from Marquee Moon

  Rhino/Elektra - 1977

Time: October 31 - 10:16:46 am
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  Butthole Surfers, “Graveyard”

  from Locust Abortion Technician

  Latino Bugger Veil - 1999

Time: October 31 - 10:19:14 am
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  The Mystery Lights, “Flowers in My Hair, Demons in My Head”

  from The Mystery Lights

  Wick Records - 2016

Time: October 31 - 10:22:26 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “Reverberation (Doubt)”

  from The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

  Charly - 1966

Time: October 31 - 10:24:59 am
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  The Black Angels, “Science Killer”

  from Directions to See a Ghost

  Light In The Attic - 2014

Time: October 31 - 10:30:19 am
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  Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston, “I Met Roky Erickson”

  from It's Spooky

  Jagjaguwar - 2001

Time: October 31 - 10:36:29 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “Fire Engine”

  from Reverberations, Vol. 1

  Charly Records / ATOM - 2004

Time: October 31 - 10:39:19 am
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  Spacemen 3, “Losing Touch with My Mind”

  from Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To (Remastered)

  Space Age Recordings - 2018

Time: October 31 - 10:44:40 am
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  Roky Erickson, “Burn the Flames”

  from Gremlins Have Pictures

  Light In The Attic Records - 2013

Time: October 31 - 10:51:36 am
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  13th Floor Elevators, “Through the Rhythm (Mono LP Version)”

  from The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (2008 Remaster)

  Charly - 1966

Time: October 31 - 10:55:32 am
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  Roky Erickson, “Night of the Vampire”

  from The Evil One

  Light In The Attic - 2013

Carrie Thornbrugh    Cause and Effect    October 31st, 2020

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

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