The Roky Erickson CD Club is a group of fans that distribute and share Roky's music via a Tree & Leaf Network. The Trunk makes a copy for the Branches. The Branches make copies for the Leaves. This is all very decentralized and hinges upon the United States Supreme Court decision protecting the RIGHT to home dub.
Group members contribute rare or unreleased recordings by Roky Erickson or the 13th Floor Elevators to be digitally edited and burned to CDR. These CDRs are then made available to all group members. The CD's are traded among the Network of fans or made for beginners for blanks and postage. There is also a $3.00 gift collected per CD for Roky. The discs move by trade or barter. The $3.00 gift to Roky is the only money collected.
If you want to become involved in this, just join the Texas Psych Group by clicking the Roky image or the link at the bottom. If you want copies of past CD-R issues, just speak out on the groups. Somebody should come forward and burn it.
Here are the details on each of the releases:
Roky Erickson and The Explosives at Berkeley, California, September 25th, 1981, from soundboard cassette, 2nd generation. The performance is great and the sound is really good. Heroin, White Faces, and Bloody Hammer are standouts. Here's the track listing:
1. Cold Night For Alligators 4:17
2. Bermuda 4:50
3. The Wind And More 5:59
4. Starry Eyes 4:28
5. You're Gonna Miss Me 6:12
6. The Beast 4:31
7. Heroin 6:38
8. White Faces 2:25
9. Two Headed Dog 3:33
10. Don't Shake Me Lucifer 3:48
11. Bloody Hammer 5:18
That's the show; I'm also going to include three songs from a CDR called Spanning Your Theory. These are electric demos, just Roky and electric guitar, really interesting stuff that I think dates from about 1975:
12. Cold Night For Alligators 3:42
13. Starry Eyes 3:13
14. White Faces 3:00
Total disk time: 62 minutes
The 2nd CD is a version of Psychedelic Sounds that reproduces the running order of the original LP using alternate takes. The sound is much better than on the Collectables or Decal releases; the songs were run through sound restoration software with impressive results.
Kingdom of Heaven had to be omitted because there is no alternate or improved mix available. Following that are three songs from the Houston Demos sessions that are available here without the canned audience sounds added on the "Live" album. 
Then comes the only known alternate mix from the "Easter Everywhere" sessions, a great version of "Dust," followed by two Roky and Clementine Hall duets that may be from this session also. Following that are the 7 songs that are known to have been recorded for the never completed "Beauty And The Beast" LP. Three of these songs are familiar versions that appeared on the "Bull Of The Woods" LP, but I wanted to put all 7 together to get an idea of what "Beauty And The Beast" would have been like.
The 13th Floor Elevators Psychedelic Sounds Alternate Mix:
From the "Psychedelic Sounds" sessions, Summit Sound Studio, Dallas, 10/66 unless noted:
1. You're Gonna Miss Me (Contact 45 sessions outtake, Andrus Studios, 01/66)
2. Roller Coaster (alternate mix)
3. Splash 1 (Houston demos 6/66)
4. Reverberation (official take)
5. Don't Fall Down (alternate mix)
6. Fire Engine (alternate mix)
7. Thru The Rhythm (alternate mix)
8. You Don't Know (alternate mix)
9. Monkey Island (alternate mix)
10. Tried To Hide (Contact 45 sessions outtake)
From the Houston Demos, Gold Star Studios, 6/66:
11. You Gotta Take That Girl
12. Before You Accuse Me
13. You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
From the "Easter Everywhere" Sessions, Walt Andrus Studios, Houston, 9/67:
14. Dust (alternate mix)
15. Splash 1 (acoustic, session uncertain)
16. Right Track Now (session uncertain)
From the "Beauty And The Beast" Sessions, IA (formerly Gold Star) Studios, Houston, 3/68:
17. Livin' On (Gold Star acetate)
18. I Don't Ever Want To Come Down (Gold Star acetate)
19. Never Another (official take)
20. Wait For My Love
21. Dear Dr. Doom (official take)
22. Fire In My Bones (session uncertain)
23. May The Circle Remain Unbroken (official take)
Total disc time: 71 minutes
The 3rd release of the Roky CDR Club is a 2 CD set of Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators at the Liberty Lunch in Austin, June 16th, 1984, about 123 minutes, and The 13th Floor Elevators live at The New Orleans Club as broadcasted by KAZZ-FM on March 16th, 1966, 30 minutes.
The 1984 show is taken from a first generation high bias cassette of the original beta cam recording. This is the complete show, and the sound is MUCH better then the two previously released pieces (Collectables 'Last Concert' and 'Live In Texas' - side 2). The show is total high energy, Roky is in great voice, the band kicks ass, and the crowd of over 1000 Elevators/Roky fans is loving it.
The band:
Roky Erickson: vocals, guitar
Greg "Catfish" Forrest, guitar
Ronnie Leatherman, bass
John Ike Walton, drums
The 13th Floor Elevators on KAZZ-FM is from a tape of unknown generation. This is the complete 30-minute radio show in original order with lots of historically interesting announcer comments, and I believe it is rather rare in this uncut form. The recording methods were obviously primitive, but the band with its original line-up are at their peak, 'Roller Coaster' and 'Gloria' are fantastic. "After you trip life opens up" - on the Texas air waves in early 1966!
The band:
Roky Erickson: vocals, rhythm guitar
Stacy Sutherland: lead guitar
Tommy Hall: amplified jug
Benny Thurman: bass
John Ike Walton: drums
Track listing:
Disc 1 (ROKCDR3A):
6/16/84
1. Before You Accuse Me 12:10
2. The Beast 10:29
3. Splash 1 6:37
4. Don't Slander Me 13:53
5. You're Gonna Miss Me 6:05
6. Clear Night For Love 12:46
7. Don't Shake Me Lucifer 11:51
Total disc time: 73:51
Disc 2 (ROKCDR3B):
6/16/84 continued
1. Bloody Hammer 13:09
2. Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) 6:38
3. - a short break, Roky speaks- 2:02
4. Not Fade Away 6:18
5. I Am Her Hero, She Is My Heroine 7:09
6. Haunt 9:39
7. You're Gonna Miss Me (reprise) 4:28
New Orleans Club, KAZZ-FM, 3/16/66:
8. The Word 3:17
9. Monkey Island 2:49
10. Roller Coaster 5:10
11. I'm Down 7:03
12. Gloria 8:54
13. You're Gonna Miss Me (faded out to end show) 2:53
Total disc time: 79:29
The fourth issue is a compilation of three short 1993 live sets. The 1993 stuff is all audience and low gen. The filler is Paul Leary telling a few good Roky stories and some Aliens live.
Roky CD-R #4:
Palmer Auditorium, Austin, 3/17/93
1. Two Headed Dog
2. Starry Eyes
3. Don't Slander Me
4. You're Gonna Miss Me
Antone's, Austin, 6/13/93
5. Two Headed Dog
6. Starry Eyes
7. You're Gonna Miss Me
La Zona Rosa, Austin, 7/13/93
8. Starry Eyes
9. If You Have Ghosts
10. Two Headed Dog
11. Don't Slander Me
12. Starry Eyes
13. Paul Leary talks about Roky, 1988?
Roky & The Aliens, Longbranch Saloon, 1/30/76
14. Splash 1
15. Boppin's Boppin' Back
16 Sputnik (Alien I Creator)
17. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
The fifth issue is a double CD-R of Roky demos. Most of it is acoustic. There is a bit of FM thrown in as filler. If you like Never Say Goodbye, you should like this.
Roky CD-R #5a & 5b:
CD-R #5a
Demos for unreleased EP w/Harry Hess on 2nd guitar, 3rd gen source tape.
1. Hasn't Anyone Told You
2. Hasn't Anyone Told You (take 2)
3. For You (I'd Do Anything)
4. I'm Satisfied
5. Something Extra
Demos for Openers, 2nd gen source tape.
6. Splash 1 (cut)
7. I Had To Tell You
8. The Looking Glass Song
9. Bloody Hammer
10. When You Get Delighted
11. True Love Casts Out All Evil (cut)
CD-R #5b
Demos for Demon Angel video, 3rd gen source tape
1. I Believe In America
2. I Walked With A Zombie
3. Cold Night For Alligators
4. Mine, Mine, Mind
Roky's home, Austin, 9/19/88 1st gen source tape
5. Bashful Bobby
6. Run To Him/Walking With My Angel
7. Susie Baby
Unknown
8. Can't Do You No Justice
9. What Would You Do?
KTXZ-FM Studio, Austin, 4/5/85 2nd gen source tape
10. I Love The Blind Man
11. I've Never Known This till Now
12. May The Circle Remain Unbroken
13. Starry Eyes
14. John Lawman (cut)
The sixth issue is a soundboard recording of Roky and the Explosives at the Keystone, Berkeley, 9/1/80. The signal was a clean soundboard that was digitally enhanced. This is a winner!
CD-R #6
Roky & the Explosives, Keystone, Berkeley, 9/1/80, SBD
1. Cold Night For Alligators
2. Two Headed Dog
3. Creature With The Atom Brain
4. The Wind And More
5. I Think Of Demons
6. Night Of The Vampire
7. John Lawman
8. You're Gonna Miss Me
9. Mine, Mine, Mind
10. Stand For The Fire Demon
11. Bermuda
12. Bloody Hammer
13. White Faces
14. Night Of The Living Dead
-Bonus Tracks-
15. Don't Shake Me Lucifer (Mars Records Demo, 1975)
16. Starry Eyes (12 String Demo)
17. I Walked With A Zombie (Master Tape Demo, 1977)
18. The Wind And More (Master Tape Demo, 1977)
19. You Don't Love Me Yet (EP Session, 1984)
Number 7 is something really special! Really Special! Special! This is a processed clone of a known 2nd gen soundboard recording of the famous "Avalon '66" recording. This quality BLOWS AWAY ALL that came before including the original, French label, boot. This is the definitive version. If that wasn't sick enough, we added on the speed corrected Sump'n Else TV Show tracks. These are the same recordings Sundazed botched by putting out at too fast a speed. These are slowed down to the correct pitch so Roky and crew don't sound like Alvin And The Chipmunks. You need this! It's an 80 minute slap o' sickness!
CD-R #7:
13th Floor Elevators, Avalon Ballroom, 1966, 2nd gen soundboard clone
1. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
2. Before You Accuse Me
3. You Don't Know
4. Splash 1
5. I'm Gonna Love You Too
6. You Really Got Me
7. Fire Engine
8. Roll Over Beethoven
9. The Word
10. Monkey Island
11. Roller Coaster *** (***missing track, French LP source)
Speed Corrected, Sump'n Else TV Show, WFFA-TV, Dallas, TX, 3/25/66
12. You're Gonna Miss Me
13. Fire Engine
14. You Really Got Me
15. Roll Over Beethoven
Speed Corrected, Sump'n Else TV Show, WFFA-TV, Dallas, TX, 5/9/66
16. Mercy, Mercy
17. Tried To Hide
18. Gloria
19. Fire Engine
20. You're Gonna Miss Me
21. Roller Coaster
Roky CD Club Issue Number 8 is a CD of two 1970's reunions. One is from Mother Earth in Austin on 2/11/73. This doesn't include Stacy or Tommy. The band sounds out of tune and out of practice. Still, it has moments and this band does sound the closest to the original group of all the reunions. The second part is Ol' Dog Saloon, Ingram, TX, 5/28/77. This has Stacy, John Ike, Ronnie but no Roky. A blues belter fills in on vocals. Both recordings are hand held audience and high gen. They have been processed.
CD-R #8-
13th Floor Elevators (no Stacy or Tommy), Mother Earth, Austin, TX, 2/11/73, audience
1. Maxine
2. You're Gonna Miss Me
3. Splash 1
4. Levitation
5. She's My Friend
6. Baby Blue
7. Rainy Day Woman #12 & #35
8. She Lives
9. Thank God For Civilization
10. I Believe In America
11. Levitation (cut)
12. Roll Over Beethoven (cut)
13th Floor Elevators (Stacy Sutherland, John Ike, Ronnie), Ol' Dog Saloon, Ingram, TX, 5/28/77, audience
13. You're Gonna Miss Me
14. Baby Blue
15. She Lives
16. Inst.
17. All Along The Watchtower
Roky CD Club Disc Number 9 is an audience recording of the Aliens at the Longbranch Saloon in 1976. This is low gen and really high energy! Yow!
CD-R #9:
The Aliens, Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, 1/30/76, audience
1. The Wind And More
2. Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play
3. Don't Slander Me
4. Splash 1
5. Boppin's Boppin' Back
6. Sputnik (Alien I Creator)
7. You're Gonna Miss Me
8. Met the Aliens (band intros)
9. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
10. Bermuda
11. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
12. The Interpreter
13. Can't Be Brought Down
14. Mine, Mine, Mind
15. Starry Eyes
16. Wake Up To Rock 'n' Roll
17. White Faces
18. Two Headed Dog
19. Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play
Number Ten is something special. This is a full CD of Roky Erickson interviews. The capstone of this is 50 minutes of the 4/1/78, Outcast Hour, on KSAN-FM. This is 2nd gen, processed, from the studio reel. Most of you know this only from a two-minute snip on Epitaph For A Legend. This is 50 minutes and better quality! Yeah!
CD-R #10:
Radio Broadcast on KSAN, San Francisco, CA., The Outcast Hour, call-in show, 4/1/78, two sources, FM, one is second gen off studio reel
1. "This is the only program where we have real live babies bumping heads in the night"
2. The Interpreter (45 version)
3. "I think the Sex Pistols are really groovy, they remind me of Fiero LaGuardia"
4. Bloody Hammer (demo tape)
5. "The cow kicked a lantern and started a fire."
6. White Faces (demo)
7. "For every vegetarian there's someone else with a cup of blood"
8. Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play (demo)
9. "Pinky Lee's in jail again"
10. Roky & The Aliens radio promo, 1978
Meeting With An Alien: Roky Erickson, Austin Cable Television Broadcast, 4/7/80
11. Musical influences, trends
12. Creature With The Atom Brain (acoustic)
13. The 'Elevators: the myth, song collaboration
14. Right Track Now (acoustic)
15. The 'Elevators: police harassment/Dylan
16. Mr. Tambourine Man (acoustic)
17. Spiritual beliefs
18. For You (acoustic)
19. Horror show/new wave
20. Goodbye Sweet Dreams (Mars demo, '75)
Roky CD Club issue Number Eleven is again something very, very special! How does the only known interview with Stacy Sutherland grab you?! This is a processed clone of the master tape. This interview is two discs long and was done for a high school paper around Jan/Feb 1977. Stacy comes off as intelligent and likable. He tells his version of the story and picks up an acoustic and sings a bit. His wife, Bunny, sings backup vocals. Bunny was to shoot Stacy to death later the next year. This interview is a MUST HAVE!
CD-R #11a & 11b:
Two part Stacy Sutherland interview. I don't have a "track listing" but it's a great interview with Stacy even picking his guitar and singing a bit. Awesome!
CD-R #12:
Raul's was the Punk Rock club in Austin and the Explosives were one of the house bands. Here, they back Roky through a rip roaring set!
Roky Erickson and the Explosives, Rauls, Austin, Texas, Summer, 1979 gig:
1 Cold Night For Alligators
2 Two Headed Dog
3 Rokyspeak I
4 Mine, Mine, Mind
5 Rokyspeak II
6 The Wind And More
7 Rokyspeak III
8 Night of the Vampire
9 Youre Gonna Miss Me
10 Dont Shake Me Lucifer
11 Bermuda
12 Rokyspeak IV
13 The Interpreter
14 Starry Eyes
15 I Walked With A Zombie
16 White Faces
CD-R #13:
This is a companion to CD-R #10. It features attempts of TV show Hosts to interview the 'Elevators. Little did they know that the band had evolved beyond mere conversation! The jewel of this disc is an interview with Tommy Hall in 1990. That's followed by a Roky interview in San Rafael the day of the famous show in River City.
1) Former station manager of Dallas' WFFA-TV talks about the 'Elevator's 1966 appearances on the Sump'n Else TV Show. Recorded in the early 1980's
2) Host Ron Chapman attempts to speak with Tommy Hall on the Sump'n Else TV Show, 3/25/66
3) Larry Kane attempts to speak with the 'Elevators on the Larry Kane TV Show, 12/18/66
4) Bull of the Woods radio spot, San Francisco, 1969
5) Tommy Hall interviewed by Max Fredrikson, 1990.
6-16) Roky Erickson interviewed on San Rafael KTIM-FM 12/9/75
17) Roky Erickson interviewed by Greg Turner for the 6/78 issue of CLE Magazine.
Total Disc Time: 79:40
CD-R #14:
Roky Erickson- It's So High That It's Underground
Yow! Sure, it's a hodge-podge of stuff but it's a hodge-podge made by a fan and not a puke at some crappy, lo-fi, "label". Some thought was put into this one. Some of this hasn't seen the light yet but most of it was "rescued" off other discs that were compiled by the very lo-fi pukes I mentioned above. Get this, the Aliens live material is actually taken off a shitty "best" of the 13th Floor Elevators disc! The bootlegger put the name of the supergroup on the disc but the whole thing is various Roky solo stuff. Nothing moves in a straight line in the 'Elevator's world. What sucks is that most fans are novice, compared to us, and actually buy the shit spewed out. I bought it because I thought (correctly) that it contained some new Roky stuff.
The disc leads off with the legendary 1975, Mars Records, Two Headed Dog but this was rescued off a Time-Life "Punk Rock" comp where Doug Sahm let the compilers in with a DAT to copy the multitrack soundboard master. The quality is A+++ and, for this reason alone, makes this disc a MUST.
Also included is a partial set from a gig dated 9/3/82. This is audience. It was recorded at Trident's in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
After that is that Aliens live material I mentioned. It's a tragedy that this stuff is kicking around on some lo-fi shit label that tried to screw the public by putting "13th Floor Elevators" on the cover. But we're gonna set that right. This stuff is really great! It's audience but sounds like it's off the master to me. This was recorded at the Whiskey A-Go-Go on July 28th, 1978.
Filling out the disc is the two Roky & the Explosives tracks off the "Live At Raul's" comp. put out a few years ago. Raul's was THE Punk Rock club in Austin back in the Seventies and the Explosives were the House Band. Alone, they sounded like a poor man's Talking Heads but when they backed Roky they completely fuzzed out the guitars and turned the amps up to "MAX". These two tracks were left off the LP issue back in the Eighties but were added to the CD reissue. The quality is amazing. Soundboard man.
We have plenty more for more issues to come. There're several more CD's that haven't seen the light yet. I can also patch together stuff like this disc. This disc kicks too!
"It's So High That It's Underground" length: 63:49
studio:
01) Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) - 1975 Mars single 3:34
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 03Sep82
02) Crazy Crazy Mama 4:45
03) Bloody Hammer 6:26
04) Starry Eyes 4:46
05) Don't Slander Me 4:20
06) Two Headed Dog 4:05
07) You're Gonna Miss Me 3:33
Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles 28Jul78 (w/Aliens)
08) radio spot 1:08
09) Stand For The Fire Demon 6:27
10) The Damned Thing 4:05
11) The Interpreter 4:03
12) Don't Shake Me Lucifer 5:08
13) The Wind And More 4:19
Raul's, Austin 1979 (soundboard, w/Explosives)
14) Don't Shake Me Lucifer 2:57
15) Two Headed Dog 4:11
CD-R #15a & #15b:
Most of this material has never been on CD. At best it languished on 35-year-old vinyl, unavailable and unknown except to a few hunter/gatherer hoarder/waster scavenger/collector-types. *pfffft* It took THIS group to exhume these tracks from the crypt (proving they really do exist), breathe new life into them and send them out to take their rightful place in the real world. We all can take pride in this. It's great to be part of a list that *accomplishes* things, isn't it?
So -- the title is: "The High Baptismal Flow a/k/a How Much Is That Vinyl In The Window?" What we have here is two discs of prime 13th Floor Elevators material from a variety of sources. Between this and our previous Elevators discs, this accounts for nearly everything in circulation.
The heart and soul of CD1 is the Elevators' singles, A's and B's in chronological order. These would have made a fine LP in its own right, had anyone at International Artists had the vision to issue it. (The master tapes are almost certainly lost now.) This would have worked well as a "Best Of," a quick overview of what the band was all about, and a great starting point for new listeners. Nobody ever did, so it falls to us to keep it alive for the real fans and to help take care of Roky as we do.
Every last 45 is ripped from the original vinyl; decent copies too. For an indie label in TX mostly concerned with making a quick buck, International Artists' 45s sounded pretty good. Even so, it took a couple of software packages and hours of work to get these ready for CD. If you want, you can still hear a hint of vinyl now and then but you'll need headphones to do it. Smooth. Beyond that, we have a pair of alternate mixes, the Spades' pre-Elevators single featuring Roky, and some backing tracks at the end.
#15a: 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS
The High Baptismal Flow
a/k/a
How Much Is That Vinyl In The Window?
length -- 76:11
mono 45 mixes:
01) IA 107a You're Gonna Miss Me (Contact 45 session, Jan 66) 2:32
02) IA 107b Tried To Hide (Contact 45 session, Jan 66) 2:25
03) IA 111a Reverberation (45 session, Sep 66) 2:50
04) IA 111b Fire Engine (Psych Sounds session, Oct 66) 2:39
05) IA 113a Levitation (45 session, Jan 67) 2:39
06) IA 113b Before You Accuse Me (edit, 45 session, Jan 67) 2:40
07) IA 121a She Lives (45 session, Jan 67) 2:58
08) IA 121b Baby Blue (Easter session, Sep 67) 5:16
09) IA 122a Slip Inside This House (edit, Easter session, Sep 67) 4:08
10) IA 122b Splash 1 (45 demo session, Jun 66) 3:57
11) IA 126a I'm Gonna Love You Too (Contact demos, Apr 66) 2:00
12) IA 126b May The Circle Remain Unbroken (Beast session, Feb 68) 2:45
13) IA 130a Livin' On (Beast session, Feb 68) 3:28
14) IA 130b Scarlet And Gold (Bull session, Aug 68) 5:03
misc:
15) Don't Fall Down (alt with long intro) 3:20
16) Fire Engine (alt version, Epitaph LP) 3:18
SPADES - Zero 10002 - Nov/Dec 1965
17) You're Gonna Miss Me 3:21
18) We Sell Soul 3:15
backing tracks:
19) Roller Coaster (instrumental, aborted, Demos Everywhere LP) 4:20
20) You Don't Know (backing track) 2:45
21) Don't Fall Down (backing track) 3:03
22) Levitation1 (backing track) 3:15
23) Levitation2 (backing track) 4:12
Tracks 1-19 ripped directly from the original vinyl and processed from there
Track 15 appears on ROKCDR2 "Psychedelic Sounds Alternate Mix" but includes a slight glitch at one point and doesn't feature the false start included here.
Track 16, "Fire Engine" from the "Epitaph For A Legend" LP appears also on ROKCDR2 "Psychedelic Sounds Alternate Mix." The take is the same, but the mix is not.
#15b: 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS
The High Baptismal Flow
a/k/a
How Much Is That Vinyl In The Window?
length -- 67:56
La Maison Ballrom, Houston, 8/66:
01) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 6:02
02) Satisfaction 4:51
03) I'm Down 4:47
04) Roller Coaster 4:48
05) I Feel Good 2:07
live jam w/Conqueroo members, winter 1967:
06) She Lives 5:01
raw session tapes, 1966-68:
07) Monkey Island 3:14
08) Roller Coaster 5:03
09) Fire Engine 4:19
10) Through The Rhythm 4:06
11) Tried To Hide 2:52
12) May The Circle Remain Unbroken 2:37
13) I Don't Ever Want To Come Down (cut) 0:38
14) Living On 3:22
15) Living On 3:25
16) Tried To Hide 0:23
17) Tried To Hide 2:50
18) Reverberation 2:48
19) Tried To Hide 1:36
20) Kingdom Of Heaven 3:05
Tracks 1-6 are ripped from the original vinyl and processed from there.
Tracks 7-20 are rough mixes, raw session tapes. Occasional studio chatter can be heard between tracks.
Track 9 is an alternate mix, notable for its lack of backing vocals.
Track 13 is heard here from a tape playback, rather than the more common acetate source. It seems to have been truncated on purpose; the noise at the end is a reel-to-reel tape coming to a halt. Had the acetate not been found, nothing more would have remained of this song.
Track 20 is a rough mix; no alternate version has ever surfaced.
#16a & #16b:
Next up is the Roky Erickson, 8/11/84 gig at Consolidated Arts in Houston. This is the crash and burn of the final 13th Floor Elevators reunion attempt (with Roky). It's John Ike playing with Evil Hook Wildlife. Ronnie quit because he said he never got paid for the 6/16/84 gig. Long jams are the order of the evening but Roky burns above them. The You're Gonna Miss Me has a long guitar intro thats cool. Then Roky starts screaming. That is cool too. This is 3rd gen audience that has had all the hiss & ugliness scooped out with Soundforge. The second disc is filled out with two radio broadcasts from 1984 at the Austin Opera House. This smokes! You like 6/16/84? You'll love this!
#16a:
Consolidated Arts Warehouse, Houston, TX, 8/11/84, 3rd gen audience, John Ike w/Evil Hook
1) Before You Accuse Me
2) Splash 1
3) Bloody Hammer (inst)
4) Bloody Hammer
5) Don't Slander Me
6) Clear Night For Love
7) Two Headed Dog
8) You're Gonna Miss Me
#16b:
1) The Beast
2) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
3) You're Gonna Miss Me (reprise)
4) Splash 1 (reprise- cuts)
Austin Opera House, 8/11/84, KTXZ-FM
5) Intro
6) Two Headed Dog
7) Interview
8) Click You Fingers Applauding The Play
9) Interview
10) You're Gonna Miss Me
11) Outro
Austin Opera House, 10/1/84, KTXZ-FM
12) Intro/Interview
13) Two Headed Dog
14) Starry Eyes
15) Don't Slander Me
16) Interview
17) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
18) You're Gonna Miss Me
The next three CD's are recordings that have been kicking around people's collections for years. We decided to bring it ALL together under one roof! A triple-disc set of the Great Texas God! And we have the pre-show interview from 3/26/82. On CD-R #17c, we threw in a bunch of chip-chop filler for a mish-mosh of Rokyness!
LOUISIANA
CD-R #17a - Faces, Baton Rouge 25th March 1982
Bermuda
I Think Of Demons
Two Headed Dog
Damned Thing
You're Gonna Miss Me
White Faces
Cold Night For Alligators
The Beast
Don't Slander Me
I Walked With A Zombie
Mine Mine Mind
Starry Eyes
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
Crazy Crazy Mama
Bloody Hammer
Creature With The Atom Brain
The Wind And More
CD-R #17b - Beat Exchange, New Orleans 26th March 1982
(Set 1)
Bermuda
I Think Of Demons
Two Headed Dog
Damned Thing
Cold Night For Alligators
White Faces
The Beast
I Walked With A Zombie
(Set 2)
Don't Slander Me
Creature With The Atom Brain
Mine Mine Mind
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
Bloody Hammer
Starry Eyes
The Interpreter
Crazy Crazy Mama
You're Gonna Miss Me
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WTUL-FM Interview, New Orleans 26.3.82
CD-R #17c - Tupelo's, New Orleans 4th September 1982 + Filler
Starry Eyes
Don't Slander Me
The Interpreter
Stand For The Fire Demon
Night Of The Vampire
Hasn't Anyone Told You
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You're Gonna Miss Me (Unknown venue/date)
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(Recorded June 1976, re-mixed May 1992)
Bloody Hammer
Miss Elude
The Haunt
Laughing Things
You Don't Love Me Yet
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Realize You're My Sweet Brown Angel Eyes
("Don't Slander Me" out-take)
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Hasn't Anyone Told You
(7" single - Houston June 1982 w/ Resurrectionists)
The Interpreter (As above, B-side, not on official album release)
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(27 Devils Joking - 1990 7" single)
You Don't Love Me Yet
I Am Her Hero, She Is My Heroin
CD-R #18 - Evil Hook Wildlife, Last Practice Session/Gig + Filler
Yikes! A snapshot of a band in disentegration! Somebody left a cigarette burning on Roky's amp and he's about to kill them! Like, stomp their guts out. Then he says that somebody stole his fuzz-box and the shit REALLY hits the fan! You mess with Roky's fuzz-box and you're playing with fire. There's some cool spoken word stuff on this disc as filler.
Evil Hook Wildlife, Last Practice Session - 1984
Arguing
The Beast
Talk
Clear Night For Love
The Wind And More (1)
The Wind And More (2)
Last Gig - 1984
Two Headed Dog
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
I Walked With A Zombie
Bermuda
Two Headed Dog (reprise)
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--Spoken Words --
Inards Outing In (Two Twisted Tales)
The Bank Robber "
Love To See You Bleed
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
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Bumblebee Zombie
(Aug 1976 w/ Aliens)
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Things That Go Bump In The Night
(Aug 1976 w/ Aliens)
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Please Don't Kill My Baby
(Whiskey A Go-Go, LA 1978 w/ Aliens)
CD-R #19
Demon Angel outtakes & car interview from George Cedarskoog's master tape. Roky riding around Austin with a group of Swedish fans! Prior to that we have Demon Angel outtakes. All of this, the interview and the outtakes were part of the Demon Angel production. This is all from George Cedarskoog's master tape, the Producer of Demon Angel.
5/27/84:
1) Intro -> I Believe In America
2) I Walked With A Zombie
3) Cold Night For Alligators
4) Mine Mine Mind
5) Interview
Car Interviews:
6) Dracula, The Devil & Aliens / Evilhook Wildlife E.T.
7) Dylan
8) James Brown / God
9) Horror / Signing Your Soul To The Devil / Fire Demon
10) Alligator Persons / Drunks
11) Bear With Me
12) Columbo & Kojack
13) Screaming / Horror Rock / Money
14) Right Track Now
15) Blowin' In The Wind
16) Europe
17) Dylan Interview Excerpt
CD-R #20 - George Girmac interview, Dallas, 7/81
This is an interview from 7/81 that was rebroadcast in 1990 to celebrate the release of Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye. It's about 70 minutes long and has Roky answering questions and playing cuts from his albums.
CD-R #21 - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators LP (mono mix)
We have the mono mix of the Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators LP. This is the Mother of all psychedelic music! This is the very first psychedelic LP by the very first psychedelic band. The first modern Rock LP and the blueprint for everything that followed (Psychedelic, Punk, Alternative). Yeah, it all dat peoples, it all dat. It's a legend, a fucking legend! Why is this mono mix special? Well... Back in the day at International Artists, an Engineer, stewed on Listerine probably, added some sort of horrible echo/reverb effect to the final mix of the stereo version. This was a bad mistake; it dated the mix and it sounds like you're listening to the band play from down a concrete hallway underground. This is the mix that has been reissued on CD countless times. The mono LP mix escaped and this is the "real" mix of this legendary and influential LP. With this mix, it's a totally different ball game. The band sounds right upfront and in your face, urgent with fervor. These guys were trying to turn on the whole world. This is one of the foundations of all things 'Elevators. Now, you NEED this CD. This recording was taken off an unplayed mono copy. We broke the seal to rip this. To make matters even worse, we added on the speed-corrected Sump'n Else TV Show tracks from 1966. They're in mono too. It's mono madness! The 'Elevators, live on stage, spewing their subversive message out to the kids over Dallas television; right under the noses of the Establishment because they didn't care to listen to the words. That soon changed. This mono CD is the shit man. Grab it!
"Forget about San Francisco: The American capitol of psychedelic rock was Austin, Texas, and no band soared higher than Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators. In addition to acid-tinged garage rockers such as the crazed-love anthem, "You're Gonna Miss Me," the Elevators' debut included tracks such as "Reverberation (Doubt)," "Roller Coaster," and "Splash 1," which viscerally evoked the sounds of their titles while offering lyrics that provided a philosophical structure for the psychedelic experience." --Jim Derogatis
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (mono mix)
1. You're Gonna Miss Me
2. Roller Coaster
3. Splash 1
4. Reverberation
5. Don't Fall Down
6. Fire Engine
7. Thru the Rhythm
8. You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
9. Kingdom of Heaven
10. Monkey Island
11. Tried to Hide
Speed Corrected, Sump'n Else TV Show, WFFA-TV, Dallas, TX, 3/25/66
12. You're Gonna Miss Me
13. Fire Engine
14. You Really Got Me
15. Roll Over Beethoven
Speed Corrected, Sump'n Else TV Show, WFFA-TV, Dallas, TX, 5/9/66
16. Mercy, Mercy
17. Tried To Hide
18. Gloria
19. Fire Engine
20. You're Gonna Miss Me
21. Roller Coaster
CD-R #22 - The Aliens, Keystone, Berkely, 1977
The Aliens live in Berkeley, 1977. It's a soundboard. Roky's Manager used to hand these cassettes out for promotional purposes. This has been bootlegged numerous times. You might remember the title You Will Believe In Ghosts. Well... This is taken direct off one of those tapes that was handed out back in the day. It's not a 4th gen copy. What's more, the signal was processed. It sounds better than anything out there. There are a very few, slight, tape dropouts but this tape IS old. It's very slight and only in a few places. The bottom line is that this is the best sounding recording of the Aliens live extant. Is it Punk? Is it Metal? Is it Punk/Metal? You be the judge.
Roky Erickson - '77 Keystone, Berkeley, CA, SB 79:48
1) The Wind And More
2) The Damned Thing
3) Cold Night For Alligators
4) I Know I Know How To Love You
5) Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play
6) Mine Mine Mind
7) Don't Slander Me
8) Stand For The Fire Demon /
9) The Interpreter
10) Bo Diddley's A Headhunter
11) Bloody Hammer
12) Before In The Beginning (aka: The Necronomicon Song)
13) Bermuda
14) Two Headed Dog
15) Night Of The Vampire
Roky CD Club CD-R #23 is a full concert. A bit of this has already appeared on CD-R #14, It's So High That It's Underground, but this is the full shot. The quality is very good audience that has been tweaked. This is a worthy addition to any Roky CD collection.
Roky & the Resurrectionists
Trinity's, Baton Rouge, September 3, 1982
#23a First Set:
Bermuda
Hasn't Anybody Told You?
Two Headed Dog
Cold Night For Alligators
Night of the Vampire
Mine, Mine, Mind
Damned Thing
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
You're Gonna Miss Me
#23b Second Set:
The Beast
I Think of Demons
Creature with the Atom Brain
The Interpreter
Crazy, Crazy, Mama
Bloody Hammer
Starry Eyes
Don't Slander Me
Stand for the Fire Demon
Angel
I Walked with a Zombie
Two Headed Dog (reprise)
CD-R #24 Reverberation In The Round- Houston Music Theatre, Feb. 18, 1967
This was the single attempt by IA to professionally record their band in a live setting. They picked this theater in Houston with a revolving stage. I've owned this recording for years now and held off on it because I'm not too fond of the performance. Supposedly, they were all over-dosed on LSD. Stacy was up in Heaven being tried for his sins by the Angel of Death. He said that he knew things were getting hairy when the whole audience turned into wolves. He also said that he didn't feel *normal* for a week afterwards. This is all in that interview. This is the gig. So, the gig has a weird feel. But that's only my opinion... Still, it is (by far) the best sounding 'Elevators live recording out there.
This copy is from a Japanese issue of the Contemptables box. This recording isn't chopped up and has complete tunings between songs. There are even moments of silence and we were able to grab some really good hiss samples. It sounds amazing! In addition, we have the 3/16/66 bit ripped direct from a vinyl boot. There's no DJ patter between songs and one song is missing but the quality blows away what came before on 6/16/84.
Reverberation In The Round - Houston Music Theater Feb. 18, 1967
01 Levitation
02 Roller Coaster
03 Fire Engine
04 Reverberation
05 Don't Fall Down
06 Tried To Hide
07 Splash 1
08 You're Gonna Miss Me
09 Monkey Island
10 Kingdom Of Heaven
11 She Lives
New Orleans Club March 16 1966 (taken from vinyl boot that was cleaned up)
12 The Word
13 I'm Down
14 Gloria
15 Monkey Island
16 Roller Coaster
17 You're Gonna Miss Me (taken from 6/16/84 filler but cleaned up a bit)
Houston, Feb. 18, 1967 after show jam with Conqueroo members
18 She Lives
La Maison Ballroom Houston August 1966
19 I Feel Good
CD-R #25:
RAINCROW, live at The Jade Room, Austin, TX, December 9, 1971
1. Let It Roll
2. Slippin' And Slidin'
3. Mathilda
4. Stagger Lee
5. So Long
6. instrumental
7. All Along The Watchtower
8. Brown Sugar
9. I Feel Good
10. Cripple Creek
11. Something On Your Mind
12. Money
13. Shadow Falling
14. For Your Love
15. band song
16. blues instrumental
17. Honky Tonk Women
Raincrow Live at The Jade Room 9th Dec 1971. This band consists of Stacy Sutherland (guitar), Ronnie Leatherman (bass), Obi Hardeman (vocals), Bobby Rector (drums) and Cecil Morris (harp). The music is rock, blues, soul, but some of the names involved may be of interest to fans of Texas Psych. The original recording is courtesy of George Kinney of The Golden Dawn, who has cleared its distribution. There is hardly any audience noise between tracks, so it's TAO and fits only on an 80 minute CDR. There are cover versions by the Band, Stones and Dylan
(plus whoever wrote 'Money' - Barrett Strong IIRC), as well as blues standards and band compositions. No compositions by The Elevators. Sound quality is a fairly consistent 8/10 with very occasional clipping.
CD-R #26
Clementine Hall interview. Berkeley, California, October, 2003
Joe T. did this interview and in it Clementine tells the Amazing Story of the 13th Floor Elevators from her perspective. She comes across as intelligent and articulate. This interview is a MUST HAVE for all fans!
CD-R #27:
Roky Erickson, Soap Creek saloon, Austin, TX, 10/9/84
Solo acoustic!
1) For
2) Devotional Number One
3) I Believe In America
4) I Love The Blind Man
5) I Love You
6) It's Love
7) rokyspeak: The Photographer
8) I've Never Known This Til Now
9) The Light
10) The Looking Glass Song
11) Loving Isn't A Part Time Thing
12) May The Circle Remain Unbroken
13) More Power To You
14) rokyspeak: Rocketship Accident
Bonus track:
15) Cold Night For Alligators
recorded at Roky's home, 1983
An AMAZING recording! I think Roky is reading out of his book, Openers and putting music to the poems/songs. It's all religious stuff and really gorgeous. "Jesus is not a hallucinogenic mushroom..." you gotta love that man. Some of these songs HAVE NEVER been heard and only known in lyrical form (until now). This is a real find.
I think you Syd Barrett folks will want this. You'll know what I mean when you hear it. It's like a "Barrett" session only with religious lyrics but they're lyrics that Roky wrote. It's NOT "Church" music. This is a REAL find and addition to the Roky Catalog. I'm telling you, this is the REAL DEAL.
The quality is a master tape clone that has been tweaked with Cool Edit Pro. The mic is right up there on the stage with Roky and he even bumps it a few times. The quality is gorgeous.
CD-R's #28A & 28B
John Ike Walton Interviews
These are two interviews from Ingram, Texas done on 1992 & 1994. In these, John Ike Walton gives his take on the Amazing Story of the 13th Floor Elevators. These have been heavily processed and while the sound is good and clear there might be some digital pops. On my car stereo, there's nothing. On my home stereo, it's "snap!", "crackle!", "pop!". But these are interviews and everything is clear. These are both good additions to any fan's collection.
CD-R #28A:
John Ike Walton interview- Ingram, Texas, 1992 conducted by Phil "The Ranger" James
1) Meeting the Elevators
2) Cutting the first tracks
3) Benny the violinist
4) The big break
5) On Ronnie
6) The live album
7) On going to California
8) TV shows
9) Ronnie & John Ike leave
10) Back to California
11) The gig is Modesto
12) Tommy/naming the band/the jug
13) The first gig/other bands/Roky's first bust
14) Roky's second bust/Rusk
15) Gigs after Roky's release
16) '84 reunion/the Ritz
17) Visiting Roky/The birhday party gig
18) Royalities
19) The break with IA
20) Song writing on acid
21) Conquroo/Theater in the round
22) Playing again with Roky?
23) John Ike's drum kit
24) On Roky
25) Downfall/the jug/meeting Tommy
26) the bust
27) On Powell St. John
CD-R 28B:
The Story of the 13th Floor Elevators as told by John Ike Walton. Ingram, Texas, 1994 Tracks 1-7 are John Ike Walton. Tracks 8-14 are John Ike Walton and Paul Tannison
1) Tripping with Stacy & Tommy
2) Tommy smuggling weed
3) Busts in Austin
4) Longshorman's Hall
5) Roky planted
6) Rusk
7) Busted in Austin
Part 2
8) Pre-'Elevators/ICE
9) Stacy and the banditos
10) On Stacy
11) Bull of the Woods
12) On Benny
13) Austin's venues
14) Stacy's death
Part 3
From phone discussions with Jack Ortman. Recorded 6/6/92 at the book release party for 'Roky III- Son of the Sequel' from the Larkspur bookstore in Marin County, CA.
15) John Ike in Ingram
16) Tommy Hall in San Francisco
Part 4
17) Interview with Roky conducted by Mark Linimon for KTRU-FM in Houston circa: 1981
CD-R #'s 29A & 29B:
Demos For Demons/Best Laid Plans Redux-
This was originally #'s 5A & 5B of the Roky CD Club. It has had two names: Demos For Demons & Best Laid Plans. Since this came out, much better quality of some recordings was found. Additionally, the original recordings were tweaked with Soundforge by somebody much more skilled in it. The result is a much better sounding recording all around.
CD-R #29A
Demos for unreleased EP w/Harry Hess on 2nd guitar, 1st gen source tape.
1. Hasn't Anyone Told You
2. Hasn't Anyone Told You (take 2)
3. For You (I'd Do Anything)
4. I'm Satisfied
5. Something Extra
Demos for Openers, 1st gen source tape.
6. Splash 1 (cut)
7. I Had To Tell You
8. The Looking Glass Song
9. Bloody Hammer
10. When You Get Delighted
11. True Love Casts Out All Evil (cut)
CD-R #29B
Demos for Demon Angel video, 1st gen source tape
1. I Believe In America
2. I Walked With A Zombie
3. Cold Night For Alligators
4. Mine, Mine, Mind
Roky's home, Austin, 9/19/88 1st gen source tape
5. Bashful Bobby
6. Run To Him/Walking With My Angel
7. Susie Baby
Unknown
8. Can't Do You No Justice
9. What Would You Do?
KTXZ-FM Studio, Austin, 4/5/85 2nd gen source tape
10. I Love The Blind Man
11. I've Never Known This till Now
12. May The Circle Remain Unbroken
13. Starry Eyes
14. John Lawman (cut)
CD-R# 29C & 29D-
CD-R# 29C - 75:36
Dylan Meets Donovan At The Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn Tapes: [Direct off vinyl]
1) The Singing Grandfather 3:56
2) The Times I've Had 2:27
3) That's My Song 1:00
4) True Love Ways 3:36
5) Peggy Sue Got Married 2:00
6) Mighty Is Our Love 4:13
7) I Look At The Moon 2:43
8) Don't Slander Me 2:36
9) May The Circle Remain Unbroken 2:30
10) The Singing Grandfather 3:33
Donovan / Dylan Tracks: (Jack Ortman 2nd Guitar) [Direct off vinyl]
11) One Too Many Mornings 1:36
12) When The Ship Comes In 3:55
13) The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 4:45
14) Lay Down Your Weary Tune 2:17
15) The Chimes Of Freedom 7:39
16) To Sing For You 2:51
17) Catch The Wind 3:43
18) Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:37
19) Colors 2:33
20) Honey, Give Me One More Chance 1:57
21) The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll II 1:36
Live California 1975 (Sleeping Lady Café?)
22) I'm Gonna Free Her 2:23
23) Bermuda 2:40
24) Splash 1 2:16
25) May The Circle Remain Unbroken 0:43
26) I Had To Tell You 2:06
27) Hide Behind The Sun 1:18
CD-R# 29D: 74:08
A Clear Night To Do My Rhyme
Clear Night For Love EP: [Direct off vinyl]
1) You Don't Love Me Yet 4:23
2) Clear Night For Love 2:48
3) The Haunt 3:41
4) Starry Eyes 3:12
5) Don't Slander Me 3:27
All That May Do My Rhyme Outtakes: [Different sources, some direct off vinyl]
6) I'm Gonna Free Her 3:08
7) Please Judge 4:35
8) We Are Never Talking 3:52
9) For You (I'd Do Anything) 2:20
10) For You 3:06
11) Starry Eyes II 3:44 (duet with Lou Ann Barton)
12) Please Judge 45 - Acoustic Version 3:17
13) We Are Never Talking 45 3:58 - longer then CD version
14) Starry Eyes III 3:34
Openers:
15) When You Get Delighted 3:07
16) To Think 3:16
17) Warning 3:42
18) True Love Cast Out All Evil 3:36
19) Loving Isn't A Part Time Thing 3:40
20) The Looking Glass Song 2:30
21) Don't Slander Me 2:19 (from Openers CD)
22) Splash 1 2:48 (from video)
CD-R #30
Roky Erickson, w/Cornerstone, Continental Club, Austin, TX May 21, 1984
This is an A- (or a critical B+) audience recording, transferred from the master tape, of Roky Erickson backed by a group called Cornerstone from a show at the Continental Club in Austin, TX on May 21, 1984. Supposedly Roky played with Cornerstone for a very short time, less than a year, and this is the first recording of this lineup to be offered through the Roky CD club. Here is the track list:
Introduction
Two Headed Dog
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
Night of the Vampire
Don't Slander Me
Cold Night For Alligators
You're Gonna Miss Me
The Beast
I Think Of Demons
Two Headed Dog
Total time: 57:57
The second version of 'Two Headed Dog' features a guest appearance by Brian Curley of Evil Hook Wildlife E.T. fame. Regretfully, his bass is mixed way too much up front, but the mix on the rest of the recording is fine. The band is tight (if IMO the lead guitar is a bit over the top at times) and Roky sings with conviction.