Roky Erickson Bootlegs

Roky Erickson Bootlegs!

Here's the first, rough, listing of what the Roky CD Club got from this latest haul. It's all coming out! Look at Tape "D" Billy! It's you and Roky! It's coming out! Guess who's writing the Liner Notes!

Everything was ripped like so:

Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) > Adcom SLC-505 Straight Line Controller > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 6

A) 1981-02-28, Sony HF Normal Bias Cassette CTF 12505, 17:45
Can't Be Brought Down
Wind & More
Bermuda
Bloody Hammer

B) 1979-06-25, Scotch Master 45' Cassette, 3:01
Don't Shake Me Lucifer

C) 1979-07-10, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 2:58
Don't Shake Me Lucifer with Bill Miller

D) 1974 Unreleased with Bill Miller, Memorex DB 90, 45:12 + 46:45
Be And Bring Me Home
The Hardest Working Man Around
@2 Gone And Number [Under Control (You Are Now)]
Mandy
Moody Tunes
Love Hieroglyphics
I'm Satisfied
Alien I Creator
Hasn't Anyone Told You
Bird's 'D Crash
Smother Me
Goodbye Sweet Dreams
How Can We Ask For More
And Now We Fly
Ain't Blues Too Sad
Join The Marching
Never Say Goodbye
-
I'm Hungry For Your Love
Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)
Starry Eyes
Starry Eyes
Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) Extended Version
Starry Eyes
Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)
The Interpreter
Goodbye Sweet Dreams
Haunt
Don't Slander Me
Sweet Honey Pie
Bird's 'D Crash
Love Hieroglyphics
I'm Satisfied
Oh My Soul (Little Richard)
Goodbye Sweet Dreams

E) Roky Unreleased 1974, Maxell XLII-S 100, 49:54 + 46:20
Probably the same as recording D above.

F) Tape was blank!, Maxell UD-XII C60, fwiw, here's the cassette shell text:
Roky Erickson & The Aliens 1981-07-11
If You Have Ghosts Take 3
Click Your Fingers Take 2
Bloody Hammer + Tail
Sputnik

G) Roky Rough 2A, Studio Instrumentals, AKBH8162 C60 Cassette, 59:26
Fire Demon Take 1
The Damned Thing Takes 1-8?
Cold Night For Alligators Takes 1-4
Night Of The Vampire x2
Don't Shake Me Lucifer Takes 1-3

H) 5/14, Studio, White Cassette, 29:11
Starry Eyes x5
The Haunt x2
White Faces/
The Haunt x2

I) '2000', TDK SA-C60, 33:11
Cold Night For Alligators (Fast Version)
Can't Be Brought Down
Bloody Hammer
Wind & More
Sputnik
If You Have Ghosts
Bermuda
White Faces

J) Studio 1976, '1st 45', TDK SD C60, 15:35
Bermuda
Interpreter
Click Your Fingers
Mine Mine Mind
Two Headed Dog

K) Roky Ruffs 15 Songs 5/3/79, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 25:46 + 31:17
White Faces x2
Bloody Hammer
The Wind & More
Mine Mine Mind
I Walked With A Zombie
Creature With The Atom Brain
-
Don't Shake Me
Stand For The Fire Demon
Click Your Fingers
Two Headed Dog
If You Have Ghosts
Cold Night For Alligators
Night Of The Vampire
I Think Of Demons
White Faces

L) Reel #2, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 16:28 + 5:42
Click Your Fingers x4
Don't Shake Me Lucifer x2
-
Click Your Fingers x2

M) 1979-05-17, TDK D-C60, 23:04
Creature With The Atom Brain
Two Headed Dog
White Faces x3
Creature With The Atom Brain
White Faces

N) 1979-05-11, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 13:03 + 12:17
I Walked With A Zombie x4: Fast, Faster, Fastest, Normal
-
White Faces
I Think Of Demons
I Walked With A Zombie x2

O) 1979-5-11, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 16:20 + 12:15
White Faces
Bloody Hammer
Cold / Night
Can't / Be Brought Down
-
White Faces
I Think Of Demons
I Walked With A Zombie x2

P) Roky & The Aliens, 3 Song Demo, Wally Heider Studio, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 11:11
Mine Mine Mind
Wind & More
If You Have Ghosts

Q) TDK MA-C 60' Metal Cassette, 12:43
TEAC Mixes:
The Haunt 5/14/82
The Haunt 5/17/82
-
Starry Eyes 6/5/82 Mix 31 Take 1
You Drive Me Crazy 6/10/82 Mix 49 Take 2

R) Vocal Takes Reel #1, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 31:06 + 31:18
Cold Night For Alligators 1-5
If You Have Ghosts/ 1-4
-
/If You Have Ghosts
If You Have Ghosts x2
Wind & More x2
White Faces x4
Click Your Fingers/

S) Roky - Aliens Studio, TDK AD-C45, 13:49
Two Headed Dog
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
I Think Of Demons
-
Night Of The Vampire

T) Roky - Aliens Studio, Generic Beige Cassette, 15:33
Bermuda
Interpreter
Click Your Fingers
Mine Mine Mind
Two Headed Dog

U) Wally Heider Mixes, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 13:32
Two Headed Dog
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
Night Of The Vampire
I Think Of Demons

V) Ruffs 1979-04-13, Scotch Master I 60' Cassette, 27:02
Cold Night For Alligators
Night Of The Vampire
Shake Me
Stand For The Fire Demon
Click Your Fingers
Mine Mine Mind
If You Have Ghosts

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Teac 2300S 1/4" Reel To Reel Player > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 6

W) 1/4" Reel 7 1/2 IPS, 15:40
Bermuda
Interpreter
Click Your Fingers
Mine Mine Mind
Two Headed Dog

X) 1980-02-19, Roughs, 1/4" Reel 7 1/2 IPS, 29:30 + 20:01
Two Headed Dog
Stand For The Fire Demon
The Wind & More
Cold Night For Alligators
Don't Shake Me Lucifer
Mine Mine Mind
I Think Of Demons
Night Of The Vampire
-
Creature With The Atom Brain
White Faces
I Walked With A Zombie
Sputnik
Can't Be Brought Down

Y) 1/4" Reel 7 1/2 IPS 44:22 + 48:15
-1974-08-22: Hungry For Your Love x3 10:08
-1971-02-28 Rusk State Hospital: 34:14
/Looking Glass
Giving Receiving
I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag
I Love You
When You Get Delighted
-God Is Everywhere (birdsong more prominent in background; different date? location? Evelyn's House?)
jesus met moses x2
I've Never Known This Til Now
jesus met moses
instrumental (2 guitarists)

Rock Poster Scammer Alert - horridious-2009

Please note, this scammer is being investigated by the Albuquerque Police. The Case Number is: 10-122757.

I would like to take this opportunity to warn all collectors of fine psychedelic poster art about this eBay scammer going by the handle: horridious-2009. Here is their eBay Account Page: http://myworld.ebay.com/horridious-2009.

All of you readers know who I am; you know that I have been in this game for many years and that I collect fine psychedelic poster art. You all know that I know my shit.

Recently I bought two Moby Grape psychedelic posters from this seller that have turned out to be cheap counterfeits. What this seller does is display a picture of an authentic psychedelic poster that shows visible aging and wear. They then use language to describe their counterfeit item as genuine; stuff like: “stored rolled” – what? Stored for about as long as it took you to jam it into the mailing tube after you ran it off?, “no pin holes” uhhhh, yeah, no pinholes, the poster was just ran off. “no bends”, etc…

Then this seller takes your money and delivers garbage to you. In my case, I paid over $160.00 for two fake posters that are mere scans of originals run off on some expensive printer. These things even came in shrink wrap! These thieves have no shame.

As you all know, original 1960’s posters were produced utilizing old technology; 3-color, or 4-color, offset printing. There’s a particular type of stock that was used and this stock shows the effects of over 40 years of time passing.

What I received for my money was computer printouts of scanned images on brand new glossy computer paper.

I'll let you readers see for yourselves. You really have to see it to believe it, this scammer is so blatant.

• OK, the first two images displayed on this blog post (at the top) are the images that this scammer chooses to display as pictures of what the product looks like with their eBay auction. As you can see, they acquired images of the authentic posters somewhere. You can see the 40+ years accumulated upon these posters in the images that this scammer displays as what the Bidder is bidding upon.
  
  
• Now, the three images below are what this scammer actually delivers to you when you "win" the auction. I left one of the posters unopened. As you can see, they are rolled TIGHT and sealed in plastic! That's because they are brand new counterfeit posters. Look at the other picture, you can see the glare of the light shining on the brand-new, glossy, computer printer stock.
  
  
• The third picture is of the tube that this scammer ships these items in. I have a soda can next to it for frame of reference. As you can see, the tube is a cheap one and so tiny and this scammer jams both posters down inside it.

See their Item descriptions below. Notice how they use “code” language that tells buyers that these posters are originals:

Moby Grape, Big Brother And The Holding Co., Sons Of Champlin Poster. Poster measures approximately 20"x28". Poster has been stored rolled and in excellent condition no creases, folds, tears or pin holes.

The information at the bottom is as follows:

Bottom Left

1967 Portal Publications Ltd Corte Madera, California

Bottom Right

SIX504 Litho in U.S.A.

Baltimore Steam Packet, Moby Grape And Only Alternatives And His Other Possibilities Poster. Poster measures approximately 20"x28". Poster has been stored rolled and in excellent condition no creases, folds, tears or pin holes.

The information at the bottom is as follows:

Bottom Left

1967 Portal Publications Ltd Corte Madera, California

Bottom Right

SIX501 Litho in U.S.A.


Here's the name and address of where the posters were shipped from:

Mary Davidson
7200 Beck Drive NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
87109

At first, I contacted this scammer privately and told them that I was on to their game. I offered to just let them refund my money and I would not say anything. I did not offer to return the posters as they are not worth the paper they are printed on.

I told this seller that if they did not comply with this offer that I would contact the Albuquerque Police about their little fraud operation as well as the Albuquerque Attorney General, the New Mexico Better Business Bureau, the United States Postal Inspector as well as the IRS because I really doubt that they are paying proper taxes on this fraud operation. Income Tax Fraud is how they got Al Capone and I know that they are cracking down on it.

Get this, apparently this crook is a woman and she contacted “Chad” in Security at eBay maintaining that I threatened her. I wasn’t aware that telling somebody that you would contact the proper authorities after being defrauded was a “threat”. You know what? I PROMISE that I am going to do this now. I don’t even care about the money anymore.

Tomorrow, I contact the Albuquerque Police. These scammers live there. After that it’s the Attorney General and the BBB. Then the fun stuff starts with the Postal Inspector and the IRS.

These clowns are still maintaining that their counterfeit posters are real.

Please spread the word among all our fellow poster collectors about this crew operating on eBay.

Mayo Thompson Interview

COOL MAYO THOMPSON INTERVIEW.

Hideously Rare 1975 Roky Erickson Bleib Alien Poster

I just got this back from the Framer's. It's a hideously rare Roky Erickson Bleib Alien poster from 1975. This featured my buddy, Jerry Lightfoot, on Lead Guitar. It was this band that worked up songs like Two Headed Dog and Don't Shake Me Lucifer. They also played some 'Elevators material. I should have paid closer attention to Jerry telling me all this stuff while he was alive.

Anyway, this poster is SWEET! It's the only known one still in existence. It was given to me because the doner knew that I would give it a good home.

Oh yeah, it's signed by Roky.

Tracy Nelson Armadillo World Headquarters Poster

Check out this original first printing Armadillo World Headquarters poster for a Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth concert which took place on 12/13-14/74.

The late-'60s/early-'70s blues-rock outfit Mother Earth was led by singer Tracy Nelson and issued several somewhat under-appreciated releases during their time span. Born in California but raised in Madison, WI, Nelson began playing music when she was a student at the University of Wisconsin. Nelson began singing folk and blues at coffeehouses and R&B and rock & roll at parties with a covers band called the Fabulous Imitators. In 1964, she recorded an album for Prestige, Deep Are the Roots, which was produced by Sam Charters. Two years after recording Deep Are the Roots, Nelson headed out to the West Coast, spending some time in Los Angeles before settling in San Francisco.

Upon moving to San Francisco, in the midst of the era’s psychedelic explosion, Tracy formed Mother Earth, a group that was named after the fatalistic Memphis Slim song of that title. The formation of Mother Earth led to performances at the famed Fillmore West, opening for the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon.

After six Mother Earth albums for Mercury Records and Reprise Records, Nelson continued to record throughout the ’70s as a solo artist on various labels. In 1974, she garnered her first Grammy nomination for "After the Fire Is Gone," a track from her Atlantic Records album, a hit duet with Willie Nelson. Willie (who, despite the rumors, is not related to Tracy although he contends they just might be "the illegitimate children of Ozzie and Harriet") provided liner notes for the album CD, noting of Tracy’s remarkable instrument, "that tremendous voice has only gotten better over the years."

Roky Erickson Tour - Germany!

Here's an email from a German friend that I am reproducing below regarding a stop on the Roky Erickson Tour of Europe:

Hi Kiloh!

Finally Roky is going to make his debut in germany next Sunday! He is playing in cologne in a small club called "LUXOR“ and the show is sold out.

http://www.luxor-koeln.de/so-12-12-roky-erickson/

I live north from Hamburg at the Baltic Sea, so me and a friend we have to drive 340 miles (one way!) to see Roky.

Now the good thing about this gig, it’s recorded for german public television by the WDR Rockpalast.

http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/extra/konzerte/2010/1212/index.jsp

You can stream older shows from several bands under

http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/videos/uebersicht.jsp

After the show it usually takes 1-2 month and than it will be broadcast in german Free-TV.

A month ago I was at the Rolling Stone Weekender (indoor festival). This show will be broadcast this Sunday night.

http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/sendungsbeitraege/2010/1213/ http://www.rollingstone-weekender.de/RollingStone_Weekender_eng/index.php

I’m following your "work“ and the "Texas Psych" group for years and just wanna say "thank you“ to you and the other guys, who take care of Roky's work.

Excuse my basic English.

With best regards

Kai-Uwe from Kiel / Germany