Check out this video of much of my collection of rock poster art. I began to run out of time so I couldn't show two other rooms or my several portfolios (full) of posters or my huge amount of handbills and cards. But this is a lot.
You Syd Barrett fans will find stuff to oggle and you Texas Psych fans will find stuff to oggle. Kiloh Smith - Psychedelic Poster Art.
This is Kiloh, I am reviewing the Roky CD Club #50. Yup, we have been operating for FIFTY VOLUMES now! Whoring it out on the street for all the fans for over ten years now. Roky CD Club #50 is a 2 disc set of Evil Ones vocal and instrumental tracks. To read the particulars of these discs and see where to DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE!GO HERE NOW.
OK, this is vocal takes and instrumental takes. All of this stuff is taken from cassette copies of the master tapes. This is, basically, THE MOTHDERLODE! Some quality is a bit better than others and there are a few spots where the tape was damaged but… THIS STUFF IS ALL EXCELLENT QUALITY! All of the highs and lows are there; it’s crisp as fresh iceberg lettuce. And when I say the “tape was damaged” don’t let your little minds begin working about “damaged tape”. There are a couple spots, about two seconds long, where the tape fades in and out a bit. But, other than that, this is all AMAZING QUALITY.
Now, the “Vocal Tracks” disc does have instruments on it as well. The mix is the rough mix; there’s no Stu Cook “polishing” of the sound here. Billy Alienate? That dog was well leashed on these tracks. Who knows? Maybe he was blowing Stu Cook for more of a “presence” on the Evil One final mix.
As with any rough mix the drums are out front. This is like Led Zeppelin’s Coda LP where they put Bonham out front. But, with any rough recording of a rock band, the drums come out front. That’s not a “bad” thing here.
Roky sounds fantastic! ‘nuff said!
The grouping of the tracks might be a little off-putting to some because one hears like… 5 Cold Night For Alligators and 6 Wind And More tracks back-to-back that are very, very, very similar. But the REAL FANS will be going: “Can I please have more!?”
The instrumental tracks disc is great too. Listening to this disc one really becomes aware of just how much Roky adds. Roky is the Straw That Stirs the Drink. Oh hell, he’s the Ice and the Booze too; *maybe* the Aliens are the empty glass.
The picture for this blog post is my copies on the seat of my car while I fly through Phoenix rocking out to this stuff. There’s a little message for Billy and Luckin in there too. See if you can figure it out.
Finally, I want to say a word about our Producer. He is the unnamed one. The guy is a genius. Everything is done by hand. There are no “applications” run on this stuff. And by hand means that it takes time. He’s the FORCE behind the throne.
I tol’ you that we would/will continue to whore it all out. This is the fans TAKING CHARGE and continuing to destroy the multi-headed hydra of scumbags taking advantage of Roky’s Legacy and trying to line their pockets. WE PUT OUT THE BEST STUFF AND IT’S DONE FOR FREE! FREE! FREE!
BE SURE TO CHECK THAT PREVIOUS BLOG POST FOR THE PARTICULARS AND HOW TO GET THIS FOR FREE!
Check out this, super rare, 13th Floor Elevators Grackle Debacle Vulcan Gas Company poster. This is the ONLY example of this VERY hard-to-find Vulcan Gas poster I've ever come across. I'm guessing most didn't survive, due to the extremely volatile/acidic newsprint it was printed on. A definite "set stopper" from the VG series.
This shows the band as "Stacey & The 13th Floor Elevators". Poster is black and white with art by Gilbert Shelton. In order to save money, the Vulcan Management printed some posters on newsprint, including this one. New Atlantis, which featured former Elevators member Dan Galindo, performed on the 29th as well (without the Elevators). This is the hardest to find of the three Vulcan Elevators posters.
I will post another vid when I get this back from the Document Restorer's. Enjoy!
The Sherwoods were a Corpus Christi quintet that was popular from 1968 - 1969 and made two 45s on Smash records in 1969. The Sherwoods were Michael Claxton (lead & backing vocals), Johnny Clary (drums, lead & backing vocals), David Franklin (lead & rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jim Frye (lead & rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Kenny Blanchet (bass). They were a psychedelic pop group, patterened after the Moving Sidewalks (featuring Billy Gibbons) and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.
Their live shows were evidently very impressive, because it was one such performance in Austin that got them signed by Mercury, but only two of the three singles they cut were ever released, to no success. After two years together, the group broke up in early 1970 amid personal difficulties and members' problems with the Vietnam-era draft.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Check out this sick, 1st printing, 13th Floor Elevators Kelly Mouse poster from 9/2,3/66 at the Avalon Ballroom. My buddy in Dallas owns this puppy! It was signed by Mouse and Kelly! One of these shows is where the famous "Avalon Bootleg" is from. The World Famous Roky CD Club put this out with speed-corrected Sump'n Else TV Show tracks. Here're some samples of that show below:
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Roky CD Club continues to PUT IT ALL OUT! Up this time? How about some Evil One Vocal & Instrumental takes? SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! COME 'N GIT IT AFORE I THROW IT TO THE HAWGS!
Roky Erickson & The Aliens - The Evil One Vocal Takes & Instrumentals, Studio, 137:08, ROK CD 50
Recorded 1978-79 at:\
The Church Studio, Marin County, CA
The Automatt, San Francisco, CA
Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco, CA
Lineage: * Assorted Cassettes & Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) & Adcom SLC-505 Straight Line Controller & Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro & Wav
CD1: Processing: Pitch correction, gain adjustments and channel offsets aligned. No NR or EQ.
CD1 Vocal Takes 78:23: 01 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:14 02 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:13 03 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:14 04 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:14 05 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:14 06 If You Have Ghosts 4:00 07 If You Have Ghosts 3:35 08 If You Have Ghosts 4:00 09 If You Have Ghosts 4:01 10 If You Have Ghosts 4:10 11 If You Have Ghosts 4:04 12 The Wind and More 4:24 13 The Wind and More 4:24 14 White Faces 2:45 15 White Faces 2:43 16 White Faces 2:41 17 White Faces 2:44 18 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play/ 2:22 19 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play 2:36 20 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play 2:35 21 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play 2:35 22 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play 2:39 23 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 2:58 24 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 2:50
CD2: Processing: Pitch correction, gain adjustments and channel offsets aligned. Some EQ, no NR.
CD2 Instrumentals 58:45: 01 Stand for the Fire Demon 6:14 02 The Damned Thing 5:21 03 The Damned Thing 0:26 04 The Damned Thing 2:52 05 The Damned Thing 0:35 06 The Damned Thing 0:30 07 The Damned Thing 4:34 08 The Damned Thing 3:57 09 The Damned Thing 4:31 10 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:16 11 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:14 12 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 0:58 13 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 3:25 14 Night of the Vampire 4:22 15 Night of the Vampire 4:58 16 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 3:02 17 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 3:17 18 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 3:06 Musicians: Roky Erickson (vocals & guitar), Duane Aslaksen (guitar), Steven Burgess (bass), Fuzzy Furioso (drums), Andre Lewis (keyboards), Bill Alienate (autoharp); Also: Brian Marnell, Scott Matthews, Link Davis Jr. and Stu Cook
Jimi Hendrix Johnny Winter at the Scene Club! Check out this sick-assed picture of Jimi playing bass while Johnny Winter blows his mind on the guitar at Steve Paul's Scene Club in New York City! This was taken in 2/69. The Scene Club is legendary as are Jimi's 1968, after hours, jams there. Jimi recorded all of them on a reel-to-reel that he put in the club. All of these tapes were stolen when Jimi died.
There's a recording of Jimi, Johnny, and a drunken Jim Morrison at the Scene from 1968. The Doors played for three weeks straight at the Scene during this time, resulting in the Scene's biggest box office draw. Jimi came to jam after hours and ran into a stone-drunk Jim Morrison. In the interview below, Johnny Winter says that he WAS NOT at this jam. However, I think that I can clearly hear his voice going: "Whoa!" after Morrison utters his first XXX scream of obscenities. Additionally, Johnny states that Stephen Stills was not at a Record Plant jam with Jimi and himself. It has been confirmed that Stephen Stills was there. So... Johnny's memory is a bit hazy. I will paste that part below and you be the judge.
In 1964, Steve Paul opened the Scene as a hangout for actors, musicians and theater workers associated with Broadway; live music was limited to a house pianist. The club was located in the basement of 346 West 46th Street, in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. In 1966 the entertainment shifted to Rock music acts and involved such groups as The Young Rascals, The Lovin' Spoonful, and Andy Warhol & those associated with him, including the Velvet Underground.
Briefly, the club closed but reopened with the assistance, financial and otherwise, of such persons as Peter Yarrow, Allen Ginsberg and Tiger Morse. It became particularly popular with Jimi Hendrix, who regularly performed there after hours, in jams with other notable musicians. In fact, the first New York performances of the Jimi Hendrix Experience were at The Scene, on June 3 and 4, 1967, subsequent to Steve Paul seeing the band at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Hendrix went on to lead the club’s legendary late-night jam sessions the following year.
The Scene closed in 1970. According to Sterling Morrison, then of the Velvet Underground, the closure was prompted by Steve Paul's refusal to pay protection money to the New York Mob. This resulted in fights being started at the club, placing its liquor license in jeopardy
Read Iterview with Johnny Winter about Jimi:
UniVibes: When did you first meet Jimi Hendrix?
Johnny Winter: I met him at The Scene club that my manager Steve Paul had in 1968. Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was. There was a club called The Experience where he always went when he was there - no matter where he went he would go out and play with whoever was around and do a lot of recording with other people, just recording the jamming. They would be down at the club all night and then whoever was sober enough he would bring back to the studio at the end of the night - you know, he really did like to play!
UV: What was your impression of Jimi as a person rather than as a musician?
JW: I never really got to know Jimi as a person. He was always involved in music and never talked about anything `serious' [OK, we know what he means!]. We talked about music and that was it. He didn't seem like a very open person as far as talking about his problems and things like that... He would never say, `Hey man, I really don't feel good today.' He would just keep to himself if he didn't feel good. I'm sure he had a lot of people he was closer to than me that he did talk to, but he just didn't seem to be that open a person except about music and that was what he did, you know. I don't what he was like as a person.
UV: You recorded at the Record Plant with Jimi, Stephen Stills and Dallas Taylor. What do you remember of that?
JW: Yeah, well, I recorded at the Record Plant with Jimi and I played with Dallas and Stephen at The Scene but I don't think they were on the record though. I don't think they were at the studio but I'm not real sure - it's been a long time! [note: Stephen Stills confirmed that the session at the Record Plant was with Jimi, Johnny, Dallas and himself].
UV: You recorded Guitar Slim's `The Things We Used To Do'...
JW: Yeah, we did. That just came out on [`Lifelines', 1990]. I've got it on cassette, there are four cassettes, a whole lot of things he did in different ways and some stuff that hadn't been released before. It's a kind of interesting bunch of tapes and `The Things I Used To Do' was on that. It was OK for an impromptu kind of jam.
UV: You're sometimes credited as playing on a Jimi Hendrix bootleg called `Sky High' along with Jim Morrison and others playing `Red House', `The Sunshine Of Your Love' and several other songs...
JW: Oh, I never even met Jim Morrison! There's a whole album of Jimi and Jim and I'm supposedly on the album but I don't think I am `cause I never met Jim Morrison in my life! I'm sure I never, never played with Jim Morrison at all! I don't know how that [rumour] got started.
UV: You were at the Band of Gypsys concert at Madison Square Garden on 28 January 1970 where Jimi walked off the stage. What did you think was wrong with him?
JW: I dunno. I heard all kinds of things like he took some bad acid... Who knows? I was there that night and it was real obvious that something was wrong. I really don't know if it was drugs or he just had a bad night, but it was really scary. I don't have the faintest idea what it was but it was one of the scariest things I ever saw.
UV: Can you remember when you last saw Jimi?
JW: No, I sure can't. He was around pretty much all the time. I was always running into Jimi some place but I really don't remember the last time.
UV: If he had lived what do you think he would have gone on to do? Do you think he would have gone on to greater things?
JW: I think he would have definitely done better things. I've never seen anybody who loved to play more than him and he always had some kind of an idea. I don't know whether it would have been in a commercial way or he might have come up with something very strange but he was always up with new ideas. I think if he had lived he would have stayed as great as he always was. He would have probably had to go through some pain to do it but I'm sure things would have been OK.
This interview was previously published in UniVibes issue 4, November 1991
Hello all Texas Psych fans. As most of you know, our friend (and Texas Music Legend), George Kinney has been suffering from liver cancer all of 2011. This is to let all the fans know that George got his new liver this week. Word has it that he is up and walking around already. Please pray for George’s recovery and the donor’s family.
BTW, George’s recovery is going to be long. The George Kinney Medical Fund is still the place to go and contribute. See that here:
