2010 Memorial Day Cosmic Campout! On Facebook & MySpace

The 2010 Texas Psych Cosmic Campout is going to be a hoot! Be there or be square!

On MySpace:

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On Facebook:

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Texas Psych 2010 Cosmic Campout w/ George Kinney of the Golden Dawn

Hello Everybody, the 2010 Cosmic Campout w/George Kinney is a GO! The date of this event will be over Memorial Day Weekend of 2010.

This will be a long weekend of camping, fun with fellow list members along with music and quality time with Texas Psych Legend – George Kinney of the Golden Dawn.

Send your indications of interest in participating to this email address: Rokysyd11@yahoo.com

I am creating an email list for this event. This way I can easily keep in touch with those who might be going and forward information and receive communications.

The best part is that we have already done something like this before with the 2004 Cosmic Campout. THAT was lots of fun.

As in 2004, we will be camping up on Mingus Mountain above Jerome, Arizona. The campground is 7,500 feet up on the slope of Mingus and it’s GORGEOUS. I know Ranger Dave too so it’ll be totally cool.

We can grab a few campsites and everybody can crowd in. The campsites feature chemical toilets (clean) and running water. Showers ($2.00) are available in the Town of Cottonwood at the base on Mingus.

Jerome is an actual Wild West ghost town. The only people that live there now are some hippies and oddball characters. It’s a really, really cool spot. Look:

Jerome has an actual Wild West bar! It’s called the Spirit Room. George has played there many times. Check it out:

We’re going to be less than 20 miles from beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Check it out:

2010 Cosmic Campout Participants will get at least two George Kinney concerts. These will be unplugged and out in nature’s beauty. One concert will take place at famous Bell Rock in Sedona. Look:






Bell Rock is the site of a documented Energy Vortex. Sedona is full of them. In Sedona vortexes are made up of spiraling cosmic/spiritual energy. The vortexes of Sedona are believed to be spiritual locations where the energy is optimal to facilitate prayer, mediation and healing. These Vortex sites are thought to be locations having energy flow that works on multiple dimensions. The power of the vortexes interacts with a person’s inner self and is not easily explained. Obviously it must be experienced.



Prices for the 2010 Cosmic Campout are as follows:

$50.00 – 1 person

$75.00 – 1 couple

$100.00 – 1 family

This is a great deal in that it features a whole weekend vacation, along with hours of music and quality time with George Kinney.





I’ll be there too.

Start sending your indications of interest in participating to this email address:

Rokysyd11@yahoo.com



PUT: "COSMIC CAMPOUT" IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

I’ll collect them and make up an emailing list. This way, we can stay in touch and exchange information and phone numbers. This is going to be a hoot!

Kiloh

The Texas Psych Blog's Manifesto

Ahhhhhhhhhh… to blog or not to blog that is the question. Har! Har! Har! We Texas Psych fans finally have our Bully Pulpit! This blog is going to keep getting ranked and go higher and higher until it becomes the De Facto source of information on Texas Psychedelic Music.

I, Kiloh, told all my pretenders that you would be eating my dust (again). That’s because I’m smarter, faster & stronger than all o’ yew put together. Fuck, I’m just plain better. Now, I know that you all will be falling over yourselves to create your own blogs now. But that isn’t going to “do” you. What the pretenders fail to realize that this world runs on three things: 1) Gas, 2) Grass, 3) Ass. There are no free rides. This means that you gotta pay for gas or have some grass. If you have no money and no grass then you’d better be giving up that ass. Learn it fuckers. Live it.

Now, this Texas Psych blog, that OWNS the upper reaches of Google, is going to be a trooth-telling place. We’re not going to be afraid to name names and tell it like it is. This is the place where the fans can hear the trooth. It’s a last refuge.

Fans of the 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, Red Crayola, Golden Dawn, Lost And Found, Thursday's Children, The Rubayyat, Endle St. Cloud, Shiva's Headband, Bubble Puppy, Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Janis Joplin, the Black Angels, Sonobeat, International Artists, garage psych, Roky CD Club and psychedelic music in general we KNOW you’ve been lied to and mistreated. We KNOW because we’ve lived it ourselves. Why do you think we created this blog?

Look for news on the Roky CD Club here. Read album reviews. We’re gonna tell you the real skinny here. You’re not going to read any bullshit like those fuckers that fell all over themselves to proclaim what a great album Don’t Knock The Rok was when it came it. Anybody tries to put one over on the fans? They get bitch-slapped in this very blog. It’s getting thousands of hits a month too. So the underbelly of this genre of music had better watch your step because there’s a new Sheriff in town. Put that fucking tuba down and get back in line motherfucker. All of you fuckers? You know who you are. We're taking you down, all the way to Chinatown.

We’re running this show from now on…

By the way, join the discussion group linked to this blog. This is the FIRST such group of it's kind. All of the other "13th Floor Elevators" & "Texas Psych" groups are pale immitation copy groups by pretenders that joined the first group and thought that they had figured out the secret. Nah! We're still where it's happening.

George Kinney: My Friend Bobby Rector

Billy Hallmark called me a couple of days ago and told me the bad news about Bobby Rector. I am deeply saddened by his passing. Although most of you know I am a believer in the idea that human beings possess an eternally evolving soul, the loss is no less for us left here to mourn. He is on a completely new journey by now, but I will miss him greatly.

I met Bobby back in 1966, after my fellow Golden Dawn members insisted that we find a new drummer due to several problems we were having with our current drummer at that time. Bobby was recommended by Billy Hallmark, largely due to Bobby's close association with Stacy Sutherland and John Ike Walton, Ronnie Leatherman, Terry Penny, Johnny Gathins and others. He was "one of those Kerrville boys."

He drove into my life in a red Corvette and a winning smile. He won the gig at the first audition...he was simply the best drummer we had ever picked with. His drumming was always on beat, and he threw in stuff we had never heard before...it matched our music perfectly. He was a strong, intense drummer, but a very gentle, kind person.

Bobby was also a very accomplished artist. He designed many posters for our band and his design for the cover of our album, Power Plant, was preferred by the band for production, but we were overridden by Intentional Artists producer, Leland Rogers. The cover that came out was designed by George Banks, from Houston, and, I admit, it was a great cover as well. But Bobby drew stuff all the time and we were always impressed by his artistic ability.

Like most bands of the era, there was a lot of debate and variance of opinion among members about a lot of issues, both philosophical and strategically. I was the poet/leader with dreams of world reform and belief in the emergence of an enlightened species that would save our world and propel us into the next phase of human evolution with expanded capacities for compassion, reverence, and conscious abilities. I have devoted my entire life to these goals and ideals. But others, like Bobby, were much more pragmatic about these goals. Bobby believed in living life as it is and making decisions that reflected traditional concepts of success. That is, Bobby wanted to us to be a money-making band, based solely upon musical ability and good business planning. I welcomed Bobby's ideas, because I saw the value and necessity of them if we were to continue to make music professionally. So all in all, we made a good strategic team. The rest of the band had varying ideas blending the benefits and downsides of each of the more polarized ideals, which essential boils down to spirit vs. matter, or art vs. money.

In all cases, though, Bobby was open-minded and fair in his assessments and contributions to our discussions, and, primarily, he was always a reliable and trustworthy drummer and a close, dear friend.

After the band broke up, I lost contact with Bobby for many years. Then when I contacted him again, in 2002 to join the Texas Psych Fest for gigs in Houston and Austin, he was suffering from several illnesses that prevented his participation. I have always regretted the fact that he did not play for those gigs. It would have been much more of a "real" reunion if he and Tommy Ramsey had played. As it were, Jimmy Bird and Billy Hallmark and I did the shows as the only original members of the Golden Dawn. And while we did our best, and put together a really great band, it would have been a great comfort to my heart to have played a few more gigs with Bobby setting the beat and keeping everything where it was supposed to be musically.

Bands are only the expressions of the members therein. And Bobby Rector was an integral, respected, essential member of the Golden Dawn.

PS.
Keep up the chops, Bobby; I guess the rest of us will be there before too long to start a new band. And it will truly and forever be a Golden Dawn.

RIP
Your friend and brother in music,
George Kinney

Doug Walden RIP

Sob! Doug was a dear, dear friend and an original member of the Texas Psych group- joining back in 1998. I shall miss him greatly. He came to visit me in Phoenix in 2004 and was just such a sweet guy. He was a “for real” Texan until the end too.
Kiloh Smith

Doug B. 'Hollywood' Walden

Memorial service for Doug B. "Hollywood" Walden, 59, Lawton, will be at 2 p.m. today at Whinery-Huddleston Chapel.

Mr. Walden died Tuesday, June 19, 2007, in Lawton.

He was born Feb. 13, 1948, in Baton Rouge, La., to William E. and Betty Garrett Walden. He graduated from Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas, in 1966. He was a professional musician, playing in several bands from age 16 to 30. Among them were: The Showman, Christopher and The Grits. He owned his own commercial cleaning company, and later worked for Acme Brick in Denton, Texas. He also played in many blues bands, most notably, Blue Tattoo, in Lawton. He was employed by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. since 1989.

Survivors include his wife, Sherry, of the home; a daughter and son-in-law, Brandi Lynn and Pat Walden Moran, Newnan, Ga; a stepson Beau King, Denton, Texas; a stepdaughter and her family, Melissa and Chris Landis and children, Mackenzie and Caleb, all of Houston, Texas; a brother and his family, W.G. "Snuffy" and Deb Walden and children, Will and Connor, Los Angeles, Calif.; his father his wife, William E. and Sam Walden, Fort Worth Texas; a step-brother, David Guthrie; a step-sister Cheri Hayes and children, Trisha and Krissy Hayes, and Jenny Williams; his aunt and her husband, Dot and Charlie Bachtell and sons, David and Michael, Longview, Texas; his aunt, Dorothy Mae Walden, San Antonio, Texas; his uncle John Garrett, Longview, Texas; cousins: Tommy and Carolyn Walden and son, Abilene, Texas; and David and Kathy Walden, San Antonio, Texas; his mother-in-law, Doris Bell, Lawton; sisters-in-law and their families: Susan and Mark Watkins and children, Melanie, Sharla, and grandson, Christian, Oklahoma City; Gloria and George Foreman, of Florida; and Patty Kay and Shad Stuckey, Chattanooga; brother-in-law and wife, Tom and Susan Bowlin, Canton, Ohio; nephews and their families: Bart and Stephanie Bowlin, Sagamore Hills, Ohio; Chris and Tracy Bowlin and son, Jake, Weatherford; Kellar Bowlin, Canton, Ohio; a niece, Amanda Bowlin, Canton, Ohio; nieces and their families: Denise and Jeff Burk and children, Jeremy and Shelby, all of Lawton; and Shelley and Scott Prosser and children, Taylor, Austin and Sidney, all of Lawton; and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his mother; and his grandfather, Hugh Garrett, Longview, Texas.

PERFORMERS WANTED FOR CHARITY CONCERT

Read this below. I work with African charities and use the name "Robin". When you contact this woman refer to me as "Robin". Those interested in participating contact this woman:

I hope that this message finds you well. I am searching for any type of suggestions possible in regards to how ASAP Africa can reach out to performers and coordinate a charity benefit. We have been meeting with the Amphitheater in Peachtree City, GA to develop an awesome concert for October of 2008. It has been a little overwhelming when cost of performers is discussed. I was hoping that you could provide me with the best way to reach out to performers and get them to donate their time for a good cause. We are in the beginning stage so any information at this time would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your continued support and all of your unwavering efforts to promote the good of African nonprofits.

Sincerely,

Shannon Dunn
Fund Development Coordinator
shannondunn@asapafrica.org
www.asapafrica.org
770-632-7451

My Challenge to Sumnerd Erickson

I'm listening to Attack of the LP's vol. II right now. It's amazing, direct from IA vinyl that was de-clicked by hand. This is like what? Disc 100+ for the Roky CD Club? And this is the best batch yet! We're giving it away for fucking free too.

The Roky Robber's Roost's record is: one lousy disc. That was the absolute abomination known as Don't Knock The Rok. That was a "Lurkin Special"; dragging Roky's name and career through the muck; a real "screw you" to the fans.

My question to Sumnerd Erickson is this:
You have Roky himself. You have Lurkin. You have all the supposed "cooporation". Why isn't there any music coming out? I mean the Roky CD Club will keep leading the way. We'll keep CARRYING THE TORCH. But, you have all this "cooporation" AND the living artist! What the frig is the matter with you? You can't seen to do anything. And when you do put something out it's an utter piece-of-crap.

My challenge to Sumnerd is to suck it up! Put something worth listening to out. Quit posting your shit on youtube because your shit sucks. Put Roky's stuff out.

I mean, I'm willing to GIVE LESSONS on how to do this. Do you need LESSONS? I'll do this, for the cause.

But this isn't "rocket science" Sumnerd. It's channeling all the supposed "cooporation" that you claim to have.

That's my challenge to you Sumnerd; put out something (by Roky) worth listening to.

Kiloh

FREE 3D MOVIE IN HOLLYWOOD TONIGHT!

My friend, Mike Alvarez, is screening his 3-D movie tonight. It's free! Some of you might know Mike as Roky Erickson's guitarist in the Demon Angel film.

Not Records Tapes
P.O. Box 29161, Los Angeles, CA 90029
E-mail: nrteg@earthlink.net website: http://www.notrecordstapes.com
Phone 323-969-8220 Fax 323-969-8230

“2324 – The Making of an Underground Rock Album” premiers in Hollywood May 26th

The Tom Koester 3D documentary about the making of the Mike Alvarez album “2324” will screen at 7:30PM, Saturday, May 26, at the legendary Hollywood establishment The Pig N Whistle. The documentary received “Honorable Mention” at The International 3D Movie Competition held May 12th in Los Angeles (note: other Koester 3D films took First and Second Place at the competition - see http://www.la3dclub.com). Koester and Alvarez will be available for a short Q&A after the over 1-hour screening.

Koester captured in 3D the essence of the 2-day recording sessions held April 23rd and April 24th of 2005 that yielded 10 songs for the Alvarez CD.

For a preview, reviews and more information about the CD and documentary, see http://www.notrecordstapes.com.

The Pig N Whistle
6714 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Phone: 323-463-0000
http://www.pignwhistle.com

All Ages. Free Admission

Parking: Valet parking available
on McCadden (side street off
Hollywood Blvd.) Street parking
also available.

13th Floor Elevators - EE/BOTW

It's here! Taken from International Artists LP's and de-clicked by hand! Easter Everywhere is arguably the greatest psychedelic album of all time. Now combined with the 'Elevators' unfinished swan song- Bull of the Woods. All of you need to sign up for this when the tree comes around. These IA LP's are as close to the master tapes as we'll get until Mike and I do something with the Easter Everywhere master. Both albums go extremely well together. This is going to be the CD of the summer! Thanks to the Engineer who worked on this! He did everything by hand!

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere & Bull Of The Woods, IA Stereo LPs, 79:38
Technics SL-BD22 > Yamaha RX-V800 > AMS Tech TravelPro > Cool Edit (minor edits, custom declick) > wav > Flac Frontend > Flac (no SBE)

Easter Everywhere:
1) Slip Inside This House
2) Slide Machine
3) She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)
4) Nobody To Love
5) Baby Blue
6) Earthquake
7) Dust
8) Levitation
9) I Had To Tell You
10) Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)

Bull Of The Woods:
11) Livin On
12) Barnyard Blues
13) Till Then
14) Never Another
15) Rose And The Thorn
16) Down By The River
17) Scarlet And Gold
18) Street Song
19) Dr. Doom
20) With You
21) May The Circle Remain Unbroken

Roky Robber's Roost Comes Up Short!

Recently, the latest stooge for the Roky Robber's Roost has approached the owner of the Easter Everywhere 8-track master and tried to insinuate himself into things. He's some tool named "Paul" who's going to soon be hawking some book around that he wrote. Watch out...

But first, he came off all "wanting to do what's ""right"" for everybody". Then he tried thinly-veiled threats ominnously mentioning "Charly". Lately he is saying that he can "broker" a deal with Charly.

This guy's a tool and he's full of crap. The owner is lucky that he has Kiloh closely advising him on these matters. The price of the Easter Everywhere master is $500,000.00.

SHOW US THE MONEY! SHOW THE MONEY! SHOW MONEY OR SHADDAP!

Look, we might just release our own version of Easter Everywhere. We have the multi-track master. We'll have fun twiddling the knobs ourselves and put out the "Kiloh Mix" of Easter Everywhere. Maybe we'll call it the "kiss me while I bend over mix". Oh yes, we can do this. We know this.

Charly can't do sheeeeeeeit. And besides they're waaaaaaaay over in Ennnnnnnnnnnngland! Their "Corporate Headquarters" is a mail drop. So we're real scared of pissing them off.

Come up with the half million for the Easter master or shaddap! See pictures of the reels above.

Black Angels Carry Flame of Texas Psych

Reposted from Relix Magazine
Written by Rebecca Carter

Caverns of swirling light patterns cast flickering shadows as they envelop the band onstage. The members move hypnotically with the pulsing wall of sound they create as the frontman paces, tambourine in hand, drifting toward the microphone. The room is filled with an anxious melancholy reminiscent of the early days of The Velvet Underground, but this dark psychedelic scene is courtesy of The Black Angels.

Formed in 2004, The Black Angels are, amongst such contemporaries as Vietnam and The Secret Machines, part of a post-psychedelic revival which has become re-envisioned as the new underground. Singer Alex Maas first began playing with guitarist Christian Bland in a group called The Black and Green Scarecrows and decided to start a new band that better expressed the sound both were searching for. Together with drummer Stephanie Bailey, keyboard player Kyle Hunt, organist Jennifer Raines and bass player Nate Ryan, The Black Angels were formed. Drawing inspiration from a ranges of sources, including Pink Floyd, The Doors, Clinic and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels grew out of the Austin, Texas rock scene. Once associated with the rawer side of country, the Austin scene has evolved into a launching pad for artists of all genres.

“We were playing around town like once or twice a month,” explains Maas. “Austin has so much music you can play two or three times a month there and it doesn’t really hurt you. There’s just so much going on.” After developing a following in Austin, The Black Angels decided it was time to tour and, following the release of an EP and European single, their first album Passover debuted, appropriately, in April of 2006.

Passover’s echoing vocals and trippy instrumentation capture a somber tone. “There’s definitely the idea of fear and paranoia… I don’t know where that came from,” laughs Maas. “My parents grew up in the Cold War so that was just a theme throughout the house: fear of nuclear attack or fear of God’s hand striking you down.”

But Passover is not entirely despondent and, in true psychedelic form, the themes of alienation are more of a dramatic device. And they work—drawing the listener in and creating something rare in the current soundscape: an album that is best appreciated when heard from beginning to end.

Much like The Black Angels’ predecessors of the ‘60s, the band mixes the raw qualities of Delta blues with droning experimentation, most notably on the songs “Manipulation” and “Bloodhounds on My Trail.” The standout track, “The First Vietnamese War,” which was also released as a single, begs the question: Why would a band that already evokes so much of the 1960s’ spirit go so far as to write a song about the Vietnam War, especially when current times provide plenty of fodder for antiwar material?

Although songs like “Young Men Dead” and “Call to Arms” share similar themes with “The First Vietnamese War,” Maas is quick to dismiss any labeling of The Black Angels as a political band. “There’s a need to call out political wrongs, there’s never been a bad time to do that,” he explains. “But that’s not what I’m trying to say. Escape through music is what it is, escape in a meditative kind of way.”

A “meditative escape” is perhaps the best way to describe and experience The Black Angels, both on record and in concert. Live, the band seems to reach a communal zone that extends to the audience. “The more I hear the music, the more I get off,” says Maas. “It’s kind of a spiritual thing I get into, not to sound all hippy about it or anything.”

The band recently wrapped up a tour of North America and Europe with The Black Keys and has made appearances at the Sasquatch Music Festival, Austin City Limits and is set to play this year’s Bonnaroo. Yet despite its busy touring schedule, the band has found time to record tracks for a followup album.

“There’s some stuff on the new album that’s similar to Passover, similar themes,” Maas confesses. “Its different music… but still feels to me like Black Angels’ songs.”

By taking all of the elements that defined the experimental rock of the ‘60s and giving it a new voice applicable to this generation, The Black Angels are reinvigorating a scene that was due for a renewal.

“There are other bands that are doing what we’re doing, or in a similar vein as us,” explains Maas. “If those sort of bands could get together and make some sort of change in music, that would be awesome.”