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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Roky Erickson</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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.hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">Psychedelic rock</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock">garage rock</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Acid_rock" title="Acid rock">acid rock</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Horror_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Horror rock">horror rock</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>singer</li><li>songwriter</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Guitar</li><li>vocals</li><li>harmonica</li><li>piano</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1964–2019</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">CBS</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Restless_Records" title="Restless Records">Restless</a></li><li>Pink Dust</li><li><a href="/wiki/Enigma_Records" title="Enigma Records">Enigma Records</a></li><li>Five Hours Back</li><li>Fan Club</li><li><a href="/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Record_Industry" title="Sympathy for the Record Industry">Sympathy for the Record Industry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Triple_X_Records" title="Triple X Records">Triple X</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Jones" title="Emperor Jones">Emperor Jones</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Norton_Records" title="Norton Records">Norton</a></li><li>New Rose</li><li>Swordfish</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators" title="The 13th Floor Elevators">13th Floor Elevators</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Roger Kynard</b> "<b>Roky</b>" <b>Erickson</b> (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member and the leader of <a href="/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators" title="The 13th Floor Elevators">the 13th Floor Elevators</a> and a pioneer of the <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a> genre in the 1960s, as well as <a href="/wiki/Horror_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Horror rock">horror rock</a> in the 1970s and 80s.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Erickson was born in Dallas, Texas to Roger and Evelyn Erickson, and had four younger brothers. The nickname "Roky", a contraction of his first and middle names, was given to him by his parents.<sup id="cite_ref-HeraldObit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeraldObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, an architect and civil engineer, was stern and disapproving of Erickson's countercultural attitudes, once forcibly cutting his son's hair rather than allow him to grow it out <a href="/wiki/Beatles" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatles">Beatles</a>-style. His mother was an amateur artist and opera singer, and encouraged Erickson's musical talent by taking guitar lessons herself so she could teach him.<sup id="cite_ref-TexasMonthly_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TexasMonthly-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Erickson was interested in music from his youth, playing piano from age five and taking up guitar at 10. He attended school in Austin and dropped out of <a href="/wiki/William_B._Travis_High_School_(Austin,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="William B. Travis High School (Austin, Texas)">Travis High School</a> in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erickson wrote his first songs, "<a href="/wiki/You%27re_Gonna_Miss_Me_(song)" title="You're Gonna Miss Me (song)">You're Gonna Miss Me</a>" and "We Sell Soul", at age 15, and started a band with neighborhood friends which evolved into his first notable group, the Spades.<sup id="cite_ref-Exclaim_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Exclaim-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spades scored a regional hit with "We Sell Soul"; the song is included as an unlisted bonus track on Erickson's 1995 album <i><a href="/wiki/All_That_May_Do_My_Rhyme" title="All That May Do My Rhyme">All That May Do My Rhyme</a></i> and was adapted as "Don't Fall Down" by the 13th Floor Elevators for their debut album. In 1967, Erickson was a guest on a few songs on labelmate <a href="/wiki/Red_Krayola" title="Red Krayola">Red Krayola's</a> debut album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Parable_of_Arable_Land" title="The Parable of Arable Land">The Parable of Arable Land</a></i>, playing electric organ on "Hurricane Fighter Plane" and harmonica on "Transparent Radiation".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_13th_Floor_Elevators">The 13th Floor Elevators</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The 13th Floor Elevators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators" title="The 13th Floor Elevators">The 13th Floor Elevators</a></div> <p>In late 1965, at age 18, Erickson co-founded the 13th Floor Elevators.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and bandmate <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Hall_(American_musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommy Hall (American musician)">Tommy Hall</a> were the main songwriters. Early in her career, singer <a href="/wiki/Janis_Joplin" title="Janis Joplin">Janis Joplin</a> considered joining the Elevators, but Family Dog's <a href="/wiki/Chet_Helms" title="Chet Helms">Chet Helms</a> persuaded her to go to San Francisco instead, where she found major fame. </p><p>The band released their debut album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Sounds_of_the_13th_Floor_Elevators" title="The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators">The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators</a></i> in 1966. It contained the band's only charting single, Erickson's "You're Gonna Miss Me". A stinging breakup song, the single was a major hit on local charts in the U.S. southwest and appeared at lower positions on national singles charts as well. Critic Mark Deming writes that "If Roky Erickson had vanished from the face of the earth after The 13th Floor Elevators released their epochal debut single, "You're Gonna Miss Me", in early 1966, in all likelihood he'd still be regarded as a legend among <a href="/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock">garage rock</a> fanatics for his primal vocal wailing and feral harmonica work."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967, the band followed up with <i><a href="/wiki/Easter_Everywhere" title="Easter Everywhere">Easter Everywhere</a></i>, perhaps the band's most focused effort, featuring "<a href="/wiki/Slip_Inside_This_House" title="Slip Inside This House">Slip Inside This House</a>", and a noted cover of <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/It%27s_All_Over_Now,_Baby_Blue" title="It's All Over Now, Baby Blue">It's All Over Now, Baby Blue</a>". The album <i><a href="/wiki/Live_(13th_Floor_Elevators_album)" title="Live (13th Floor Elevators album)">Live</a></i> was released in 1968 by the band's record label <a href="/wiki/International_Artists" title="International Artists">International Artists</a>, with little to no input from the band. It featured audience applause dubbed over studio recordings of cover versions, alternate takes, and older material. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Bull_of_the_Woods" title="Bull of the Woods">Bull of the Woods</a></i> (1969) was the 13th Floor Elevators' final album on which they worked as a group and was largely the work of Stacy Sutherland. Erickson—due to health and legal problems—and Tommy Hall were only involved with a few tracks, including "Livin' On" and "May the Circle Remain Unbroken". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mental_illness_and_legal_problems">Mental illness and legal problems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mental illness and legal problems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1968, while performing at <a href="/wiki/HemisFair_%2768" title="HemisFair '68">HemisFair</a>, Erickson began speaking gibberish. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received <a href="/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroconvulsive therapy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Elevators were vocal proponents of marijuana and <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_drug" title="Psychedelic drug">psychedelic drug</a> use,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were subject to extra attention from law enforcement agencies. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of a single marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a potential ten-year incarceration, Erickson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital in Rusk, Texas, where he was subjected to more electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972. During his time at Rusk, he continued writing songs and poetry. Family and friends managed to smuggle some of these poems, and in 1972, self-published the book <i>Openers</i>, intending to use the proceeds to hire a lawyer. (Various sources claim approximately 1,000 copies of <i>Openers</i> were printed; how many copies were actually sold remains unknown.) Six tracks from the 1999 Erickson collection <i>Never Say Goodbye</i> were also recorded during his time at Rusk.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alien_years">Alien years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Alien years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1974, after having been released from the state hospital, Erickson formed a new band which he called "Bleib Alien", <i>Bleib</i> being an anagram of Bible and/or German for "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bleiben" class="extiw" title="wikt:bleiben">remain</a>", and "Alien" being a pun on the German word <i>allein</i> ("alone") – the phrase in German, therefore, being "remain alone". His new band exchanged the psychedelic sounds of <a href="/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators" title="The 13th Floor Elevators">The 13th Floor Elevators</a> for a more <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a> sound that featured lyrics on old <a href="/wiki/Horror_film" title="Horror film">horror film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_theme" class="mw-redirect" title="Science fiction theme">science fiction themes</a>. "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" (produced by <a href="/wiki/The_Sir_Douglas_Quintet" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sir Douglas Quintet">The Sir Douglas Quintet</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Doug_Sahm" title="Doug Sahm">Doug Sahm</a> and inspired by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov" title="Vladimir Demikhov">Vladimir Demikhov</a>'s 1950s <a href="/wiki/Head_transplant" title="Head transplant">head transplant</a> experiments) was released as a single. </p><p>The new band was renamed Roky Erickson and the Aliens. In 1979, after playing with the Reversible Cords on May Day at Raul's, Erickson recorded 15 new songs with producer <a href="/wiki/Stu_Cook" title="Stu Cook">Stu Cook</a>, former bass player of <a href="/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival" title="Creedence Clearwater Revival">Creedence Clearwater Revival</a>. These efforts were released in two "overlapping" LPs – <i>Roky Erickson and the Aliens</i> (CBS UK, 1980) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Evil_One" title="The Evil One">The Evil One</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/415_Records" title="415 Records">415 Records</a>, 1981). Cook played bass on two tracks, "Sputnik" and "Bloody Hammer". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creative_decline_and_renewed_interest">Creative decline and renewed interest</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Creative decline and renewed interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roky performed with <a href="/wiki/The_Nervebreakers" title="The Nervebreakers">The Nervebreakers</a> as his backup band at The Palladium in Dallas in July 1979. A recording was issued on the French label <a href="/wiki/New_Rose" title="New Rose">New Rose</a> and was recently re-issued elsewhere. The Austin-based band the Explosives served as Roky's most frequent back-up band during the early <a href="/wiki/Raul%27s_(night_club)" title="Raul's (night club)">Raul's</a> era, between 1978 and the early 1980s. Billed as Roky Erickson and the Explosives, they were regulars at Raul's, the Continental Club, and other Austin venues. It was this incarnation that contributed two live tracks to the first <i>Live at Raul's</i> LP, released in 1980, with other Raul's top bands: <a href="/wiki/The_Skunks" title="The Skunks">The Skunks</a>, Terminal Mind, The Next, Standing Waves, and The Explosives (without Roky Erickson). The Roky Erickson tracks ("Red Temple Prayer" and "Don't Shake Me Lucifer") were not included on the initial release for contractual reasons, but were included on a later release.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984 an observational documentary was produced in Austin for Swedish television, titled <i>Demon Angel: A Day and Night with Roky Erickson</i>. It featured Erickson in plugged and unplugged performances, solo and with local musician/producer Mike Alvarez on additional guitar, in an underground creek beneath the Congress Street Bridge on Halloween. Alvarez later released the film on VHS,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> updating it with interviews of some of Erickson's friends and relatives; it was toured to several cities including Pittsburgh, where the screening was followed by a set of Erickson covers by Alvarez and others, as well as a performance by the Mount McKinleys with guest vocalist Sumner Erickson (Roky's brother).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A soundtrack of the film also was issued on CD, receiving positive reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several live albums of his older material have been released since the mid-1980s, and in 1990 <a href="/wiki/Sire_Records" title="Sire Records">Sire Records</a>/<a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros. Records</a> released the tribute album <i><a href="/wiki/Where_the_Pyramid_Meets_the_Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye">Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye</a></i>, produced by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bentley_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Bentley (producer)">Bill Bentley</a>. It featured versions of Erickson's songs performed by <a href="/wiki/The_Jesus_and_Mary_Chain" title="The Jesus and Mary Chain">The Jesus and Mary Chain</a>, <a href="/wiki/R.E.M." title="R.E.M.">R.E.M.</a>, <a href="/wiki/ZZ_Top" title="ZZ Top">ZZ Top</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poi_Dog_Pondering" title="Poi Dog Pondering">Poi Dog Pondering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julian_Cope" title="Julian Cope">Julian Cope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Butthole_Surfers" title="Butthole Surfers">Butthole Surfers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bongwater_(band)" title="Bongwater (band)">Bongwater</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(singer)" title="John Wesley Harding (singer)">John Wesley Harding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doug_Sahm" title="Doug Sahm">Doug Sahm</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Primal_Scream" title="Primal Scream">Primal Scream</a>. According to the liner notes, the title of the album came from a remark Erickson made to a friend who asked him to define psychedelic music, to which Erickson reportedly replied "It's where the pyramid meets the eye, man", an apparent reference to the <a href="/wiki/Eye_of_Providence" title="Eye of Providence">Eye of Providence</a>, which appears on the album cover. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_music_and_later_life">Return to music and later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Return to music and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg/220px-Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg/330px-Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg/440px-Roky_Erickson_at_2007_Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival.jpg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Erickson performing at the 2007 <a href="/wiki/Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival">Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg/220px-Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg/330px-Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg/440px-Roky_Erickson_and_the_Explosives_at_Bumbershoot_2007_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2433" data-file-height="1483" /></a><figcaption>Erickson and the Explosives at <a href="/wiki/Bumbershoot" title="Bumbershoot">Bumbershoot</a> festival (2007)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg/220px-Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg/330px-Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg/440px-Roky_Erickson_Billy_Gibbons_by_Ron_Baker.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Erickson receiving a lifetime achievement award from Billy Gibbons at the Austin Music Awards (2008)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1995, Erickson released <i><a href="/wiki/All_That_May_Do_My_Rhyme" title="All That May Do My Rhyme">All That May Do My Rhyme</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/Butthole_Surfers" title="Butthole Surfers">Butthole Surfers</a> drummer <a href="/wiki/King_Coffey" title="King Coffey">King Coffey</a>'s label <a href="/wiki/Trance_Syndicate" title="Trance Syndicate">Trance Syndicate</a> Records. Produced by <a href="/wiki/Texas_Tornados" title="Texas Tornados">Texas Tornados</a> bassist <a href="/wiki/Speedy_Sparks" class="mw-redirect" title="Speedy Sparks">Speedy Sparks</a>, Austin recording legend <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Sullivan" title="Stuart Sullivan">Stuart Sullivan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Texas_Music_Office" title="Texas Music Office">Texas Music Office</a> director Casey Monahan, the release coincided with the publication of <i>Openers II</i>, a complete collection of Erickson's lyrics. Published by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Rollins" title="Henry Rollins">Henry Rollins</a>'s <a href="/wiki/2.13.61" title="2.13.61">2.13.61</a> Publications, it was compiled and edited by Monahan with assistance from Rollins and Erickson's youngest brother Sumner Erickson, a classical tuba player. </p><p>Sumner was granted legal custody of Roky in 2001, and established a legal trust to aid his brother. As a result, Roky received some of the most effective medical and legal aid of his life, the latter useful in helping sort out the complicated tangle of contracts that had reduced royalty payments to all but nothing for his recorded works. He also started taking medication to better manage his schizophrenia. </p><p>A documentary film on the life of Roky Erickson titled <i><a href="/wiki/You%27re_Gonna_Miss_Me_(film)" title="You're Gonna Miss Me (film)">You're Gonna Miss Me</a></i> was made by director Keven McAlester and screened at the 2005 <a href="/wiki/SXSW" class="mw-redirect" title="SXSW">SXSW</a> film festival. In September of the same year, Erickson performed his first full-length concert in 20 years at the annual <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Limits_Music_Festival" title="Austin City Limits Music Festival">Austin City Limits Music Festival</a> with The Explosives with special guest and longtime associate <a href="/wiki/Billy_Gibbons" title="Billy Gibbons">Billy Gibbons</a> of <a href="/wiki/ZZ_Top" title="ZZ Top">ZZ Top</a>. </p><p>In the December 30, 2005, issue of the <i>Austin Chronicle</i>, an alternative weekly newspaper in Austin, Texas, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Moser" title="Margaret Moser">Margaret Moser</a> chronicled Erickson's recovery, stating that Erickson had weaned himself off his medication, played at 11 gigs in Austin that year, obtained a driver's license, bought a car, and voted. </p><p>In 2007, Erickson played his first ever gigs in New York City at Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY, as well as California's <a href="/wiki/Coachella_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Coachella Festival">Coachella Festival</a> and made a debut performance in England to a capacity audience at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall" title="Royal Festival Hall">Royal Festival Hall</a>, London. Roky continued to play in Europe, performing for the first time in Finland at <a href="/wiki/Ruisrock" title="Ruisrock">Ruisrock</a> festival. The performance was widely considered the highlight of the festival day.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 8, 2008, Scottish <a href="/wiki/Post-rock" title="Post-rock">post-rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/Mogwai" title="Mogwai">Mogwai</a> released the <i><a href="/wiki/Batcat" title="Batcat">Batcat</a></i> EP. Erickson is featured on "Devil Rides".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erickson performed alongside Austin-based indie rock band <a href="/wiki/Okkervil_River_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Okkervil River (band)">Okkervil River</a> at the Austin Music Awards in 2008 and then again at the 2009 <a href="/wiki/South_by_Southwest" title="South by Southwest">South by Southwest</a> music festival.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Erickson returned to the stage in 2008 to perform songs from the 13th Floor Elevators catalog that had not been performed in decades with fellow Austinites <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Angels_(band)" title="The Black Angels (band)">The Black Angels</a> as his backing band. After months of practices and time recording in an Austin studio, they performed a show in Dallas followed by a West Coast tour. The Black Angels played a regular set and then backed Erickson as his rhythm section, playing 13th Floor Elevators songs as well as songs from Erickson's solo albums. </p><p>On April 20, 2010, Erickson released <i><a href="/wiki/True_Love_Cast_Out_All_Evil" title="True Love Cast Out All Evil">True Love Cast Out All Evil</a></i>, his first album of new material in 14 years. <a href="/wiki/Okkervil_River" title="Okkervil River">Okkervil River</a> serves as Erickson's backing band on the album.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2012 Erickson toured New Zealand and Australia for the first time headlining <a href="/wiki/Golden_Plains_Festival" title="Golden Plains Festival">Golden Plains Festival</a> in Meredith, Victoria and playing sold-out side shows in Sydney and Melbourne. </p><p>On May 10, 2015, he performed with the reunited 13th Floor Elevators at <a href="/wiki/Levitation_(festival)" title="Levitation (festival)">Levitation</a> (formerly Austin Psych Fest, the event was renamed "Levitation" after the song of the same title). The band consisted of original band members Erickson, Tommy Hall, John Ike Walton, and Ronnie Leatherman, joined by Roky's son Jegar Erickson on harmonica, Roky's lead guitarist Eli Southard, and rhythm guitarist Fred Mitchim. On Oct. 7, 2018, Erickson performed outdoors to an audience of thousands at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Erickson died in Austin on May 31, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His death was made public through a Facebook post by his brother Mikel, who wrote <i>"My brother Roky passed away peaceably today. Please allow us time.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No cause of death was announced.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roky_Erickson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Cleanup plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-Cleanup" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article may <b>require <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">cleanup</a></b> to meet Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">quality standards</a>. 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Lethem called Erickson's song "irresistible" and "one of those incredibly versatile songs."<sup id="cite_ref-AVClub2007_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AVClub2007-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Jose_Chung%27s_From_Outer_Space" title="Jose Chung's From Outer Space">Jose Chung's <i>From Outer Space</i></a>" features a character named Roky Crikenson in homage to Erickson. Crikenson, like the original Roky, believes himself to be an alien abductee. </p><p>A plotline in an episode of 1990s sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/The_John_Larroquette_Show" title="The John Larroquette Show">The John Larroquette Show</a></i> revolved around a sighting of reclusive novelist <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>. Pynchon did not appear, but agreed to allow his name to be used on the condition that it was specifically mentioned that Pynchon was seen wearing a T-shirt showing a picture of Erickson.<sup id="cite_ref-Grantland2013_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grantland2013-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This spurred an increase in sales of Erickson's albums.<sup id="cite_ref-LATimes1994_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimes1994-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The album <i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Spooky" title="It's Spooky">It's Spooky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Johnston" title="Daniel Johnston">Daniel Johnston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jad_Fair" title="Jad Fair">Jad Fair</a> features the song "I Met Roky Erickson", named after an encounter Johnston had with the artist.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/If_You_Have_Ghost" title="If You Have Ghost">If You Have Ghost</a></i> is the first EP by Swedish rock band Ghost. It was produced by Dave Grohl and released on 20 November 2013 by Republic Records. The first track is a cover of "If You Have Ghosts" as tribute to Roky Erickson. Ghost also included a live version on their musical film <i><a href="/wiki/Rite_Here_Rite_Now" title="Rite Here Rite Now">Rite Here Rite Now</a></i> in 2024. </p><p><i>True Love Cast Out All Evil: The Songwriting Legacy of Roky Erickson</i> by author Brian T. Atkinson was released by Texas A&M University Press in 2021. 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