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Re: (TV) Pink Floyd?? (>> roky erickson)



--- John Knapich <john@bluevisualeffects.com> wrote:
> >And dont forget the 13th Floor Elevators!!!


which is my cue to report that roky was on the radio
here in austin yesterday, doing an interview and
promoting a new release.  the new disc is called
"don't knock the rock."  per roky, it's from a
recording of some practice time with him and his band
from 1978.

other tidbits -- scriptwriting is ongoing for the film
bio, with jack black set to play roky.  the book bio
is an ongoing (now 5 year) project, no idea when that
will be done.  roky says he still enjoys the horror
genre, and finds inspiration there, and is beginning
to work on some music again.

he followed the interview up with a waterloo records
in-store, which i missed.  no performance, just
signing.  

in response to questions, he said a) that he doesn't
mind the unauthorized / boot editions of his
recordings  ("not at all"), b) he thinks it's "cool" /
"great" when folks approach him to say hey, get
autographs, etc.  sounded very happy.  he is living
alone now (though his brother, sumner, is very active
in roky's care, and was present during the interview).
 actually, he spouted off the name of the apartment
complex he lives in, which is about a mile from me.  

roky sounded good, relatively.  answered everything
appropriately, if a bit clipped.  i guess you could
say that at the moment it sounded like a case of
schizophrenia that was well controlled.  that's
definitely a good thing.




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