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

[John Knapich <john@bluevisualeffects.com>]

And Thanks to early live TV for turning me on to Roky.....and gang


At 06:19 PM 1/12/04 -0800, you wrote:
>thank you robin. great stuff and glad to hear the original wildman is
>getting more coherent.
>dave
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "robin dunn" <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>
>To: <tv@obbard.com>
>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 6:11 PM
>Subject: 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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