Roky Erickson
Gremlins Have Pictures
Label:  Demon Records  
Date:  1990
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Night Of The Vampire    
      2.  
      The Interpreter    
      3.  
      Song To Abe Lincoln    
      4.  
      John Lawman    
      5.  
      Anthem (I Promise)    
      6.  
      Warning    
      7.  
      Sweet Honey Pie    
      8.  
      Cold Night For Alligators    
      9.  
      I Am    
      10.  
      Heroin    
      11.  
      I Have Alaways Been Here Before    
      12.  
      Before In The Begining    
      13.  
      Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play    
      14.  
      If You Have Ghosts    
      15.  
      The Damn Thing    
      16.  
      Sputnik    
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      Roky (pronounce rock-eeh) Erickson was founding member and lead singer of psychedelic band, Texas’ infamous Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Erickson explored the far reaches of musical and personal extremes. Young musicians like Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, and Janis Joplin jammed with the influential group. Following a nightmarish '70s mental-hospital stint that had a devastating long-term effect on his mental health, Erickson's subsequent solo work with his group The Aliens revealed a singularly brilliant songwriter and performer whose talent was no less impressive for the fact that he was singing about zombies, vampires and aliens. The demons that abound in Roky's songs are all-too-real reflections of his own troubled psyche, and the combination of the artist's oddly poetic lyrical constructions and his bracing banshee wail makes it clear, as it wasn't always, that he's not kidding! Don’t Slander Me and Gremlins Have Pictures, recorded 1975 -1982, document Roky’s genius.