Steve's review
Eye Mind: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators
by Paul Drummond
We just watched the Roky Erikson documentary--did you see it??
Oh man, is it good! Saw it at Dion's place. Roky's mom is CRACKERS!!!
I know!! I love the movie she made! Their cardboard shields! And the big cardboard...scrapbook...thing. Cardboard everywhere!
"EYE MIND" the saga of the 13th floor
elevators...I am really loving it...
here is a little taist
"Harvey Gann, lieutenant in charge of vice and narcotics,
was having his reality threatened. The presence of
Roky Erickson and his debauchery were a direct affront to the way of life he'd fought for in the war....and Gann was a proper war hero, the sole survivor of a plane that crashed behind enemy lines. On his fourth escape from a Nazi prison camp, he made it across Russia and arrived back in the states the day before the war ended.
"We thought we had a real good solid town (Austin).
Then the Beatles, Dylan and Roky Erickson came allong.
Like anything else, the squeeky wheel gets the grease...If you are out there trying to get attention, you're going to get it. You'd have to be an idiot not to see this was going to get you in hot water. One of the things that really iritates me about all of this, is that they seemed to transpose noise, commotion and hell-raising into some valid form of entertainment...."
Steve's review
Eye Mind: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators by Paul Drummond
Steve's review
rating:
One of the best rock and roll books I have ever read....
great for putting you in the time and place...
the 1960's
great for putting you in the time and place...
the 1960's
We just watched the Roky Erikson documentary--did you see it??
Oh man, is it good! Saw it at Dion's place. Roky's mom is CRACKERS!!!
I know!! I love the movie she made! Their cardboard shields! And the big cardboard...scrapbook...thing. Cardboard everywhere!
"EYE MIND" the saga of the 13th floor
elevators...I am really loving it...
here is a little taist
"Harvey Gann, lieutenant in charge of vice and narcotics,
was having his reality threatened. The presence of
Roky Erickson and his debauchery were a direct affront to the way of life he'd fought for in the war....and Gann was a proper war hero, the sole survivor of a plane that crashed behind enemy lines. On his fourth escape from a Nazi prison camp, he made it across Russia and arrived back in the states the day before the war ended.
"We thought we had a real good solid town (Austin).
Then the Beatles, Dylan and Roky Erickson came allong.
Like anything else, the squeeky wheel gets the grease...If you are out there trying to get attention, you're going to get it. You'd have to be an idiot not to see this was going to get you in hot water. One of the things that really iritates me about all of this, is that they seemed to transpose noise, commotion and hell-raising into some valid form of entertainment...."
