OFF: Roky Erickson in today's Guardian

[Iain Ferguson]

I agree with your comments here,

they could have pushed it somewhat more, and Roky was being counted in 
for solo's - guess he's still coming out of the huge cloud he's been in 
for years.

I was very special to hear dog with 2 heads, and your gonna miss me,

Deffo has a beast / devil hang up :-)

We were 10 seats from the front, and the sound was a little strange, 
what was it like where you were, I remember being 10 rows back for 
hawkwind there a few years ago, and the sound was odd then..

I'm wondering if its better to be further back ? Anyone ther who were 
near / further back than the mixing desk , what was it like ?

iain

Jonathan Jarrett wrote on 06/07/2007, 12:39:

 > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:25:17AM +0100, Iain Ferguson typed out:
 > > I cant wait to see him, any others going....
 >
 >     I did go, and it was pretty fun. He didn't come over like a
 > sixty-year-old with a past more troubled than almost any rock musician
 > ever, though, he came over like a happy healthy forty-five year-old with
 > a slight lyrical obsession about the Devil and zombies. The band was
 > very relaxed. It seemed to be the same people and sound as on the
 > _Casting the Runes_ bootleg which Andy Gilham made me get years and
 > years ago, and a lot of the same material, but not quite as edgy. They
 > knew they could handle it, why sweat the extra to get it to 11, seemed
 > to be the operating basis. Roky took some guitar leads, very metrical
 > and played facing the drummer with feet firmly planted, but mainly it
 > was down to the other guitarist who seemed to have fun cutting loose. A
 > very good band, I just felt they could have pushed it a bit more if
 > they'd wanted. Undeniably worth every penny though, and I hadn't
 > realised he'd never been to the UK before, so I'm glad I was there to
 > see it. I dunno, what a history: psychedelic pioneer, acid casualty,
 > burnout, then diagnoses altered by the intervention of ST37, befriended
 > by Mike Coleman :-) fitted with dentures by Henry Rollins and flown to
 > the UK by Jarvis Cocker on a government subsidy... Funny old world
 > innit, yours,
 >           Jon
 >
 > --
 > "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
 >         (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 > Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
 >