OFF: Roky Erickson in today's Guardian

[gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK]

Really enjoyed it, but the venue was all wrong. Roky should be in a dark 
club! He was kinda swamped by the size of it, and the sound wasn't too 
great. Plus, sitting down.. bah!        I don't think anything will top the 
Brooklyn show for me... a dream come true!
But absolutely great to have Roky back.




At 13:15 06/07/2007 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>  >