Psychedelic Rock Pioneer Roky Erickson Has Died

Oh no! He was amazing.

This.

His NYT obituary.

He was busted in 1969 for having a single marijuana cigarette and pleaded insanity to avoid prison. He ended up spending 3 YEARS in an asylum for the criminally insane (that shit really happened back then) where he was drugged with Thorazine and received involuntary shock treatments.

According to the obit his bandmate (the jug player) “spent two years living in a cave with an LSD mafia cult” (??!?) The scary guitar player was shot to death by his wife in the late 1970s.

Such an interesting story.

You're Gonna Miss Me is a great song and Roky was sexy as hell in 1966. I thought the "scary" guitar player was too, didn't know he was shot to death by his wife, wow. Sounds like these guys really lived on the edge.

At the end of the performance at OP Dick Clark goes up to the jug player and asks “so who’s the head man here?” Jug player mumbles “we’re all heads.” Lol

They all took prodigious amounts of LSD. It fried Roky’s brain (along with schizophrenia and electroshock treatments.) He was the American Syd Barrett.

In 2019, the "bad boy of rock in roll" is Beiber or maybe the muppet redhead from England. Sigh.

QUE ?

They sort of sound like The Animals

He struggled with mental illness for the rest of his life, living in poverty and obscurity for years. In 2001 his younger brother Sumner (a classical tuba player in the Andre Previn-conducted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) was granted guardianship of him and got him stabilized on meds and legal help to regain the royalties for his music that had been stolen years ago. He was touring and recording from 2007 on.

Check out the tribute album, Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye." The head of Sire Records felt bad that the law was hassling Roky again for going off the deep end (he had a fixation for mail) and put together a collection of Roky's songs done by people like REM, ZZ Top and Doug Sahm

That 1966 Garage Music all sounds the fucking same.

Hard pass.

I want to know more about the cave-dwelling LSD mafia cult.

And 3 years in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane? 3 YEARS??

My stepdad had electro-shock treatments in the 60's, I don't think they are helpful, very barbaric.

He was in Mkultra experiments, as was I. Hallucinogenic abuse is standard, as are shock treatments ( I has electric collars placed on me ). Sexual humiliation is used to break you, rendering you incapable or indifferent to relationships.

Roky was older than I, I was eleven years old. Still, he was labelled "mentally insane" but that's because they make you that way. We get nothing for our suffering, except homelessness and social rejection. MKULTRA lasts a lifetime. RIP Mr. Erickson.

One unique tack on MKULTRA survivors is that we all tend to be very musical. Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen are two famous victims, but the non famous are also musicians. I guess it's the only thing that brings us any real peace or joy.

Isn't it cute that they called him schizophrenic when Roky was suffering the aftereffects of MKULTRA torture.

They never apologize, ever.

You were thrown away Roky, but we picked you up and loved you anyway.

NORMANDY, indeed.

R14 R15 R16 He was not involved in MK ULTRA, you nutcase.

Why do you say that, and with such hostility?

No one denies MKULTRA anymore, therefore you look like the nutcase.

I was in MKULTRA.

I say that because Roky Erickson had nothing to do with MK ULTRA, and not with hostility. Just stating a fact.

Look, forced 'hospitalizations' over stupid drug busts were how they got ahold of many adult victims.

Vacaville prison was notorious for experimenting on black inmates, often forcing the drug 'BZ' on them. Many of those inmates were arrested on minor drug offenses like Roky was.

Thousands of poor children, prison inmates and psychiatric 'patients' were experimented on in the 1960s and 1970s.

I was given BZ as well, along with scopolamine. All HORRIBLE drugs.

Sorry you disagree with me, but I think I know what I'm talking about.

We can see the signs in each other.

R20 If you have proof of this cite your source. Otherwise stfu.

R18

May the Lord forgive you for ridiculing MULTRA victims

R21 do your own research. Don't tell me to shut up.

We, the victims need to talk. If you don't believe us, fine.

But please, let us live our truths.

Perhaps you have never suffered in life. But that doesn't make one superior to those who have.

Loon alert

Clearly the British-Blues vein--Animals, Stones and esp. Them (Van Morrison)