Producer: Casey Monahan, Speedy Sparks, Stuart
Sullivan,
Engineer: Stuart Sullivan, Lynn Gathright,
Tracks: I'm Gonna Free Her; Starry Eyes (duet with
Lou Ann Barton); You Don't Love Me Yet; Please Judge; Don't Slander
Me; We Are Never Talking; For You (I'd Do Anything); For You;
Clear Night For Love; Haunt; Starry Eyes
Roky Erickson is nothing if he is not a character. He was a founding member of Texas' seminal 13th Floor Elevators. If you want to hear where ZZTop got a large portion of their influence, find someone who owns the 13th Floor Elevators stuff. Roky's own history is one of inconsistency - he's spent time in and out of jails and mental institutions. Needless to say he was one of the victims of the 60s drug culture. He's recorded sporadically through the eighties. His songs are extremely powerful, the images he depicts are very strong. They make you believe that the demons he sings of are really chasing him. Perhaps in his mind they are. This is his first recording of new material in close to 9 years. A best-of compilatoin was issued by Restless in 1991. A tribute recording that features ZZTop, REM, John Wesley Harding, Bongwater, Judybats, Primal Scream, Butthole Surfers, The Jesus & Mary Chain and others Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye was issued in 1990. You may have heard REM doing Roky's "I Walked With a Zombie". This album is on Trance Syndicate Records which is owned by King Coffey of the Butthole Surfers.
Rating : ***1/2