Roky Erickson
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Sep 19, 2026
Shandon SahmGUEST
And Sims, I guess, just ripped it off and said feeling for my feeling.
Shandon SahmGUEST
but oh and i forgot to mention we did uh you're gonna miss me on the rattle your skull and so you're gonna miss me which is a rocky erickson song had dad on a slide guitar and he didn't use he didn't use what he called a steel guitar he just put the guitar on his lap and played it like a slide steel guitar and so when you hear the slide guitar on you're gonna miss me that's dad
Tyson BrydenHOST
That's so cool.
Tyson BrydenHOST
Now, sin after sin, sin is S-Y-N.
32 MINS LATER
Shandon SahmGUEST
You know, the Gibby, we, Guinness record, Meat Puppets records, Pariah record, the Daydreaming at Midnight record.
Shandon SahmGUEST
So, you know, if you want to go there, you can kind of and look and see everything.
Shandon SahmGUEST
I even we even did Doug Salmon's son's Rocky Erickson tribute.
Shandon SahmGUEST
They can go to Wikipedia slash Shandon Psalm and they can, you know, check out all the discography that I've done.
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
It is real.
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
That's a real thing, and there are artists, often they get classified as outsider artists, you know, whoever, Rocky Erickson or-
James Austin JohnsonGUEST
Wesley Willis
Jason P. WoodburyHOST
...
Robert LambHOST
Subject line, uh, "I love your work.
Robert LambHOST
Thank you for Rocky Erickson."
Joe McCormickHOST
[chuckles]
Robert LambHOST
Um, the-- Before we even get into it, uh, you know, we, uh, can help share the word of Rocky Erickson, but we, we had no, uh, no, um, uh, active role in the creation of Rocky Erickson.
Joe McCormickHOST
Did not invent him.
Robert LambHOST
[chuckles]
Robert LambHOST
Okay.
Robert LambHOST
So someone else write in or, or, um, or, uh, certainly Abby write in and give us a little more to go on there.
Brad WarnerHOST
So what's the deal? Okay, if you have read my book Hardcore Zen, which I don't know how many of you have actually read that book, but that was my first book, and it came out in 2003, long before I ever heard of Willoughby Britton or any of this stuff.
Brad WarnerHOST
And in that book, I do talk about this, and it is in a chapter called I Think of Demons, which was based on, there's a Rocky Erickson song.
Brad WarnerHOST
Rocky Erickson, as you know, was the leader of the 13th floor elevators, and he had a song called I Think of Demons, as you know, and that's why I titled the piece.
Brad WarnerHOST
And it was about a moment during a meditation retreat with Nishijima Roshi where I woke up in the middle of the night with all of the terror of the universe on my head.
Brad WarnerHOST
Now, people who've read the book have described it as a panic attack, and I guess maybe it could be filed under that, but it felt much bigger.
Josh BellHOST
Yeah, yeah
Jason HarrisHOST
... um, do you ever, do you know the song I Walk with a Zombie by Rocky Erickson?
Josh BellHOST
I don't believe that I do, but I-
Jason HarrisHOST
From the 13th Floor.
HowardGUEST
man.
HowardGUEST
Wow, the first song I wrote was either Rocky, about Rocky Erickson, or...
HowardGUEST
Yeah, I think it was Rocky.
Mike WattHOST
Remember that Monty Python movie? They ask the guy's favorite color and he gets it fucking wrong.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Um, Texas kind of jumped onto the scene with this band called 13th Floor Elevators.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Um, and the band was so influential with its, uh, front man, uh, Roky Erickson, um, that fellow Texan Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top later cited that band as a huge inspiration, uh, for their band.
Neal E. FischerHOST
So garage rock kind of followed, um, the British invasion, had its own thing.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Then British invasion started going psychedelic, followed that.
Neal E. FischerHOST
They had an album in 1971 called Teenage Head, uh, and it's a cult classic that helped seed both punk and power pop.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Uh, 13th Floor Elevators, they were from Austin.
Neal E. FischerHOST
They were a psychedelic, uh, garage pioneer fronted by, uh, Roky Erickson, and they predated San Francisco's flower power scene.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Um, The Seeds, they were LA's trashy Rolling Stones indebted swagger merchants behind Pushin' Too Hard.
ErikHOST
did a
JonathanHOST
really good Rocky Erickson cover.
JonathanHOST
And they did some other stuff I enjoy as well.
JonathanHOST
That was great.
Matty CHOST
And there are a million different reasons for that for a million different artists.
Matty CHOST
But the one truism is that, uh, When you make a movie about someone like Jason Molina or Big Star or Daniel Johnston or Rocky Erickson or some of these sort of people that I think of as sort of like underground luminaries.
Matty CHOST
Right.
Matty CHOST
A whole new generation of people and specifically a whole new generation of kids will discover these records.
DrewPANELIST
And that's why, like, I never really thought of them as punk.
DrewPANELIST
And I was surprised in the documentary where they didn't actually... talk about like Rocky Erickson and the 13th floor elevators and like psych rock.
DrewPANELIST
And that kind of
Chris CoxHOST
what led up to that
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DrewPANELIST
Cheerleaders.
DrewPANELIST
I would have liked some of that music.
DrewPANELIST
uh i don't know just just a little bit of that timeline more bringing it home yeah and definitely like uh with rocky erickson and just to show their kind of place um and then i think one thing that we haven't really touched on that much we did a little bit but i think i felt kind of sad watching this documentary you know i think watching gibby haynes and theresa taylor they're fucking fried.
Chris CoxHOST
Yeah.
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