ROKY ERICKSON ALIENS 'The Evil One OBI 2-LP NEW RED/PURPLE 13th Floor Elevators

Description: ROKY ERICKSON & the ALIENS‘The Evil One' Double LP Vinyl !! BRAND NEWSealed / Never Played!!Pressed on Special Purple Haze Coloured Wax! You are bidding on a brand new copy of the amazing ‘The Evil One' 2-LP from the great psychedelic Roky Erickson! This record is very great and needed!! Roky Erikson took psychedelia to a new level withe the 13th Floor Elevators and kept on going throughout the 70s-80s! Possibly the greatest psychedelic garage rock icon to come out of the 60s. Great classic psych/garage rock!!!! Celebrating a creative purple patch by a singular performer, Light In The Attic is to reissue the three albums issued by Roky Erickson in the 1980s: The Evil One (LITA 097), Don’t Slander Me (LITA 098) and Gremlins Have Pictures (LITA 099). Together, they’re a chance to pick up a missing jigsaw piece in the history of American rock ‘n’ roll in deluxe packages. As the core member of the 13th Floor Elevators and an undisputed pioneer of psychedelic rock, the ’60s were thrilling times for Erickson. His band riding high in their native Texas and beyond, the howling single ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ was his calling card, but Erickson’s ‘60s ended in the stuff of nightmares. Under sharp scrutiny by the authorities due to the band’s well-expounded fondness for psychedelic drugs, Erickson was found with a single joint on his person. Pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane, where he was ‘treated’ with electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatment. Erickson pulled through his three and a half years at Rusk, and even put together a band while incarcerated. The Missing Links contained Roky plus two murderers and a rapist. Released from the institution in 1974, Roky found his legend had grown while he’d been away – not least because ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ was included on 1972’s Nuggets compilation. He formed a band, the Aliens, and set about honing a hard rock sound that placed the psychedelic garage blues of the Elevators firmly in the last decade. Though it was produced at a time when Roky was struggling to cope with drugs and life on the outside, he hit form on his first post Elevators album-proper, 1981’s The Evil One. Produced over a period of two years by Stu Cook, from Creedence Clearwater Revival, it’s a masterful collection of songs about zombies, demons, vampires and, yes, even the ‘Creature With The Atom Brain’. These tracks, inspired by schlock sci-fi and horror movies and colored by Roky’s distinctive, high-pitched vocal and squealing guitar, are among the maverick performer’s best. At the time, Roky explained the album this way: “It’s gonna go back to the ferocious kind of rock ‘n’ roll of the Kinks, the Who and the Yardbirds. It’s the kind of music that makes you wish you were playing it or listening to it for the first time ‘way back when.’” But the record would not reach the mass audience of those bands, its success hampered by erratic release schedules and disastrously awkward press interviews. A year after its release, Erickson would become convinced that a Martian had inhabited his body. He would soon become obsessed with mail, and take to taping it, unopened, to his bedroom walls. Many of Erickson’s demons were yet to show their faces. But the B-movie demons he exorcised on this record gave us one of hard rock’s strangest, most inventive albums. Tracks are: Disc 01 01. "TWO HEADED DOG" 02. "I THINK OF DEMONS" 03. "I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE" 04. "DON'T SHAKE ME LUCIFER" 05. "NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE" 06. "WHITE FACES" 07. "COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS" 08. "CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN" 09. "MINE MINE MIND" 10. "STAND FOR THE FIRE DEMON" Disc 02 01. "IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS" 02. "SPUTNIK" 03. "THE WIND AND MORE" 04. "BLOODY HAMMER" 05. "CLICK YOUR FINGERS APPLAUDING THE PLAY" For cover, see picture belowLp record is new, sealed and has never been played! Winning bidder to pay for U.S.P.S. shipping, international bidders please e-mail me for international rates. Payment must be received within 10 days of closing auction date. Payment by PAYPAL! Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions of concerns. Thanks and happy bidding ROCK AND ROLL FOREVER!! Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!

Price: 69.99 USD

Location: Orland Park, Illinois

End Time: 2024-08-28T15:56:20.000Z

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