ROK044 Roky Erickson - River City, Fairfax CA 1975

Roky Erickson CD Club 2019 - RIP Roky

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Release: ROKCDR044

Originally Taped & Provided By: Charles Mayette

1st Gen Capitol 2 7" 1800' reel @ 7.5 ips -> Teac 2300S -> Prodigy HD2 Soundcard -> Cool Edit Pro (minor edits, BBE & EQ1) -> Flac frontend 6 -> FLAC (no SBE)

Length: 47:05

01. Bermuda 4:28
02. The Wind and More 6:19
03. Mine Mine Mind 4:13
04. Wake Up to Rock 'n Roll 3:11
05. The Interpreter 3:59
06. Don't Slander Me 4:14
07. Starry Eyes 4:16
08. Splash 1 3:51
09. Don't Shake Me Lucifer 4:03
10. White Faces 2:18
11. You're Gonna Miss Me 2:53
12. Two Headed Dog 3:21

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Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm - 1975-07-20 Palomino, LA, CA

Originally Taped & Provided By: Gregg Turner

Audience 2nd Gen? Capitol 2 7" 1800' reel @ 3.75 ips -> Teac 2300S -> Prodigy HD2 Soundcard -> Cool Edit Pro (minor edits, BBE & EQ1-4) -> Flac frontend 6 -> FLAC (no SBE)

Length: 14:13

13. Intro 0:34
14. Don't Shake Me Lucifer 3:48
15. You're Gonna Miss Me 3:09
16. Starry Eyes 3:34
17. Two Headed Dog 3:10

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The Spades - first 45 issued by Zero Recording Co, in Austin, TX on April 12, 1965 label #10001

Original Vinyl > Technics SL-BD22 -> Yamaha RX-V800 > AMS Tech TravelPro -> Cool Edit (minor edits & light declick) -> wav -> Algorithmix Plug-In Station De-Scratcher 'mono' mode to remove all stereo artifacts -> Flac Frontend -> Flac (no SBE)

18. I Need a Girl 2:50
19. Do You Want to Dance 2:03

Description: 1965 red label original 45. Promo stamp on 'A' label.

Some thoughts:

This group's 2nd 45, released 6 months later, featured Roky Erickson, later of 13th Floor Elevators fame:
The Spades - Zero 10002 - Nov/Dec 1965
20. You're Gonna Miss Me 3:21
21. We Sell Soul 3:15

I've been curious about this first Spades recording for years as I think The Spades 2nd 45 is amazing and was released only 6 months after this one. Though this one doesn't feature Roky it is the same band that recorded the superb and original versions of "We Sell Soul" and "You're Gonna Miss Me" , before the 13th Floor Elevators ever existed, and is to my mind therefore every bit as relevant to the ROK collection as the post-Roky/Tommy 'TFE' recordings or quasi-reunions! I suppose you can either look at these recordings from either of the following perspectives:

a) boy did they suck without Roky, or:
b) what a difference 6 months made, or:
c) I can see some of the later Spades guitar work on Dance or perhaps even extrapolate future 13th Floor Elevators ballads on Girl.

Either way it's a good measure of what was going on musically in the area at the time, and it reminds me of some of the live 13th Floor Elevators material from the New Orleans Club from March of '66...

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