Punk Rock Flow Chart – Original MusicFilter post from January 9, 2006
BMF – Just another Roky Erickson fan – 12.29.2015 (RIP #57bmf4ever)
1965- Another Midwestern band of the time was the 13th Floor Elevators who Janis Joplin considered joining but instead decided to move to San Francisco. The band’s signature instrument was a amplified electric jug. Their album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators , was reportedly the the first instance in which the word psychedelic was used to describe music. Their lead singer was Roky Erickson and in 1969, he was arrested for possession of six marijuana joints in Austin, Texas. Rather than serve a short prison term, Erickson pled insanity, which proved to be a mistake. He was sent to the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Austin, where he was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy and thorazine treatments and held until 1972. – BMF
Roky Erickson – “Kingdom of Heaven (Live at The Earl, Atlanta,GA on October 26, 2018)”
