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RIP Roky Erickson
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Release: ROK090
Roky Erickson
Studio / Live 1974-79
Roky Erickson CD Club: ROK090
Tagged, cover image version.
Disc 1: 75:15
1974, Home Recordings, Austin, TX, Aud, 14:38
1-01. The Interpreter
1-02. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
1-03. Wrong Number
1-04. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
1-05. Guitar improvisation
1-06. Piano improvisation
Alternate Evil One mixes, 11:06
1-07. Cold Night For Alligators
1-08. Stand for the Fire Demon
1-09. Mine, Mine, Mind
Live 1976-1978, 49:31
1-10. Click Your Fingers
1-11. Bermuda
1-12. The Damned Thing
1-13. The Wind And More
1-14. Stand For The Fire Demon
1-15. Cold Night For Alligators
1-16. Two Headed Dog//
1-17. Creature With The Atom Brain
1-18. Mine Mine Mind//
1-19. //I Walked With A Zombie
Tracks 1-5: These are from a cassette Roky had (Roky's cassette > Charlie's reel)
Track 6: This is a live recording made in Charlie Sauer's home sometime shortly after 1974-03-16.
Tracks 7-9: Alligators and Fire Demon are mixes that don't seem to have appeared elsewhere. Mine Mine Mine sounds like one of the mixes on ROK049/050, but is an audio upgrade.
Tracks 10-19: T10 might be from the 1978-07-28 Whiskey-A-Go-Go performance, other tracks do not sound like any prior ROK release.
Tracks 1-6: 2019 transfer: Charlie Sauer's 7 1/2 ips quarter track reel > Cubase > 48k 32-bit float WAV
Processing: iZotope (level out uneven track / channel volumes, hum removal, manually remove clicks, minor EQ) > 44k 16-bit WAV > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE). Track 6 also has NR in sections of the left channel as hiss levels were too high there after balancing channels.
Tracks 7-9: Unknown Gen SB Recording on Maxell UDXL60 Cassette > Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits to remove microgaps) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE)
Tracks 10-19: Unknown Gen Recording on JVC F1/90 Cassette > Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits) > dbpoweramp > FLAC > SoundForge 7.0 (divided into separate tracks, speed correction) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE). SoundForge work by Steve C.
Track 10: iZotope (hum removal)
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Disc 2 - 74:03
Roky Erickson and The Explosives - 1979-Aug/Sept, Raul's, Austin
Live tracks on Openers LP, 17:19
2-01. Cold Night For Alligators
2-02. Two Headed Dog
2-03. Bermuda
2-04. White Faces
Live tracks on The Reverend of Karmic Youth CD, 7:14
2-05. Interpreter//
2-06. Starry Eyes
Live tracks on Live At Raul's CD, 7:47
2-07. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
2-08. Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)
Live track on Weird Tales LP, 3:26
2-09. I Have Always Been Here Before
1977?-?-?, perhaps Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, CA?, Stage Mics?, 38:17
2-10. The Wind And More
2-11. Bloody Hammer
2-12. The Damned Thing
2-13. Cold Night For Alligators
2-14. The Interpreter
2-15. Two Headed Dog
2-16. If You Have Ghosts//
2-17. White Faces
2-18. Mine Mine Mind//
Tracks 1-8: These are from the same performance as ROK012 but are Soundboard recordings.
Tracks 7-8: These recordings have previously appeared on ROK CDs but these tracks are unprocessed.
Track 8: This track is different than the live Two Headed Dog on The Openers LP.
Tracks 10-18: These were labeled 'Collage Live - ?/?/19??'. Based on that and Roky's 'for all you college kids' comment Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley is a best guess. We believe this is a 1977 performance as the track list and performance style is a lot like Keystone '77-summer (ROK77).
Tracks 1-4: Manually declicked in Cool Edit Pro.
Track 9: This originally had a gap and some repeated content presumably from a tape flip; it's now all properly edited together. Source was mono so used best channel (left) to replace noisy right channel.
Tracks 10-18: Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE)
A LewsiVer / Pschnob / Steve C. Production
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