Little Rock and Austin music vets from the Glands, Homicidal Briefcase, Bluesboy JAG, Clicking Beetle Bad Omen Band, Foxy Emma and the Bloodless Cooties have joined forces to pay tribute to 60's psychedelic icon Roky Erickson. We hope to eventually learn 50 or more Roky/13th Floor Elevators songs and perform short tours from time to time. Bloody Hammer has been "blessed" by Sumner Erickson, Trustee of the Roky Erickson Trust. Roky is aware of Bloody Hammer and gives his blessing as well.
Roky's first famous band was the 13th Floor Elevators out of Ausitn Texas in the mid 60's. They had a big hit with 'You're Gonna Miss Me". It's now being used for a Dell Computer TV commercial.
See this web page for more details:
http;//www.rokyerickson.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roky_erickson
Date: 12/20/2007
Arkansas Times
Score another point for the local music scene. You'd have to search far and wide to find another tribute band to cult hero Roky Erickson. As music nerds everywhere know, Erickson rose to late-'60s prominence as the lead singer of Texas-based psychedelic rockers 13th Floor Elevators. Arrested in 1969 for marijuana possession (of a lone joint), Erickson tried to escape a 10-year prison sentence by pleading insanity. As a result, Erickson was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and sent to a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was given intensive electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments. He emerged four years later a significantly changed man and a musician whose focus turned to paranoid, horror- and science fiction-influenced material. By 1982, he'd signed a legal affidavit declaring that a Martian had taken residence in his body. He drifted out of focus for nearly a decade, but in the last 20 years he's emerged as a cult hero, most recently as the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary "You're Gonna Miss Me." Formed earlier this year, Bloody Hammer brings together five vets of dozens of local acts, including Clicking Beetle Bad Omen Band, Doktors for Bob and the Glands. Bloody Hammer plans to learn more than 50 Erickson songs and go out on short tours. Always entertaining local rockers Loch Ness Monster open.
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HOLY SHIT!!! I cannot fucking BELIEVE we're all going to see ROKY live!!!!!!!!! I must be dreamin'. Also can't wait for the gig Saturday. We're gonna ROKY the FUCK!
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THE ULTRA TWIST
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In the end of march 2007, the Ultra Twist joined the anarcho-freak sonic factory of Nipozzano "Isola canon-jack studio". We had a great funny time there and amazing barbeque and we recorded six songs as well! Four of them will be soon available on our upcoming 7” debut.
The remaing two are now online along with two live recordings from the gig we played in Pescara @ “Ecoteca” (the best place where a band should wish to play).
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Lemme know if you ever come to Scotland! We used to do a cover of Bloody Hammer... and Night Of The Vampire... and Stand For The Fire Demon... Roky rules!!
