Comments on: CONTEST: ROKY ERICKSON TRIVIA CHALLENGE!

By: Malibu Mike Murphy

Malibu Mike Murphy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:52:08 +0000

Erickson’s flight from justice and a diagnosis of schizophrenia landed him in the Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Rusk, Texas; his three-year tenure there “inspired”, among other things, a book of poems called “Openers”, Released from Rusk in February 1972, OPENERS by the Reverend Roger Roky Kynard Erickson (Pyramid Press) was published September,1972
~Mmm

By: Peter Laughner

Peter Laughner — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:22:03 +0000

Kenny Rogers’ brother Lelan recorded those 13th Floor Elevator records. I was there with Billy Gibbons of the Moving Sidewalks…getting drunk with Lester in Texas when Easter Everywhere was going down. (Lester went there twice.) Sort of an influence on Cinderella Backstreet…not as much as White Light/White Heat though.

By: rokette

rokette — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:23:24 +0000

if you mean openers that came out in 1972 while he was still in rusk. he put out a bunch of other stuff later tho like chapbook zine type things

By: Malibu Mike Murphy

Malibu Mike Murphy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:12:16 +0000

What was the name of The Rev. Roky Erickson’s book, upon release from Rusk Mental Institution?