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Roky Erickson and 13th Floor Elevators Tribute |
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| Location: | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Oct 10, 2008 (409 days back) |
About Me |
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| 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.nethttp://en.wikipedia.org/w
iki/Roky_erickson See Roky play "You're Gonna Miss Me" with Billy Gibbons on PBS. See an interview with Roky and Billy Gibbons on PBS. 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.Bloody Hammer T-Shirts Now Available! Troy Dillinger : Save Austin Music |
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Music:Member Since: 2/2/2007Band Members: Jonathan Teague - guitar, vocals JAG - Guitar, vocals Louisa - Guitar, bass, vocals Sterno - Bass, vocals, harmonica Gary Shelton - drums Influences: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators Sounds Like: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators Record Label: unsigned Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Rock / Garage / Psychedelic) |
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BLOODY HAMMER IS BACK! |
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| New drummer and a list of tunes to learn. Gary Shelton - the new drummer, learned 4 songs in about an hour! We should be ready to play in a week or two. We are ready to let some Roky tunes out of the ... Posted by bloody hammer on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:26:00 PST |
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white water tavern 12/20/07, Arkansas Time article |
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| Wow! thanks for coming out to the show at the wonderful white water. We had a nice crowd and it's always fun to play the wwt. We finally got the new tunes good enough for live performace:levitationsli... Posted by bloody hammer on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:53:00 PST |
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4 new songs |
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| unfortunatley we are begging off the show tonight (benefit for the ark derby girls) due to sterno's root canal surgury. we hope to have a gig lined up soon. the good news is we have added four new son... Posted by bloody hammer on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:11:00 PST |
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We saw Roky in Dallas!! |
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| I'll tell the whole story later, but meanwhile, check out the pics and autopgraphs! Posted by bloody hammer on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:23:00 PST |
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Little Rock Free Press Article |
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| see it here Posted by bloody hammer on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:08:00 PST |
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white water tavern 4/25 |
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| It was a rainy night... vampires were summoned, rock ensued, libations consumed, songs reviewed and lives renewed. OK that was lame. But it was a fun gig. Didn't have time to play all our tunes but we... Posted by bloody hammer on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST |
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Downtown Music 3.23.07 |
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| Altho we were a bit late, we had plenty fo time to set up adn get a sound check before we started our set:Don't Shake Me LuciferBloody HammerTwo Headed DogIf You Have GhostsFire EngineIt's A Cold Nigh... Posted by bloody hammer on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:06:00 PST |
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Song list |
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| > Here is our current set list:Bloody Hammer, Two Headed Dog, I Think of Demons, I Walk With AZombie, Creature With the Atom Brain, Night of the Vampire, It's ACold Night For Alligators, Whit... Posted by bloody hammer on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:02:00 PST |
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