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A Cold Night For Alligators: Roky Erickson Tribute
The New Vintage and Nikki And The RueMates and The Fontanelles and Matt Latterell
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Guy Clark
Roky Erickson in the 1960s, as seen in the documentary "You're Gonna Miss Me"
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Fri Dec 11
8 pm
A Cold Night For Alligators: Roky Erickson Tribute at 331 Club
Roky Erickson was always a damn fine songwriter, even if he did have a few quirks, like having himself legally declared a Martian, or keeping eight or nine TVs and radios on at all times to drown out the voices in his head. A pioneer of psychedelic music in the '60s with The 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson also pioneered psychedelics themselves too fervently, winding up in a mental hospital in Austin. When he got out, trippy songs like "Slip Inside This House" were replaced by rockers heavy on horror-movie imagery, with titles like "Creature With The Atom Brain." Erickson's music grew a well-deserved cult following, and a recent resurgence has brought him to new audiences. Here, a group of local Erickson fans led by Baby Grant Johnson's punk combo The New Vintage and old-school blues-folkie Nikki And The RueMates conjure up an evening of vampires, ghosts, bloody hammers, demons, and other Rokyiana.
331 Club 331 N.E. 13th Ave., Twin Cities, MN
Roky Erickson was always a damn fine songwriter, even if he did have a few quirks, like having himself legally declared a Martian, or keeping eight or nine TVs and radios on at all times to drown out the voices in his head. A pioneer of psychedelic music in the '60s with The 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson also pioneered psychedelics themselves too fervently, winding up in a mental hospital in Austin. When he got out, trippy songs like "Slip Inside This House" were replaced by rockers heavy on horror-movie imagery, with titles like "Creature With The Atom Brain." Erickson's music grew a well-deserved cult following, and a recent resurgence has brought him to new audiences. Here, a group of local Erickson fans led by Baby Grant Johnson's punk combo The New Vintage and old-school blues-folkie Nikki And The RueMates conjure up an evening of vampires, ghosts, bloody hammers, demons, and other Rokyiana.
Updated 12/03/2009
