(note: Same description as Pt1)
Alright, here is the Patreon Voter’s Choice (r) post for this week. The theme was “pick an off-list tape” and I was pretty surprised that Roky won out over what was available. There is another Off-list vote happening now, and then next week’s theme is Lookout Records. If you are a fan of the pop punk (or enjoy voting or want to support the archive), bop on over to Patreon and sign up! $10/mo gets you a vote each week.

A bit of background about off-list things: Back when bootlegging was rampant, I would keep some things that I taped off the public trade list. I would also be asked by some folks to keep certain things off list. Now that the environment has changed, it’s ok to start releasing SOME of these recordings.

This one was interesting. We were given a bunch of Roky Erickson stuff to digitize back in the late 90s. Some of the recordings were then officially released. This is one where portions were released as “Don’t Knock the Rok” on Norton records in 2004. There are 2 hours of rehearsals here- broken into 2 posts- and about half were released. This is a live, raw rehearsal. Pretty amazing.

Recorded by: The band
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi CR5A into Philips CDR880 CD Recorder