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Roky Erickson w/Okkervil River- Orion Fest Frantic Stage, Atlantic City NJ. 6/23/12

Orion fest 2012 was so great. Not only did Metallica play “Ride the Lightning” in its entirety, but they had an awesome, diverse set of acts throughout the weekend. The other bands I wanted to see the most were Titus Andronicus, Volbeat, and Roky Erickson. Roky played early in the first day, so I just whipped out the video camera and filmed while waiting for security to do something… nope. They did nothing. So I filmed a bunch of the bands that weekend. I know Kiloh Smith is a big Roky fan, so hopefully he will enjoy this. Heather Copeland too, for the Okkervil River. It was a fascinating watch- Roky would turn to Will Sheff from OR and Will would mouth the words to the line/verse of ROKY’s SONG etc and Roky would start in.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy

 

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Roky Erickson and the Aliens- “Don’t Knock the Rok” Studio Rehearsals 1978 f/band archive tape 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 was 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

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Roky Erickson and the Aliens- “Don’t Knock the Rok” Studio Rehearsals 1978 f/band archive tape Pt2

(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

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Roky Erickson- Sleeping Lady Cafe, Fairfax Ca 12/1/76 xfer from ? gen audio cassette Solo Acoustic

More On This date in History fun- This was on the tape list as 12/1/76, but some internet searches tell me that this might 1/12/76. European vs. US date format differences might be the culprit. Let’s run with it and is anyone has definitive info regarding the correct date, please let me know.

This one was a typical unknown gen cassette that one acquires while trading tapes. I did my best to de-hiss and EQ it.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony sound Forge 10
Spectral Denoise is Izotope Rx8

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