Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: Roky Erickson and the Aliens

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• Label: Sympathy For the Record Industry >>
• Genre: Rock

Rokys rok band. Throroughly recommended.

When released from the state hospital, Ericksons mental outlook had changed. In 1974, he formed a new band which he called Bleib Alien, Bleib being an anagram of Bible and/or German for Remain. His new band exchanged the psychedelic sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators for a more heavy metal sound that featured lyrics on old horror film and science fiction themes. "Two Headed Dog" (produced by The Sir Douglas Quintets Doug Sahm) was released as a single.

The new band renamed itself Roky Erickson and the Aliens. In 1979, Erickson recorded some of his new material with Stu Cook, formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival. In 1981, Roky and the Aliens released The Evil One, an album of his material on horror movie themes. In 1982, Erikson asserted that a martian had inhabited his body. He was arrested in the 1980s on charges of mail theft (Erikson took unclaimed mail from the halfway house where he lived, and taped it to the walls of his room. He insisted that he never opened any of the mail, and the charges were ultimately dropped).