On it.

Yup.  Just chase it with a mover.

Happy trails.  Do this one if you hit the snow on foot though:

@Moot you familiar with this guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_Foley

I was looking for a tab to Clay Pigeons, my current fave Prine track, then I find out it's a cover, originally by this Blaze Foley guy. Only listened to a few tracks, but he has that respected-by-the-others-but-never-really-made-it thing going that I find really cool.

Clay Pigeons in general is just a quality, quality track. Election Day also doing it for me atm.

Ooh, there's a film.



I can feel the pull, I'm going in.

Man love this so much:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Ooh, there's a film. I can feel the pull, I'm going in.

Man, where's the rest of the film?

I fucking love me a tragic genius, if I'm honest. This guy hits all the spots: great tune or two; probably should've had more recognition but didn't; early, tragic death. Just got it all. See Roky Erickson for similar, albeit still alive (thankfully) example.

The only problem is you may find that the further you delve, the less good stuff there is. Roky's the exception there; man's a genius. Was committed to a mental asylum and was in a band where he was the only person who wasn't a murderer. My favourite stuff of his is his mental asylum stuff, I reckon, the really bad quality, home recorded stuff. Not really country, but close enough to cross over in this thread.

Or this:



Aiight, I'll duck out and only be back for country from now.

I'm putting Texas musicians under the umbrella, it's fine.

Tbh I'll always rate the Elevators as the best psych band but that's not his best stuff at all, by a large margin.

The elevators are fantastic, they have balls, they have a driving blues backbeat and used to hate/laugh at the likes of Jefferson Airplane for their twee mushroom eating shite. The Elevators lived it, didn't just join it because it became hip. Listen to a live version of Roller Coaster to get an idea. They were the first to call their music psychedelic and listening to a live show of theirs you get a handle on the madness. Fucking real guys, not fake hippy shit like the airplane.

But! I don't really listen to them anymore, it's a time in my past. Love them, but rarely listen to them. Like Floyd, but not shite (god I can't stand Pink Floyd these days unless it has Syd in).

Roky's solo stuff tho, is fantastic. Two headed dog, Bloody Hammer, all of the Don't Slander Me album, just amazing; His 90s comeback album with the Butthole Surfers dude, great. I feel shit that the first time I saw him I was gutted he didn't play more Elevators, then the second time I saw him I was gutted he played mostly elevators and not Roky.

Rambling; dig yourself a hole and enjoy. Roky has real gems. He's the acid casualty Buddy Holly, that's the best description tbh. Enjoy, I've had a few.

Roller Coaster Live - stick this up your twee mushroom toadstool shit, wannabes:

I can't imagine him and the Butthole Surfers guy making a straightforward humalong album, I'll check that one out first.

Innit.

You're right though, the go to track is Slip Inside This House, covered by Primal Scream on the Roky tribute album 'Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye'.

It's the opening track on their second album (which is fantastic) and, for me, equals Straight Outta Compton and Like a Rolling Stone as the greatest opening track on an album ever. I mean, just listen to this for a statement of intent:



Unparallelled.

I'm keen on the debut but Easter Everywhere is a better album for sure.  I probably only bought it for the Dylan cover initially, which is one of the weaker tracks.  

Love the bubbling psych thing, this is a good 'un too, from the first:

great fucking posters too. I have one myself. That whole avalon ballroom art is wicked.