You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

Detailed here is the long, tangled saga of Erickson, the visionary lead singer of the 13th Floor Elevators, whose trip to fame detoured though mental institutions.

"...Mr. Potato Head, unshaven – this is the Roky Erickson we see early in the film. Thirty years earlier..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Audra Schroeder

Not Roky, Not Sumner, It Should Have Been About Me, Me, Me

"...read with bemusement your article, by Margaret Moser, on Sumner Erickson [“Starry Eyes,” Music, Dec. 30]. The first inaccuracy..."

Jan. 5, 2006 Postmarks

Reliving Roky Erickson: July 15, 1947-May 31, 2019

Creature with the Atom Brain

"...Austin suddenly feels incomplete without Roky Erickson...."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Roky Erickson Ascends to the 13th Floor (1947-2019)

Psychedelic pioneer clocked 71 Earth years

"...around 5pm. An epitaph suddenly appearing atop son Jegar Erickson's Facebook page proved all the confirmation anyone needed: “Goodnight..."

May 31, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Sumner Made the Right Decision

"...brother's devotion [“Starry Eyes,” Music, Dec. 30]. I visited Sumner [Erickson] during his Pittsburgh Symphony days (when he also..."

Jan. 9, 2006 Postmarks

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"...verses. He looked beat. It was 1993, and Roky Erickson and his backing band were performing at the Austin..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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Our readers talk back.

"...Julie HughesNot Sumner, Me, Me, MeDear Editor,..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Column

Sumner Erickson

"...Sumner EricksonMe, Guitar and a Mic Vol. 1..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...source of the band, Hall and Elevators vocalist Roky Erickson rank in the highest order of songwriting teams in..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

I Am the Resurrection

Ignore Jim Morrison - do not cancel your subscription to the resurrection, because Roky Erickson is Lazarus unbound.

"...When Roky Erickson stepped onstage in Zilker Park last September at Austin's..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Trees

Online music trading that "leaves" the RIAA and music industry in the underbrush.

"...can't imagine that the [13th Floor] Elevators or Roky Erickson gain in any way from most of the dross..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

She Lives

Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys

"...She maintained a deep and abiding friendship with Roky Erickson, composing "Splash 1" with him on The Psychedelic Sounds..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Please, Judge

Roky Erickson's first studio album in over a decade proves Will Sheff and Okkervil River's genius once again

"...After jumping the fence at Austin State Hospital, Roky Erickson was transferred to the maximum security Rusk State Hospital..."

April 16, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Ballroom Dancing

SXSW panels

"...Austin Convention Center, Thursday, March 17 Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators were psychedelic pioneers who..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

13th Floor Elevators Must-Haves

"...Donate to the Roky Trust Sumner Erickson and the Roky Trust accept donations. See the..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature

Roky Fan for Life

"...Dear Editor, I met Sumner Erickson at the Sarasota Film Festival, and I saw..."

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

TCB

Roky Erickson gets his life back (literally), UT's Harry Ransom Center and the White Ghost Shivers remember the 18th Amendment, and Shaft heading for SXSW? Shut yo' mouth.

March 2, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

"...wanton exhibition of perineums is the fourth annual Roky Erickson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social noon-5pm today at Threadgill's. This..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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Our readers talk back.

"...Sumner EricksonPaying for WarLouis,..."

July 14, 2006 Column

Join ECT Fight

July 12, 2006 Postmarks

TCB

Looking at this microwave world from the grassy knoll

"...Flanked by Erickson siblings Sumner (l) and Roky, Smile auteur Brian Wilson..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Off the Record

Austin's musical landscape and its evolution continue rumbling down on Red River, documenting Roky Erickson, and the Weary Boys call it quits

"...The closing scene of the intensely intimate new Roky Erickson documentary, You're Gonna Miss Me (see "Texas Platters"), paints..."

July 13, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

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John Walker's blues, an ACTV uprising, and AC / DC gets keelhauled

"...Joey Rader, 9, meets Lone Star psychedelic icon Roky Erickson as Natural Ear Music Camp director Alvin Crow (l)..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Mother Falcon’s Still Life

Austin's animal collective

"...Mother Erickson’s Dance Party..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Ludicrous Response to Roky Article

"...Online,” Jan. 5] to Margaret Moser's article about Roky Erickson [“Starry Eyes,” Music, Dec. 30] ... it made me..."

Jan. 11, 2006 Postmarks

After Two Roky Covers and Two Major Features, Roky Deserves Better Press

"...Dear Editor, Re: Roky Erickson article [“Starry Eyes,” Music, Dec. 30]: I am displeased..."

Jan. 10, 2006 Postmarks

Willie Graham

Live shots

"...“Telewoman” to “Push Me Around” and “Earthquake Shake.” Roky Erickson and his brother Sumner appeared for a brief, heartfelt..."

July 1, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Luv Doc Recommends: Willie Graham Legg Perthes Benefit

Saxon Pub, Friday, June 24, 2005

"...performers like Hal Ketchum, James McMurtry, Monty Warden, Rocky Erickson, Guy Forsyth, Patrice Pike, the Resentments, and Ruthie Foster,..."

June 24, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

2004-05 Austin Music Awards

Backstage pass

"...Chronicle cover boy Roky Erickson flanked by his brother Sumner (l) and Waterloo Records..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature

Three-Headed Dog

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...I won't tease you by saying that Roky Erickson (r) played a delightful acoustic set at his birthday..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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