ROK090 - Roky Erickson - Studio / Live, 149:19 torrent

Roky Erickson - Studio / Live, 149:19, ROKCDR090

Disc 1: 75:15

1974, Home Recordings, Austin, TX, Aud, 14:38
1) The Interpreter
2) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
3) Wrong Number
4) Goodbye Sweet Dreams
5) Guitar improvisation
6) Piano improvisation

Alternate Evil One mixes, 11:06
7) Cold Night For Alligators
8) Stand for the Fire Demon
9) Mine, Mine, Mind

Live 1976-1978, 49:31
10) Click Your Fingers
11) Bermuda
12) The Damned Thing
13) The Wind And More
14) Stand For The Fire Demon
15) Cold Night For Alligators
16) Two Headed Dog/
17) Creature With The Atom Brain
18) Mine Mine Mind/
19) /I Walked With A Zombie

Tracks 1-5: These are from a cassette Roky had (Roky's cassette > Charlie's reel)
Track 6: This is a live recording made in Charlie Sauer's home sometime shortly after 1974-03-16.
Tracks 7-9: Alligators and Fire Demon are mixes that don't seem to have appeared elsewhere. Mine Mine Mine sounds like one of the mixes on ROKCD49/50, but is an audio upgrade.
Tracks 10-19: T10 might be from the 1978-07-28 Whiskey-A-Go-Go performance, other tracks do not sound like any prior ROK release.

Tracks 1-6:
2019 transfer: Charlie Sauer's 7 1/2 ips quarter track reel > Cubase > 48k 32-bit float WAV
Processing: iZotope (level out uneven track / channel volumes, hum removal, manually remove clicks, minor EQ) > 44k 16-bit WAV > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE). Track 6 also has NR in sections of the left channel as hiss levels were too high there after balancing channels.
Tracks 7-9: unknown Gen SB Recording on Maxell UDXL60 Cassette > Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits to remove microgaps) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE)
Tracks 10-19: unknown Gen Recording on JVC F1/90 Cassette > Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck (Dolby Off) > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro (minor edits) > dbpoweramp > FLAC > SoundForge 7.0 (divided into separate tracks, speed correction) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE). SoundForge work by Steve C.
Track 10: iZotope (hum removal)

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Disc 2 - 74:03

Roky Erickson and The Explosives - 1979-Aug/Sept, Raul's, Austin
Live tracks on Openers LP, 17:19
1) Cold Night For Alligators
2) Two Headed Dog
3) Bermuda
4) White Faces
Live tracks on The Reverend of Karmic Youth CD, 7:14
5) Interpreter/
6) Starry Eyes
Live tracks on Live At Raul's CD, 7:47
7) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
8) Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)

Live track on Weird Tales LP, 3:26
9) I Have Always Been Here Before

1977?-?-?, perhaps Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, CA?, Stage Mics?, 38:17
10) The Wind And More
11) Bloody Hammer
12) The Damned Thing
13) Cold Night For Alligators
14) The Interpreter
15) Two Headed Dog
16) If You Have Ghosts/
17) White Faces
18) Mine Mine Mind/

Tracks 1-8: These are from the same performance as ROKCD012 but are Soundboard recordings.
Tracks 7-8: These recordings have previously appeared on ROK CDs but these tracks are unprocessed.
Track 8: This track is different than the live Two Headed Dog on The Openers LP.
Tracks 10-18: These were labeled 'Collage Live - ?/?/19??'. Based on that and Roky's 'for all you college kids' comment Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley is a best guess. We believe this is a 1977 performance as the track list and performance style is a lot like Keystone '77-summer (ROK77).

Tracks 1-4: Manually declicked in Cool Edit Pro.
Track 9: This originally had a gap and some repeated content presumably from a tape flip; it's now all properly edited together. Source was mono so used best channel (left) to replace noisy right channel.
Tracks 10-18: Sony TC-KA1ESA Tape Deck > Adcom GFP-565 Preamp > Prodigy HD2 Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 8 (no SBE)

A LewsiVer / Pschnob / Steve C. Production

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