[xrr rating=3.0/5]Recorded when (most of the?) members of the 13th Floor Elevators endured the aftermath of acid stronger than they had anticipated, Live Evolution Lost was recorded at Houston Music Theatre on February 18, 1967 featuring the Austin, Texas, psychedelic quintet’s earlier songs. Electric jug-playing Tommy Hall, guitarist & vocalist Roky Erickson, guitarist Stacy Sutherland (who confessed later to a …

It wasn’t until the latter part of 2013 that I started to turn my attentions to the dense discography of troubled singer/songwriter Roky Erickson. Like many fans of horror-themes and dusty psyche-rock, I had heard “Night Of The Vampire”, “Cold Night For Alligators” and Velvet Underground-cover “Heroin” on numerous mixtapes, and courtesy of many late-night college radio disc-jockeys, but it …

Like so many artists before him, Roky Erickson is equal parts talented and tormented. As a founding member of 13th Floor Elevators, he helped pioneer the Stateside psychedelic rock movement during the 1960s. Haunted by severe depression and paranoid schizophrenia, Erickson spent little time in the limelight before being locked away in a Texas insane asylum. A stay that helped …