Roky Erickson

[shauuuun]

Played here last night.  His band was kind of wank at times (at least the lead guitarist was), but holy shit, he was fucking awesome!  He can still belt it out, and I was super surprised to see that he still plays the guitar (with fucking SAVAGE sounding distortion, too) at this stage of his life.  He seemed like he was really enjoying it, too.  Played about half of "The Evil One" album, plus two Elevators songs.  Roughly 1000000000000000000000 times better than Blue Cheer was earlier this year.  Some dude shot a video on his Cellphone of "You're Gonna Miss Me" that actually sounds REALLY good
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7430296669286700810

We then walked half way across town to see Fucked Up play an absolutely ripping 25 minute set at this 6 band bill hardcore show.