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Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson

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Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson is a 1990 tribute album to singer-songwriter Roky Erickson, founder of the 13th Floor Elevators and solo artist, whose career has been subject to significant periods of challenge from schizophrenia. [1]

37 relations: Album, Angry Samoans, Bill Bentley (record producer), Birdman Records, Bongwater (band), Butthole Surfers, Chris Thomas King, Discogs, Doug Sahm, John Wesley Harding (singer), Julian Cope, Lou Ann Barton, Lyres (band), Moby Grape, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album, Poi Dog Pondering, Primal Scream, Psychedelic music, R.E.M., Record Store Day, Richard Lloyd (guitarist), Rock music, Roky Erickson, Schizophrenia, Sire Records, Sister Double Happiness, Skip Spence, Southern Pacific (band), T Bone Burnett, Tabby Thomas, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Judybats, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Thin White Rope, Warner Music Group, ZZ Top.

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Angry Samoans

The Angry Samoans are an American punk rock band from the first wave of American punk, formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 1970s rock writer "Metal" Mike Saunders, his sibling lead guitarist Bonze BlaykBad Trip Records,, includes scans of publication of change of name from Kevin Eric Saunders and court order effecting the change; Retrieved 2011--09-01 and Gregg Turner (another rock writer, for Creem from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s), along with original recruits Todd Homer (bass) and Bill Vockeroth (drums).

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Bill Bentley (record producer)

Bill Bentley (born August 24,1950, Houston, Texas, United States)Margaret Moser,.

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Birdman Records

Birdman Records is an independent record label based in South San Francisco that was founded by former Warner Bros.

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Bongwater (band)

Bongwater was a psychedelic rock band formed in 1985 and dissolved in 1992.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas, October 14, 1962) is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Doug Sahm

Douglas Wayne Sahm (November 6, 1941 – November 18, 1999) was an American musician and singer-songwriter from Texas.

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John Wesley Harding (singer)

Wesley Stace (born 22 October 1965) is a folk/pop singer-songwriter and author who has used the stage name John Wesley Harding.

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Julian Cope

Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator. Originally coming to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes, he has followed a solo career since 1983 and worked on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep. Cope is also an author on Neolithic culture, publishing The Modern Antiquarian in 1998, and an outspoken political and cultural activist with a noted and public interest in occultism and paganism. He has written two volumes of autobiography; Head-On (1994) and Repossessed (1999); two volumes of archaeology; The Modern Antiquarian (1998) and The Megalithic European (2004); and three volumes of musicology; Krautrocksampler (1995), Japrocksampler (2007); and Copendium: A Guide to the Musical Underground (2012).

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Lou Ann Barton

Lou Ann Barton (born February 17, 1954, Fort Worth, Texas, United States) is an American blues singer based in Austin, Texas since the 1970s.

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Lyres (band)

Lyres are a Boston-area garage rock band led by Jeff Conolly, founded in 1979 following the breakup of DMZ.

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Moby Grape

Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting, which collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz with rock and psychedelic music.

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More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album

More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album is a 1999 tribute album completed shortly before and released shortly after the death of Moby Grape founding member Skip Spence.

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Poi Dog Pondering

Poi Dog Pondering is an American musical group, noted for its cross-pollination of diverse musical genres, including various forms of acoustic and electronic music.

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Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Record Store Day

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday every April to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store".

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Richard Lloyd (guitarist)

Richard Lloyd (born October 25, 1951) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roky Erickson

Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (born July 15, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist from Texas.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Sister Double Happiness

Sister Double Happiness was an alternative blues rock band that existed from 1986 until 1995, formed in San Francisco, CA, United States.

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Skip Spence

Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Southern Pacific (band)

Southern Pacific was an American country rock band that ran from 1983 to 1991.

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T Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter.

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Tabby Thomas

Ernest Joseph "Tabby" Thomas, (January 5, 1929 – January 1, 2014), also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas, was an American blues musician.

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The 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas, formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983.

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The Judybats

(The) Judybats were an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, active primarily in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Mighty Lemon Drops

The Mighty Lemon Drops were an English rock group active from 1985 to 1992.

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Thin White Rope

Thin White Rope was an American rock band fronted by Guy Kyser and related to the desert rock and Paisley Underground subgenres.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Pyramid_Meets_the_Eye:_A_Tribute_to_Roky_Erickson

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