I managed to catch Roky(? Roki?) Erickson about 8 years ago, and he had The Black Angels as his backing band on that tour!
After a short set of just The Black Angels doing their own (rad) thing, somebody wheeled Roky out center stage in what looked like a furniture dolly
It's no secret that he had a rough few decades coming out of the 60's ... definitely some psych issues, and now plain ole old age is making his existence tougher.They propped him up and put papers in front of him, & once he got going he put on a well done performance of mostly 13thFE songs I didn't know, some solo stuff, possibly a cover, and some looser jamming with his groovy backing band (that's my recall, but my short term memory actually may be worse than his
.)Anyhowz, i was surprised to hear he was back on stage, and I figured it could very likely be the last time... so we pounced on 2 tix as soon as we got wind of it. (Got that way with seeing Leonard Cohen whenever possible in his last 5-8 years... he's aged so gracefully, like a fine wine, and his career and shows were consistently peaking right up until the very end
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