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May 31, 2022Liked by michaelcorcoran

Beautifully done.

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Jun 1, 2022Liked by michaelcorcoran

You always come up with great, behind the scene stories. Usually when I talked to Roky, he would answer very simply, like "yes" or "no", unless I asked him about his music. Once I asked him if Two-headed Dog had something to do with Cerebrus and he told me that some people thought that, but others related it to Pavlov's experiments. I told him another song sounded kind of like a Buddy Holly song and he said that he wrote it as a tribute to Buddy. Because his answers were usually so short, I asked him if he'd ever met Brian Wilson, since in recent interviews, he seemed to produce similar answers, so I thought maybe they had the same type of thought patterns. He said no, but he'd like to.

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Jun 1, 2022Liked by michaelcorcoran

did see Roky when I was real young but did not realize his total significance to the acid rock generation that he helped build -Rusk was a bad place from Andrea Yates to several others (did Rocky Hill also spend time at Rusk can’t remember-Dusty’s brother ?)-just another fine article with so much history

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May 31, 2022Liked by michaelcorcoran

Thank you so very much for an outstanding article on Roky.

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Roky's first post-Elevators release (the Mars 45) came out in 1975. Doug Hanners' Not Fade Away was advertising it that Fall. Bull of The Woods was not a double LP and many fans consider it great. Discographies aside, this article touches the heart.

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I don't understand why his stretch with the explosives is missing from this article and the documentary.... was I hallucinating those shows? I only missed a few.

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That's a good point. I've added that Cam King and Freddie Krc of the ACL Fest comeback band were in the Explosives with Roky in the '70s.

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