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We are saddened to learn that Roky Erickson<\/strong>, singer-songwriter of the 13th Floor Elevators<\/strong>, has left the land of the living. He passed away today at the age of 71 in his hometown of Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n Years ago, I shared a memory of Roky Erickson on these pages on my LOUIE comic blog post “E.P. and the Art of Music Documentaries<\/a>.”<\/p>\n “You’re Gonna Miss Me<\/strong>” by the 13th Street Elevators, like LOUIE LOUIE, is one of those songs that often appears on those “best garage rock songs” type lists. <\/p>\n Washington Post wrote about Roky and that song in a 1991 article<\/a>, which featured these quotes….<\/p>\n It was a prototypical punk record — one that would later become a garage-rock standard influencing alternative bands like Television<\/strong> in America, Radio Birdman<\/strong> in Australia and the Jesus & Mary Chain<\/strong> in England. (“It was like ‘Louie, Louie’ sideways,” says R.E.M<\/strong>‘s Peter Buck<\/strong>. Says Texas music historian Casey Monahan<\/strong>: “‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ is just as important as {Buddy Holly<\/strong>‘s} ‘Peggy Sue.’ “)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We’re definitely going miss you, Roky….<\/p>\n Reference Links<\/strong>: We are saddened to learn that Roky Erickson, singer-songwriter of the 13th Floor Elevators, has left the land of the living. He passed away today at the age of 71 in his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,27,22,30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strip-blog","category-ep-world","category-garage-rock","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10550,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/roky_LL-comicblog-2007.jpg\")
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\nVariety- Roky Erickson obituary<\/a>
\nWashington Post – The Elevator Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1991 article)<\/a>
\nPaste – The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time<\/a>
\nE.P. and the Art of Music Documentaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"