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

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Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye
Bill Bentley
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Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye is a 1990

Bill Bentley, who also produced a 1999 tribute album to Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence,[4] who, like Erickson, was subject to the challenges of schizophrenia. The album's title is said to be Erickson's definition of psychedelic music.[5]

The album was produced with the intention of raising money for Erickson and exposing his music to a wider audience.

In 2017, 2000 copies of a two-LP edition of the album were released exclusively for Record Store Day 2017, which marked its first appearance on vinyl.[6]

Production

The bands on the compilation were a mix of

Warner Bros. and Sire. Due to the maximum-length difference between compact discs, cassettes, and LPs, several songs had to be left off the original CD release, but were included on the cassette and LP versions: The Mighty Lemon Drops' "Splash #1", Lyres' "We Sell Soul," and Angry Samoans' "White Faces." R.E.M. appears twice: Credited under the band's real name on "I Walked With a Zombie," and under the alias "Vibrating Egg," with their manager Jefferson Holt on vocals, for the song "Bermuda."[7]

Stu Cook, a bassist of the country-rock band Southern Pacific, which covered "It's a Cold Night For Alligators" for the tribute album, had produced more than a dozen of Erickson's songs in 1979, which became Erickson's album The Evil One.[7]

Critical reception

Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "an eloquent tribute to the enduring strength of Erickson's songwriting."[9]

Track listing

  1. "Reverberation (Doubt)" – ZZ Top
  2. "If You Have Ghosts" – John Wesley Harding & The Good Liars
  3. "I Had to Tell You" – Poi Dog Pondering
  4. "She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)" –
    Judybats
  5. "Slip Inside This House" – Primal Scream
  6. "You Don't Love Me Yet" – Bongwater
  7. "I Have Always Been Here Before" – Julian Cope
  8. "You're Gonna Miss Me" – Doug Sahm & Sons
  9. "It's a Cold Night for Alligators" – Southern Pacific
  10. "Fire Engine" – Richard Lloyd
  11. "Bermuda" – Vibrating Egg (R.E.M.)
  12. "I Walked with a Zombie" – R.E.M.
  13. "Earthquake" – Butthole Surfers
  14. "Don't Slander Me" – Lou Ann Barton
  15. "Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)" – Sister Double Happiness
  16. "Burn the Flames" – Thin White Rope
  17. "Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)" – Chris Thomas[10] featuring Tabby Thomas
  18. "Nothing in Return" –
    T-Bone Burnett
  19. "Splash #1" – The Mighty Lemon Drops
  20. "We Sell Soul" – Lyres
  21. "White Faces" – Angry Samoans
  22. "Reverberation (Doubt)" – The Jesus and Mary Chain

Tracks 19–21 appear only on the original cassette release and the 2017 double LP reissue.

References

  1. ^ "Photo". s.pixogs.com.
  2. ^ a b Mark Deming, Review of Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute To Roky Erickson; www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ Discogs Listing of Release Versions; www.discogs.com.
  4. ^ More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album (Birdman Records)
  5. ^ See Roky Erickson.
  6. ^ "RSD '17 Special Release: - Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye--A Tribute To Roky Erickson" – via recordstoreday.com.
  7. ^
    Austin Chronicle. Austin, Texas
    . Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  8. ^ Patoski, Joe NIck (November 1990). "StateWide: Roky Rocks". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  9. ISBN 978-0-679-73729-2
    .
  10. ^ Now known professionally as Chris Thomas King.
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