Roky Erickson
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| Known for his colossal [[heroin]] & [[LSD]] binges, struggles with [[schizophrenia]], and an unthinkable term at Rusk hospital for the criminally [[insane]], Roky went missing from the world. ''You're Gonna Miss Me'' reveals the truth behind one of Rock's great mysteries. Over the years Roky became one of music's legendary tragic figures. | Known for his colossal [[heroin]] & [[LSD]] binges, struggles with [[schizophrenia]], and an unthinkable term at Rusk hospital for the criminally [[insane]], Roky went missing from the world. ''You're Gonna Miss Me'' reveals the truth behind one of Rock's great mysteries. Over the years Roky became one of music's legendary tragic figures. | ||
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| Outside [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Texas]], a 53-year-old man sits in an apartment with four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio electric piano playing all at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth, his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock, and he has a notarized document on his wall declaring himself an alien, "so whoever's putting shocks to my head will stop." | Outside [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Texas]], a 53-year-old man sits in an apartment with four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio electric piano playing all at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth, his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock, and he has a notarized document on his wall declaring himself an alien, "so whoever's putting shocks to my head will stop." | ||
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You're Gonna Miss Me (film)
You're Gonna Miss Me is the story of Roky Erickson: manic frontman for the legendary band The 13th Floor Elevators, creators of psychedelic music and muse to Janis Joplin. The film You're Gonna Miss Me is a portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion.
Known for his colossal heroin & LSD binges, struggles with schizophrenia, and an unthinkable term at Rusk hospital for the criminally insane, Roky went missing from the world. You're Gonna Miss Me reveals the truth behind one of Rock's great mysteries. Over the years Roky became one of music's legendary tragic figures.
Plot
Outside Austin, Texas, a 53-year-old man sits in an apartment with four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio electric piano playing all at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth, his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock, and he has a notarized document on his wall declaring himself an alien, "so whoever's putting shocks to my head will stop."
First arrested for carrying one joint of marijuana, Roky enters an insanity plea which lands him in a minimum security mental hospital. After numerous attempts to escape, the state of Texas transfers him to Rusk State Hospital for the mentally ill, where he undergoes a series of implausible shock treatments, leaving this rock virtuoso a scarce whisper of his former self.
Now kept under lock and key by his mother Evelyn---who refuses him any treatment beyond love, prayer, and a view of psychiatry gleaned from the shows that she has seen on television. Erickson becomes the centerpiece of a surreal family struggle and the blank screen onto which those around him project their re-imagined pasts and hopeful futures.
