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00:19the wrong phone the wrong phone now we tuned in this is two o'clock and we tuned in now
00:26two years
00:27ago and and we and we brought you you're going to miss me with meant that any fan of rocky
00:33ericsson
00:33could stand out there when they're jumping after they announced the war of the worlds the martians
00:37have landed again and again and and you could buy little copies and this is two o'clock donovan's
00:45brain and just saying that you can buy you're going to miss me two times where when they do
00:53jump again from the e-baby mazalemi studio they will miss you the interpreter now donovan's brain
01:03we return you to our program incredible as it may seem to you this is the outcast hour on case
01:09and and it may be april fool's day but uh this is for real go ahead would you like a
01:14cigarette
01:15we just want to introduce you i'm the lone ranger's friend this is tonto billy jack
01:20ridden up from uh texas the junk werewolf of woodstock saying oh well and on april fool's day
01:28we have uh uh received a visit from a most uh amazing yeah we have rocky ericsson i was going
01:35to say man but i'm not sure they call me in austin they call me the choker uh let me
01:40see here i go by
01:41the name uh stinky and um i had i guess in cold blood i killed the small townspeople again and
01:54again
01:54till there was nothing there i yelled kill him and passed out what can i say hey so kill the
02:03small
02:04townspeople kill them again and again hey rocky i killed the small i killed the small townspeople
02:12in alphabetical order so no one could stop a fear in this studio tonight we're trying to get through
02:18it we really are radio rocky hello huh this studio is full of alcohol tonight but you're the king tonight
02:24that's right right verb told me he was at a policeman horror show they had nightmares it felt like there
02:30a policeman all over all over him there's a policeman at every door uh we enjoy it a bit april
02:36fool's
02:36day who's that sitting next to you huh who's that sitting next to me yeah this is uh who are
02:42you
02:42sitting next to me anyway that's greg turner is willard his name's willard no i know him his name
02:47is greg turner what's your first name it's not willard no what's your first name greg that's
02:53greg willard briscoe this is who it is that is right next to us here greg stick a word in
03:00here
03:00tell people what is going on greg greg let me before you say greg i just want to say greg
03:04is
03:04the guy that got us that great interview with rocky last fall on the new wave special yeah and
03:08now here he is in person so what are we going to say greg well go ahead rocky who's in
03:14person huh
03:15who's in person that's how i don't think anybody's in person if they if they have a good party
03:20so like 10 years ago was the 13 floor elevators right yeah i guess so uh i think two heads
03:25should
03:25roll down a staircase at the same time i think i think you know if you can get lots of
03:31heads
03:31bouncing down the stairs real real fast and everything that people like that a lot why do
03:36they like it so much oh i don't know i i don't know i guess if you're having a party
03:39axes ought to
03:40swing all the time you know what i mean i think with the heads yeah sure yeah well we aren't
03:46we
03:46getting picked up in radio land are we absolutely this is april fool's day and it isn't the day of
03:51the vampires now you're not gonna hit me with lightning or anything are you no not at all
03:55okay that's after this it says april fool's day isn't it that's what i thought we're gonna live
03:59through it okay let's let's try a track i heard lee reed was in town uh i heard that too
04:04i think
04:04we can probably get a bunch of people beating up huh he's gone now oh he's gone yeah sorry you
04:08like
04:08will read rocky yeah i'm the only one that can hold him in my hand you know if you like
04:12frankenstein i
04:13did i like frankenstein a lot we've been throwing brains around in here a whole lot
04:16yes we have some up against the wall we dropped one bounced we're gonna play a record that you made
04:21a little while ago oh really then we'll talk some more okay no i don't even have a phone all
04:27right
04:27that was certainly a revolution in some countries today you know people can't eat
04:35third right throwing bottles gotta do an ad yeah sometimes you do sometimes you gotta get mad right
04:41now we have to do one because our sponsors will get mad if we don't do one our sponsors like
04:45the
04:45mabuhe gardens and on broadway like in san francisco yeah like they have rocky erickson who's talking
04:51to you he's gonna be playing there next thursday and friday uh the 6th and the 7th and at 11
04:56o'clock
04:56and even like young kids who come promises to be amazing if you're young you know and you like
05:02horror movies you know coming to rocky at the mabuhe i don't know though it'd be pretty much of a
05:07fight with jack the ripper though you know right on stage yeah i don't know if betty davis picked
05:12the phone and tried and told me that she was going to cut off my head though i don't know
05:15if i even
05:16pick it up you know i don't know if i'd pick up the phone or not if jack the ripper
05:20was there so i
05:21come see this live at the mabuhe like thursday and friday night wouldn't you rather have a coach
05:25instead of even thinking it is there oh hello hi hi hello yo rocky like the last time you guys
05:31played mabuhe is about a year ago right yeah yeah what's been happening with you since
05:35played it where now what have you been doing since what have you been up to i said the war
05:40was over before it's even begun what song was that in huh well what song was it in what song
05:47about
05:47what well the war is oh and cold blood i think that was jack the ripper they even have a
05:52replica of
05:53jaws in the studio here for me have they given it to you yet what jaws yeah no they never
05:58did
05:58and uh jaws is kind of crazy you know you're talking about close encounters yeah i think it
06:04just gets scary or anything you know you've had a lot of close encounters yeah yeah i guess so
06:08talk about it well i guess i will um close encounters the third count was really a groovy movie
06:14um and so was star wars you know why why was it i don't know i just liked it a
06:21lot i really did you
06:22know uh star wars was real good because uh i like the way they traveled in it well what what
06:27do you
06:27think star wars was about uh what i what i think about it well what do you think that the
06:32movie was
06:32about i i just thought it was about a bunch of martians fighting each other you know star wars i
06:39i
06:39didn't know you know i thought garth vader was pretty good but you used to say you were from mars
06:44yeah
06:45i used to say that you know then no more yeah but i did say if i if i ever
06:50do have a gun i won't use
06:51it on anybody if i ever do have a gun i won't use it are you still hazing down the
06:56rocky no uh
06:57no i'm not i didn't say if i if someone ever did say i had a gun i wouldn't use
07:02it on anybody
07:03if they ever gave me one let me hold one i would never shoot nobody i wouldn't shoot anybody here
07:09at the studio don't give me thank god for that really i appreciate that thank a lot uh nobody has
07:15a gun around here though i don't think what what do you think about music nowadays what i think about
07:19music yeah oh i guess this is the town that dreaded sundown you know i i like music you know
07:26what do
07:26you listen to what i listen to oh you're sitting at home i film you're legs up on the chair
07:32what are
07:33you listening to oh i like i like music a lot you know what kind huh um i i like
07:39donovan's brain yeah
07:41yeah uh uh you know i gotta level with you i think i think uh that it's a pretty serious
07:47thing
07:48today in society i think um uh donovan's brain you know more people die today than i guess they did
07:56yesterday you know what i'm saying what do you what do you think donovan's brain has to do with uh
08:01other things you've written like the interpreter bermuda donovan's brain uh what what is the interpreter
08:07about rocky a lot of people really have been wondering you know now that we have you here you
08:11know let's uh yeah let's confess well donovan's brain is really a serious uh serious thing what's
08:17the interpreter about where is he now where he popped himself right down you know uh do you think
08:23he's one of them donovan definitely one of them huh of course you think so i know it well i
08:28don't know
08:30we'll return you to donovan's brain go ahead donovan
08:35go ahead i'm listening rocky like uh you know where is the phone it's coming up a great question
08:42listen like you know in the last year so it's been a lot of different forms of music you know
08:46on punk rock yeah another thing what do you think of something like a negro go ahead yes sure yeah
08:51go
08:51ahead have you heard of anything called uh power would i like to kill a negro yes go ahead power
08:56pop have you heard of the time when i shot oh yes i'm listening when you did what have you
09:00heard
09:00of things like called new wave new wave no i haven't man how about something um power pop
09:06i said kill that negro kill that skin kill him again and again kill the people on his eye
09:16again and again what movie is that from rocky oh that's the living night living dead
09:22um i'm not sure though you watched a lot of horror movies didn't you yeah i've tried to a lot
09:28of
09:29sometimes some of them some of them you know what's your favorite i drink a lot of coke there
09:32we're going to take some calls if anybody wants to talk to rocky erickson just yeah if you call
09:37up man and then you know don't shoot me through the phone no no that was just that was just
09:41rhetoric
09:41from a movie don't get uh don't get personal rocky what do you think about you fire a gun in
09:46the
09:46studio i'm sorry what do you think about the sex pistols right well i think the sex
09:52pistols are pretty groovy now they remind me a lot of fiorella la gloria you know sure i like the
09:58sex pistols you know what's your favorite sex i think uh huh what's your favorite sex pistol song
10:03oh um i'm trying to think right now i haven't let me see first sex pistol song i've heard yeah
10:11yeah
10:12yeah i guess hot cars hot cars that's a good one hey there's a phone call that's donovan's brain
10:18nine eight six six two four four is the number if you want to get in on this madness i
10:22hope the phone
10:22works oh it's not working on that line great as soon as another call comes in on the next line
10:27we'll get on here donovan's brain till after two o'clock sometimes after okay here we go i think it'll
10:35work yeah okay and if you don't call they're gonna call you hello hi hi um yeah what what
10:43you're crazy yeah we get crazier too you know that if you walk in and i find blood all over
10:49the wall
10:50you know we're gonna we're gonna have to do something about it oh i hope you don't i really
10:53no i think everything's all right we sent johnny rivers away for it that'll do it yeah yeah i promise
10:58it's not murdered with you now what's your name man hey i'm i'm you're tex texu well you're flowing
11:07tex huh what's your first name i'm rocky man you're rocky yeah rocky what's your name oh oh no man
11:17yeah
11:17i'm bo jangles okay let's move along to another call thank you for calling now bo hi thank you bo
11:24who's
11:25this now this is gill you boa constrictor oh gill who's this this is rocky man a good friend of
11:31yumi's of yumi's huh what do you do rocky what do i do yeah i just tuned in oh a
11:38gracious goodness
11:39alive are you a singer you in a band yeah i run my band members around dressed up like goats
11:44oh yeah
11:45yeah so you can watch them just you know do that on stage yeah all right i put goats
11:50goat skin around mule i mean around uh bill and and and and try to catch him i don't think
11:56he's
11:56here rocky all i want to know is what's the name of your group huh what's the name of your
12:00group oh i
12:01said i could catch you if you can catch me here i am on um right now we're calling them
12:06the aliens
12:07he will make it work here make my microphones work here oh yeah how's that oh that that'll do
12:12sure okay okay let me see you're what you're listening to hysteria on what what's the station here
12:17what i want to know is what's the name of your band what's the name of the band here in
12:21hysteria
12:22the aliens oh we call them the aliens right now aliens i'm sorry yeah we got to run along all
12:26right okay okay okay roger yeah rocky what's happening man what's happening hey there's a lot
12:33of people out here that really get into your music get into your madness yeah all right that's rocky
12:37not right i like that yeah sorry well listen now something i wanted to know yeah sure bloody hammer
12:43songs like that you talk about the demon yeah what is your concept of the demon i mean what is
12:49the
12:49demon like oh gracious i don't really know what a demon is they never do tell me they always tell
12:56me
12:56they don't have very long life expectancy well i'm like i know they're pretty screwy uh demons yeah
13:01and gremlins oh yeah well what about the demon though you talk about what do i think about
13:06is the demon with us no i don't think so well what is he like to you what do you
13:11think of the demon
13:12what do i think about a demon yeah oh i really i really don't know man no i don't have
13:18shown one
13:19to anybody a demon you know well you show them to a lot of people in your song yeah i
13:23probably have
13:23you know but like i say if the president's been hit you know it but you know you know like
13:28all i'm
13:28saying is all i know i might i might feel a demon's bite tonight i don't know oh well thanks
13:33for
13:33calling me i don't know what's your name now man you're the third person to call hey how small are
13:37what's your name i didn't hear you flow what's your name again i didn't catch you there yeah i kind
13:42of want to know what uh rocky opinion of uh decent hard rock is man oh yeah what do i
13:49think about it
13:50yeah i i you know i think it gets hard hard rock does you know no man you can chop
13:58off one head you
13:59can chop off another you're not going to tell me your name uh my name is tom man tom tom
14:03the ripper
14:03this is jack i'm ripped it's more like it no i was just curious uh what you like of you
14:10know
14:10a decent hard rock oh yeah oh well i don't think the kids should pray in school what i don't
14:17think
14:17the kids should pray in school oh okay no i like the rock bands the hard rock bands i like
14:23the nuns a
14:23lot and uh i think it's going to start getting harder yeah i guess we got to run along to
14:30another call
14:30okay run along okay hello long distance payphone okay where are you calling from man well right now
14:37uh petaluma what's your name petaluma petaluma oh yeah really oh yeah far out well what are you
14:43calling you at watergate watergate yeah no no try payphone oh payphone yeah i'm listening
14:51well i'm i just want you guys to play i don't want you to fool around well i might get
14:56birds to play
14:57a note i don't know you want to sing a song while you're here uh rocky uh huh you want
15:02to sing this
15:02one of your new songs i can hear them on my truck radio already oh can you well i'll sing
15:07you on
15:07here man sure okay here it goes i got my peterville's out here in a 40-foot reef event and
15:12i want to hear
15:13you sing i don't want to hear no bullshit well yeah i don't know what to say man get back
15:17in there
15:18i can already hear you from my truck door yeah now tune in frankenstein rocky you want to sing one
15:23of
15:24your newest 45 cents man i hope to tell you i want you to play a song okay with those
15:28other
15:28people to shut up yeah hang in there hang up man and play at least one tune okay i will
15:33yeah bye
15:33okay did did you say you wanted to sing a song uh yeah i'll sing one what do you want
15:38me to sing
15:39what do you want jack the ripper yeah sing jack the ripper uh your favorite one okay let me see
15:48oh gracious um trying to think of a new one i've written in let's see how about stand for the
15:54fire
15:54demon rocky no i think um let me think of one uh you want we can play a record while
16:01we're yeah but
16:02see i'm trying to think one of that's what they want i walked with a zombie i walked with a
16:09zombie
16:10i walked with a zombie last night bumblebee bumblebee zombie zombie bumblebee bumblebee zombie zombie
16:55where are all these people i don't know man hello casein hey uh is rocky does rocky think that uh
17:0313th floor elevator that he'll ever release those uh records again i'm sorry 40 hours will they
17:10ever release the 13th floor elevator records oh i don't think so i don't think they'll ever release
17:15release them they're they're at clinton's state reformatory for girls right now i guess they'll
17:20stay there kill him uh okay jack the ripper here midnight station midnight zone hello and i want
17:29you to just play some some pistols man some dead boys and get this this fucking lunatic oh bad word
17:35sorry there you go hello hello yeah you're on yeah i want to fight you you do yeah rocky you
17:46want to
17:47here's a guy wants to fight you right oh yeah well that's you call the right phone did i make
17:51him mad
17:51enough out there hello come on down yeah right now huh come on down we'll take you on when rocky
17:57wants to bring as many police as you can uh ignore that one guy called up you know he called
18:07about where
18:07he called up from he called up from uh sound like call up from a mental hospital or something
18:12oh yeah the boys from lakeshore yeah yeah i guess they called for the harmony you're the second person to
18:20call anyway second yeah okay oh this round this round right yeah it's here again okay bye hello
18:29hi it's here yeah yeah hi mary i don't want to fight when you're coming to half moon bay coming
18:35to a
18:35hassling day no that's it i want you to hassle there in half moon bay oh well i like to
18:40hassle that in
18:40hassle bay listen what do you uh what are you doing when you're writing those songs i mean how does
18:47it come to
18:47you um i don't know i just i just kind of go at it i guess from a small way
18:52you know
18:54you know i think the most important thing today that's happening you know is small people you know
18:58i think really you know mad small people i guess small things mean a lot you know what are your
19:05favorite small things rocky oh i just you know i think uh small just small things mean a lot you
19:11know
19:12well listen rocky small things mean a lot maybe better not okay i'm all right out there anybody
19:18that's calling and everything all right you want to fight rocky no i don't want to fight rocky hello
19:24hello yeah i got to talk with this rocky guy yeah i i think he left and his father wait
19:29a minute
19:30now this is i'm the president of the mike nomad school of correspondence art yeah we want to have
19:35your name because we've got atomic letter bomb we've got to send to you oh and what did it say
19:38it
19:39said atomic oh yeah atomic so what's your address what's my address and well you can just send it
19:45uh you can send it to the macabre guillotine horror magazine this is this is business now what i'm
19:53sorry william castle it's okay okay okay just in care of guillotine here in a cloud of smoke care of
20:01care of guillotine horror magazine care what magazine yeah huh i got my radio on what
20:07magazine uh guillotine guillotine yes they had they had the death of a small child changed to this one day
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