The essence of obscure.
Released in Texas as a benefit for Roxy Erikson in May 1990. The second installment of Copes Lo-Fi efforts, recorded and mastered over three days from two used C90 cassettes it surely must be due for the remaster one day.
It has everything that you want late at night, meandering solos, rambling guitars and mumbled confused lyrics. At times it is reminiscent of one of those acid drenched camp outs we all heard about and never got invited to.
Safe Surfer is abridged without affecting the sense of the song, Jelly Pop Perky Jean is still maybe one of the best pop songs Cope has ever written an dKelly may be one of the best tunes I have heard tonight.
I am in no way going to attempt explaining what any of this is really about apart from that it makes me smile. Considering the current messed upedness that we are all inevitably faced with this is no mean or inconsiderable feat. It is reassuring that there are still genuine eccentrics left in the world to amuse, bemuse and confuse us.
I defy anyone not to enjoy the cover art as well.
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I met Roky Erickson at my friend’s apartment in 1979. He was living with his mother at the time.
I like that 2nd last paragraph Neil – if the album draws a smile, that’s an album worth hearing