"Whyyyyyyyyyy, is he acting so strange?"

Man, this song has always been a fav.....
Got all the 13th Floor Elevators lp's......
Roky was arrested in 1969 with about six joints on Mount
Bonnell in Austin. It was his second arrest for pot. Rather than serving a
short term in prison, he pled insanity and was sentenced to the Rusk State
Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Austin. While in Rusk, Roky started a
band with fellow inmates (The Missing Links), wrote nearly 100 songs, befriended
Jimmy Wolcott (an Elevators fan who had murdered his family while high from
sniffing glue), was subjected to electroshock and liquid thorazine treatments
and, with the help of his girlfriend (and later wife) Dana Gaines and his
childhood best friend George Kinney, put together OPENERS, his first book of
poetry. Through the efforts of his brother Mikel and attorneys Jim Simon and
Jon Howard, Roky was judged sane by a Travis County jury and released in late
1972.
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