Description

Double album in gatefold cover, with OBI-strip and booklet featuring rarely seen photos and liner notes by Texas maverick Joe Nick Patoski

The hodgepodge of outtakes and odds n ends that makes up Gremlins Have Pictures is culled from the period between 1975 and 1982, and features Erickson solo as well as backed by three different groups — the Explosives, the Aliens and Blieb Alien. Only the Explosives are remotely competent, although Roky himself is surprisingly together for many of these recordings, especially those cut in San Francisco in 1982 with guitarist Jack Johnson; the best of them is I Have Always Been Here Before, on which Erickson acknowledges a connection between himself and fellow walking casualty Syd Barrett. Also included: a cover of the Velvet Undergrounds Heroin.

Track Listing
1. Night of the Vampire
2. The Interpreter
3. Song to Abe Lincoln
4. John Lawman
5. Anthem (I Promise)
6. Warning (Social And Political Injustices)
7. Sweet Honey Pie
8. Cold Night for Alligators
9. I Am
10. Heroin-Velvet Underground cover
11. I Have Always Been Here Before
12. Before in the Beginning