You probably know the tale: In the '60s, while playing with the legendary 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson gobbled enough acid to make Timothy Leary seem straight-edge. He was soon diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, and after a marijuana bust in 1969, Erickson pleaded insanity to evade 10 years in the pokey. But his sentence turned out worse: He was confined to the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane -- where electroshock therapy and thorazine was forced on him -- for three years, further damaging his mental condition.
Erickson, of course, is far from the only musician who's dealt with debilitating mental disorders. Numerous studies have attempted to establish a connection between artistic impulses and mental illness. MORE HERE
Roky performed at Union Transfer in Philadelphia Monday November 5, 2012.
Review HERE
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