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Spider-Man Music

Grantray-Lawrence Animation is the Canadian animation by brought the world The Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man television shows. They also created the in-house show called Rocket Robin Hood. We don’t realize it but sound is a major key in animation. It brings the whole experience alive. The animation of these shows were not exactly the best of the crop back [...]

Gruesome Developments

Eternally youthful Gerry Alvarez was the founding member of garage band “The Gruesomes“. Gerry and I were in a commercial art  program together and back then he was a total “mod” and he metamorphosed into his present day form of garage band wielding front-man. The Gruesomes are no longer a group, since then Gerry spawned his [...]

Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound Call it superstitious or silly, many tall buildings do not have a 13th floor so Roky Erickson played on this idea giving birth to the first psychedelic rock group called the 13th Floor Elevators. Somebody [...]