The Red Krayola (or Crayola) are an experimental rock band who formed in Ho… Read Full Bio ↴The Red Krayola (or Crayola) are an experimental rock band who formed in Houston, Harris County, Texas in late 1966. The group was made up of musician and visual artist Mayo Thompson who has remained the group's leader and sole constant for over 50 years, novelist Rick Barthelme who was the son of Donald Barthelme, and bassist Steve Cunningham who joined them at the age of 17. One night's show at a club called "Love" attracted people to the stage, audience members began to walk on up and improvise with whatever they saw fit, this would be the event that would spawn their secondary auxiliary "The Familiar Ugly" who'd follow and improvise amongst them wherever they so pleased.
After playing at local radio station KNUZ's battle of the bands event hosted in the Gulfgate mall, the Red Crayola were subsequently signed to "International Artists" by house producer Lelan Rogers. He suggested they bring their group of 50 friends into the studio to record a "freak-out" album. Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators would make two instrumental cameos on electric organ and harmonica. The album's title would be coined by Steve Cunningham: The Parable of Arable Land, an album which went on to sell 50,000 copies on its first run and garnered the attention of Jimi Hendrix, John Peel and the Beatles. Thompson described it as "the beginnings of alternative rock" as no advertising nor promotion was done for the record. Their sophomore album "God Bless the Red Krayola and all Who Sail With It" saw drummer Rick Barthelme depart from the band. International Artists provided the release with a quantity of promotion and advertising. The album flopped, selling around 6,000 copies - perhaps due to it's minimalistic sound contrasting with their debuts maximalist noise; Pitchfork wrote "It would take a few decades of post-punk experimentalism before Mayo Thompson's vision would have a truly suitable context". The album would go on to be assessed as a precursor to the Minutemen, Unrest, Bastro and Gastr Del Sol. The Red Krayola's follow-ups never lived up to the success of their debut but always broke new ground and foreshadowed different alternative rock genres.
After playing at local radio station KNUZ's battle of the bands event hosted in the Gulfgate mall, the Red Crayola were subsequently signed to "International Artists" by house producer Lelan Rogers. He suggested they bring their group of 50 friends into the studio to record a "freak-out" album. Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators would make two instrumental cameos on electric organ and harmonica. The album's title would be coined by Steve Cunningham: The Parable of Arable Land, an album which went on to sell 50,000 copies on its first run and garnered the attention of Jimi Hendrix, John Peel and the Beatles. Thompson described it as "the beginnings of alternative rock" as no advertising nor promotion was done for the record. Their sophomore album "God Bless the Red Krayola and all Who Sail With It" saw drummer Rick Barthelme depart from the band. International Artists provided the release with a quantity of promotion and advertising. The album flopped, selling around 6,000 copies - perhaps due to it's minimalistic sound contrasting with their debuts maximalist noise; Pitchfork wrote "It would take a few decades of post-punk experimentalism before Mayo Thompson's vision would have a truly suitable context". The album would go on to be assessed as a precursor to the Minutemen, Unrest, Bastro and Gastr Del Sol. The Red Krayola's follow-ups never lived up to the success of their debut but always broke new ground and foreshadowed different alternative rock genres.
Hurricane Fighter Plane
The Red Krayola Lyrics
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Alien Sex Fiend Well I have in my pocket A hurricane fighter plane And it…
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Born in Flames At a new life we took aim We set the vast…
Victory Garden Last night in your window sittin' I saw you Adolf, I…
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@ghostlymo
A psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Texas formed by art students in 1966, they made noise rock, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY fashion.
@Admiralex91
The were 40 years ahead
@runningwolf1552
it was covered by a great band called The Cramps , a psychobilly rock band
@mrjmart06
Awesome my friends and I were in a band back in the day called hurricane fighter planes... My friend came up with the name I never asked him how or where he got it. we're from Houston so hurricanes make sense to us... Freaking awesome.
@econoroller
the bass line from hell.....BEFORE Devo and new wave music were even words yet
@lencolby4605
Proto-post-punk, proto-no wave. RIP Roky Erickson who played organ on this.
@econoroller
@@lencolby4605 Yes, well said! Roky was one of a kind, multitalented, multifaceted, and never could be adequately replaced or imitated. The Elevators as a band in their entirety were a very special chemistry, something akin to order out of chaos.
That only seldom happens when the conditions are just right...or perhaps, they are random enough. Peace
@lencolby4605
@@econoroller - my friends and I went over to his house in 1992. it distressing, his brain was pretty fried. His mom wouldn't let him take the meds or get the therapy he needed. He started performing again after his brother became his guardian and allowed to get the help he needed. I "spoke" to a guy on FB who said he was in a band that opened for him. It sounds like his mental state only improved marginally. So sad.
@dj-um7el
@@lencolby4605 no wonder it's great, Roky is cool!
@mrrubbish
I think that this is the 1978 re-recording, it appeared on a flexi-disc that came with the reissue of Parable on the UK Edsel label. Love it!