Thursday, June 05, 2025

Roky Erickson & Bleib Alien - Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) - 1975

 Kogar just played this, 7" single on Mars records. Produced by Doug Sahm.

Two-headed dog
Two-headed dog
I've been working in the Kremlin with a two-headed dog

Wiki says

In 1974, after having been released from the state hospital, Erickson formed a new band which he called "Bleib Alien", Bleib being an anagram of Bible and/or German for "remain", and "Alien" being a pun on the German word allein ("alone") – the phrase in German, therefore, being "remain alone". His new band exchanged the psychedelic sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators for a more hard rock sound that featured lyrics on old horror film and science fiction themes. "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" (produced by The Sir Douglas Quintet's Doug Sahm and inspired by Vladimir Demikhov's 1950s head transplant experiments) was released as a single.