Hi I'm Bobby Liebling, singer of Pentagram
and I'm gonna let you know what's in the bag.
I'll start out right here with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers live.
Johnny Thunders was someone I knew real well
and God bless him, he's not here with us anymore.
This is the first Heartbreakers album
but it's live at the Village Gate in '77.
Roky Erickson. This is the lead singer and rhythm player in 13th Floor Elevators.
This is a special edition, obviously.
It's got three sides? Yes.
This is the only thing I've ever seen besides 'Second Winter' by Johnny Winter that has 3 sides
Also, here's something that's really a must.
UFO were a big, big influence of mine.
All of the stuff by UFO has been reissued
and it's all got lots of extra cuts on it, 'cause I've got all of them
They've had a string of guitar slingers
that I don't know where in the hell they're digging them all up from
but they get one after another
and every guy they get is the best guitar player in the world
when he comes on the scene with UFO.
This is Roky when he was a whole lot younger.
As was just pointed out by a friend of mine, these are all covers
and favorites of his, I guess.
Yeah, Roky's a great musician and he's
hardly ever gotten any credit at all let alone the credit he deserves.
I think Roky Erickson's an absolute utter genius.
Here's another Johnny Thunders product, so to speak.
It's the second New York Dolls album.
I'm getting it because it's on pink vinyl and I've never seen it on pink vinyl.
I've got the first one on pink vinyl, as a matter of fact.
And a couple other things, I've got a lot of pink vinyl stuff.
Pink's my favorite color.
Right here is the boss, this is the boss.
I've had a lot of personal time spent with him
tour bus, women, the whole nine yards.
This is my favorite album in history
and it's probably the worst mix ever put down.
Y'know, you can't tell half of the shit that's going on at all.
The first time I met Iggy, I was 14
and I met him at a place called Falls Church Recreation Center
I met him because
Cincinnati Pop Festival had just been aired on television
and he got in that peanut butter fight with the audience
but he got in a peanut butter fight that night also
and after it was over, since the place only held 400
nobody really knew who the Stooges were
they'd just been mesmerized, that's all, they knew that.
And I walked into the bathroom, he's covered with peanut butter
I said, can I help you with that?
So I was cleaning peanut butter off of Iggy and this was the way we met.
We became friends after that, and
these people were my whole world.
It was like, someday I'm gonna do this.
and I never gave up
and now I've got y'know...
Pentagram's been together for 47 years this year.
Last but not least, I can't leave out this.
This is the album that got me in trouble a lot.
It kind of tells you to be a heroin addict, and it's fun.
Kind of a dumb thing for me to say, but
I have my battles and I do have my skeletons in my closet
and so I stopped, after 43 years of being a heroin addict
and I just stopped cold turkey, I was on 140 milligrams of methadone.
At the time, I had a $500/day habit.
which had gone up, at times me and my girlfriend each had a $1000/day habit
so I had to support like $2500 a day.
So anyway, that kind of sums it up in short.
I want to thank you guys because this stuff all should definitely
be in the bag, alright? Yeah.