Roky now has two trust funds -- one for income from albums and song royalties, including proceeds from a 1990 Warner Bros. tribute album, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, which features the likes of the Butthole Surfers, R.E.M., ZZ Top and Sahm among those covering Roky's material; the other is for donations from benefits and fundraisers.
Evelyn controls the sales trust funds, from which she gives her son about $20 every other day to buy "cigarettes and hamburgers," she explains. The other fund is handled by two of Roky's brothers and a couple of old friends.
Before we leave, Roky finally decides to use the bathroom; when he's done, he yells, "Here I come!" from around the corner. He is still washing his hands, obsessed with ridding himself of the germs.
As we climb into Stewart's Jeep, Evelyn Erickson waves and yells to her son, "Love you."
Roky does not respond. But as we pull away, he wonders aloud, "You think she'll be all right?
