featuring the yelping vocals and visionary, occasionally demented lyrics of Rocky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevators were one of the original acid rock bands. This Witness CD brings us rare unreleased demos, live tracks, and B-sides. It also includes the original take of "You're Gonna Miss Me." multiwaves.2006
Did the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock? Aficionados will be debating that point for decades, but if Roky Erickson and his fellow travelers into inner space weren't there first, they were certainly close to the front of the line, and there are few albums from the early stages of the ...
13th Floor Elevators includes: Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland.Recorded at Summit Sound Studio, Dallas, Texas. Includes original release liner notes by Lelan Rogers.This release features a special gatefold LP style CD sleeve.13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson (vocals, guitar); Stacy Sutherland (guitar); Benny Thurman (bass); John Ike Walton (drums); Tommy Hall.Recorded in 1966.The 13th Floor Elevators might have been remembered simply as one-hit wonder of the `60s--the Texas equivalent of the
Considering that they existed at a time before technology had made audience recording simple and commonplace among music fans, it`s a welcome surprise that a handful of live tapes of psychedelic pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators exist, particularly given the fact the only attempt by their record label to professionally record the band documented a lackluster performance in which guitarist Stacy Sutherland had a profoundly bad reaction to the LSD the group customarily sampled before each performance. For
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Forget about San Francisco: The American capitol of psychedelic rock was Austin, Texas, and no band soared higher than Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators. In addition to acid-tinged garage rockers such as the crazed-love anthem, "You're Gonna Miss Me," the Elevators' debut included tracks such as "Reverberation (Doubt)," "Roller Coaster," and "Splash 1," which viscerally evoked the sounds of their titles while offering lyrics that provided a philosophical structure for the psychedelic experience.
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"13th Floor Elevators includes: Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland. Recorded at Summit Sound Studio, Dallas, Texas. Includes original release liner notes by Lelan Rogers. The 13th Floor Elevators might have been remembered simply as one-hit wonder of the '60s--the Texas equivalent of the Count 5, for example--had it not been for two things. First, they were the only rock band in history to feature a guy playing a continuous obligato on electric jug, which added a deeply weird element to even their
For the first time in 40 years, here it is in dangerously powerful MONO, exactly as it was intended: the stupefying debut album by Texas' heroic psychedelic point-men, the 13th Floor Elevators, on Sundazed's uncannily accurate high-definition vinyl! The unearthly banshee howl of Roky Erickson, the blistering guitar of Stacy Sutherland and the demented electric jug of Tommy Hall haven't sounded this scary since their glory days in the third eye of the lysergic hurricane!