13th Floor Elevators: C/D

Normally I'd agree. ;-) But it appears there isn't an actual classic/dud thread just on them yet, so...

BOTW is essential if only for the cover of "May The Circle Be Unbroken" which is possibly the best version of this anywhere.

CLASSIC. first one is great, second is better, bull of the woods is spotty but has some amazing tunes (including some good non-roky tracks like "street song"). and those horns.

S: "Levitation"!!!

Yeah, I love "Street Song"!

1st 13th Floor Elevators albums is my favourite.

that's the craziest fucking thing i've ever heard.

Bedoin tribes ascending
From the egg into the flower,
Alpha information sending
State within the heaven shower
From disciples the unending
Subtleties of river power
They slip inside this house as they pass by
If your limbs begin dissolving
In the water that you tread
All surroundings are evolving
In the stream that clears your head
Find yourself a caravan
Like Noah must have led
And slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
True conception, knowing why
Brings even more than meets the eye
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
In this dark we call creation
We can be and feel and know
From an effort, comfort station
That's surviving on the go
There's infinite survival in
The high baptismal glow.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.
Live where your heart can be given
And your life starts to unfold
In the forms you envision
In this dream that's ages old
On the river layer is the only sayer
You receive all you can hold
Like you've been told.
Every day's another dawning
Give the morning winds a chance
Always catch your thunder yawning
Lift your mind into the dance
Sweep the shadows from your awning
Shrink the fourfold circumstance
That lies outside this house don't pass it by.
Higher worlds that you uncover
Light the path you want to roam
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam
Twice born gypsies care and keep
The nowhere of their former home
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
You think you can't, you wish you could
I know you can, I wish you would
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
Four and twenty birds of Maya
Baked into an atom you
Polarized into existence
Magnet heart from red to blue
To such extent the realm of dark
Within the picture it seems true
But slip inside this house and then decide.
All your lightning waits inside you
Travel it along your spine
Seven stars receive your visit
Seven seals remain divine
Seven churches filled with spirit,
Treasure from the angels' mine
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
The space you make has your own laws
No longer human gods are cause
The center of this house will never die.
There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.
Draw from the well of unchanging
Its union nourishes on
In the right re-arranging
Till the last confusion is gone
Water-brothers trust in the ultimust
Of the always singing song they pass along.
One-eyed men aren't really reigning
They just march in place until
Two-eyed men with mystery training
Finally feel the power fill
Three-eyed men are not complaining.
They can yo-yo where they will
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Don't pass it by.

Anyway, I echo what others are saying. My fave album is Easter Everywhere - though Psychedelic Sounds is pretty close. Bull Of The Woods has the occasional note of brilliance (yes, mad props to May the Circle Be Unbroken) but patchy. Also there's quite a bit of live stuff floating around which is worth checking out because the electric WHOOOPWHOOPWHOOP jug is more clear in the mix.

(plus spacemen 3 were crap.)

However, preferring their cover versions to the 13th Floor Elevators originals is pure mentalism.

When I get home, I can YSI these things if you like. Maybe we should YSI a "tribute" album of covers?

Also, I was just kidding about Spacemen 3. Yes, I really like Spacemen 3, but I actually really dislike their version of Rollercoaster due to the way he sings it. Jeff Satan sings it beautifully, even Roky can't top him! Plus, the SC garagey fidelity is about the best sound ever recorded.

btw- seek (if you can find them!) the 8 track mixes, as they were different and clearer than the Collectables mixes, and were also different than the LP mixes...genuinely better production sounds.

recently got Bull of Woods, has some nice stuff. nowhere near as incinderary as 'the Psychedelic Sounds' or 'Easter Everywhere', tho...

Not sure Dylan meant to be either achey or yearning with his version (or ever), so yeah.

is it me, or does "Baby Blue" just ache with a yearning not on Dylan's version...

isn't there some apocryphal story about dylan saying it was better than his version?

the vinyl reissues sound fine.

alex, tell me you're kidding!!!

http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/elevFAQ.htm

my work here is done...

Yeah, and "High Fidelity" probably helped, too.

Da Capo and Piper kind of put the “classicness” of Easter Everywhere in perspective though.

in what sense?

no.

I don't care for Easter everywhere all that much, but my transparent red copy sounds SO terrible that I feel like I'm having trouble judging. I like the debut quite a lot but it seems to me it accomplishes a few things where as Da Capo, Forever Changes, Piper and the Madcap Laughs all accomplish dozens of things. And sound much much better, and have world class, as opposed to just good, song writing.

Still a solid C, just don't know if it's an out of the ball park unquestionable C.

I feel like I regret over-qualifying my statements into oblivion.

I don't like my copy of Easter Everywhere that much. It could be the music, or it could be the fact that I can't fucking hear anything.

They were singing about kitties.

No, just kidding.

I don't want to get into line-by-line specifics, but they got their fellow Texans, the Golden Dawn, which is a good clue.

http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog3/slipinside.htm

Other things of note:

house = beth, the hebrew letter attributed to the magician, also refers to a body or incarnation.

red and blue / magnet heart = fire and water balanced in the hexagram of the heart and the "tetrapolar magnet" of the human body

rivers / water = primal water, aka High Priestess of the tarot, where we concentrate our focus to imprint our seed (idea) to take root and grow into the reality we create with our mind.

Maya, etc. blah blah blah, he's referring to the hermetic interpretation of reality. The Golden Dawn was a magical order that combined western and eastern alchemy, the ideas of which are all represented here with more than just a generic, surface familiarity. He is specifically detailing the cycle of reincarnation and the mystical interpretation of reality which is that spirit or consciousness gives rise to matter/maya and circumstance, rather than the materialist interpretation of reality which says consciousness evolved from matter. Each line is a reference to a person who is "waking up" to realization that the underlying reality is reversed from ordinary thinking: his circumstances don't limit him, his limitations create his circumstances. It's all in your mind, man... pass the weed.

The missing word there was "signed" which makes a lot more sense if it is included in the sentence.

http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/Hex.gif

Red triangle = fire, blue = water

The sun moving over the waters refers to consciousness (man/god) "moving over the waters" (as it says in Genesis) and is a metaphor representing the imprint of mind (solar force) on the primal waters.

Also, this bit:

"In this dark we call creation
We can be and feel and know
From an effort, comfort station
That's surviving on the go
There's infinite survival in
The high baptismal glow."

...is a direct reference to the sephiroth (stations) of the tree of life, just as David Bowie's Station to Station. The stations are "stepped down" in power so that the lesser stations are not destroyed by the infinite power... "that's surviving on the go"... it's an essential idea. Also "in this dark we call creation" is a reference to the "dark radiance" and the "high baptismal glow" is a reference to the L.V.X. (light in extension).

If you've ever read about this stuff, it's blatant and specific.

But, I particularly like this bit:

Live where your heart can be given (do what you like, where people won't tell you your limits)
And your life starts to unfold (your dreams become reality)
In the forms you envision (you've impressed your mind on the primal waters)
In this dream that's ages old (maya)
On the river layer is the only sayer (you're the only authority, what you believe is what you say is true/possible)
You receive all you can hold (you have the power to get anything you want, whatever your limits are, whatever you can handle)
Like you've been told. (unfortunately, we tend to believe our 5 senses and what people tell us what is or isn't possible)

must see this!

(Although I have to say, the jug gets old).

What about praising them as genius?

really nice thing for a "roky fan" to say.

this is silly.

Frankly, I have never wanted that much detail about the artist behind the work, be it wretched or a Horatio Alger story.

Someone was basically criticizing them for both these reasons only about a quarter of the way up the thread. (Are we even talking about Tommy Hall's lyrics for the Elevators anymore, btw? The conversation seems to have turned to Roky's solo music.)

Me?! I was pointing out they were blatantly describing certain spiritual traditions, which is a bit different from psychedelic obviousness. For psychedelic obviousness, see Stimpy's "Climb Inside My Bellybutton" song. Although psychedelics are certainly spiritual and psychedelic lyrics can be pretty obvious, I think Tommy Halls were pretty non-obvious and pretty far off the everyday map, actually. That's why I asked if anyone but me knew what they meant.

"It's all in your mind, man... pass the weed."

http://web.wt.net/~duane/13thfloo.html

I never did. It means a lot to me. Not the literal meanings or the inspiration behind the words, but the sound of the words and the way they flow with the music. slip inside this house is EXTREMELY inspirational to me and completely riveting no matter how many times i hear it and i have about zero interest in majik or theology or mayan godz. actually, that's not true. mayan gods are pretty fucking cool.

I'm quite sure they were aware of this, but I can understand why she wouldn't want to get into it during an interview.

PS: It was one of those arcane symbols of which Tommy was so fond and so vague in explaining. Maybe it had something to do with Scientology. Tommy was very big on Scientology.

and the interviewer comes off like a jackass when asking about the individual songs:

AV: "Nobody To Love" is a Stacy Sutherland composition/vocal which seems to be a prelude to the songs he wrote for Bull of the Woods. Why didn't Roky sing this song and why wasn't another song (e.g., "Fire in My Bones" or "I Don't Ever Want to Come Down") used since Sutherland's song is atypical and not up to par with the other Elevator songs?

gah thats like my favorite song by them

The glyph M is also IVI.

sometimes clouds look like stuff!

does not compute

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http://www.internationalartistsrecords.com/13th_sottem.html

10 disc box set. it looks like most of it is variations on already-released things, and they're kind of cagey about whether the "newly discovered sources" are the legit master tapes found in a vault recently.

i'm too tired to dig out my elevators stuff and compare tracklists, but the discs are:

headstone (the contact sessions) - looks like pre psychedelic sounds recordings?

live in texas - probably the usual live stuff because they're pretty unspecific.

psych sounds mono, easter everywhere mono, p.s. "alternative" stereo, easter everywhere "alternative" stereo, bull of the woods, all with bonus tracks.

live avalon ballroom

a love that's sound ("lost 3rd lp") - looks like bull of the woods with a few new/different tracks.

death in texas - live 1967/1973

i'm kind of interested in this. if the albums are from the master tapes and some of this stuff is actually new, or at least better quality, it'd be pretty great.

buuut if the just pulled everything from 3rd repress vinyl copies like the charly reissues, fuck it.

headstone (the contact sessions) - looks like pre psychedelic sounds recordings?

i wonder if that's spades stuff. which it would be cool to hear more of.

there's some info on it here: http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/g45central/viewtopic.php?t=828&highlight=elevators

tapes are definitely involved

Just wanted to put one thing straight Charly have had absolutely nothing to do with this box set apart from foot the bills. They own the rights and wanted to do this themselves but instead they let me (& Roky's manager take over, plus the band's blessing) approach it in a very Epicurean way... touch nothing unless it needed fixing. Charly have been brilliant, by not interfering...they just let me head to Texas and get on with it. The band's original engineer /producer, Walt Andrus was flown in from California to remaster and remix (where multi tracks existed) ....
Re: YGMM Take 6 and all the Contact material - it has been out before but it was tampered with. This time it's straight off the tapes, with Walt producing (and on occasion Roky)-so forget what you heard twenty years ago....

dude @ record store was totally talking up these "bedroom demos" that were mostly covers of stuff like "teenager in love"

can anybody corroborate their greatness

and re: upthread, "slip inside this house" is about LSD, right?

i mean, duh

WAU at info from electricsound, this could be amazing.

alright, well, here's hoping for a stimulus check next year heh

WAU 2

only $110 US cause the pound is so weak right now!

you may wish to add quotes to that first word there...

Anybody take the plunge?

http://www.internationalartistsrecords.com/

Nom nom nom

I want this so bad

dude @ record store was totally talking up these "bedroom demos" that were mostly covers of stuff like "teenager in love"

can anybody corroborate their greatness

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I'm guessing he was talking about Don't Knock the Rok? I guess I'd say it's pretty great if you're a Roky diehard, a curiosity for more casual fans. I think it's a lotta fun though I tend to skip around a lot and usually just get jazzed to hear some of the other albums.

http://www.internationalartistsrecords.com/front-cover-visual.jpg

Shouldn't even think about this.

i want that so bad. i am so broke.

and now i can't fall back on "that'll never come out, this is all a scam."

sooooooooooooooooo, we are talking, like, 125 bucks, right? sheesh, not completely unthinkable, but, still...

good investment, though. definitely would just go up and up in price.

plus, it's very cool looking. if they had done vinyl i'd totally pay double that without even thinking twice.

I should try to act like an adult and not buy it.

lower lip.........................trembling

yeah this looks sweet ... i cannot buy it. i cannot!

yes you can!

http://shop.climb.org/images/Self%20Control%20Poster.jpg

STOP: OK
THINK: That is a sweet fucking box set
WHAT COULD HAPPEN: I could listen to it
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? Oh god yes

looks fucking awesome, let's buy it and share

actually, scratch that

we'll pass it around like the Stanley Cup

I dismissed this as a doomed-to-failure International Artists fuck up, but it seems as if it really is quite fantastic. Might have to get this...

http://www.jonsavage.com/psych/elevators-box/

btw idk about yall but i've got levitatn

I wonder, too, which "Follow the Leader" Scott meant. The nursery rhyme?

I've heard some of this and the sound is fucking AMAZING. It's really really tempting. I have that 3CD box on Charly with all the albums and lots of live stuff and it's largely a thin and frustrating listen, especially the live stuff. But the live tracks I heard from this box were blistering!

btw i listened to easter everywhere like 4 times today thx to this thread

<3 <3 <3

"I wonder, too, which "Follow the Leader" Scott meant."

Verse One:

Follow me into a solo
Get in the flow - and you can picture like a photo
Music mixed mellow maintains to make
Melodies for MC's motivates the breaks
I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
Now it's a daily word
I can get iller than 'Nam, a killin bomb
But no alarm - Rakim will remain calm
Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme
But for a microphone still I fiend
This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break
I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate
I want to see who can keep followin and swallowin
Takin the making, bitin it and borrowin
Brothers tried and others died to get the formula
But I'ma let ya sweat - you still ain't warm
You a step away from frozen, stiff as if ya posin
Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen
So follow me and were ya thinkin' you were first?
Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe
What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away
Planets are small as balls of clay
Astray into the Milky Way - world's outasight
Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite
Now stop and turn around and look
As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took!
So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star
You better follow it cause it's the R
This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin
Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin
The Leader

Verse Two:

This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison
Aight listen
In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist
Am I Eternal? Or an eternalist?
I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go
Keep ya movin cause the crowd said so
Dance - cuts rip ya pants
Eric B on the blades, bleedin to death - call the ambulance
Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze
A magnum as a microphone murderin' MC's
Let's quote a rhyme from a record I wrote
(follow the leader) Yeah - dope
Cause everytime I stop it seems ya stuck
Soon as ya try to step off ya self-destruct
I came to overcome before I'm gone
By showin and provin and lettin knowledge be born
Then after that I'll live forever - you disagree?
You say never? Then follow me!
From century to century you'll remember me
In history - not a mystery or a memory
God by nature, mind raised in Asia
Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya
From the cradle to the grave, but remember
You're not a slave
Cause we was put here to be much more than that
But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped
But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains
Remake the brains, reveal my name
I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous
It can't be mixed, diluted; it can't be changed or switched
Here's a lesson if ya guessing and borrowing
Hurry hurry, step right up and keep following
The leader

Verse Three:

A furified freestyle, lyrics of fury
My third eye makes me shine like jewelry
You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid
I'll be here when it fade to watch you flip like a renegade
I can't wait to break and eliminate
On every traitor or snake - so stay awake
and follow and follow, because the tempo's a trail
The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail
I'm Rakim the Fiend of a Microphone
I'm not HIM, so leave my mic alone
Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go
So fasten your seatbelt, cause I'm about to flow
No need to speed slow down to let the leader lead
Word to daddy, indeed!
The R's a rollin stone, so I'm rollin
Directions is told, then the rhymes are stolen
Stop buggin', a brother said, dig em, I never dug 'em
He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug 'em
into danger zone, he should arrange his own
Face it, it's basic, erase it, change ya tone
There's one R in the alphabet
It's a one-letter word and it's about to get
More complex from one rhyme to the next
Eric B be easy on the flex
I've been from state to state, followers tailgate
Keep comin but you came too late, but I'll wait
So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped
You're the next contestant - clap ya hands, you won a trip!
The price is right - don't make a deal too soon
How many notes could you name this tune?
Follow the Leader is the title, theme, task
Now ya know, you don't have to ask
Rap is Rhythm And Poetry, cuts create sound effects
You might catch up if you follow the records E. wrecks
Until then keep eatin and swallowin
You better take a deep breath and keep followin
The leader.

sampler over here: http://psychedeliclion.blogspot.com/2009/05/13th-floor-elevators-sign-of-3-eyed-men.html

Hooboy... This is the box set of the year as far as I'm concerned (sorry Neil)

this looks great but they didn't have that many albums to warrant a 10 CD set. still this is awesome!

first taste of that sampler = woah
i bought that cheapo charly set when i heard them and was only interested enough for buying a bunch of the albums without artwork on cd for like eleven pounds to seem like a good idea. but hearing these sounding so 3d's rad.

The sound quality on these are AMAZING.

just ordered this and i am totally psyched.

not sure to what extent an mp3 sampler will give me an idea of how much better the sound on this set is, but I'm giving it a try anyway, as I'm tempted by this. I have their albums on old Charly records vinyl pressings, which are by all accounts inferior.

where are folks ordering from?

oh duh

AVAILABLE ONLY FROM
www.internationalartistsrecords.com

really, no other distro?

The Bull of the Woods demos are amazing. The instrumentals towards the end of that disc (the A Love That's Sound one) are approaching Funkadelic, imo.

Bad financial timing, damnit. This looks amazing.

well, even the mp3 sampler linked to by Tyler above (for which, thanks!) demonstrates that the sound quality on this release is a big improvement on the "original" Charly LPs or CDs. Much clearer, beefier, 3 dimensional sound.

yeah, all arguments against mp3 sound quality aside, the sampler already sounds waaaayyy better. which shouldn't be too surprising as the rumor was that the charly releases were taken from the second generation IA reissues, which were mastered from vinyl themselves.

Well, I caved in and ordered this. Arrived today. I've only dipped into it, so I've no definitive judgement, but what I've heard so far is simply wonderful.

My first instinct was to stick on the first two albums, both mono and stereo mixes (the mono mostly taken straight from vinyl pressings, the stereo from newly discovered tapes). I've owned these albums for about 20 years now (in the now-infamous shitty 3rd-hand Charly pressings) and would have claimed to know them very well indeed. But the improvement in sound in this set is palpable; it is immediately revelatory. The Elevators actually had a bass player! And a pretty cool drummer! Roky's lovely vocals on "Kingdom of Heaven"... I remember hearing "Psychedelic Sounds...." for the first time, and remarking immediately on its tinny-ness. Those silvery, slivers of sound embodied 60s psychedelia for me for quite a few years. It is therefore a minor shock to hear how robust, how meaty this band sounds here. They must have been a barnstorming live band.

Anyway, I realise this is not an inexpensive purchase (I hovered for quite some time over the "Buy Now" button). But if this band means a lot to you, as it does me, I can only urge you to really consider this one.

hey, alright, after a year of being almost broke all the time i finally get together some money and order the box set... and it's sold out!

and there's a copy on ebay for more than double the price!

fuck me!

i guess what i'm saying is, are these ever going to come out as single cds?

I think the remixes of the albums will become definitive for future reissues, and I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of "Best of the rarities" compilation. The book is amazing, though - I'd keep looking for a good price on a second hand copy, or borrow one.

man, that sucks.

Some info on forthcoming individual reissues is here:

http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=14229

:(

Roky's playing here (nyc) new year's day, fyi.

bad news on your attempted purchase. it really is a great set: I'd continue to keep an eye out for it, if I were you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajUz6Jx9KeU

hmm Spacemen 3 covered that

Some info on forthcoming individual reissues is here:

http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=14229

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did these ever come out? that thread is almost uniformly negative about the reissue scheme.

A Side to We Sell Soul is the original You're Gonna Miss Me and it burns just as brightly. No jug, though.

did these ever come out? that thread is almost uniformly negative about the reissue scheme.

So far they've done a singles comp, Contact (early demos), Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere. The latter two with mono/stereo mixes and Easter has one bonus track (Fire in My Bones). They sounds pretty good, better than most of the earlier reissues. I believe the mono Psych Sounds is from vinyl, though.

(x-post)

The individual reissues are gradually coming out.

So far they've done:

7th Heaven (all the mono single mixes)
Headstone (the early '66 sessions plus related odds & ends)
The Psychedelic Sonds of... (two discs-1 original mono, the other resequenced original stereo)
Easter Everywhere (two discs, original mono/stereo plus 1 bonus track)

An expanded Bull of The Woods is in the pipeline.

Yeah, the mono TPS is from vinyl, but it cleaned up really well. I think the same goes for the mono Easter.

It should also be mentioned that the Stereo mixes on the individual reissues are the OG ones from the 60s, WHICH ARE NOT ON THE BOX.

Yeah! And they do sound really, really good. Though tbh I kinda miss the dank sound of the old jewel case Charly Easter Everywhere sometimes.

These really just kinda slipped out, too, I had no idea they were coming out until I saw them in a shop one day.

Yeah they are really under the radar. Easter Everywhere is still listed as forthcoming on the IA website. WTF?

Thanks guys! I guess I can start looking for them.

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=89781
is Roky Erickson from 12/12/10 at the Luxor, Cologne. Not the complete show but Rockpalast apparently aren't going to broadcast the whole thing.

Apparently Roky wasn't in best shape that night which is why not all the set was broadcast. Bet it will be interesting watching anyway. I've read some disparaging comments about the outtake clips which have been upped to youtube.

Sign of the 3 Eyed Men was upped to Demonoid so you can get the music losslessly. Not the same thing as having the box set really. Very well done that was, nice book nice photo & poster reproductions.

Have been half thinking about picking up the lp 2cds for the stereo versions but so far haven't done so. & have therefore possibly missed Psychedelic Sounds. Box set has some alternative takes & mixes replacing tracks from the lp proper.

Picked up the Bull of The Woods reissue, which dropped today (not that you'd know it from the IA website). Another splendid, clearer (albeit still authentically murky) remastering. Haven't dug into the A Love That's Sound half of the set yet, but on paper it looks a bit disappointing--mostly alternates and backing tracks, plus an unheard Sutherland original but no "I Don't Ever Want To Come Down", which I've read was intended for that album and IMO was easily as good as anything else they put out in the waning days of the band.

Okay, I stand corrected: the "unheard Sutherland original" is "I Don't..." under a different title ("It's You"). Also on A Love That's Sound-a tasty 5 1/2 minute take of "Livin' On".

Is that the 'get back' reissue or a new one that I wasn't aware of?

Nah, it's a 2-cd (digi book) set from Charly under the reactivated "International Artists" banner. Limited run of 5000.

The IA website claims 180 gram vinyl reissues of the three core Elevators albums are due in "late 2010/early 2011".

I need some help. There was a contemporary to the original cover version of "You're Gonna Miss Me". It's not the Spades' version. It was a garage band from somewhere else in the country trying to outdo the Elevators for the hit. I can't for the life of me remember who were the performers of this cover. The recording has popped on some recent-ish garage comp.

Anyone?

You might wanna run it through the ugly-things.com comp database. There are other versions, maybe other songs with the same title, but it might jog your memory?

a new zealand garage band called tom thumb did a cover of it. it is on 'wild things: wyld kiwi garage 1966-1969'.

Thanks to both of you--the version I was thinking of was by The Kinetics of Michigan, and the comp was Wyld Sydes #1.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2015-02-12/13th-floor-elevators-to-reunite-at-levitation-festival/

!!!!!

waaaaaaht

isn't tommy hall a paranoid racist misogynst crank/prick?

sure can play that jug though...
actually i'd be worried about a 70something dude trying to play a jug like that, he'll probably have a stroke!

but yeah, i mean, from what i've read he is a nutcase.

isn't tommy hall a paranoid racist misogynst crank/prick?

:(

he must be using marijuana in the wrong way

"that paranoid, racist, and misogynist kid / sure plays a mean electric jug"

it has a ring to it

some of erickson's friends blame hall for getting him into drugs, but given the scene at the time, if it hadn't been hall, it would have probably been someone else, no?

seriously this is pretty cool, and it's got to be one of the longest interregnums of a band ever. 45 years?

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i think marijuana is the least of it

yeah he's been dosing for 50 years now! that has gotta do something to your consciousness. something bad probably.
wonder who will play guitar?

Roky? (As long as his amp is working).

They'll probably bring in a ringer. I'd nominate Can King from the Explosives, but the guys who've been backing Roky as of late would certainly do, particularly seeing as almost half of their current set is Elevators stuff.

maybe it'll be trey anastasio

c'mon dudez you know the correct answer is Billy Gibbons

Didja ever see the Roky Austin City Limits ep? Roky, Cam King, Gibbons, and a guy on pedal steel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1jJuBo9k

sounds good. heard generally positive things from friends...

Pre-Levitation interview w the notorious Tommy Hall: http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2015-05-08/levitation-interviews-13th-floor-elevators/

heh heh sound like he's still living the dream

what the - he lives in the Tenderloin

yeah there was some interview with him a few years back that described his apartment. not a pretty picture.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/a-long-strange-trip/Content?oid=2171421

I'm just surprised by the fact that I have more likely than not seen him wandering the neighborhood

look for the weird old dude with the jug

crazy old racist dudes obsessed w bizarre cosmology/mathematics, you have no idea how many of those there are shambling around the Tenderloin

haha yeah i bet