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.

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

― Super Not, Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:05 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

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.

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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