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Mar 28, 2015 · The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the most forward-looking bands of the era and arguably, the first genuinely, all-out psychedelic band. There were other motions in that direction, most...
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Jun 3, 2019 · Roky Erickson, a guitarist and singer in the 13th Floor Elevators, a foundational psych-rock group from Texas, died on Friday. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but Erickson had...
For their debut album, see The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. The 13th Floor Elevators was an American rock band from Austin, Texas, United States, [ 7 ] formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland.
Jul 16, 2021 · “It was a stately structure, but it had been intersected by the construction of a freeway,” Gibbons recalls. “Rather than tear it down, it was turned into these matchbox cubicles, and the Moving Sidewalks moved in with the 13th Floor Elevators.
- White Rabbit. Psychedelia’s spiritual home is San Francisco, where Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters conducted many of their famous mid-60s Acid Tests - mind-expanding bacchanals where the Kool-Aid was laced with LSD.
- Pink Floyd. Over in London, a small psychedelic scene was coalescing around the UFO Club, whose house bands were Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. Led by the mercurial Syd Barrett, the Floyd played spaced-out deconstructions of rhythm 'n' blues, with whimsical lyrics about dandelions and gingerbread men.
- Yellow Submarine. Thanks to the vivid cartoon style of artist Heinz Edelmann and a team of cutting-edge animators, The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine provided a joyous visual representation of psychedelia.
- Purple Haze. Sixties psychedelia wasn’t all teacups and sunflowers. There was a harder edge to the genre, exemplified by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Blue Cheer.
Jun 2, 2019 · His band from the late '60s, The 13th Floor Elevators, pioneered psychedelia whose dark, kaleidoscopic work was on par with Pink Floyd's sonic experiments at the time.
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Jul 10, 2005 · Emphasizing Erickson's solo output over his reputation-making Elevators material, the collection includes only a handful of tracks from The Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere.
