13TH Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)

The 13th Floor Elevators was an American rock band from Austin, Texas, United States,^[6] formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland. The band was together from 1965 to 1969, and during that period released four albums and seven singles for the International Artists record label.^[7][8][9]

Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member and the leader of the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Erickson was born in Dallas, Texas, to Roger and Evelyn Erickson, and had four younger brothers. The nickname "Roky," a contraction of his first and middle names, was given to him by his parents.^[2] His father, an architect and civil engineer, was stern and disapproving of Erickson's countercultural attitudes, once forcibly cutting his son's hair rather than allow him to grow it out Beatles-style. His mother was an amateur artist and opera singer, and encouraged Erickson's musical talent by taking guitar lessons herself so she could teach him.^[3]

Erickson was interested in music from his youth, playing piano from age five and taking up guitar at 10. He attended school in Austin and dropped out of Travis High School in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.^[4] Erickson wrote his first songs, "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "We Sell Soul", at age 15, and started a band with neighborhood friends which would evolve into his first notable group, the Spades.^[5] The Spades scored a regional hit with "We Sell Soul"; the song is included as an unlisted bonus track on Erickson's 1995 album All That May Do My Rhyme and was adapted as "Don't Fall Down" by the 13th Floor Elevators for their debut album. The Spades' original version of "You're Gonna Miss Me", later a hit for the 13th Floor Elevators, was featured on the compilation album The Best of Pebbles Volume 1.

 

I DO NOT own the rights to this music. Slip Inside This House 0:00:00 Slide Machine 0:08:00 She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) 0:11:42 Nobody To Love 0:14:40 Baby Blue 0:17:40 Earthquake 0:22:53 Dust 0:27:41 I've Got Levitation 0:31:41 I Had To Tell You 0:34:20 Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) 0:36:47 Bonus Tracks: Before you Accuse Me 0:43:22 Fire In My Bones 0:46:46 Splash 1 (Acoustic) 0:48:50 Right Track Now 0:51:54 Levitation (Instrumental Takes 1 & 2) 0:54:56 Dust (LP Mono Mix) 1:02:21 I've Got Levitation (Mono 45 Mix) 1:06:21 She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (Alternate Mono Mix) 1:08:56 Slip Inside This House (45 Edit) 1:11:51