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13th Floor Elevators

13th Floor Elevators
Artist: 13th Floor Elevators
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13th Floor Elevators : Live
Live 2001 10 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : His Eye Is on the Pyramid
His Eye Is on the Pyramid 1999 32 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : Bull of the Woods
Bull of the Woods 1968 11 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : Easter Everywhere
Easter Everywhere 1967 10 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : Levitation
Levitation 1966 11 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : Out Of Order: Live At The Avalon, 1966
Out Of Order: Live At The Avalon, 1966 1966 11 Download album  

13th Floor Elevators : Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators
Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators 1966 11 Download album  

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Science, Religion, Sex, Relaxation, Work etc.Had man been able to see past this hypnotic way of thinking, to distrust it (as did Einstein), and to resystematize his knowledge so that it would all be related horizontally, he would now enjoy the perfect sanity which comes from being able to deal with his life in its entirety.Recently, it has become possible for man to chemically alter his mental state and thus alter his point of view (that is, his own basic relation with the outside world which determines how he stores his information).It is this quest for pure sanity that forms the basis of the songs on this album.Who are the 13th Floor Elevators?How about a discography?Floor Elevators Discography (This discography is obviously incomplete.TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Interview by Allan Vorda.MoreMost pictures courtesy of Clementine Hall.Similar material published in Psychedelic Psounds: Interviews from A to Z from Borderline Press, UK.Left to right: Tommy Hall, Benny Thurman, Roky Erickson, John Ike Walton, Stacy Sutherland The 13th Floor Elevators formed as a band in Austin, Texas in late 1965.Rockport area group called the Lingsmen: Stacy Sutherland (lead guitar), Benny Thurman (bass), and John Ike Walton (drums).The final link was Roky Erickson.Records) called "You're Gonna Miss Me."He was an accomplished rhythm guitar player with a powerful voice, and The Elevators signed with a Houston record company called International Artists.It contained an eight minute poem "Slip Inside This House" as well as "Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)" and a cover of Dylan's "Baby Blue."When the Elevators had finished their song, Dick Clark innocently asked Roky, "Who is the head of the band?"The penalty at that time for being caught with one joint was twenty years in jail.The first time the Elevators were busted they were not prosecuted due to a technicality, but a second bust occurred at a state university with Roky being ordered to stand trial.Roky would spend the next three and a half years at a mental institution called Rusk State Hospital.International Artists tried to capitalize on what success the Elevators had by releasing The 13th Floor Elevators Live album (January 1968) which was essentially studio outtakes that were overdubbed with phony cheering and applause.The death of Stacy Sutherland (killed in a domestic squabble with his wife in 1978) confirmed the Elevators existence was officially over.Headed Dog)" that was released in 1975, Roky's sabbatical would last thirteen years.Roky continued to make several more interesting albums throughout the 1980s, but his mental condition seemed to be deteriorating.Then in 1989 he was charged with the federal crime of tampering with the U.Consequently, he went to court where the judge did not believe that Roky had a mental condition and had him sent to Missouri for "testing."Allan Vorda has interviewed Roky several times, and he describes Roky as gracious and coherent, except for the last interview (November 1991) which proved to be "an exercise in futility."The following are the initials used for the interviewees: Roky Erickson (RE); Danny Galindo (DG); Powell St.AV: How did you first become involved in music?Texas Opera Workshop in 1954 and sang in the local church choir from 1947 to 1964.And the way he screamed, I couldn't believe it!PS: I was at that concert with Roky and Tommy.Roky was definitely blown away.Was this your first group and how did you select the group's name?RE: I can't remember too much about The Spades.Roky singing with The Spades around 1965.AV: What were the circumstances behind The Spades' recording of Roky's "You're Gonna Miss Me" for Zero Records in 1966 and how we1l did it sell locally?TO: "You're Gonna Miss Me" sold pretty well and made the local Top Ten.Rockport area) was a band that included Stacy Sutherland (lead guitar), Benny Thurman (electric violin and bass), John Ike Walton (drums) and Max Rainey (vocals).TO: One of the people I knew was Tommy Hall who was a psychology major at the University of Texas.Originally, we had a band called St.John on harmonica, Tommy Hall played jug, Charlie Pritchard played banjo, Ed Guinn was on clarinet, and I played rhythm guitar.He would hold the microphone next to the jug and blow into the microphone with a real high pitch.Tommy brought Stacy and Benny and John Ike from the Lingsmen and introduced them to Roky.AV: Did the Conqueroo mind losing Tommy Hall?RY: Tommy wasn't that big of a deal to lose sihce he didn't add much to it at the time.Tommy did whereupon the band went electric and became one of the top psychedelic bands in the area.The Conqueroo also played a lot of gigs with the Elevators.Incidentally, the band's name is a voodoo word used in Louisiana black magic.Roky had formed the 13th Floor Elevators.TO: Jim Langdon was the local music writer for the Austin AmericanStatesmen and he wrote a column called "Nightbeat" which was about who was playing where.When he first heard Roky he had never heard of a white kid who could sing like James Brown and do that kind of screaming.Roky's new band would be called the 13th Floor Elevators.The Elevators first gig was around the middle of December in a place called the Jade Room.Langdon invited me to come hear the 13th Floor Elevators play so we went down to hear this new band.They had already written several of their own songs including "Tried to Hide."AV: I have heard various stories about how the group chose its name.John Ike Walton told me that he originally suggested The Elevators one evening and the next day Tommy's wife Clementine came up with the 13th Floor Elevators.TO: Yeah, Clementine added 13th Floor after John Ike suggested the Elevators.PS: I don't know how this occurred, but that there is a disagreement over how it happened comes as no surprise.CH: There has been a lot of confusion about who actually named the group the 13th Floor Elevators, but I clearly remember how it happened.Tommy when he asked me what they should call the band.Elevators to Tommy, not only because the band was making psychedelic music, but because I thought it would sound like a black band who had names like the Miracles or the Temptations.It was then that I suggested the 13th Floor Elevators.The most obvious being the thirteenth floor was nonexistent in the older high rise buildings.Thirteen is, and always has been, my lucky number.AV: Tommy Hall's lyrics presented a different way of looking at the world through music.He provided a strange intellectual brew that combined drugs, philosophy, and religion which was stirred by the echoes from his electric jug.TO: Tommy was into people like Gurdjieff and Nietzsche and he espoused this philosophy to the rest of the Elevators.AV: Was it Tommy Hall who came up with the idea to use psychedelic 1yrics and put it to music?I've heard he may have pushed some of the band members into a direction that maybe they shouldn't have gone or perhaps a little bit too far.Roky and Tommy were mad about each other and everybody loved one another in the beginning.TO: Tommy was a manipu1ator and frankly I never trusted him.Our generation took a lot of drugs and to some extent we were damaged by the trips we took.We thought we found Better Living Through Chemistry.The drugs stopped being our friends and became our enemies.Laura and Roland) by the time I was nineteen, but I knew very little of the world until l met Tommy Hall.Tommy was a brilliant poet whose creativity seemed almost unending and boundless.Tommy was just like that.He seemed to jump from mountain top to mountain top while the rest of us had to climb up and down to get to where he was.Roky Erickson was the same way with melodies.This is how we felt about making music and it was also a reflection of the band as a whole.The Elevators were like one big happy family, at least in the beginning.The only person I truly loved in the band was my husband, but I dearly loved all the other members in the band, almost like a mother hen.Roky was eighteen when the Elevators started playing in 1965.There were evenings when Tommy would fall asleep and Roky and I would stay up all night and talk about whatever topic came up.John and Susan later married and were always great friends with us.AV: Do you feel LSD expanded your consciousness in any way?Yet Tommy never believed in any drugs that he considered destructive such as heroin or speed or any drug that required a needle.Tommy believed that if the Indians had been doing natural drugs for 5OO years or so then there were no harmfu1 effects.This meant that drugs like peyote, mushrooms, marijuana, and hashish were acceptable with LSD being a natural extension.AV: What was that "funny little sound" in the background of the 13th Floor Elevators' songs?RE: It's an amplified jug.Tommy thought about putting a microphone right next to it.Folk music was the "in" thing on college campuses in the early 6Os and jug bands were a part of this.As the scene shifted toward electric music the electric jug was a logical step.AV: There was an album released in 198O that was titled Epitaph of a Legend which was a collection of songs by groups that recorded for the International Artists label.It was a real hard to find antique pottery jug.He could have done it with just the microphone, but it looked more like an instrument on stage and there was some resonance coming out of the jug.AV: Benny Thurman played electric fiddle for the Lingsmen.What was the reason that he switched to bass and why didn't he play electric fiddle with the Elevators?When the Lingsmen switched to rock and roll John Ike played drums and Benny played bass.Later on Benny played electric violin, but with the Elevators he played bass guitar.TO: I think they practiced at Tommy's place.Elevators sound was unititiated by outside sources.Essentially, a new sound was created like nothing heard before or since.The use of drugs made some magic happen to help make that music, but the Elevators were also incredibly talented musicians.John Ike Walton was an excellent drummer and Benny Thurman was an excellent bass player.They were great musicians.Stacy came up with his own sound.Stacy's guitar helped set up Roky's voice and the little weird noises that Tommy made through the jug.They wrote their own material, but they were also a great cover band.They could do covers better than the originals.CH: In all honesty, Stacy was a musician's musician; he practically lived with his guitar."Roller Coaster," "Kingdom of Heaven," "Postures") it was a perfect marriage.AV: What was it like to play such venues as the Jade Room, the New Orleans Club, and (in Houston) Love Street Light Circus?RE: Those places were so swank.TO: The Elevators alternated between the New Orleans Club and the Jade Room which were the major places to play.Janis and 1 grew up in Port Arthur and we were really good friends.Janis had been singing in California and she had a bout with drug addiction.She came back to Texas to get straightened out and after she did she wanted to sing again.It was the first light show in Austin which was during June 1966 and it may have been the first light show in the country, possibly before anything in California.Janis met the Elevators and there was talk of Janis joining the band, but she got an offer to go back to California and join Big Brother and the Holding Company.One time Janis Joplin came over and went to our bedroom where we had a tape recorder."We didn't know you could sing!"This was quite a while before she hooked up with Big Brother and the Holding Company in California and became a superstar.PS: As far as the idea of Janis joining The Elevators is concerned, I doubt if that was ever a serious consideration on Janis' part for two reasons.Janis' vocals on "Coo Coo" (which later used the same music but different lyrics to evolve into "Oh, Sweet Mary" on the Cheap Thrills LP) sounds like an exact copy of Roky's vocal style as far as vocal delivery and especially the screeching vocals.CH: The tough times I mentioned included such things as the Elevators being blamed for turning young people on to drugs with our music.Men were also constantly harrassing the Elevators for their long hair.During these tough times we would often be saved or uplifted by Roky's miracle quality which we called "safety devices."He would see some bad vibes or a fight about to happen, but Roky would always come up with the words to make friends with anybody.TO: In a way we all did change the world.San Francisco has gotten a lot of credit for the psychedelic movement, but a lot of it was replicated from the musicians and their ideas that started right here in Texas.PS: On the contrary, there were not many long hairs and freaks in Texas prior to 1967, and it was open season on the few there were.For instance, Chet Helm was jailed in Laredo the evening of November 22, 1963 as a suspect in the JFK assassination simply because of the fact that he had shoulder length hair.As the decade wore on the various elements in society became more polarized: the political liberals against the political conservatives; the social liberals vs.AV: The group was busted at Tommy Hall's apartment in July of 1966.RE: They decided not to do it to us.We got let off on probation.Tommy would be beaten if I didn't go.When our case came up everybody (including Evelyn Erickson and the rest of our parents) was saying prayers and hoping for some sort of miracle.It turned out that when we appeared in court that Judge Thurmond was sick.Even then we might have been sentenced to prison except that the alternate judge made an error while reading the evidence.Consequently, my case was dismissed and the rest of the band received a one year's probation.John (who later played harp for the San Francisco band Mother Earth) become involved with the Elevators since he wrote a number of songs (e.PS: By the time the group signed with International Artists and began to record I was out of the country and if any attempt was made to locate me to get my approval it failed.In the summer of 1967 Lelan and his partner showed up at the place I was staying in San Francisco.They had a check (I don't remember how much) which they said was payment for the use of my material.Powell on the first album to avoid having to pay him for publishing fees.AV: International Artists didn't want to pay Powell for any songwriting credits since they wanted to keep it for the Elevators?PS: People in Austin were experimenting with psychedelics (peyote) as early as 1961.In fact, there was an earlier generation of counter culture types who, I am sure, were experimenting with them even earlier than that.Tommy was familiar with Leary and Alpirt.TO: This was a brand new sound and everybody was into new sounds.They weren't thinking of a chance to make a record.It wasn't that they were trying to make a commercial record.They wanted to make a record of their sound.Billboard in 1966) which opens and closes with Roky's outrageous scream.PS: Roky had a kind of natural vocal talent which was evident the first time I ever heard him when he was still with The Spades.The antecedents for his style might be found in Little Richard perhaps, James Brown certainly, but a lot of it was Roky himself.CH: My life with Tommy and the 13th Floor Elevators were wonderful, magical experiences.AV: Roky, did you play harmonica for all the songs on the albums?AV: "You're Gonna Miss Me" is credited to Roky Erickson although on the back cover it is spelled Rocky Erickson.TO: International Artists never made an error they didn't want to make.I've been called Roky most of my life and I've always spelled it as Roky.Roky Erickson) about an acid trip which is highlighted by Tommy's electric jug that sounds like the hallucinatory flight of a bumblebee.RE: If you are going to talk about some kind of weird drug then it's something you want to know what it is.PS: The lyrics are quintessential Tommy Hall.They are the embodiment of Tommy's idea that through the use of psychedelic drugs the human race could achieve a sort of chemically induced metamorphosis.AV: "Splash 1" is a great slow song written by Roky and Clementine Hall.They're so familiar in a way I can't define."Then I got so wrapped up into it that I couldn't write it and she wrote the rest of it.CH: Tommy never pushed me to write, but Roky and Tommy wanted me to be involved.I've known you all my life) and then Roky asked me, "Would you like to take a crack at it?"They're so familiar in a way I can't define."Every song was going to be a discovery.You'll hear communism in these songs."Join the Marching," but instead of fighting you join the marching.Keith, poor little Keith, does all the writing.RE: "Make friends with police" is a line from a book called Meetings with Remarkable Men written by the devil and Gurdjieff.He also wrote All and Everything.AV: What did you think about the Clique's cover of "Splash 1" which appeared in the late 6Os and sold moderately well.RE: I haven't ever heard of that group.You try and try, you die and die, you're stopped by your own doubt."What are your thoughts about death?When I first heard that song it scared me to death.RE: That was intentional.It lasts twenty minutes, but is much stronger than acid."Fire Engine" was written specifically about the drug DMT which was a fast acting psychedelic which you smoked with pot.There was also DET which lasted a couple of hours.People here in Austin (I won't mention any names) made psychedelics available for free to a lot of us including the Elevators.John tune, "You Don't Know" states "you don't know how young you are" which can be construed on several levels (e.PS: Basically this song is about all the uninitiated youth that thinks it knows so much and yet still doesn't know itself.AV: "Kingdom of Heaven" is another Powell St.AV: "Monkey Island" seems to be another song the Rolling Stones ripped off under the revised title of "Monkey Man."PS: Here again you hit the nail on the head as to the meaning of the song.AV: The liner notes to "Tried to Hide" state it was written about those people who "for the sake of appearances take on the superficial aspects of the quest."PS: As I understand it, it's about those who pretend to be hip, those that try to fake it.She is the same Sally Mann who later was featured in Rolling Stone magazine's famous groupie issue.She asked me to take her there on the pretext of giving him something.PS: This is just speculation, but I have a feeling that in Benny's case he was getting a little too far out.AV: Why were John Ike Walton and Benny Thurman replaced with Danny Thomas and Danny Galindo on drums and bass for the Easter Everywhere album?AV: What were your influences as far as music?If I had to pick one influence for me it would be Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane.San Antonio until I moved to Austin in 1963.AV: Where did you jam with the Elevators?DG: We used to jam out in Kerrville at a place owned by a guy named Robert Eggers who had a ranch house out in the country.In the stream that clears your head."What was the background for the composition of this incredible song?DG: The song was already written when Danny Thomas and I joined the group and we spent the summer (1967) learning the music.All the songs for Easter Everywhere had already been written.AV: What does "Slide Machine" refer to in Powell St.PS: In a literal sense the slide machine is the road grader that is used to clear rock slides off the roadways in the mountains.In a figurative sense it carries an association of power: pushing at the forces of nature, danger, the threat of being wiped out, and so forth.DG: Because we wanted Stacy's song.Elevators own inimitable style?PS: This song was one of the first that the group chose to perform.I'm sure it was chosen because it is a great song and, unless I miss my guess, they tried it out and liked it and it all fell together from there.DG: "Earthquake" is a song about making love.AV: "Dust" is a reference to death and has effective guitar work by Stacy Sutherland.We wanted to do things our way.Makes me feel light as air."CH: "I Had To Tell You" was the other song I wrote with Roky and it appeared on the Easter Everywhere album.Stacy loved the part about the "drunkard's wasted wine."In the corners of my brain."When we started to work on the song it needed some harmony so I started humming.Roky also provided some beautiful harmonica work.Excellent guitar work by Stacy.KAPE which is a black music station in San Antonio.AV: The Elevators played extensively in California including the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.Why didn't the Elevators relocate to California and sign with another label?PS: I have often wondered about this.It all happened while I was in Mexico and they had returned to Texas by the time I arrived in San Francisco in December of 1966.DG: I didn't play in California, but we played a lot in Texas.The Love Street Light Circus in Houston was a blast!The Elevators were pretty much the house band there.AV: Do you remember playing with any other groups like Bubble Puppy, Fever Tree, Josefus, or the Moving Sidewalks?AV: The Elevators were constantly harrassed by the police including at least one occasion where all the musical equipment was destroyed by the authorities while looking for drugs.Apparently some kid who was busted for marijuana was told the charges would be dropped against him if he said the pot was Roky's.DG: You're asking me to presume a lot.To tell you the honest to goodness truth, I'm not going to discuss it.CH: Everybody has a different theory of what happened to Roky and his subsequent mental condition, but let me say what I believe.Tommy and I suggested he crash at our place but Roky said, "No, it's my mom's place and it will be cool."Consequently, his mother had him committed to the Austin State Hospital where I believe he underwent shock treatment.We began to hear, through our friends and inside sources, that Roky was in terrible condition.Roky's mother, who is very religious, must have decided it was best to have him sent away.This decision may have, in part, been made since Roky had also recently been busted when the Elevators had played at Sam Houston State University.Roky was then sent to northeast Texas to Rusk State Mental Hospital.AV: Was there any effort made to get Roky out of jail on appeal after he was sent to Rusk State Hospital where he ended up staying three and a half years in a mental institution?TO: I think an attorney named Jim Symons worked on the case, but that is about all I know.AV: What was Roky's mental condition like before he went into the hospital and also discuss his subsequent treatment that included electric shock "treatment" and other "stabilizing" drugs?PS: I don't know anything about Roky's state of mind at this time.In that atmosphere, and considering Roky's background, I'm surprised the doctors didn't amputate his head.AV: Roky's imprisonment essentially meant the end of the Elevators.What happened to the group immediately after Roky' s imprisonment?AV: What about the two subsequent albums that were put out by International Artists?It was just a bunch of studio outtakes that was overdubbed with audience noise.AV: What about Bull of the Woods?DG: I was on one cut of Bull of the Woods that had been recorded earlier.Roky had a few songs that he had either written or sung on before he was sent away.Roky wrote and sang "May the Circle Remain Unbroken" and "Never Another."He also sang on "Living On" and "Dr.It was pretty much Stacy's album since he wrote and sang most of the songs.AV: Did the Elevators make any money at all?DG: The only money the Elevators made was off appearances.RE: Stacy Sutherland was killed in a domestic squabble.The stories I hear are very strange.AV: The music of the Elevators never received any extended airplay, but their reputation has become legendary and their music influential.How do you perceive the Elevators contribution to rock and roll?DG: There are bands all over the world trying to emulate the Elevators.Roky and the Elevators' songs.AV: The way I look at the Elevators is their story is almost like a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy.It's too bad a movie hasn't been made about the Elevators because it would be unbelievable.TO: It would be like a psychedelic Spinal Tap!It would blow away The Doors movie.DG: It serves as a great lesson as to how bad you can get screwed around by management, especially if somebody is not taking care of the band then they can get burned real quick.Roky Erickson or 13th Floor Elevator albums available.TO: The recordings were bad to begin with.The first album was done in three track: bass and drums on one, then vocals, and then guitar on another track.They never did capture on record the Elevators as good as that band was live.AV: Where did the Elevators record Easter Everywhere?AV: What about the Elevators album cover for the first album, Psychedelic Sounds?AV: Who came up with the logo of the pyramid with the eye?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.TO: Roky and Tommy came up with that idea.AV: Update me on the whereabouts of anybody connected with the Elevators.TO: Frank Davis, who helped engineer the Elevator albums, is in Houston and is a successful artist.John is in Berkeley, California raising his family and doing computer work.Lelan Rogers lives in the Los Angeles area.DG: I always had these mental images of the 13th Floor Elevators as Ghost Riders in the Sky.TO: I think the Elevators were the best and most influential rock and roll band to come out of Texas and one of the best in the country.They are a classic example of how drugs can inspire and destroy creativity.The Elevators have never received any royalties or money from their records.The Elevators were ripped off completely.Any final reverberations or doubts?And there's nothing to be ashamed of about that, but you might feel better about not having them.You'd like to be able to have that.RE: Well, it's that same thing again.There are these things you can get and so if you have the thing you're going to like it.You don't want the second deal.That's what I'm trying to explain to you.AV: One final question for Roky.Roky Erickson the same day; November 1984 (interview with Roky Erickson); November 1991 (interview with Roky Erickson, Danny Galindo, and Tary Owen at Tary Owen's residence in Austin, Texas); February 1992 (interview with Powell St.April 1992 (interview with Clementine Hall).NOTE: Tary Owen was an original member of the Conqueroo and is the unofficial caretaker of Roky Erickson.While neither Tary Owens nor Powell St.John were members of the 13th Floor Elevators, both were part of the Austin music scene and provided invaluable insights for this interview."Are you sure you want to block this user?Would put up "slip inside this house" from the 1967 album "easter everywhere".But myspace doesnt allow songs to be longer than a certain length.Have a safe and Happy New Year!Hope your having a fun weekend.MAS 13th Floor Elevators!Seasonal Greetings to you from Redmango.We Really love your music!Thank you for the music!Love from Thee Strawberry Mynde.Thanks for your friendship....Keep on rocking and keep your eye on Music Street JournalStop by and check out the brand new issue.Christmas, Yule, Kwanzaa or any other holiday (even Festivus) may it be filled with joy and peace.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines.From Austin, Texas, 13th Floor Elevators were quite possibly the first ever artists to describe their music as psychedelic.The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the follow up Easter Everywhere 1967.However Texas at this time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn't come to terms with 50's rock n roll.Stacy Sutherland was jailed, and in order to get out of a prison term Roky pleaded insanity landing in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for three years.Someday I will drive down some remote desert...If you'd like to add some events for 13th Floor Elevators then you can do so on this page.Web Site Support Last.Fronted by the legendary Roky Erickson, the 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS took Texas by storm in late1965.Widely credited as the first band to call themselves "psychedelic, their live shows were extremely intense events and featured extended jams, romps and noodles...Perhaps some of the most original sounding music to come out of the 60's, Tommy Hall contributed to their eccentric sound by playing a custom jug!Avalon between 1966 and 1968.Roky and company performed on this show when YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME was just a local hit in Texas.Although no footage of this appearance has surfaced, a polaroid snapshot does exist.Same as above, but a few months later.YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME is played at a frenetic pace.Silent footage supposedly exists of this ELEVATORS gig, but has not been confirmed.Starts off with a man in a swimming pool saying 'Is this the 13th floor...?When DC introduces the band, kids dressed in costumes are visible.This could possibly be the same performance as below.As with the other LARRY KANE performances, no footage has ever surfaced of this performance.It's possible that the band played more times on this show, given the Texas locality.The documentary doesn't include any additional archival film or video footage of the ELEVATORS from the 60's, but it does include many unique photos.The production also features some custom light shows created to be played with the ELEVATORS soundtrack.Unfortunately, none of the ELEVATORS TV performances have ever been available commercially.Since they were featured on two nationally broadcast shows produced by DC, clean prints are assumed to be in the vaults, but don't appear on the radar screen for an official release any time soon.The University of Texas documentary probably never had a formal release, given the fact that it was a college project.RADIO INTERVIEW with Bud Bruchard, unit manager for Channel 8 in Dallas when the SUMPIN' ELSE was on the air.



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