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The 13th Floor Elevators

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The 13th Floor Elevators were an American psychedelic rock band formed in Austin, Texas, known for early LSD-influenced music and the distinctive electric jug played by Tommy Hall.

Formed in Austin, Texas, the band helped popularize the emerging psychedelic rock sound in the mid-1960s. Key members included Roky Erickson (vocals) and Tommy Hall (electric jug). Their 1966 album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators and subsequent records translated acid-influenced experiences into music. Roky Erickson later faced legal and psychiatric problems; the group's career was brief but influential.

The 13th Floor Elevators are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas, known for translating LSD-influenced experiences into music. Key albums reviewed on DeBaser include The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere and Bull of the Woods. Reviewers highlight Tommy Hall's electric jug, Roky Erickson's hallucinatory vocals, and the band's influence on later psychedelic and garage acts.

For:Fans of 1960s psychedelic and garage rock, music historians, collectors

 A term that was applied to the music scene, indicating the groups that, using hallucinogenic substances, aimed to overcome mental impediments and were in constant search of expanding their sensitivity.

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 This very instrument with its disorienting sound – legend has it that the pitch changed according to the amount of weed contained in it!

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 The genesis of psychedelia is here, in these grooves, in this expanded space filled with luminescent reverberations.

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 The album concludes with, and thus the saga of the 13th Floor Elevators, an unforgettable track among the group's most beautiful: "May The Circle Remain Unbroken," with Roy headed among the immortals.

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