The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (Reissue, Remastered, 2CD Edition) (1967/2010)
Artist: The 13th Floor Elevators
Title: Easter Everywhere
Year Of Release: 1967/2010
Label: Charly Records
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 42:44 + 45:32
Total Size: 216/464 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Easter Everywhere
Year Of Release: 1967/2010
Label: Charly Records
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 42:44 + 45:32
Total Size: 216/464 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Slip Inside This House (7:55)
02. Slide Machine (3:39)
03. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (2:57)
04. Nobody To Love (2:57)
05. (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue (5:09)
06. Earthquake (4:44)
07. Dust (3:58)
08. Levitation (2:40)
09. I Had To Tell You (2:26)
10. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) (6:20)
Disc 2:
01. Slip Inside This House (8:05)
02. Slide Machine (3:41)
03. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (2:56)
04. Nobody to Love (3:00)
05. (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue (5:18)
06. Earthquake (4:50)
07. Dust (3:59)
08. Levitation (2:38)
09. I Had To Tell You (2:30)
10. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) (6:33)
Bonus Track:
11. Fire In My Bones (Out take) (2:05)
Line-up::
Roky Erickson – Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica
Tommy Hall – Electric Jug
Stacy Sutherland – Lead Guitar
Dan Galindo – Bass
Danny Thomas – Drums
Additional Musicians
John Ike Walton – Drums ("She Lives", and "Levitation")
Ronnie Leatherman - Bass ("She Lives", and "Levitation")
Clementine Hall - Backing Vocals ("I Had To Tell You")
Hailing from Austin, Texas, the members of 13th Floor Elevators were quite possibly the first artists to describe their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly and religiously endorsed the use of drugs (particularly LSD) to alter human consciousness for the better.
The band rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with You’re Gonna Miss Me, anchored by Roky Erickson’s unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland’s guitar, and Tommy Hall’s electric jug runs. According to myth, Tommy’s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it.
The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on its albums The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the followup Easter Everywhere 1967.
However, Texas at that time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn’t come to terms with 50’s rock ‘n’ roll. The authorities and the police set out to bust the entire band for pot (and—not surprisingly—succeeded).
Stacy Sutherland was jailed. To avoid a prison term, Roky pleaded insanity—a misguided ploy that landed him in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for 3 years. That turn of events spelled the end of the band, although there was a posthumous 1968 LP, Bull of the Woods.
Roky Erickson was released from hospital in 1973 and embarked upon a successful solo career that resulted in a CBS album produced by Stu Cook from Creedence Clearwater Revival. During the 1980s he struggled with mental illness and withdrew from public life for many years. However, in the 2000s he has re-emerged with one of his late 70s/early 80s backing bands, The Explosives, playing regular gigs including the Austin City Limits festival in September 2005, as well as Coachella in California, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden and Montreal World Film festival in Canada.
The band rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with You’re Gonna Miss Me, anchored by Roky Erickson’s unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland’s guitar, and Tommy Hall’s electric jug runs. According to myth, Tommy’s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it.
The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on its albums The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the followup Easter Everywhere 1967.
However, Texas at that time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn’t come to terms with 50’s rock ‘n’ roll. The authorities and the police set out to bust the entire band for pot (and—not surprisingly—succeeded).
Stacy Sutherland was jailed. To avoid a prison term, Roky pleaded insanity—a misguided ploy that landed him in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for 3 years. That turn of events spelled the end of the band, although there was a posthumous 1968 LP, Bull of the Woods.
Roky Erickson was released from hospital in 1973 and embarked upon a successful solo career that resulted in a CBS album produced by Stu Cook from Creedence Clearwater Revival. During the 1980s he struggled with mental illness and withdrew from public life for many years. However, in the 2000s he has re-emerged with one of his late 70s/early 80s backing bands, The Explosives, playing regular gigs including the Austin City Limits festival in September 2005, as well as Coachella in California, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden and Montreal World Film festival in Canada.
