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This week's cover story [“A Long Strange Trip”] on Tommy Hall, the LSD philosopher/electric jug player/lyricist for '60s psych band the 13th Floor Elevators, tells the story of an underground musical ...
Sunday night at Levitation, Erickson and Hall will reunite as the 13th Floor Elevators, along with drummer John Ike Walton and bassist Ronnie Leatherman, for the first time since those halcyon days.
Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at San Francisco's Hemlock Tavern. ... The jukebox is playing "You're Gonna Miss Me," the biggest hit by Hall's band, the 13th Floor Elevators.
13th Floor Elevators to Reunite at Levitation Festival Consciousness-raising pioneers headline ATX psych gathering By Kevin Curtin, 5:35PM, Thu. Feb. 12, 2015 ...
Levitation Live Shot: 13th Floor Elevators No one can believe what they saw and heard Sunday night By Tim Stegall, 11:00AM, Mon. May 11, 2015 ...
13th Floor Elevators Sun., 10pm, Reverberation Stage An all-seeing eye caps the psychedelic pyramid, ... Tommy Hall (l) and his friend George Ripley in San Francisco, 2015.
"Slip Inside This House" hypnotizes me still, the beckoning of the cosmic finger to enter another realm of consciousness. And the questions keep coming. Does what Tommy Hall says about the 13th ...
High Baptismal Flow Part 1: In search of Austin's 13th Floor Elevators, music to carry you to the next life By Margaret Moser, Fri., Aug. 13, 2004 ...
In this mini oral history from 13th Floor Elevators: ... Tommy Hall: We were naive. It was my idea that we would “play the acid.” We all took acid, but John Ike had a bad trip.
The story of psych-rock pioneers 13th Floor Elevators is chronicled in a new visual book, out April 21st via Anthology Editions. Titled 13th Floor Elevators: Visual History, it was written by Paul ...
The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the most forward-looking bands of the era and arguably, ... And we can't forget Tommy Hall and his jug, which added a most twisted element to their sound.
Roky Erickson, the psychedelic lodestar who helmed The 13th Floor Elevators and wrote one of garage rock's original anthems, "You're Gonna Miss Me," died on Friday at the age of 71. His death was ...