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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 ...
Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at San Francisco's Hemlock Tavern. The guru of '60s psychedelic rock doesn't drink alcohol. Booze brings you down, and Hall believes you should ...
It’s impossible to underestimate the significance of the 13th Floor Elevators to Levitation Fest, which this year has rechristened itself with a name taken from an Elevators song. Formerly ...
Psychedelic guru Tommy Hall’s amplified jug – soundchecked! With that, the 13th Floor Elevators emerged from the mists of myth and legend and became flesh again.
13th Floor Elevators, Tommy Hall, Roky Erickson, Ronnie Leatherman, John Ike Walton, Levitation, Austin Psych Fest, Flaming Lips, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, Tame ...
The 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Clementine Hall, Benny Thurman, Danny Thomas, John Ike Walton, Ronnie Leatherman, Danny Galindo, Stacy Sutherland, Powell St. John, Slip Inside ...
In this mini oral history from 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History, the psych-rock pioneers discover the life-changing power of acid and play their first show.
The history of the 13th Floor Elevators will be told in a new visual book, out April 21st via Anthology Editions.
And we can't forget Tommy Hall and his jug, which added a most twisted element to their sound. Read more to find out Everything You Need to Know About the 13th Floor Elevators.
In recent years, Hall's discontinued his long-held practice of routinely ingesting LSD, but maintains the hallucinogen had an essential impact on the 13th Floor Elevators.
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.
Last week's overview of the group and accompanying interview with Tommy Hall continues this week with further recollections from all the aforementioned. The 13th Floor Elevators took psychedelia ...