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The 13th Floor Elevators "Bull of the Woods"� - Source: THE RISING STORM
Bull Of The Woods (an International Artists release) is the Elevators most controversial offering.

Awesome Album Covers: The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators - Source: WNEW
Cream 's Disraeli Gears - The Psychedlic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators was probably a purer example of 1960s psychedelia (since all the songs were basically about, influenced by or written while on LSD).

Black Angels Releasing Roky Erickson DVD + MHOW Pics - Source: Bumpershine.com
It's no secret that Austin psych-rockers The Black Angels were influenced by fellow Austinites 13th Floor Elevators , the underrated late sixties group that is often credited with the birth of American psychedelia. 13th Floor Elevators' frontman, Roky Erickson , did a couple of stints in mental institutions in the early seventies after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and he stopped performing live for many years as a result of his illness.

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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. Learn more about 13th Floor Elevators