13th Floor Elevators: Scarlet and Gold

[Unsanity94]

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite

[fatman86236]

drug rock  at its best

[StanKindly]

Who played bass on this track? I'm guessing Ronnie Leatherman??

[LENNY5839]

Check out the growlers for a great band

[kosycat1]

I have been familar with their first two albums,but for some reason never hear bull of the woods.so one night must have eaten a lil more then an 8th and heard this song,and the rest of the album for the first time and words simple can not explain how much this song touched my soul,one of the greatest bands on all time i think.this band i a huge influence on my music,and im 18,i think that bands like 13th floor will embeddablely influence people for many years to come

[sessionmessiah]

Psychedelic late 60s garage rock ( especially all the punkish,raw, primitive stuff ) is uncomparable... 13 floor elevators, kim fowley, love, shocking blue, the seeds, the kingsmen and 1000s more bands...real rock'n roll... words defy me when trying to describe the TRUE and WORTHY and REAL and horrifyingly beautiful sounds like these... there should be another Explosion like the one in the 60s...

[MDS13MDS]

this song and DXM = OMYGOD

[mirkopozarevacmps]

Does someone know the meaning.To me it looks a little like Elevators situation a that time.When roky was in hospital and Tomy doesnt be with band.

[mirkopozarevacmps]

I wandering what is the meaning of this song,what Stacy want to say

[belsen147]

oh man, authentic

[GoReds10FuckOff]

AUSTIN, TEXAS....

[falore94]

woo Austin :) :) :) beautiful :) :) :)

[gratefultiger]

Classic psychedelia,going up.down & sideways!

[Thirdeyeinmypocket]

i see ronald mcdonald

[mirkopozarevacmps]

Who is the singer of this song.Is this Roky it not looks like his voice.

[TheOneartist]

@mirkopozarevacmps It's Stacy Sutherland, the lead guitarist. This is from their third album, Bull of the Woods, which was mostly his work. The band was falling apart, and I think Roky and Tommy Hall had left. Roky was just on 3 songs on the album.

It mostly didn't have their trademark sound of Roky's vocals and Tommy's jug. But this song is still one of Stacy's best works, and he was still a talented guitarist and writer. R.I.P.

[NaUsPoWeReD]

WTF I'm falling into a... Way to many drugs... Im not even high and this is bringing back old LSD highs haha this is awesome, great song too!!!!!!!!! TRIPPIN!!!!!!

[bananalover666]

So trippy :)

[TheLexyboy]

ive only read a couple of the first page comments on this vid, but "they dont make music like this anymore" may be a topic. My answer is "oh yes they fuckin do!". Psychedelic music doesnt need to be stuck in a 60's timewarp to be psychedelic!

[MDS13MDS]

@TheLexyboy exactly

[TheOneartist]

@TheLexyboy Psychedelic music is timeless. But I haven't actually heard any current, real psychedelic rock. I've heard bits and pieces from underground bands that claim they are, but the music just isn't it and some of it even sounds generic.

There's plenty of music I can hear from the 60's from many, many, many different bands, and I can say-"That's psychedelic." It's a whole genre. But I DO believe it's still possible to make real psychedelic rock NOW, I just haven't heard anyone do it right.

[bonedaddyjack666]

i want about 4 drops of some cali sunshine right now

[CosThc]

viejitas pero chingonas!!

[jettjaxon1]

Maybe they should get of the drugs! Thats not a song ITS CRAP!

[iixYETIxii]

@jettjaxon1 Why don't you stop listening to their music if you think it's "crap" and go listen to Rebecca Black or something.

[TheOneartist]

@jettjaxon1 The only thing I'd admit is that this song isn't well-mixed. Plenty of their songs weren't well-mixed, I think especially this album. And the CD issues suffer from crappy quality sources because the independent label they were on went bankrupt.

They released a box set a couple years back or so that finally got things right, although the mixing on this album can't be helped too much. Most of their material, though, sounds way, way better. It sold out though so most people download it

[TheOneartist]

@jettjaxon1 I only wrote that comment because I think you didn't hear the lyrics well enough, but the point is that this band is legendary and had unique musical talent you could never understand.

[santiagosuarez92]

we living in lysergic acid.

[AntonettaHenriette]

psilocybe semilanceata, i meant

blendenweite 4-5, freunde der russischen volksmusik

[AntonettaHenriette]

MY UNIVERSITY IS - WAS - WILL - BE CALLED *P*S*I*L*C*Y*B*E*-*S*E*M*I*L*A­*N*C*E*A*T*A*, das album BULL O´ DA WOODS mein EINZIGES album, dass ein weggefährte ist and if You ask me for the one & eternal word?

It is L O V E . . .(henrike frum berlin)

[hipcat13]

roky erickson had himself legally declared a Martian. True!

[MemphisDude]

This light show is so outasite! Thank you, perpetrator!

[NymphZoic68]

..my third eye is squeegeed!

[plusultra]

roky erickson was gettimg his inspiration from somewhere else but many great men are returning and I hope to be waiting at the station when all the scarlet and the gold are reverberating in the ether fau shau its the original psychedelic band on youtube for everybody to keep standing there and tommorows hurricanes have blown my mind. thanks for the flashback

[jphnbbeckham]

this is a personal dig at Tommy Hall by Stacey Sutherland. some of the takes on Bull of the Woods are with Roky and Tommy. but recorded a year earlier. the band was desolved already. why they are not well known? crappy publisists and smart mouths! rock 'n' roll originals!

[noogies]

I don't even think Roky was on this album so much. Bummer.

[Bash91]

This vid is great to get stoned to.

[OutlandsCommunity]

I was lucky enough to have traded a couple of letters with Stacy Sutherland after an hour's phone conversation in 1978 about a month before Bunny killed him. This, along with his "Nobody To Love" he considered to be his best work, so much so that he played them in the band he formed after his release from The Walls, I believe the name was "Tejas." Thanks for posting this, brother, the Elevators are eternal!

[BohemianAsh]

This is just fucking awesome. Mental kaleidoscope styles.

[LSDCoatedBrain]

God, this video gets so much of that mp3 website spam. It don't make sense.

[HypnoParrot]

@LSDCoatedBrain

hey an i really dig 13th floor elevators and was wondering if there was anyway you could reverse the video to reveal backmasking, i'm conviced it would work but i just don't have the programs to do it

[irishman572]

fucking badass.

[Hotsauce850]

Pure, Raw Psychedelia. Can't beat it.

[dinasourwithajetpack]

...two years later yo masterpierpont check this out

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

The Soft Machine

and hawkwind

[jjames9826]

the drummer is awesome

[funkmasterjee]

'The Nickel Bag' are another interesting psychedelic band from this period. Try 'The Woods' by The Nickel Bad

[itsokaytotrip]

dig th!sssssssssssssssssssssssssss !i!i!

[Bonzo321]

yes Spacemen 3 are a great psychedelic band

[foreveralien]

beautiful!!!

[gibsonvolume]

also the band called THE GOLDEN DAWN has the same ish sound

[gibsonvolume]

if you are looking for more bands that sounds like 13th floor elevators .. try the band called COLD SUN .. also from texas late 60's ... only album is titled Dark shadows .. it is so so so so good .

[Magicmaetti]

Hearing this song in loving memorial of Dennis Hopper

[Greggo2]

This is probably sacrilege, but this is by far my fave 13th Floor Elevators song. I dig the bass- almost Lee Parry in its dubness.

[mackb909]

@Greggo2 : No sacrilege; it's my favorite 13th FE song too. I'm not a big electric jug fan. Stacy Sutherland wrote this and did the lead vocal. Roky E. and Tommy Hall participated only minimally in the recording of this album (Roky was facing big time legal problems and being threatened with jail and/or institutionalization. Hall was simply becoming more and more isolated and "out there," Syd Barrett style). Sutherland was trying to hold the band together, a Sisyphean task.

[lilithkarynna]

Movimiento 13

[CKru8789]

Badass video!!!

[motherbrain86]

everytime i play this i sense a pyschadelic sundown in the desert

[pickinboogers4u]

I have a bunch of his shit on my Itunes but never really gave em' a chance. After seeing that documentry on him I'm freakin' hooked.

[Magicmaetti]

This song will be played while they are pissing on my grave.

[InternalPeace93]

One of the best psychedelic bands ever. Like EVER.

Like there's nothing about this band, that I don't like.

[shenanarchyxx]

life right here

[Marz0824]

I might be 15 years old, but I am mature enough to enjoy this classic song. Its hard to believe today does not have such good songs as this....

[13thfloor18]

@Marz0824 I matured musically when I was 15 or 16. It makes no difference, you either like things or you dont and badtaste is seemingly the in thing. Bands like this always surpass and live on however, it is music for the spirit. I remember hearing Fire and Water by Free when I was 15 and it changed my whole outlook on music and what it means. I was moved by it completely.

[tanztante]

@Marz0824

this has nothing to do with you being mature, it just shows you have a great taste in music. that's all. ;)

[Marz0824]

@tanztante What I mean by mature is old enough to look back at our history, and appreciate the music, unlike most younger audience of today.

[greeneups]

@Marz0824 listen to The Brian Jonestown Massacre, start with their hits, like Anemone, Wisdom, nevertheless, then work deeper into all of their music. One of the best neo-psycedelic bands

[burntonce]

@Marz0824 There are dude you just have to let your musical influences grow and take down the wall of "they don't make good music anymore" because they do. Open your Eyes.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@Marz0824 Enjoying music has nothing to do with maturity. A toddler knows a melody when he hears one.

[Nobodie92]

@Marz0824 Not really man this music is a product of the culture of the 60's.

[roadlizard666]

the nightman is waiting at the station!

[13thfloor18]

@roadlizard666 That line is great, really gets me everytime, i love the devils bones lay parching in the sand. Great great tune

[Mushchronic27]

my friends play this song.. now i kno why cus my name is scarlet and the song is called "scarlet and gold" .. funny lol

[bobbyp1214]

Stacey Sutherland!!

[ANGRYEEL]

This song rules! See ya in Brooklyn soon Roky!

[tomblah]

texas has produced some pretty sweet psychedelic bands

[DrRichardRimjob]

@tomblah hahahahah texas

[tomblah]

many brave men are returning

[kingdejaeger]

they helped invent punk rock like the velvet underground

[gkoz791]

Fabulously wicked tune, very nice work with the vid!! * * * * *

[milkgodnl]

imagine the fear in the hearts of texas fundamentalists if they saw their 16 year old child seeing these graphics and hearing this music. However, in the late '60's we engaged in sweet surrender to the zeit geist that was around then .. celebrated life .. and celebrated collors!

[goatmark]

Free Pickert and Apperson!

[MrGeltabs]

Hell yea if you know who William Leonard Pickard & Clyde Apperson are u got my respect....an old Silo is all u need to know

[dannyhood66]

LSDCoatedBrain, That's got be one of the best names on the Internet...For this music that is.

[333snottbox333]

there would'nt be some kinda drug reference here now would there????????

[secul999]

great work!

[ubbuu]

very cool, never heard before this album of theirs

[dragpackdale]

Wow, this drummer good !

A hard song to drum to, but he makes it work.

[Henrypucho]

psicodelic yeah!!!

[motherbrain86]

this should have been in a movie

[philipsmovies]

Great song. I love the way Roky sings this in a Texan accent retaining it's Psychedelic feel. The imagery is excellent and makes me want to spin around!!

[huskyjerk]

Makes it sound similar to Love.

[philipsmovies]

I see what you mean. They are musically and geographically not far apart! However like many US bands of the mid-sixties they are influenced by The Rolling Stones, Them, Yardbirds, The Who etc. The Elevators to their credit did develop an original Psychedelic Sound.

[sevenjokingbite]

It is an awesome song, but that's not Roky singing. He is only on a few Bull Of The Woods tracks.

[JFS3]

That's Stacy singing, as Roky was gone (in more ways than one) by that time. In fact, Stacy later stated this song was about Roky and his situation at that time.

[EDWARDJPOLANCO]

Put this on full screen and let it take you!! away!! awesome song

[11baum11]

soo geil!

[gunslinger32mag]

You lucky people that lived back then. I have to live it through you and my late cousin. Living Eye, Catacombs, Love Street Light Circus, etc.... My cousin lived it all and all that is left through him are my memories of the stories he told me. That, and that I'm friends with John Ike. Met him 12 years ago and hung out with him in summer 07 in Kerrville. My cousin saw the Doors in like 68. It was crazy. You lucky bastards. I hope you know what you lived and my generation won't know...

[aaron112233445566778]

i agree 100 precent man, the 21st century is filled with too much bullshit, the 60's and 70's was back when everything was right!

[usernam4444]

and you don't see oppression and rights being taken away today?

[mikederda]

From what i heard and been shown i agree.

[gunslinger32mag]

Dude, watch this movie called Dirt Road to Psychedelia. Hard to find, but real good, even though its mostly interviews. Not too much original footage from back then, though maybe 1/4th the move has some. That 70's generation kinda wasted their decade but the mid to late 60's is where I wanted to live. Wish I had a time machine.

[mikederda]

Yeah I know eh?

[Ficklise]

... but many brave men are returning - back to the place where it began...

Oh WOW - see me rocking!!! Keiner aller songs der Elevators hat mich so bewegt wie DIESES - and... believe: my brain is ANYTHINGcoated, :D:D:D

[homonculus9]

Stacy Sutherland was fantastic!

[goatmark]

What happened to acid, those two guys got busted pinerton and apperson and they made 95% of acid according to dea.Sucks, mushrooms don'nt pack the punch.

[cronosbray]

I took five hits of white blotter in college one night. I almost lost my shit. What a long strange trip that was.............

[d36williams]

it's been coming back in to ATX - it was gone for like 5 years it seemed before I saw any again after that big bust. DEA is a bloated govt program, they should pull it's budget

[popgoiuuod]

They will.. the DEA is a bloated disgusting embarrassment to the united states and what we stand for. Im ashamed they even exist...

[amandadaveolivia]

hey mellymanfamily your right such a stereo typical comment. people like that have never been able to open their minds and let free if everyone was a hippe the world would be a cooler place!!!!

[mellymanfamily]

typical comment by some pussy metal wanker!

[motherbrain86]

for some reason i could imagine the meat puppet circa thier 2nd album or up on the sun covering this

[mrbag60]

If you're into checking out 60's freakbeat bands check out the Attack from England.who were around from 66-68'. Some notable songs they did were Try It! (redid the Standells version), Colour of My Mind, Too Old, Go Your Way, Strange House, Mr Pinoddmy's Dilemma, Feel Like Flying, Magic in the Air, and Anymore than I Do.

[CoeurFidele]

Man, these guys smoked a lot a weed and their music is still a constellation unto itself. Live, they just knew how to jam the night away. One primo band and my headphones are still smokin' !

[jigsawjamess]

dont forget the acid and mescaline

[marko65]

i love this song had the 45 at one time roky rules!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eektherigo]

noticed people were recomending bands so if you guys like the 13 floors, check out the golden dawn. they only recorded one album and is hard to get and really expensive. they played a lot of show with the 13 floors back in tex and have a similar sound to the 13 floors first album. just think what bull of the woods would have sounded like if rocky actually song on the all the tracks!!!

[mackb909]

My understanding is that neither Roky or Tommy ("Electric Jug") Hall contributed much to "Bull of the Woods"; Stacy Sutherland (the lead guitarist) and the rhythm section (drummer Danny Thomas and bassist Ronnie Leatherman) recorded most of this album, with Sutherland writing most of the tracks. This song is my favorite by 13FL, so haunting. I don't know what the words mean, but I think there's an antiwar message in their. BTW, I saw Roky and the Explosions in Chi 31Aug '08; great show.

[mackb909]

I feel like an idiot. In the first sentence I meant "neither Roky NOR (not "or") Tommy." In the penultimate (next-to-last) sentence, I meant "...antiwar message in there (not "in their")."

[xKrisxVirusx]

One of my favorite songs by the 13th Floor Elevators! Thank you!!! I'm going to go dance now! :D

[rBrad4D]

THANK YOU I love these guys i heard this song so many times but i heard this on acid recently and i love the elevators that much more!!!!!!!!!

[RedEye42zero]

Wow man, this is fuckin great. and I'm deffinetly gonna go check out that band. thanks

peace.

[MANNY11RED]

Awesome stuff my man. Take it back 2 where it all began! Feel the energy 4ever and ever...

[masterpierpont]

awesome. Could you recommend some other groups (aside from 13th Floor Elevators) with a similar sound?

thanks for sharing.

[LSDCoatedBrain]

Try "Spacemen 3". They don't have as much of the garage band sort of sound, but there very similar to 13th FEs. They also do allot of really good 13th FE covers.

[cmac18881967]

spacemen 3 rule-saw them live-"losing touch with my mind"still cant find it-try the song "big city"their reaction to the 2nd summer of love,makes me dance every time

[Josmither08]

the ganjas, the byrds, the beatles, tame impala,

[mackb909]

Have you heard the Chocolate Watchband? San Jose garage rockers psychedelicized by LA producer Ed Cobb, which led to some creative conflicts, both between the band and Cobb and within the band. Classic lineup: Gary Andrujesevic- drums; Bill Flores- bass; Sean Toomey- guitar; Mark Loomis- guitar and keyboards; David Aguilar- lead vocals.

[GOLGOTHA01]

I ove your work !! And the 13th Floor Elevators too !!

Where is the electric jug ??

[LSDCoatedBrain]

Thanks. About the electric jug, this is one of their few tracks that doesn't have it. "Bull of The Woods" has three or four tracks without it.

[13thleos]

@GOLGOTHA01

132-134

[colamoonpig]

Love this group man ! Cool light show man ! 5 Stars *****