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One of great songs you never hear on the oldies stations....light up a fat one by the pool with a margarita and listen to the 13th Floor Elevators....!!!!
Does anybody know the source for this clip? There was another clip of the Elevators lip-synching this song on a Dick Clark show, but it was not this one. Was this also from a Dick Clark show?
They made them lip sync for this and they were all tripping acid, like always. Love the 13th floor elevators. But fuck you Dick Clark. they should have let them jam.
13 woman and a guy on the pool and girl number 8? I love here so till this day if you haven't aged much. Do I have to come right out and say it ? Tell you that you look so fine ? Do I have to come right out and ask you to be mine? If it was a game I could play it Trying to make it but I'm losing time. I got to bring you in, you're overjugplaying my mind. Indecision is crowding me and babe I have no room to spare and I can't believe you once cared...
This band sang backup for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Cowsils Experience. Yeah they could have had their own Partridge Family Experience Show as Dey were in so much demand danks to Susan Dey's coy smile. "I'm not coming home you burnt me, father" screamed a young egotistical hysterical would-be pimp David Cassidy, after father Jack burned down his Spanish Castle Magic Home. Young Cassidy got the job this great one-hit wonder should have and they would have laid and saved the Dey.
@flossie1961 I hope he is still alive and well cause I'm gonna miss him child - he should have great lung capacity. Have a great day. remember to floss, flossie.. but you know that.
instead of dissing todays music you should check out america's best band "the black lips" they cite the elevators as a major influence. they play flower punk.
there are great bands around today , you just have to find them. there not gonna be crammed down you throat by the corporate interests. it was the same in the sixties, all these idiots think the 60's was all the elevators and the dead and hendrix and blah blah blah. trust me herb alpert , peaches and cream and frankie valli sold alot more records back then than all the groups we like. if you don't think there is good music being made these days, you probably just don't support your local scene.
You people talk like you really know about music but in reality, you all know nothing alt all whatsoeve. On top of that, you misinterpret what this song's message is, that is, You LoSe What you Fail TO see which was GOod inYour life,Because of your Carlessness.
...a friend of mine met Roky in S.F. about 20 years ago at Tower records and told him he saw him in concert during those ''turbulent' 60's....Roky looked up at him with a strange look and said ''I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT MAN...!!! THATS FUCKIN' FUNNY
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I love this song. This tonal combo hits the "boogie" nerve. We used to play this number with other similar tunes and they would always get the chicks up dancing. what I really love is the subtle "surf" sound mixed in. Psychedelic man!
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Roky was very handsome back then.He's still a big snuggly bear.I;d like 2 date him.Hes soooo adorable!!! His voice & talent r amazeing & hes even better 2day.His new cd has finally been released & its AWESOME!!! Go take a listen.The jug is great in their songs.Thats a huge part of their sound.i cant believe u guys called it novalty.shame on u !!! The true legends of punk.So r The sonics!!! the cd Sonics "BOOM"is Hardcore 4 their time.Listen 2 psycho & The witch.Heart cover'd witch live.Killer.
According to Paul Drummond's (terrific) bio of band this was taped @Dick Clark's pool on the afternoon of Sept. 23, 1966 for "Where The Action Is" TV show. The Elevators had already played that morning at 7 am aboard a ferry boat in SF circling Alcatraz for a KFRC Radio event, then flew down to LA for the taping. Hence their somewhat tired look. (It was their first national TV appearance and would air three days later.) They then flew back to SF for two more shows that evening. Wow!!
many atribute rockys downfall to lsd that is actually not the case he was busted for possession of 2 joints somewhere in texas and the judge said you can go to jail or the loony bin he chose insane aysylum and they did intense shock therepy wich fucked him up mentally he came out of that psych war skitzo so he wasnt actually an acid casualty but a casualty of the failed war on drugs
what a song and band and jug that everyone but a few missed back then but it turned up on Psychedelic Nuggets and was one of the best songs. I'll bet if they had been given a chance they could be bigger than U2 .. well I like them better already.
I saw them perform in November 1966 at Longshoremans Hall in San Francisco. They were wild even then in the shadows of Janis Joplin and Grace Slick. Great shows put on by Bill Graham. Crazy times.
This is a clip from Dick Clark's 'Where The Action Is', The delightful girl with the bow in her hair is Jeri Lynn, one of the regular dancers on the program.
@Bloodyboogerbuttman Yeah the best motherfricken jug player (the Lovin Spoonful were not even close when it came to honeyjugs) but the kid died 2 years later from jug oxide paint poisoning. Gave his life for rock and rock. Can you imagine if this was released today; I can't say if it would sell but it would be the best song of the decade along with the Dovers "what am I going do". 65 thumbs up to you .. you got the record and deserve it.
Gee, this song sound familiar...substitute GLORIA for the words in the refrain and you'll get what I mean...
And what show is this from? What year? You have to always include this in the info on the right side! It sounds like Dick Clark in the intro...is this American Bandstand? That chick with the bow looks like Annette Funicello, LOL
A tad sad to not hear the jug here - mike malfunction or something? But still, the Elevators' song here's so solid, and Erikson's voice so strong and wild, that even without the jug, it'll still be a classic.
@Israfvel, it's the same recording you're familiar with from the record, they're miming. If you can't hear the jug, it's a problem with your speakers.
This was the greatest R&R group of the 1960s. Their first album was great & the second one was better. Almost every cut on that is a masterpiece. This was their hit, but Slide Machine, Earthquake, Slip Inside This House, Reverberation, none can be beat. I listen to this group more than any other group any more. It's great to see some video.
This is music for people with crocodile visions like Kaspar Hauser - The rest of the people will be burning up roasting wheenies on the street corner in 2012. I have ESP just like my grandmother through the earthquatic void of the laser sun reformation
this was the decade when music wasent really connected with money. Music was to make a point, make a change. But we can all hope that music in the future will be like this.
@uhclem I am calling major BS to that statement my friend. Music today is driven by money only. If it wasn't then these so called "pop" stars would write their own lyrics.
@cole0424 I think there has always been shite manufactured music and good underground music written and played by the members of the band, and I think there always will be. I like any good music from whatever era, the thing is now with the outset of the internet when ppl can just dl pirated copies of albums, there is going to be less money on offer to the music biz and we will have less shitty made up bands and more real groups doing it just for the music, and not to make money.
Yep and you will be too! Everyone thinks the music from their generation is the best. The great thing about Rock n Roll is that it spans all the generations from the day it was born in the mid 50s til now. No other music has ever done that.
Oh, I don't think that music from my generation is the best. Britney Spears, The Spice Girls and this damned relentless Hip Hop? No thanks! I'll take the 60s or 70s any day =P
I've been trying to tell people that ! Australia has so many shoegaze/psych bands and it's a completely under looked scene right now. Black Ryder, Dolly Rocker Movement, Fearless Vampire Killers, Morning After Girls, Demon Parade, Lovetones and so on. But of coarse...nothing compares Roky.
yeah but i prefer things to be that way.....music is way better when its not overplayed by radio/"musical" tv stations. if it werent for big business and a some technological advances mainstream music would be still be pretty good
all of the decent stations in my town play bands like zeppelin, metallica, and ac/dc to death while playing flavor of shit rock bands that sound like creed
The rock musicians of the 50s planted the seed, in the 60s they experimented with what grew out of it and in the 70s they developed the hybrid strain. After that life got pretty boring.
Yep and you will be too! Everyone thinks the music from their generation is the best. The great thing about Rock n Roll is that it spans all the generations from the day it was born in the mid 50s til now. No other music has ever done that.
Actually, big fan of the Elevators though I am, I have to agree: jug-playing is great for novelty value but it should have remained just that - a novelty.
@oranger2525 I just saw your post. I'm writing a book about the psychedelic era and want badly to talk to Tommy Hall. If you can put us in touch , I'd be greatful. Did'nt know about the heart attack, and hope he recovers. HE's a real genius, and I knew him 40 years ago. Alias/ K.P.F.T. RADIO.
Who gives a shit, Roky is a man of the sixties whose music is just as exciting now as it was. Sixties music will always be the best, no era can ever touch it, copy it or tear it apart.
one example: 1960's artists and designers were influenced by (and nostalgic for) the 1920's (concert posters, esp.); and those in the 1920's were nostalgic for the Decadent Period of the 1890's, especially mucha and beardsley
So you're saying people in the 1930s were saying, "Man, I really was I was around for those totally crazy 1910's days!!"
What is your basis for your thoughts...
When have people went crazy for music in a prior generation? name one other than the 50-70s (only three decades out of MILLIONS of year of existence - you said "forever")
If you live in Vancouver, B.C. there is a little show on Rogers ch. 4 called "Rockinitis" They did a whole show on the 13th floor elevators. It should repeat one day here if you a true fan!
The 'Vators subsequent albums are outstanding. Very, very innovative. You cannot help but feel we were robbed of a great band, sort of an 'American Pink Floyd', given time. Roky's talent was wasted, very sad indeed.
this video is the precursor of modern rap videos. The only thing missing is Roky Erikson with a pimp goblet.
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masstsnk 1 month ago
1:30 riff los saicos ?
stevegerard88 2 months ago
If you don't like this then you should be pushed from the 13th floor
tifusin 2 months ago
Awwwwwwww. . . .YEAH ! ! !
bikebeerrun1960 4 months ago
Sounds a lot like them....
redneck6310 4 months ago
i miss him already
ThehelloSQ 5 months ago
chills down mah fuckin' spine
LordSanta78 5 months ago
One of great songs you never hear on the oldies stations....light up a fat one by the pool with a margarita and listen to the 13th Floor Elevators....!!!!
centralparocker 5 months ago
Awesome! I would pay big money to be one of those staged goons beboppin by the pool to the Elevators!
pigsnott 6 months ago
He's playing harmonica when he's singing for the last few seconds. Someone was right about the band lip-syncing.
ropeisnotadink 6 months ago
0:58 YES!!
jetgyp211 6 months ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger on drums :P
SamTarly 7 months ago 4
Does anybody know the source for this clip? There was another clip of the Elevators lip-synching this song on a Dick Clark show, but it was not this one. Was this also from a Dick Clark show?
ForeverYoung58 7 months ago
@ForeverYoung58 "Where the action is"
PamK36 4 months ago
They made them lip sync for this and they were all tripping acid, like always. Love the 13th floor elevators. But fuck you Dick Clark. they should have let them jam.
LeeVaiM 8 months ago
13 woman and a guy on the pool and girl number 8? I love here so till this day if you haven't aged much. Do I have to come right out and say it ? Tell you that you look so fine ? Do I have to come right out and ask you to be mine? If it was a game I could play it Trying to make it but I'm losing time. I got to bring you in, you're overjugplaying my mind. Indecision is crowding me and babe I have no room to spare and I can't believe you once cared...
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
This band sang backup for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Cowsils Experience. Yeah they could have had their own Partridge Family Experience Show as Dey were in so much demand danks to Susan Dey's coy smile. "I'm not coming home you burnt me, father" screamed a young egotistical hysterical would-be pimp David Cassidy, after father Jack burned down his Spanish Castle Magic Home. Young Cassidy got the job this great one-hit wonder should have and they would have laid and saved the Dey.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@11xzxzxz The jug player was alive at least as late as 2004 as far as I can Google, but he is brilliant
flossie1961 8 months ago
@flossie1961 I hope he is still alive and well cause I'm gonna miss him child - he should have great lung capacity. Have a great day. remember to floss, flossie.. but you know that.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@shonazadog I love this song! god bless you for posting this video! best rock song ever!
mees325 8 months ago
THE ILLUMINATI SHOCKED ROKY!
r0b0trippinlizzy 8 months ago
What on earth is that show they were on? Looks quite fun.
jonnywren1 9 months ago
@jonnywren1 This has to be "Where The Action Is". It was on in Southern California every weekday at 4:30. Hosted by Dick Clark.
beadcat 8 months ago
instead of dissing todays music you should check out america's best band "the black lips" they cite the elevators as a major influence. they play flower punk.
ncbloom 9 months ago
there are great bands around today , you just have to find them. there not gonna be crammed down you throat by the corporate interests. it was the same in the sixties, all these idiots think the 60's was all the elevators and the dead and hendrix and blah blah blah. trust me herb alpert , peaches and cream and frankie valli sold alot more records back then than all the groups we like. if you don't think there is good music being made these days, you probably just don't support your local scene.
ncbloom 9 months ago
Music is cockgunfarted out nowadays......
Pianos are gargantuan
Just like your momma!
EggsBenedictArnold 9 months ago
i love watching the people dance :). Keep in mind I was born in 1992 and am not familiar with this lol hahahaha
MrFunny528 9 months ago
It was gooood to be in Austin, then.
SuperBoomer48 10 months ago
They told the truth, I miss them
4difference 11 months ago
Garage/Freakbeat at its best,their version of The Thems Gloria is superb also.
1314albagubrath 1 year ago
You people talk like you really know about music but in reality, you all know nothing alt all whatsoeve. On top of that, you misinterpret what this song's message is, that is, You LoSe What you Fail TO see which was GOod inYour life,Because of your Carlessness.
PEACE TO YOU ALL SMOKERS!!
Fittest55GERM55alive 1 year ago
Spain
TheKarallo 1 year ago
Hell Yeah! :-)
centurio81 1 year ago
Since 14 January no heroin consumption and again I feel the music. Elevators needed a rush again. Good luck from
TheKarallo 1 year ago
too stupid
Postglobalism 1 year ago
...a friend of mine met Roky in S.F. about 20 years ago at Tower records and told him he saw him in concert during those ''turbulent' 60's....Roky looked up at him with a strange look and said ''I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT MAN...!!! THATS FUCKIN' FUNNY
Pukeman44 1 year ago
oh that fucking clapping!
ZoooMinIN 1 year ago
Never, have I ever, heard such a jug, in such a place. Thank you for this post!!!
Rev. Brice Nichols
revbricenichols 1 year ago
that is mam smell anything in the jair ??
jaomora 1 year ago
that is mam smell anythink in the jair ??
jaomora 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
I love this song. This tonal combo hits the "boogie" nerve. We used to play this number with other similar tunes and they would always get the chicks up dancing. what I really love is the subtle "surf" sound mixed in. Psychedelic man!
wslyder 1 year ago
Good to see Roky doing so much better these days.
scotscar 1 year ago
g'ddamn good song from 60'!!
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iscream22 1 year ago
this is no doubt the show where dick clark asked who the head of the group was to which roky responded we're all heads
TheHeliumkid 1 year ago
@TheHeliumkid
It's true, I'm glad someone else caught that.
PasqualDacake 1 year ago
you guys are so fucking stupid, that fucking jug is the 13th floor elevators!! JOOGOO JAGGA JUGGA JUGGA!!!!!!
Bottlenek6 1 year ago 2
Roky was very handsome back then.He's still a big snuggly bear.I;d like 2 date him.Hes soooo adorable!!! His voice & talent r amazeing & hes even better 2day.His new cd has finally been released & its AWESOME!!! Go take a listen.The jug is great in their songs.Thats a huge part of their sound.i cant believe u guys called it novalty.shame on u !!! The true legends of punk.So r The sonics!!! the cd Sonics "BOOM"is Hardcore 4 their time.Listen 2 psycho & The witch.Heart cover'd witch live.Killer.
SmokinMo11 1 year ago
the hand clappers are killin me!
McSpunkle 1 year ago
According to Paul Drummond's (terrific) bio of band this was taped @Dick Clark's pool on the afternoon of Sept. 23, 1966 for "Where The Action Is" TV show. The Elevators had already played that morning at 7 am aboard a ferry boat in SF circling Alcatraz for a KFRC Radio event, then flew down to LA for the taping. Hence their somewhat tired look. (It was their first national TV appearance and would air three days later.) They then flew back to SF for two more shows that evening. Wow!!
claydo1955 1 year ago
Greatest punk anthem ever!!!
bikebeerrun1960 1 year ago 5
Rocky is one of lifes true survivors. Hounded by the police in the 1960s and locked in a in a physc ward. Great song!
cozener1 1 year ago
lol drummer looks totally comatosed in this vid. :-)
Phangmaster 1 year ago
Dude, he kept his weed in that jug....
trailsB4you 1 year ago
@trailsB4you LOL! That explains it...
cryptsub 1 year ago
Nothing better then then a jug player.
alsodsotmfan 1 year ago 2
many atribute rockys downfall to lsd that is actually not the case he was busted for possession of 2 joints somewhere in texas and the judge said you can go to jail or the loony bin he chose insane aysylum and they did intense shock therepy wich fucked him up mentally he came out of that psych war skitzo so he wasnt actually an acid casualty but a casualty of the failed war on drugs
guywiththegrass 1 year ago 2
Tommy Hall made the band with his Jug playing and his whacked out lyrics. He was the only one that was fucked up on LSD most of the time
bIametheniIe 1 year ago
what a song and band and jug that everyone but a few missed back then but it turned up on Psychedelic Nuggets and was one of the best songs. I'll bet if they had been given a chance they could be bigger than U2 .. well I like them better already.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz Very interesting.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
Yeah!!!!
Rocky did some foreplay just before this could be adopted in Powerpop.
Three O'Clock and Paisley were not born yet.
zoenen1 1 year ago
These guys were the forerunners of groups like Big Brother and The Holding Company and ZZ Top. Great sound, not but much in record sales.
trentk268 1 year ago 2
A sixites pool party with the 13th Floor Elevators as the house band... WOW!
apacolipps 1 year ago 11
@apacolipps haha yeah, wish i could've gone...
amnesiacsmuzak 1 year ago
I saw them perform in November 1966 at Longshoremans Hall in San Francisco. They were wild even then in the shadows of Janis Joplin and Grace Slick. Great shows put on by Bill Graham. Crazy times.
kidz711 1 year ago 3
that electric jug is a sure weird instrument!! groovy man!
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 1 year ago 3
Roky was a cutie at that age.....:)
scaramoochscaramooch 1 year ago 4
Signed :-)
Maliziosa 1 year ago
Which dude (s) from the elevators later performed in ZZ Top?
GarfieldGoose 1 year ago
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this is an obvious example of just how poor the "music" could get back in the late sixties...
Gosh this is just plain Aweful
their elevator did not go alll the way to the top ....
rentatrip1 1 year ago
he faggot, if u don't like the song why'd u fuckin' look it up? get a fuckin' taste in music!!!
doorsfan4ourever 1 year ago
@rentatrip1 if you say that to me face to face i would fucking punch you in the face
Friskus22 1 year ago
This is awesome! The most tame looking performance by Roky ever!
mintgirl45 2 years ago
now thats a motherfuckin music video
1787dude 2 years ago
This is a clip from Dick Clark's 'Where The Action Is', The delightful girl with the bow in her hair is Jeri Lynn, one of the regular dancers on the program.
COH2000 2 years ago
Best motherfucking jug player in the history of the god damn universe!
Bloodyboogerbuttman 2 years ago 79
As if there are any others.
Israfvel 2 years ago
@Bloodyboogerbuttman Yeah the best motherfricken jug player (the Lovin Spoonful were not even close when it came to honeyjugs) but the kid died 2 years later from jug oxide paint poisoning. Gave his life for rock and rock. Can you imagine if this was released today; I can't say if it would sell but it would be the best song of the decade along with the Dovers "what am I going do". 65 thumbs up to you .. you got the record and deserve it.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
damn right!
elixxrx66 4 months ago
Gee, this song sound familiar...substitute GLORIA for the words in the refrain and you'll get what I mean...
And what show is this from? What year? You have to always include this in the info on the right side! It sounds like Dick Clark in the intro...is this American Bandstand? That chick with the bow looks like Annette Funicello, LOL
dearyogini 2 years ago 2
That's unbelievable that he's up and touring. Guess his brother did him some good after all!
mcsquared65 2 years ago 2
I hear the jug just fine... Listen carefully...
JDMDakota 2 years ago
A tad sad to not hear the jug here - mike malfunction or something? But still, the Elevators' song here's so solid, and Erikson's voice so strong and wild, that even without the jug, it'll still be a classic.
Israfvel 2 years ago
that's a cool stage name...Mike Malfunction....
kenrubes 2 years ago
doubt the mike is broken, they're miming.
fastrnb 2 years ago
@Israfvel, it's the same recording you're familiar with from the record, they're miming. If you can't hear the jug, it's a problem with your speakers.
themightytim1 2 years ago
the fucking best band ever!
La mejor banda mas cabrona de todos los tiempos!
VIVA ROKY!
fuzzmonster 2 years ago
This was the greatest R&R group of the 1960s. Their first album was great & the second one was better. Almost every cut on that is a masterpiece. This was their hit, but Slide Machine, Earthquake, Slip Inside This House, Reverberation, none can be beat. I listen to this group more than any other group any more. It's great to see some video.
RRaquello 2 years ago 3
scary 13th floor elevator. they said that the 13th floor is full of extra ordinary things
zildjiansabian 2 years ago
Is Roky still with us or has he gone to the big band in the sky?
ekimkamidar377 2 years ago
Still with us and still touring! Although he mostly plays around Austin these days, as I understand.
Rolandzebub 2 years ago
oh no he's still around!
antiabe 2 years ago
He's still here!!
derantike2 2 years ago
alive and still playing!
fiendwithoutaface66 2 years ago
Holy shit, imagine what people must have thought when they heard this for the first time.
Epic!
asubjectiveopinion 2 years ago
Pretty much what we thought was "Holy Shit!" It was, indeed, an amazing time to be young and discontented.
beachdog67 2 years ago
This is music for people with crocodile visions like Kaspar Hauser - The rest of the people will be burning up roasting wheenies on the street corner in 2012. I have ESP just like my grandmother through the earthquatic void of the laser sun reformation
Hail the speed of the Hail!!!
Loudrake69 2 years ago
60's garage rock at it's best!
ChefDeenoh 2 years ago
c o o l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DimAnt4 2 years ago
God! It's all too much!!! Loooooooooooooooonggggggggggggg live the garageeeeeeeeeeeee
tomonsterboy 2 years ago
good old garage bands form the 60s miss them
jgarrettjr56 2 years ago
this was the decade when music wasent really connected with money. Music was to make a point, make a change. But we can all hope that music in the future will be like this.
bluerobot999 2 years ago 21
@bluerobot999 it already is you just need to avoid the pop-culture scene, that shit is overrated anyways.
astr0ganja 1 year ago
@bluerobot999 decade schmecade... just look at those boppers
returnofbeaux 1 year ago
@bluerobot999 Music is like this now, but you and other geezers refuse to accept it as music.
uhclem 11 months ago
@uhclem I am calling major BS to that statement my friend. Music today is driven by money only. If it wasn't then these so called "pop" stars would write their own lyrics.
cole0424 10 months ago
@cole0424 I think there has always been shite manufactured music and good underground music written and played by the members of the band, and I think there always will be. I like any good music from whatever era, the thing is now with the outset of the internet when ppl can just dl pirated copies of albums, there is going to be less money on offer to the music biz and we will have less shitty made up bands and more real groups doing it just for the music, and not to make money.
yakacm 10 months ago
@cole0424 Call what you like, there are artists now just like there were artists when you were coming up.
And everyone works for money. Life is driven by a desire to have more. Amazing how people can get old and still not learn this.
uhclem 9 months ago
@bluerobot999 totally agree.
Tinchotaddei 10 months ago
What a swingin' video!
SpeakToMe19 2 years ago 2
The bass line is ridiculously infectious
GargamelPDX 2 years ago 3
Haha 1:57
tomblah 2 years ago
roky... drivin the spaceship... relentless, dont let the teenyboppers fool ya, acid was being born!
gunsanddrugs 2 years ago 2
can see were kings of leon got there ideas from
ksfnb 2 years ago
i thought i was listening to kings of leon too!! it took ages before i realised it wasnt them.
poppincaps 2 years ago
I look at these guys and see punk and all that attitude Rock being born Sorry GEN-X you were not the ones.
shadowbeliefonline 2 years ago 2
Damn steait they deffinetly influenced punk, in ther rythems. Psychidellic as fuck but also has timing ahaid of their time.
buttsCratcher9 2 years ago 3
Yep and you will be too! Everyone thinks the music from their generation is the best. The great thing about Rock n Roll is that it spans all the generations from the day it was born in the mid 50s til now. No other music has ever done that.
Hamaround 2 years ago
Oh, I don't think that music from my generation is the best. Britney Spears, The Spice Girls and this damned relentless Hip Hop? No thanks! I'll take the 60s or 70s any day =P
rudiecantfail13 2 years ago 4
Lets not forget the insidious threat of scensters and hipsters in today's music. Here's hoping someone brings back the 60's style.
EmpZappa66 2 years ago
There is a whole world of great garage and psych out there right now , you just won't find it in the mainstream.
Some of them even play with Roky now.
sisterdiggins 2 years ago 2
Texas as a whole still has a strong psych scene. So does LA and San Fran. Australia has a crazy awesome scene!
VacuumBoots81 2 years ago 2
I've been trying to tell people that ! Australia has so many shoegaze/psych bands and it's a completely under looked scene right now. Black Ryder, Dolly Rocker Movement, Fearless Vampire Killers, Morning After Girls, Demon Parade, Lovetones and so on. But of coarse...nothing compares Roky.
driftz0r 2 years ago
I got to see Morning After Girls open for BRMC on their Howl tour back in the day. I used to be obsessed with Dolly Rocker Movement and Black Ryder.
VacuumBoots81 2 years ago
im 17 and i agree....but this decade is alot like the 80s you know....you have to look for the good music thats out
BloodTampon 2 years ago
I agree, I do like some modern music. I just think that popular music back then was so much better than popular music now =]
rudiecantfail13 2 years ago
yeah but i prefer things to be that way.....music is way better when its not overplayed by radio/"musical" tv stations. if it werent for big business and a some technological advances mainstream music would be still be pretty good
BloodTampon 2 years ago
Very true. I can barely listen to the radio anymore for all the over playing. Sad really...
rudiecantfail13 2 years ago
all of the decent stations in my town play bands like zeppelin, metallica, and ac/dc to death while playing flavor of shit rock bands that sound like creed
BloodTampon 2 years ago
This is lovely...
vintagerockdotcom 2 years ago
fantastic to see them again. now where did i put that acid
giacconlon 2 years ago 4
The best proto-punk song ever written!
Much love and respect to Roky!!!! Saw him on Halloween in L.A. and he was great.
librarianeric 2 years ago 5
NOW YOU KNow Where THE PRETENDERS GOT THEIR SOUND!
terrryc 2 years ago 2
the jug is part of the equasion
ncbloom 3 years ago
The rock musicians of the 50s planted the seed, in the 60s they experimented with what grew out of it and in the 70s they developed the hybrid strain. After that life got pretty boring.
Hamaround 3 years ago 5
There will always be good music and good rock and roll. You're just old.
kappser 2 years ago
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Yep and you will be too! Everyone thinks the music from their generation is the best. The great thing about Rock n Roll is that it spans all the generations from the day it was born in the mid 50s til now. No other music has ever done that.
Hamaround 2 years ago
Yes. Long live rock and roll, as long as it's got that spirit. It's up to us young folk to carry the torch and do the forefathers justice.
kappser 2 years ago
no man....really... the deeper you go down the roots of rock n roll the better it becomes....right down to robert johnson and bukka white
psychodeliacomplex 2 years ago 2
I love the jug. It's totally, completely, ultimately, eventually, (un)intentionally psychedelic...
ksomotoh 3 years ago
look at how young roky is!
what a trip, even then he had it.
he's an american treasure.
lorenzomuzik 3 years ago
At 1:22 nice surf guitar.....
gjazz22 3 years ago
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I'd like the 13th Floor Elevators a lot more if they didn't have that god damned jug player! He's on every friggin' song!
cryptsub 3 years ago
Actually, big fan of the Elevators though I am, I have to agree: jug-playing is great for novelty value but it should have remained just that - a novelty.
shonazadog 3 years ago
It's a sad thing, because Roky is such a talented songwriter and performer. The jug makes those 13FE tunes almost unlistenable for me.
cryptsub 3 years ago
i just cant help but love the jug. sorry. they wouldn't be the same without it
kenta0jenta 3 years ago 19
its the jug thats making the trippy sounds,if you dont like strange psychedelic sounds ,go listen to something else.
mojs2nd 3 years ago 4
If it wasn't on every bloody song, I would like 13FE almost as much as Roky Erickson solo.
cryptsub 3 years ago
Then just take some acid, and the jug playing will start dissolving in the stream that feeds your head.
grifff56 3 years ago
That will definitely help.
cryptsub 3 years ago
But he's the main writer of the band....
grifff56 3 years ago
@cryptsub
the jug player was a actually very important to the elevators.
he lives down the street from me (though he just had a haeat attack). he's really unique.
oranger2525 1 year ago
@oranger2525 I just saw your post. I'm writing a book about the psychedelic era and want badly to talk to Tommy Hall. If you can put us in touch , I'd be greatful. Did'nt know about the heart attack, and hope he recovers. HE's a real genius, and I knew him 40 years ago. Alias/ K.P.F.T. RADIO.
1969alias 1 year ago
@cryptsub ya'll are crazy
andrewcramer13 1 year ago
wow!!!!! che bello hihihi
Pizzul2007 3 years ago
love this band. not really digging the lip syncing. lol
JODOUGH14 3 years ago
I like to believe that this was the moment that most of the AB dancers smoked pot for the first time. "Wow! Gary Lewis didn't have that stuff!"
homonculus9 3 years ago
I love these guys, but it appears that lip-syncing was more tolerated in previous eras.
midesti 3 years ago
Who gives a shit, Roky is a man of the sixties whose music is just as exciting now as it was. Sixties music will always be the best, no era can ever touch it, copy it or tear it apart.
transgtman 3 years ago 9
"Sixties music will always be the best, no era can ever touch it, copy it or tear it apart."
Damn straight.
SugarAddict 3 years ago 2
one example: 1960's artists and designers were influenced by (and nostalgic for) the 1920's (concert posters, esp.); and those in the 1920's were nostalgic for the Decadent Period of the 1890's, especially mucha and beardsley
quat2nv 3 years ago 2
p.s. that was in response to sheldonwh
quat2nv 3 years ago
that is complete horseshit.
"It just keeps going like that" --
So you're saying people in the 1930s were saying, "Man, I really was I was around for those totally crazy 1910's days!!"
What is your basis for your thoughts...
When have people went crazy for music in a prior generation? name one other than the 50-70s (only three decades out of MILLIONS of year of existence - you said "forever")
BobSeger1981 3 years ago
unfortunately I born 30 years later, and in Argentina. la puta madre
reCareta 3 years ago
If you live in Vancouver, B.C. there is a little show on Rogers ch. 4 called "Rockinitis" They did a whole show on the 13th floor elevators. It should repeat one day here if you a true fan!
happy2007s 3 years ago
Hot Acyion By The Pool....HA HA A .Class!!!
Mick342 3 years ago
Stacy Sutherland...Lead Guitar..RIP Dark Angel.
Ronnie7311 3 years ago
Sixties rock!
Nostalgico80 3 years ago
We knew what was cool in them days. By cracky.
Raymantico 3 years ago
You did. That's why I curse myself for being born over thirty years too late.
serialclone 3 years ago
Great clip!!!! WOW thanks for sharing!!!!!
Psychedalien 3 years ago
elevators=stunning
sonicjay007 3 years ago
q wen temaa!!! esto es un buen rock,
viva la psicodelia!! kluchemos por un nuevo moviemiento lleno de psicdelia y fuerts temas!!
el rock es posible
telsseau en practica
ojorojojojo 3 years ago
I wanna be at that pool party. Noooo, ur not on the wrong elevator. Classic. lol
Gwid01 3 years ago
The 'Vators subsequent albums are outstanding. Very, very innovative. You cannot help but feel we were robbed of a great band, sort of an 'American Pink Floyd', given time. Roky's talent was wasted, very sad indeed.
IfByWhiskey 4 years ago
i`ve seen em many times in the 60`s,a great band.we texans can crank it out.
moodyh750 4 years ago 3
Great clip- I just spent xmas reading the new Paul Drummond book "Eye Mind"- a very interesting and detailed chronicle of the Elevator's story.
abstrusedali 4 years ago