13th Floor Elevators: "Levitation" (Mono LP Mix) HQ

This is from the mono LP mix of Easter Everywhere.

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Music

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• 13th
• floor
• elevators
• levitation
• mono
• mix
• roky
• erickson
• tommy
• hall
• stacy
• sutherland

[Satyagrahaha]

Great 13th Floor photos! Who is the girl at 1:29 ?

[johnfright]

@Satyagrahaha Clementine Hall, Tommy's then wife.

[csensatvideos]

Excellent mix! Great picture editing too!

[johnfright]

@csensatvideos Thanks!

[Cr3ativity]

I love this song for some reason. I never really liked Rock but this one is AWESOME!

[imexiled]

Great song, nice tribute video. This band should have got all the attention that the stones got, and more. Its cool that more and more people are hip to themstill, it would have been better if they got the recognition they deserved when they were making these recordings.

[jefffro1000]

Wow. Where did you get that pic of Tommy at 0:13 (coincidence)?

[Eightball69]

sounds altogether more 13th in mono......

[cheeezdooodle]

@johnfright Hi, it does help me understand the difference of mono versus stereo , thanks! And thanks also for posting this great song.

[johnfright]

@cheeezdooodle There were 2 mono mixes; one for the 45 and one for the mono mix of the LP, which is this one. The stereo mix was done later. The 45 was released in Feb 67, the album didnt come out til November. The mono 45 mix has some of the guitar solos cut out. The mono lp mix has the best of everything, I think. The guitar is much louder than on the single and the stereo mix. Hope this helps

[cheeezdooodle]

@tanztante Oh that makes sense, thanks!

So is this version of 'levitation' the way it originally was released, then later re-recorded in stereo?

[tanztante]

@cheeezdooodle

it's simply not stereo. ;)

quote from the almighty wiki:

"Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or (in the case of headphones and multiple loudspeakers) channels are fed from a common signal path. In the case of multiple microphones the paths are mixed into a single signal path at some stage."

[cheeezdooodle]

Thanks for uploading this song, it is awesome!!! Different, more intricate version.

I am a little confused about what "mono" is-?

Is this exactly what the album sounded like when it first came out in 1967?

[broken1394]

great pro advert for drugs!! Roky E right on!!