the 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me (1966)

return of my reworked version of this Austin Texas band "the 13th Floor Elevators" classic performed in 1966. Added extra visuals here and there and remastered track with a bit more punch. As ever the original owners of the footage take the credit and if they wish me to remove it then just mail me.
A short note: the Elevators could have been comercially huge but were cursed with bad luck on the way culminating in the mental demise of Roky Erickson due to being placed in a mental hospital for (in the main part) the criminally insane as an example to the youth in Texas that drugs would not be tollerated. The subsequent raid that put him there arrested him with about 3 grams of Marijuana in a matchbox (speculation is that it was planted on him in the first place) unfortunatly as Roky was "Roller Coaster"ing with a much morse mental illness due to certain therapies they used at the time the rest of the band eventually folded and went their seperate ways and then any chance for a full reunion was lost when the guitarist Stacey Sutherland died from a shot wound by his estranged wife in the late 70's. All in all a sad story and for those interested its worth checking out the documentary about Roky called "you are going to miss me" also they guy deserves an induction into the RnR hall of fame so please take a moment to sign the petition at this link: http://www.petitiononline.com/roky/petition.html. Again my credit to the original footage owners and rights owners I will remove this or credit them if they so wish.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 13th
• floor
• elevators
• Psychedelia
• psychedelic
• rock
• 1966
• Roky
• Erickson
• Tommy
• Hall
• John
• Ike
• Walton
• Stacy
• Sutherland
• Benny
• Thurman

[EarlofSuave308]

Thank you so much for the extra work you put in (remastering and visuals) before posting this video, it sounds amazing! There are a lot of videos on You Tube that could use your expertise! All the best :)

[sirPUNKsir]

@EarlofSuave308 Thats very kind of you. cheers! ;)

[muzboz]

Nice remastering, mate.  Very nice! Loving it! Just bought my ticket for Roky's show in Melbourne on March 13th 2012. BOOM!

[sirPUNKsir]

@muzboz cheers bud ;) enjoy the show!

[sirPUNKsir]

sorry I was going to get back to you on that but for some reason I couldnt see your comment when I went out of my email. Im pretty sure it's from where the action is as im pretty sure there is a longer clip lying around where Dick clark talks to the band. Thanks for the comment

[sirPUNKsir]

@rowdymax1 who are you referring to with the correction? By he way its "Erickson" ;)

[TheJUGGERNAUT987]

who else was brought here by high fidelity?

[ddzz37]

I started playing this song on guitar.as well as ( you don't know ) great music!!

[lamaison1966]

Thanks for doing this buddy.

[johnnywasted]

this is my favorite video on youtube!! awesome dude!!!

[merseymain]

Impressive video to this classic.

[crimsontidercom]

Whoever mixed this did the band an injustice. The right person could have made them a household name.

[MourirSarin]

Great video. I dance to this all most every other night when i am high

[fearlimper]

VERY COOL MATE, CHEERS!

[CrazyBear65]

...tok, tocka-tocka-tocka, took, tooka-tooka-tooka...

[apesgrapes]

this is just fantastic. high five.