13th Floor Elevators
The revolutionary Texas psychedelic innovators 13th Floor Elevators were one of the most groundbreaking, significant, influential and creative rock & roll bands in American music history. Distinguished by the ferocious pipes of singer Roky Erickson and lyricist Tommy Hall's unique amplified jug playing, the Elevators combined big beat savagery with lyrics that delivered a progressive, deeply spiritual philosophy that sought enlightenment through the use of hallucinogens. Hall's weird, and strictly enforced, MO required members to both rehearse and perform while under the influence of LSD, an approach that led to many out of this world events, both real and imagined. Despite their immediate, if moderate, success (a chart hit, an appearance of Dick... Read More
- Genre:
- Oldies, Rock, Psychedelic
- City Of Origin:
- Austin, ,Texas United States
- Formed Date:
- 1965
