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13th Floor Elevators
Easter Everywhere
(IA, 1967)
Texas acid pioneers get overheated and demand you evolve!
There’s a novel sleeveface to be done with Easter Everywhere. The way the Elevators’ name is written out? They’re Lord Buddah’s eyebrows. The big blazing sun? That’s your fully dilated cosmic third eye, transmitting and receiving true enlightenment in paroxysms of, as the title commands, perpetual rebirth! Don’t laugh – this fulsomely transporting psychedelic rock (think Dennis Hopper as the Ancient Mariner on an acid evangelism kick) has greater clarity than you’d expect. Lyrically it’s most esoteric – opener Slip Inside This House is a dense transmission of electric jug player Tommy Hall’s mystic information – and such is the intensity of the sounds and the conviction of the band’s whole er, trip, that it can seem (as the bonus live version of Roller Coaster on the CD issue puts it) “so real it takes your breath away”. Luckily, this need not concern the existentialist listener, as Roky Erickson (middle)’s commanding voice and Stacey Sutherland (right)’s lobe-serrating guitar are more than enough to keep the lower self engaged. Odd to think it was overseen by one Lelan Rogers, brother of country singing star and chicken magnate Kenny.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 24/02/2008
Further Listening
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
(International Artists, 1966)
Amon Düül – Psychedelic Underground (Metronome, 1969)
Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (EMI, 1967)
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