Re: 13th Floor Elevators

[Oligodendroglia]

thanks for sharing this bob!

OMG, I lived in Houston when the Elevators were here!!  Saw them a ton of
times, and ALWAYS knew that it was special, even in my 11th-grade.  In my
senior year in high school I took a Sociology elective and the teacher let us
bring records to listen to.
    One week I brought "Easter Everywhere", and the first "Fever Tree" album.
The lead player for Fever Tree was a class ahead of me in the same school.
Spring Branch High School, Michael Knust.  He was ALWAYS getting kicked out of
school for long hair.  Seeing that happen helped to militarize ME.  And I
started wearing treads...cheap Mexican sandals with tire treads for
soles...along with my usual slacks, sport coat and tie or ascot.  Hey, I was a
real fashion plate then!!

        Sandals were as much forbidden as Michael's long hair (meaning past
his shirt collar!!...circa 1967!  but so since I wore a sport coat and phallic
cravat, I got away with it.

    My favorite ever 13th Floor Elevator gig was at Love Street, when they
played about 4 sets one night.  Two each of their own, and two others, backing
up Chicago harp player Little Walter.

        Oh MAN!

    Anyway, when I took "Easter Everywhere" to school, the teacher, she played
it and she actually said THE classic thing about the Elevators:  "What IS that
funny sound?"  (meaning the electric jug)  :)

        She finally got fired for deviating from the school's curriculum too
much, caught on at a private school, and I'd run into her at the University of
Houston listening room now and then.  GAWD, after I drove her home, in West
University, a couple of times, did I ever have the hots for her!


"Bedoin tribes ascending
>From the egg into the flower,
Alpha information sending
State within the heaven shower
>From disciples the unending
Subtleties of river power
They slip inside this house as they pass by"


--Bob


"I've seen your face before,
I've known you all my life..."