This is a mammoth 10CD set of The 13th Floor Elevators, and has the original 3 studio albums, each of which has another disc of alternate takes and mixes. There are also two live CDs, and two albums of otherwise unreleased songs and versions, some of which is also live, some studio.
Toss in all the original masters, all the group’s singles, a clutch of session outtakes, two lost albums of previously unreleased material and Stacy Sutherland’s work in progress — the acetates, the safety masters and the multi-track tapes — for the aborted Beauty & The Beast album.
But wait, there's more! — an assortment of live rarities, some of which are being made available for the first time on record.
To get this set, post a verse of your favorite psychedelic song.
"Little Johnny Jewel":
ReplyDeleteThey just scratching the surface
JJ can do the floor kiss
Was he on display?
No, no, not today
All that guy ever said
He said, "I want my little wing-head"
He half-asleep at night
Over his head, sensation of flight
And he wake up dreaming
Dreaming...
And he run down to the airport
The rush. The roar
And he crouched down behind a fence
With a chest full of lights
Then...
He loses his senses
"Terrapin Station":
Counting stars by candlelight
All are dim but one is bright
The spiral light of Venus
Rising first and shining best
From the northwest corner
Of a brand-new crescent moon
Crickets and cicadas sing
A rare and different tune
"Astronomy Domine"
Lime and limpid green
A second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down
The sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan
Stars can frighten
"L Ballade" (Shawn Phillips)
And the myriad reflections of myself
In her buttons on her oversized navy coat
But only reflections and never an image
In her mind's unfathomable moat
But some castles where she wanders
Are yet crumbling into dust
In this house of visions on top of the hill
The glass has turned to rust
"Slip Inside This House":
DeleteBedouin in tribes ascending
From the egg into the flower
Alpha information sending
States within the heaven shower
From disciples the unending
Subtleties of river power
They slip inside this house as they pass by
If your limbs begin dissolving
In the water that you tread
All surroundings are evolving
In the stream that clears your head
Find yourself a caravan
Like Noah must have led
And slip inside this house as you pass by
Slip inside this house as you pass by
True conception, knowing why
Brings even more than meets the eye
Slip inside this house as you pass by
In this dark we call creation
We can be and feel and know
From an effort - comfort station
That's surviving on the go
There's infinite survival in
The high baptismal glow
Slip inside this house as you pass by
There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own
Live where your heart can be given
And your life starts to unfold
In the forms you envision
In this dream that's ages old
On the river layer is the only sayer
You receive all you can hold
Like you've been told
Every day's another dawning
Give the morning winds a chance
Always catch your thunder yawning
Lift your mind into the dance
Sweep the shadows from your awning
Shrink the fourfold circumstance
That lies outside this house don't pass it by
Higher worlds that you uncover
Light the path you want to roam
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam
Twice born gypsies care and keep
The nowhere of their former home
They slip inside this house as they pass by
Slip inside this house as you pass by
You think you can't, you wish you could
I know you can, I wish you would
Slip inside this house as you pass by
Four and twenty birds of Maya
Baked into an atom you
Polarized into existence
Magnet heart from red to blue
To such extent the realm of dark
Within the picture it seems true
But slip inside this house and then decide
All your lightning waits inside you
Travel it along your spine
Seven stars receive your visit
Seven seals remain divine
Seven churches filled with spirit
Treasure from the angels' mine
Slip inside this house as you pass by
Slip inside this house as you pass by
The space you make has your own laws
No longer human, Gods are cause
The center of this House will never die
There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own
Draw from the well of unchanging
And its union nourishes on
In the right rearranging
Till the last confusion is gone
Water brothers trust in the ultimust
Of the always singing song
They pass along
One-eyed men aren't really reigning
They just march in place until
Two-eyed men with mystery training
Finally feel the power fill
Three-eyed men are not complaining
They can yo-yo where they will
They slip inside this house as they pass by
Don't pass it by
Antique Sandy
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Antique Sandy lived in the woods
And she'd go to the stream when the weather was good
She'd take down the washing for her old man to wear
And she'd try not to get eaten by the bear
She'd fly to the market in her worn out old balloon
That she traded with the flier for an antique silver spoon
And when she'd get home she'd cook upon the wooden stove
And she'd go to sleep and listen to the whispers of the grove
At night she dreamed of places where she lived when she was young
Where the corn strip stretched for miles like a giant serpent's tongue
Electric lights and phone bells and every light insane
Like a hundred thousand hungry miles were meeting at her brain
And I greet her in the morning when she wakes up in my arms
And I tell her that I love her and I'll keep her free from harm
I hold her close, she matters, she is all the world to me
'Cause she's my Antique Sandy, and she's in love with me
Oooh, that's a nice deep cut from a generally little-loved album. Love the double-tracked, echoey vocals on that one...
DeleteMy vomit fluctuates, covers your skull like protoplasm
ReplyDeleteLightning bugs turn pink, on my tongue catches spasms
Green elephants, I battle streets with a zebra
My mechanism is more than Dionne's psychic voodoo
African bees, snakeskin's cobra spit through you my medical passes
You can't see, with 3D glasses
Carbon dioxide, pull it right through 'em with gases
My description dinosaur
I was made half-shark-half-man, my skin is like razor blades
Seven-oh-seven, Mr. Gerbik
Verbally no one change my thoughts, animals fly from Philly
My appetite's more big it's time for wildebeests
Adjust my skulls, seven eyes switch hydraulic turtles
And shrimps, smack gorillas make 'em limp
"Dantalion's Chariot - Madmen Running Through The Fields"
ReplyDelete"You ask me how
I've become mad now
There was a day,
I had so much say
What of my feet?
Life seemed to be sweet
I was admired
But I was so tired
Go through the dam
Lion and lamb
Know what you're sayin'?
Know what you're sayin'?
Things went okay,
And then one day, "Pow!"
I can expound
With the new words found
If reasons gone,
How do I live on?
Because I know
Which way I must go
Where can I go,
Now that I know
Time has gone by?
Time has gone by
Isn't that the madman,
Running through the fields?
Isn't that the madman?
Wonder how he feels...
You look at me,
What do you see now?
Is it so bad,
Or am I just sad?
Are you in doubt?
There is a way out
I've seen the crack
I cannot come back
I'm not afraid
Sticks out a way
Into the tide
Be by my side
Isn't that the madman,
Running through the fields?
Isn't that the madman?
Wonder how he feels..."
I found this single in a junk shop in around 1978 only a stones throw from the location of possibly the UK's first independent psychedelic reissue label (Psycho Records) and it cost me 10p. Now you'll be lucky to get a copy of the original single for 1000 times that.
CJ & The Fish - Pat's Song
ReplyDeleteBring flowers and ring them 'round her grass hair
Bring leaves from the mountain and boxes of air
Bring baskets of food and things you can share
And the moon will shine in her eyes
She will stand in the sea with her body like sand
And the dolphins will come kiss the palms of her hands
As she opens her soul to the water and land
Her smiles will color the sky
With bottles of light and sacks of clay
With music to dance and songs to play
With lemons and candles you'll see the way
That the moon will shine in her eyes
She will fly on the wind with her face to the sun
Children will dance all around her for fun
Just ask her for love and she'll give you some
For her smiles will color the sky
And of course, Hawkwind
I've got an orgone accumulator
And it makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my accumulator
It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator
Of orgones
Energy stimulators
Just turn your eyeballs into craters
But an orgone accumulator
Is a superman creator
Well HOW-DEE Pardner! I am so glad I poked my head around and discovered that you and yours are doing fine and set up a new camp. I'll pass along some of my favorite verses of the inner most kind to help loosen up the flow for them fine Elevator boys. From Pearls Before Swine's 1968 record "Balaclava";
ReplyDeleteTranslucent Carriages
The translucent carriages
Drawing morning in
Dawn inside their pockets
Like a whisper on the wind
The soft touch of your words
Has been betrayed like love grown old
Or the silhouettes of children
Crying somewhere in the cold
The ancient night is coming back
The light is fading out
The tree is hid in shadow
In a fog of useless doubt
Go away go away
The imperative is drawn
All your symbols are shattered
All your sacred words are gone
(The caravans are leaving
For the dawn of nothing
Lepers carry roses
To Jerusalem
In peace
Sons bury their fathers
In war
Fathers bury their sons
Love is silent
At the edge of the universe
Waiting
To come in
Jesus raised the dead
But who
Will raise the living)
Every time I see you passing by
I have to wonder why
With warm regards from the Miss', Jr. and myself from the Double X ranch,
Billy Gates.
Uh, guys...didn't it say "a verse"?!?
ReplyDeleteFine, the whole enchilada then.
See the snow falling on the ground
Days of old, oh so cold
Wretched sailing amongst the cloud
Melts the snow still I'm cold
People dancing in the streets
In the town a small boy crys
Eyes of love turn to nerves of stone
Blind the sun, not for me
A Season goes so quickly
You don't know where you are
A Season goes so quickly
You don't know where you are
I said i'm sorry
Don't you know I try
Everybody stops me
And it makes me cry
See the snow falling on the ground
Days of old, cold so cold
Wretched sailing amongst the cloud
Melts the snow still I'm cold
People dancing in the streets
In the town a small boy crys
Eyes of love turn to nerves of stone
Blind the sun, not for me
A Season goes so quickly
You don't know where you are
A Season goes so quickly
You don't know where you are
I said i'm sorry
Don't you know I try
Everybody stops me
And it makes me cry
Blackfeather - Seasons of Change
Laying here looking at the ceiling
ReplyDeleteSomeone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back
I try to move my arms and there's no feeling
And when I look I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
D.O.A. by Bloodrock
The larger were smaller
ReplyDeleteThan shorter or taller
All every, the any
So few are the many
The same is the reason
And truth is the season
For all of the black sheep today.
Black Sheep - SRC
PS Good luck with your blog, yer Babness!
Get outta here, ya bum!
DeleteWell as I live and breathe, it's SteveShark...what a nice surprise!
DeleteI know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
ReplyDeleteI know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say
That you still want me
Well, that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
And miles and miles and miles and miles
The Who
why not, right? Here goes
ReplyDeleteI don't do publicity balling for you anymore
The first word in this song is "discorporate." It means to leave your body
Discorporate and come with me
Shifting, drifting
Cloudless, starless
Velvet valleys and a sapphire sea, wah wah
Unbind your mind, there is no time
To lick your stamps and paste them in
Discorporate and we will begin, wah wah
("Flower Power" sucks)
A few favorites:
ReplyDelete"Boots were of leather
A breath of cologne
Her mirror was a window
She sat quite alone
All around her
The garden grew
Scarlet and purple
And crimson and blue
She came and she went
And at last went away
The garden was sealed
When the flowers decayed
On the wall of the garden
A legend did say:
No one may come here
Since no one may stay"
"Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream
It is not dying, it is not dying
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void
It is shining, it is shining
Yet you may see the meaning of within
It is being, it is being
Love is all and love is everyone
It is knowing, it is knowing...
... that ignorance and hates may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing
But listen to the colour of your dreams
It is not living, it is not living
So play the game "Existence" to the end...
... Of the beginning, of the beginning
Of the beginning, of the beginning
Of the beginning, of the beginning
Of the beginning, of the beginning "
"Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dreams
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
Sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Ooh, baby, I been flying
No yeah, mama, there ain't no denying
Oh, ooh, yeah I've been flying
Mama, mama, ain't no denying, no denying
Oh, all I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find, where I've been
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Here is the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When moving through Kashmir
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Ooh
Oh, when I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, ooh, my baby, let me take you there
Oh come on, oh, let me take you there... let me take you there
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, let me take you there... let me take you there
Along the straits of fear
Oh, when I want, when I'm on my way, yeah
And my feet wear my fickle way to stay
Ooh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah yeah,
But I'm down oh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah
Yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oh, my baby
Let me take you there
Come on, oh let me take you there
Let me take you there"
Elevator! Going up!
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Bought Easter Everywhere in the day. 13th Floor was more of a legend than a band, but it was Austin on acid, which was what was then happening on and around the drag. You're Gonna Miss Me was classic & their best IMO...
ReplyDeletePS...notBob is to blame
DeletePS...Sorry I didn't post the lyrics, but thanks for the link!
ReplyDeleteMeat Puppet's "Severed godess hand" surely counts as psych...
ReplyDeleteThe horizon breaks to pieces
And the mainline is the twilight
And the giant net has a perfect window
Passage through has the ticket screaming
I want a mind
I'll tell you what I find
No severed goddess hand
No plaster in my eye
No picture of a lamb
No goddess hand have I
I'm a picture of a goddess
Of a planet in the window
Through a tiny hole in the giant curtain
I have watched as it stood undressing
I want more more eyes
I want to see more lies
In the silence of the neurons
Where the pathway has been printed
There's a gleaming hope for an understanding
Timing's gone and there's been no planning
Two heads, one dream
Two-thirds a crowd it seems
Bat
Oooh, good one!
DeleteNice one Bat! I was having problems choosing something but Meat Puppets "We're Here" always resonated very strongly with experiences I've had
Delete"We're Here"
The night is restless
But no dream's in sight
And the sounds have no beginnings or ends
And that glow is not a light
The walls turn into waterfalls
With water made of thoughts that call
It's not okay to tip the glass
Don't smile too long or shed a tear
You're not the only one to know
Things have changed, now we are here
We are not the king and queen
What we are lies in between
The blankets that you've never seen
But over you are spread
'We are here', the voices sing
We are here, the echo thunders
Here we are, the doorbell rings
We are here and here in numbers
Others came in from the hall
Thoughts with voices start to call
It's not okay to tip the glass
Don't smile too long or shed a tear
You're not alone the way you thought
Things have changed, now we are here
She Wandered Through The Garden Fence - Procol Harum
ReplyDeleteShe wandered through the garden fence
And said, "I've brought at great expense
A potion guaranteed to bring
Relief from all your suffering"
And though I said, "You don't exist"
She grasped me firmly by the wrist
Threw me down upon my back
Strapped me to her torture rack
And without further argument
I found my mind was also bent
Upon a course so devious
It only made my torment worse
She said, "I see you cannot speak
Is it your voice that is too weak?
Is it your tongue that is to blame?
Maybe you cannot speak for shame
Or has your brain been idle too
And now it will not think for you?"
I hastened to make my reply
But found that I could only lie
Like a fool I believed myself
And thought I was somebody else
But she could see what I was then
And left me on my own again
Like a fool I believed myself
And thought I was somebody else
But she could see what I was then
And left me on my own again
She wandered through the garden fence
And said, "I've brought at great expense
A potion guaranteed to bring
Relief from all your suffering"
And though I said, "You don't exist"
She grasped me firmly by the wrist
Threw me down upon my back
Strapped me to her torture rack
And without further argument
I found my mind is also bent
Upon a course so devious
It only made my torment worse
Keith Reid - incredible lyricist imho
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