13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
With its leary psychedelic eye and reverb drenched, garage pop sensibilities, 1966's The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators ranks as one of the first masterpieces of the psychedelic age. Back when the drugs were fierce and flower power wasn't yet the nice and trippy drippy hippy fest of the Woodstock generation, the Elevators played with a real edge of intent and ingenuity that developed and softened over their following releases.
I'd never seen any footage of the band from the 60s, until the last couple of days when this little gem of a clip was passed to me in IRC. In the following clip we see the band doing their anthemic opener from Psychedelic Sounds - You're Gonna Miss Me. The quality is not great, I believe the show is American Bandstand and I can't quite figure out if they're miming or playing live. Either way, they look exceedingly hip for their age, and you can get an insight of their sound which still reverberates through and influences music to this day. Snarling and angry, 13th Floor Elevators!
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Posted by Dio Bach at 10:09 AM
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wow, really weird coincidence! I just came across this song on pandora.com the other day (I think I was in the Lou Reed channel) and fell in love with it. I couldn't find any more of their stuff anywhere, unfortunately.
Great to see the video! Thanks! This site is definitely bookmarked.
Wow, that's an interesting site that Pandora, great idea. It reminded me of Launch back before Yahoo ruined it. After rewatching the video, the band are miming - so its not quite a live performance, but still good to see the band going for it. :)
I heard this video existed about 10 years ago. It is from American Bandstand in 1966. There are several places to find it on the internet. At one, you hear Dick Clark introducing them and calling them "frightening." Very cool! They are lip-syncing. But, still very cool. jeff@prudentialpreferredproperties.com
Their song is now on a TV commercial. Don't know which one but the song was so familiar, I knew I heard it before.
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