Fan Group Locates Legendary 13th Floor Elevators Master Tapes
- February 09, 2007 - An Internet group of Texas Psychedelic fans has located the 8-track masters to the legendary Easter Everywhere album by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. These tapes were thought to be lost for the last four decades. Easter Everywhere was recorded at Walt Andrus Studios and released in September of 1967. Kiloh Smith, leader of the Texas Psych Google Group explains: "These tapes were ""thrown in"" with an old 8-track recording machine that was sold as junk at a garage sale in the American Southwest."
Easter Everywhere is considered by some to be the greatest psychedelic album of all time. It is subtly conceptual if not an outright concept album. It was meant to show the listener how to "evolve" to a higher plane via the use of psychedelic drugs. Song titles like I"ve Got Levitation and Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) leave little doubt about their heady subject matter.
Easter Everywhere- Track List:
• Slip Inside this House
• Slide Machine
• She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)
• Nobody to Love
• Baby Blue
• Earthquake
• Dust
• I"ve Got Levitation
• I Had to Tell You
• Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)
This begs the question: How DID these tapes end up being sold as junk at a garage sale? Mr. Smith counters with; "Well, they were; that"s all. For those who know the actual sequence of events it all strings together. The bigger question is how did these tapes become associated with an Internet-based fan group?" Mr. Smith answers; "The Texas Psych Google group has been known for many, many years as the *place* to gather for information. We are 100% not-for-profit and are known as the *place* that cares most about this music. As a result, *things* gravitate toward us."
Kiloh continues with; "This genre of music has been literally abused since its inception. It was the very first psychedelic music and, as a result, paid a heavy price. In Texas, it was all released on independent labels. When the sound broke in San Francisco a few years later all of those bands were signed to the major labels. Those major labels have stayed in business and stored the tapes right while the independent Texas labels, that pioneered this music, went out of business, *lost* the master tapes and generally made a mess of everything. Then the publishing rights were sold and resold to fly-by-night reissue labels that cared only for profit and nothing else. The result was crappy transfers, crappy mixing; yielding crappy sound that was sold with crappy packaging. This has continued to this very day. Now, that these tapes have been found, the ""usual suspects"" have come crawling out of the woodwork wanting to ""help"". But why haven"t they ""helped"" in the past? Why is an Internet fan group looked upon as the *place*? This mantle has fallen upon us and we take up this task. And I say to all of the ""usual suspects"": ""BEGONE!"""
The Texas Psych Google group is in close communication with the owner of the Easter Everywhere master tapes. There is a plan and the fans will be happy.
The Texas Psych Google group is an Internet-based group of fans dedicated to discussing, promoting and preserving psychedelic music from the State of Texas. Find out more about them here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Texas-P
09.02.2007 - 20:24 Source: 24-7pressrelease.com | Read: 370 X
