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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: 13th Floor Elevators LP's
Message-ID: <469@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 22:30:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 22:30:40 1985
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In article <2885@decwrl.UUCP> tortorino@gerbil.DEC (Sandy T.) writes:
>Todd - As an ex-Texan I must stand up with regards to comments about the
>infamous 13th Floor Elevators.  Billy Gibbons never played in this band.
>He did play in another Texas group called the Moving Sidewalks (which has
>been reissued on the Eva label in France . . .).  Only two of the Elevator
>LP's were released on Radar records, not in a boxed set.  Radar also
>reissued the Red Krayola . . . the story is much longer than this.
>
>	Stay tuned . . .

YEAH!!!  I've never set foot anywhere near Texas - but as a connoisseur of 60's
garage/punk music, I have to admit that most of the best stuff came from there.
After all - who needs Prince, Madonna, or even Kate Bush :-) when you can listen
to Mouse & the Traps, the 13th Floor Elevators, and the Five Americans?

I'm well aware that "the story is much longer than this", and I'd love to hear
more of it from someone who was there!  

Andrew W. Rogers


P.S.:  Speaking of the Five Americans... I have some questions about them:

1) I know they once sued a Dallas radio station for refusing to put "Evol,
   Not Love" on the playlist.  What was the outcome?

2) Is organist John Durrill the same JD who joined the Ventures in the early
   1970's?  Is his replacement, Lenny Goldsmith, the same LG who played in
   Sweathog (along with Lee Michaels' ex-drummer Frosty)?

3) Are Jim Grant and Jim Wright the same JG and JW who played in Sammy Hagar's
   mid-70's band?