Hailing from Austin, Texas, the members of 13th Floor Elevators were one of the first artists to describe their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly and religiously endorsed the use of drugs (particularly
LSD) to alter human consciousness for the better. The band rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with
You're Gonna Miss Me, anchored by
Roky Erickson's unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland's guitar, and Tommy Hall's
electric jug runs. According to myth, Tommy's jug was tuned by the amount of
marijuana stored in it. Th…
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