The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (Full Rare Mono Album) (1967)
The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (Full Rare Mono Album) (1967) – This album is available at: www.amazon.com The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, which existed from 1965 to 1969. During their career, the band released four LPs and seven 45s for the International Artists record label. The 13th Floor Elevators found some commercial and artistic success in 1966-67, before dissolving amid legal troubles and drug use in late 1968. Easter Everywhere (1967) is the second album from the Texas psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators. The album was originally released as an LP by International Artists. For a long time, the album was a hard-to-find collectors’ item, until re-released as a CD from Collectables Records in 1993. The mono edition of this album is ridiculously rare. Surviving IA paperwork suggests only very few were pressed as white label promos for AM radio, and even fewer as mono stock copies (the paperwork suggests as few as 120 copies) that were probably only sold to order. The mono mix offers a more solid sound throughout, with a notably heavier bass mix compared to stereo. There are also some obvious differences: the jug on ‘She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)’ is far more prominent; ‘Levitation’ has a double tracked vocal; Roky’s harmonica solo on ‘I Had To Tell You’ is far clearer. Since no tape source exists, this album has been painstakingly transferred from original vinyl, with …
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