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13th Floor Elevators includes: Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland.Recorded at Summit Sound Studio, Dallas, Texas. Includes original release liner notes by Lelan Rogers.This release features a special gatefold LP style CD sleeve.13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson (vocals, guitar); Stacy Sutherland (guitar); Benny Thurman (bass); John Ike Walton (drums); Tommy Hall.Recorded in 1966.The 13th Floor Elevators might have been remembered simply as one-hit wonder of the '60s--the Texas equivalent of the Count 5, for example--had it not been for two things. First, they were the only rock band in history to feature a guy playing a continuous obligato on electric jug, which added a deeply weird element to even their most straightforward three-chord rockers. Second, and perhaps more importantly, they were fronted by a genuine howling weirdo and cult figure-to-be, the incomparable Roky Erickson.Roky, who took more acid trips than Jerry Garcia had hot meals, was nonetheless a gifted songwr