13th Floor Elevators Electric Jug
13th floor elevators electric jug.
13th floor elevators electric jug. Thurman dropped the electric violin to concentrate on bass and hall began to blow into a jug to which he had duct taped a microphone thus creating the electric jug a new sound in pop music. The lingsmen changed their name to the 13th floor elevators named for the thirteenth letter of the alphabet m which stood for marijuana and for the. The electric jug has a unique sound which has been around for a long time in other genres of music but this is one of the first appearances of the jug in rock music.
Interesting to hear that it was actually sung a couple of local garage musicians have developed creditable jug free vocal impersonations for live covers. The electric jug that drew me to the band. Formed in late 1965 the 13th floor elevators from austin tx featuring core members tommy hall electric jug roky erickson vocals guitar and stacy sut.
The 13th floor elevators tommy hall born september 21 1943 is an electric jug player from texas. The 13th floor elevators were an american rock band from austin texas united states formed by guitarist and vocalist roky erickson electric jug player tommy hall and guitarist stacy sutherland the band was together from 1965 to 1969 and during that period released four albums and seven singles for the international artists record label. Utterly unearthly and a key part of the elevators psychedic mind melt for me.