{"product_id":"paul-drummond-13th-floor-elevators-a-visual-history184923603118","title":"Paul Drummond - 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"description product-description module\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-wrapper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"description-article article-blurb\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13th Floor Elevators\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewere formed in late 1965 when lyricist\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTommy Hall\u003c\/em\u003easked a local singer named\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoky Erickson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums, and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators’ pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts, and forced psychiatric imprisonments. In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinatory take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music. Writer Paul Drummond has gathered an unprecedented catalog of primary materials—including scores of previously-unseen band photographs, rare and iconic artwork of the era, items from family scrapbooks and personal diaries, new and archival interviews, dozens of contemporaneous press accounts, and no shortage of Austin Police Department records—to tell the complete and unvarnished story of a band which, until now, has been tragically under-documented. Before the hippies, before the punks, there were the 13th Floor Elevators: an unlikely crew of outcast weirdo geniuses who changed culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaul Drummond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a renowned antiquarian bookseller based in London. He’s the author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEye Mind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007), the exhaustive and definitive biography of the 13th Floor Elevators. Drummond has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of this amazing band, resulting in this comprehensive work.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eplaces the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8.25 inches x 11 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e328 pages, 278 images\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSBN: 978-1-944860-11-0\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anthology Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47617308950829,"sku":"184923603118","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/5802\/8845\/files\/197544.jpg?v=1700603918","url":"https:\/\/mexicansummer.myshopify.com\/products\/paul-drummond-13th-floor-elevators-a-visual-history184923603118","provider":"Mexican Summer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}