13th Floor Elevators - Sign of the 3 Eyed Men (2009)
[FLAC] {10 CD Boxset}

FLAC rip of this incredible 10 cd box set


Disc 1: The Contact Sessions:

01 - You're Gonna Miss Me (single version)
02 - Tried to Hide (single version)
03 - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
04 - Take That Girl (You Gotta Take That Girl
05 - You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
06 - I'm Gonna Love You Too
07 - Monkey Island
08 - Roller Coaster
09 - Now I'm Home (Splash 1)
10 - Where Am I  (Thru the Rhythm)
11 - Fire Engine
12 - You Can't Hurt Me Anymore (take 1, backing track)
13 - Fire Engine (take 8).flac                                                                                  
14 - You're Gonna Miss Me (take 6)
15 - Tried to Hide (take 7)
16 - I'm Gonna Love You Too (single version)
17 - All Night Long (The Bad Seeds)
18 - You're Gonna Miss Me (take 6, vocal track only)

Disc 2: Live In Texas:

01 - Monkey Island (Live KAZZ FM Broadcast)
02 - Roller Coaster (Live KAZZ FM Broadcast)
03 - Gloria (Live KAZZ FM Broadcast)
04 - You're Gonna Miss Me (Sumpin' Else TV 1 Broadcast)
05 - Interview (Sumpin' Else TV 1 Broadcast)
06 - Fire Engine (Sumpin' Else TV 1 Broadcast)
07 - You Really Got Me (Sumpin' Else TV 1 Aftershow)
08 - Roll Over Beethoven (Sumpin' Else TV 1 Aftershow)
09 - Gloria (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Warm Up)
10 - Fire Engine (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Broadcast)
11 - You're Gonna Miss Me (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Broadcast)
12 - Roller Coaster (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Broadcast)
13 - Mercy, Mercy (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Aftershow)
14 - Tried To Hide (Sumpin' Else TV 2 Aftershow)
15 - I'm Down (Live La Maison)
16 - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live La Maison)
17 - I'm Gonna Love You Too (Live La Maison)
18 - I Feel Good (Live La Maison)
19 - Gloria (Live La Maison)
20 - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Live La Maison)

Disc 3: The Psychedelic Sounds Of - Mono:


01 - You're Gonna Miss Me
02 - Roller Coaster
03 - Splash 1
04 - Reverberation
05 - Don't Fall Down
06 - Fire Engine
07 - Thru The Rhythm
08 - You Don't Know
09 - Kingdom Of Heaven
10 - Monkey Island
11 - Tried To Hide
12 - Reverbaration (Doubt) (Mono 45 Rpm Mix)
13 - Fire Engine (Mono 45 Rpm Mix)
14 - Reverberation (Unreleased Acetate)
15 - Fire Engine (Alternate Mono Mix)

Disc 4: The Psychedelic Sounds of - Stereo:

01 - You Don't Know How Young You Are (Stereo edition)
02 - Through The Rhythm (stereo edition)
03 - Monkey Island (stereo edition)
04 - Roller Coaster (stereo edition)
05 - Fire Engine (stereo edition)
06 - Reverberation (stereo edition)
07 - False Start,Tried To Hide (stereo edition)
08 - Tried To Hide (stereo edition)
09 - You're Gonna Miss Me (stereo edition)
10 - I've Seen Your Face Before (Splash 1) (stereo edition)
11 -  Don't Fall Down (stereo edition)
12 - The Kingdom Of Heaven (Is Within You) (stereo edition)
13 - You Don't Know (How Young You Are) (alternate backing track)
14 - Roller Coaster (alternate backing track)
15 - Don't Fall Down (alternate Backing track)
16 - Don't Fall Down, band introdution (Larry Kane show)

Disc 5: Live In California:

01 - Everybody Need Somebody To Love
02 - Before You Accuse Me (Take A Good Look At Yourself)
03 - You Don't Know (How Young You Are
04 - I'm Gonna Love You Too
05 - You Really Got Me
06 - Splash 1
07 - Fire Engine
08 - Roll Over Beethoven
09 - The Ward
10 - Monkey Island
11 - Roller Coaster

Disc 6: Easter Everywhere - Mono:

01 - Slip Inside This House
02 - Slide Machine
03 - She Lives (In A Time of Her Own
04 - Nobody to Love
05 - (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue
06 - Earthquake
07 - Dust
08 - Levitation
09 - I Had to Tell You
10 - Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)
11 - I've Got Levitation (A-side IA 113 mono 45rpm)
12 - Before You Accuse Me (B-side IA 113 mono 45 rpm)
13 - She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (A-side IA 121 mono 45 rpm)

Disc 7: Easter Everywhere - Stereo:

01 - Slip Inside This House (remastered)
02 - Slide Machine (unreleased alternate mix)
03 - She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (unreleased alternate mix)
04 - Nobody To Love (remastered)
05 - (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue (remastered)
06 - Earthquake (remastered)
07 - Dust (unreleased alternate mix)
08 - Levitation (unreleased alternate mix)
09 - I Had To Tell You (remastered)
10 - Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) (remastered)
11 - Fire In My Bones (remastered out-take)
12 - Dust (alternate stereo mix 2)
13 - Right Track Now (Roky Erickson solo session with Clementine Hall)
14 - Splash 1 (Roky Erickson solo session with Clementine Hall)
15 - Before You Accuse Me (full version)
16 - Levitation (backing track take 1)
17 - Levitation (backing track take 2)

Disc 8: A Love That's Sound:

01 - Wait For My Love (unreleased 6th single)
02 - It's You (acetate)
03 - May The Circle Remain unbroken (original mix)
04 - Livin' On (take 1, full take with original vocals)
05 - Never Another (take 8, full take with original vocals)
06 - Dr Doom (take 6, original vocals)
07 - Sweet Surprise (take 5, original vocals)
08 - Moon Song (take 1, unreleased backing track)
09 - Livin' On (take 1, edited and overdubbed lead vocals)
10 - Never Another (rehearsal, unknown take)
11 - It's You (rehearsal, take 3)
12 - Moon Song (rehearsal, take 6)

Disc 9: Bull Of The Woods:

01 - Livin' On
02 - Barnyard Blues
03 - Til Then
04 - Never Another
05 - Rose and the Thorn
06 - Down By the River
07 - Scarlet and Gold
08 - Street Song
09 - Dr. Doom
10 - With You
11 - May the Circle Remain Unbroken
12 - Livin' On (A-side IA 130, mono 45 rpm mix)
13 - Scarlet and Gold (B-side IA 130, mono 45 rpm mix)
14 - May the Circle Remain Unbroken (B-side IA 126, mono 45 rpm mix)
15 - Livin' On (Alternate Horn Arrangement)
16 - Bull of the Woods (West Coast Radio Spot)

Disc 10: Death In Texas:

01 - (I've Got) Levitation
02 - Reverberation
03 - Don't Fall Down
04 - Kingdom of Heaven (Is Within You
05 - She Lives (In A Time of Her Own)
06 - Jam 1
07 - Jam 3
08 - Jam 4 - Baby Blue
09 - Jam 5 - She Lives (In A Time of Her Own)
10 - Maxine
11 - (I've Got) Levitation
12 - Shake Your Hips
13 - Roky On KAUM
14 - Stumble (Smoke the Toilet)
15 - You're Gonna Miss Me

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recordcollectormag.com: Paul Drummond’s love affair with the 13th Floor Elevators continues to be a uniquely fruitful one. First, after years of painstaking research and sourcing interviews with the surviving members of the Elevators and their entourage, came Eye Mind, his hugely detailed biography of this most amazing yet strangely jinxed of bands from the genre-defining first wave of US psych.

Later, having been given unprecedented access to the International Artists masters, Drummond subsequently found himself trusted with the task of assembling what, from day one, was always intended to be the ultimate Elevators box set. With all tracks remastered and remixed by the band’s original engineer and producer Walt Andrus, the 10 CDs that make up Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men include both the original mono and alternative stereo mixes of the Elevators’ two most celebrated albums, Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere, plus a remastered version of their swansong Bull Of The Woods. Additionally, the box set also includes the first official release of Headstone: The Contact Sessions. Recorded hot on the heels of the Elevators’ legendary debut single, You’re Gonna Miss Me, in February 1966, Headstone was originally slated to be their debut album, predating Psychedelic Sounds by six months. Also seeing the light of day for the first time is a reconstruction of the “lost” third album, A Love That’s Sound (aka Beauty & The Beast). Needless to say, each of these titles come with an impressive array of outtakes, 45 versions, unreleased acetates, backing tracks, alternate mixes and demo and rehearsal recordings.

Completing the 10-CD set are three previously unreleased live collections, Live! In Texas, which features radio broadcasts, TV appearances and audience recordings from Austin, Dallas and Houston in 1966, Live! In California, Avalon Ballroom (from November 1966) and 13th Floor Elevators Live: Death In Texas, which includes the infamous 1967 Houston Music Theatre show and the 1973 reunion in Austin.

Despite their legendary status as trailblazers and the world’s first truly psychedelic band, the Elevators’ career has, until now, been defined by missed opportunities, record company ineptitude, Roky Erickson’s catastrophic mental breakdown and Stacey Sutherland’s desperate attempts to overcome his personal demons. The arrival of this eagerly-awaited box set finally the record straight on the Elevators’ legacy, sanctioned as it is by the surviving members of the band, with its title coming from the Elevators’ selfappointed mystic and electric jug-playing visionary Tommy Hall.

By way of visual accompaniment the set also includes a 72-page book illustrated with vintage concert posters and previously unpublished photos, plus a specially-produced selection of reproduction memorabilia. Thanks to its scope, Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men is the long-dreamed-of trip to the promised land for Elevators fans everywhere. With its release limited to 3,000 numbered copies worldwide and only available from www.internationalartistsrecords.com the message is clear: get your skates on or risk missing out on something very special!









Austinchronicle.com: "Believe me," warned Benny Thurman, the 13th Floor Elevators' original bassist, back in 2004. "Nobody wants to stay on the 13th floor."

"It's too weird," he continued to the Chronicle (see "High Baptismal Flow: Part 2," Aug. 20, 2004). "It was bedlam, that Armageddon-in-your-mind type music. And we were the first, the original. We were onto the pyramid, with its mystical Egyptian connection."

It was almost too perfect as well. The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators and Easter Everywhere blew out the heart of rock & roll in 1966 and '67 with skull-ripping guitar, consciousness-raising lyrics, and a singer whose vocals originated in another dimension. Album No. 3 should have been a knockout, the third segment to complete the triangle – the triple whammy – but by the time Bull of the Woods lumbered out in 1969, the 13th Floor Elevators were all but DOA.

Basically, that's it as far as recorded output for the band that mapped psychedelia and redrew the boundaries of rock. In one sense, the Elevators were as manufactured an act as the Sex Pistols, with Tommy Hall playing Malcolm McLaren to Roky Erickson's Johnny Rotten; Hall joined in on the action, brandishing the 'Vators' secret weapon: amplified jug. Teamed with Benny Thurman, then Ronnie Leatherman on bass, John Ike Walton on drums, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, Hall and Erickson didn't just spark, they exploded – full-blown, right out of the heart of Texas.

In the 44 years since the appearance of their first single, the 13th Floor Elevators have encompassed fascination and mystery few bands have been able to touch. Hall's obsession with philosophers such as Gurdjieff and Ouspensky manifested itself with a Texas rhythm section and the luminous voice of Roky Erickson, a cosmic confluence that's never been surpassed. And all the residual magic remains in those three recordings plus helter-skelter singles, live tapes, studio sessions, and myriad bootlegs and counterfeits populating the stratosphere. For years, the recordings and their runoff have languished and been plundered. Now, the peak of the pyramid has lifted and out floats a divine offering, Sign of the 3 Eyed Men.
'A Love That's Sound'



You have to have not only a collector's love for the subject, but also the financing to afford this deluxe 10-CD box set, which retails at Waterloo Records for $239, with used copies on Amazon going for upward of $500. The individually packaged discs, containing a total of 154 tracks, slot awkwardly into an otherwise pristine package guaranteed not to fit on your CD shelf, its album-sized hardback book written by project producer and curator Paul Drummond. It's an ambitious undertaking that Drummond accomplishes spectacularly, using a salient mix of visuals along with text from his astonishingly well-researched 13th Floor Elevators biography, Eye Mind (see "Rock & Roll Books," Nov. 30, 2007).

Very little of this audio material is new or unknown. Most of it has been available for years in scattershot form. An Internet-based fan group previously packaged much of this in its own way, with great attention to detail in the final product but lacking the extras, information, and permissions of a legitimate release. Those discs have some value but hold little weight against these more comprehensive and better-detailed authorized recordings. That's because in the end, the true-believer fan – not the one willing to accept bootlegs or patchwork substitutes – wants the real thing: the stickers, the goodies, the posters, the handbills, the extras that say, "I paid for this."

In that way, Sign of the 3 Eyed Men is the ultimate fan set, because from Drummond down, the participants are psalm-singing, foot-washing, 101% 'Vators fans sanctioned by the band to create it. Drummond is, of course, the band's official biographer. Longtime Elevators collector Patrick Lundborg provided the Avalon tape for the Live in California disc. In other cases, tracks came directly from band members, including John Ike Walton, or from family; Bob Galindo personally provided three tracks from A Love That's Sound. His late brother Danny replaced Ronnie Leatherman on bass when Danny Thomas took over drums.

Rather than a lengthy essay cannibalized from his book, Drummond narrates the 10 discs in print with chapters focusing on the specifics of each recording. It's got its share of editorial flubs, notably "Austenite" for "Austinite," and among the aurally enlightened, there are sniffs that the mono recordings are perhaps 1/8 semitone fast. For that fan, footnotes like "remnants of Roky's guide vocal were picked from Tommy's headphones whenever he stopped playing the jug," are third eyesight to the blind.

And in every sense, Sign of the 3 Eyed Men is the Holy Grail of 13th Floor Elevators compilations.
'Livin' On'



The 13th Floor Elevators' recorded output was a mess, its convoluted history best illustrated by the pressing of "You're Gonna Miss Me" as a single. At least 19 separate pressings of the 45 are detailed here, down to each label's color and notations. The sheer number of bootlegs and deviations makes a complete accounting of recordings impossible, but Drummond is unquestionably authoritative in his cataloging of the record's history.

His research reveals unsettling information about the Elevators' financial handling. The single sold upward of 60,000 copies in six months, and for that, the band ended up owing the record company $1,337.02 at the end of 1966. That was also the year Erickson began exhibiting symptoms of marked mental disconnect on- and offstage, and legal troubles in the form of drug busts began swooping down on the group.

It's this sort of intertwining of life and art that Drummond captures so neatly in his text. Eye Mind is broad in its biographical scope; with Sign of the 3 Eyed Men, Drummond had the luxury of dealing strictly with the music and the making of it. That naked-eye view allows him to observe that Easter Everywhere's weakness is that Tommy Hall concentrated his effort on the epic "Slip Inside This House" instead of the album as a conceptual whole.

Within the book's art is a dazzling array of images, many never or seldom seen. Bob Simmons' series of live photos from the band's shows in Houston and Austin and a televised performance in Dallas capture their frenetic stage presence, while eye-popping reproductions of Avalon Ballroom posters from San Francisco and their variants grace other pages.

An envelope of ephemera also has fans ecstatic. Eleven pieces of vintage 'Vatornalia are faithfully reproduced: stickers, handbills, posters, newspaper articles, business cards, autographs, and more, stashed inside the reproduction of an envelope from the band's label, Houston's International Artists, done so finely as to be printed on textured paper. As collectibles, the lot is valueless; for memories, it's matchless.

And so with the discs. It's not enough to call them revelatory, because the material is mostly known, yet two things become clear. First, that Stacy Sutherland was guiding the band in a new musical direction during the making of Beauty and the Beast, the aborted version of which became Bull of the Woods. Second, the notion that Beauty and the Beast could have been as remarkable an album as the first two, had the band not imploded, gains credence from 3 Eyed Men's "Livin' On," intended for Beauty but released to little effect on Bull of the Woods. Five different versions of "Livin' On" attest to its hypnotic allure; perhaps not as lyrically oblique as "Slip Inside This House" yet just as entrancing.

The stunning success of Sign of the 3 Eyed Men points the way to a similar project of collected Roky Erickson material. And as always, the question remains, is more 13th Floor Elevators out there?

Tantalizingly, the answer is yes.