13th Floor Elevators

This album contains the recording sessions by The 13th Floor Elevators for Contact Records in early 1966. On January 3, 1966, the band recorded both sides of their debut 45, “You’re Gonna Miss Me” b/w “Tried To Hide,” which Contact released on January 17. That same month (on the 27th), the Elevators were arrested for marijuana possession, and fearing that Texas’s draconian drug laws might jeopardize the band’s future, they felt the need to document their unique, garage-infused brand of early psychedelia as a means of recording their own existence: at that time, possession of marijuana could result in a prison sentence of 2 to 10 years. These recordings were therefore intended to be the band’s debut LP, which Tommy Hall titled Headstone. The primordial magic the band was able to conjure is already evident—most of which would be re-recorded for their proper debut LP The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators later that same year.

A1 You’re Gonna Miss Me
A2 Tried To Hide
A3 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
A4 Take That Girl
A5 You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore
A6 I’m Gonna Love You Too
B1 Monkey Island
B2 Roller Coaster
B3 Now I’m Home (Splash 1)
B4 Where Am I? (Through The Rhythm)
B5 Fire Engine

Las sesiones de grabación para Contact Records a principios de 1966. El 3 de enero de 1966, la banda grabó ambas caras de su 45 debut ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ c/w ‘Tried To Hide’, que Contact lanzó el 17 de enero. Estas sesiones estaban destinadas a ser el LP debut de la banda, que Tommy Hall tituló ‘Headstone’. 

A1 You’re Gonna Miss Me
A2 Tried To Hide
A3 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
A4 Take That Girl
A5 You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore
A6 I’m Gonna Love You Too
B1 Monkey Island
B2 Roller Coaster
B3 Now I’m Home (Splash 1)
B4 Where Am I? (Through The Rhythm)
B5 Fire Engine