13th Floor Elevators

The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators

1966 · Garage Rock · International Artists

US · IA-LP-1

Credits

Producer: Lelan Rogers
Written by: Clementine Hall, Powell St. John, Roky Erickson, Stacy Sutherland, Tommy Hall

Detroit Garage Revival

Two-guitars-no-bass primitivism, soul covers played wrong, and 7-inches pressed a thousand at a time.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.