When Roky Erickson’s 1981 cult classic album The Evil One was rereleased in 1987, it opened with the skronky “Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer),” a song loosely inspired by the believe-it-or-not head-transplant experiments conducted by a Soviet surgeon in the Fifties. Over a snaking electric guitar lead, Erickson howled about …
Read More »13th Floor Elevators Will Be Featured in New Visual Book
The story of psych-rock pioneers 13th Floor Elevators is chronicled in a new visual book, out April 21st via Anthology Editions. Titled 13th Floor Elevators: Visual History, it was written by Paul Drummond, who wrote the band’s 2007 biography, Eye Mind. The book provides an extensive visual history of the …
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