[dp0622]

He’s not from a distant generation. I’m 51.

Cant believe I have NEVER heard of him.

Brother is in his 60s and had large rock/funk collection that I loved.

Guess this was a unique artist.

[Wayne07]

One of the most underrated artists from the 60s. Here is an early performance on American Bandstand.

[LS]

I was a musician and toured the country many times. Never heard of him.

[plain talk]

You probably would not have known of him. The 13th Floor Elevators were a local act in South Texas / Austin. I grew up in South Texas in the 1960s and was familiar with them. They were loosely in the genre called “1960s garage band”.

They were a psychedelic band more so than a popular pop act and yielded influence on people from Texas like Janis Joplin and Billy Gibbons. Joplin had considered joining the Elevators band but went to San Francisco instead. The Elevators did LSD at gigs and while recording their records. They were basically an “underground” group.