Video: 13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me

13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me
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Book Rec'd: Hornby's Juliet, Naked

Nov 4, 2009, 4:00pm Quarterlifeparty

This is a first for me here: a book recommendation. But since it's from the same author who wrote High Fidelity (Nick Hornby) and the book itself, Juliet, Naked , talks about music and in particular the Internets effect on music i thought it was worth mentioning. I bought this book on a friday and had it finished by monday so it's a pretty quick read, funny, and poignant for anyone who likes music enough to search it out on the blogosphere. Proper credit to largehearted boy for [...]

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Rockin' Roky Erickson is back

Oct 23, 2008, 10:45am OregonLive.com: Pop Music

Halloween is forever in the head and heart of this revived rock god.

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Outloud - The 13th Step

Oct 3, 2008, 9:00am Radio Exile

"If Roky Erickson had vanished from the face of the earth after The 13th Floor Elevators released their epochal debut single, "You're Gonna Miss Me," in early 1966, in all...

• 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me

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Artist:	13th Floor Elevators
Title:	You're Gonna Miss Me
Link Text:	mp3
File Name:	13thfloorelevators-youregonnam issme.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2000

R.I.P. Benny Thurman, Original Thirteenth Floor Elevators Bassist

Jul 1, 2008, 5:59am Houstoned Rocks

Photo by John Anderson/ Austin Chronicle Benny Thurman in 2004 Benny Thurman, the original bass player for the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, passed away last month. Thurman, 65, died June 22 after two and a half weeks in the intensive-care unit of Austin's Seton Hospital with an undisclosed illness, according to a report on Austin '60s blog The Rag . A classically trained violinist [...]

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Syd on the 13th floor

Apr 22, 2008, 5:37am And the ass saw the angel

Today we return to the sixties, when I wasn't even born... Well, actually, Syd Barrett released his first solo album on the 3th of January 1970, but that would mean he made the songs in the sixties, wouldn't it ? Syd used to be the big force behind the early Pink Floyd , but because of his unpredictable behaviour he was to be gradually replaced by David Gilmour. He had by then somehow lost touch with reality, which however became one [...]

• 13th Floor Elevators - You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
• 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
• Syd Barrett - Long Gone
• Syd Barrett - Octopus

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Artist:	13th Floor Elevators
Title:	You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
Link Text:	You don't know (how young you are)
File Name:	08. You Don't Know (How Young You Are).mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	1966

Artist:	13th Floor Elevators
Title:	You're Gonna Miss Me
Link Text:	You're gonna miss me
File Name:	01. You're Gonna Miss Me.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	1966

Artist:	Syd Barrett
Title:	Long Gone
Link Text:	Long gone
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Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	1970

Artist:	Syd Barrett
Title:	Octopus
Link Text:	Octopus
File Name:	07. Octopus.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	1970

VIDEO: 13th Floor Elevators' "You're Gonna Miss Me"

Sep 29, 2007, 7:10pm You Aint No Picasso

I had my mind blown by 13th Floor Elevators today. I'll probably find it difficult to blog about anything post-1969 until I can recover.

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