Video: 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled programming, to bring you a message from Boogie Woogie Flu contributor and friend of Fluville, Scott Schinder... Excuse the interruption, but I just wanted to call your attention to my Kickstarter campaign to launch my long-threatened garage rock book, which I've been researching on and off for several years, and which I'm planning to have published in 2012. The fact that a serious book chronicling the '60s garage explosion doesn't already exist is mystifying to me, so I think that this project is overdue. I'm also offering some [...]

When books are at their best they teach us not only about the lives of others but something about ourselves. That's why it is important to any culture that it has as diverse a selection of voices and writers as possible. White males, Scottish or otherwise, have been overrepresented historically and artistically, and anyone who [...]

A mediados de la década de los 60 el guitarrista Billy Gibbons formaba una banda de blues rock psicodélico llamada The Moving Sidewalks . Don Summers al bajo, Dan Mitchell a la batería y Tom Moore a los teclados le acompañaban en este proyecto. The Moving Sidewalks adquirieron cierta preponderancia en la escena musical de Houston y llegaron a grabar un álbum llamado [...]

Both these videos are of Roky and Co. lip-synching their one and only hit song "You're Gonna Miss Me" and both are from Dick Clark's PRE-Bandstand show. The first video was edited slightly with some rad psychedelic video put over top of the footage and upgraded sound and is by far the best looking footage I've ever seen of the band. It totally Captures their essence. Also.. look for the absence of a drum set with John Ike hiding behind some fake palm leaves. Awesome! The second is a Dick Clark [...]

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