13th FLOOR ELEVATORS 2Nd ALBUM MONO ACETATE wDIFF MIXES

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·       THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS – EASTER EVERYWHERE – MONSTROUSLY RARE MONO ACETATE – ORIGINAL 1967 NRP STUDIOS NASHVILLE (APPARENTLY, THE  INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS PRESSSING FACILITY) MONO LP [NO NUMBER[

·       ORIGINAL US PRESSING

·       *** ULTRA-RARE ACETATE WITH SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT (AND WAY BETTER!) MIXES FROM THE ORIGINAL, COMMERCIALLY RELEASED STEREO VERSION (THE BIDDERS SHOULD NOTE THAT MONO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM ARE ALL BUT NONEXISTENT – THEY EXIST MOSTLY AS WHITE LABEL PROMO-ONLY PRESSINGS; STOCK  MONO COPIES ARE ALL BUT UNKNOWN, WITH LESS THAN 5 COPIES SEEN AND ACCOUNTED FOR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD – AND THE MONO MIX OF THIS        ACETATE IS EVEN DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE RARE MONO PRESSINGS ***

·       BY FAR THE RAREST THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS PRESSING IN EXISTENCE (ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN!)

·       THE ACETATE COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL (NOT A REPLICA!) BLACK & WHITE PROMO PUBLICITY PHOTO OF ROKY ERICKSON (PLEASE NOTE: THE PHOTO IS OF THE LATER VINTAGE THAN THE ALBUM; THIS APPEARS TO BE A LATE ‘70s OR EARLY ‘80s,  NOT THE MID-‘60s PERIOD PHOTO, AND WAS APPARENTLY ADDED LATER)

·       PLAIN WHITE RCA LABEL WITH RED RCA LOGO, USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR REFERENCE PRESSINGS (ACETATES AND TEST PRESSINGS)

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS (MINOR YELLOWING NOTED ON BOTH)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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We are pleased to present the rarest and hardest-to-find Thirteenth Floor Elevators album in existence: the monstrously rare MONO ACETATE (NOT A MONO WHITE LABEL PROMO OR MONO STOCK PRESSING pressing) of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators legendary, second album. This acetate is a proverbial Loch Ness monster of record collecting: everybody knows that it exists – or has heard of its alleged existence,  but hardly anyone has ever seen, let alone snapped a photo of it. We have a distinct privilege of presenting a GORGEOUS specimen of one such rare , nearly-extinct species here.

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Ah, but wait, folks…we are just warming up. You ain’t heard nothing yet!

What makes this acetate so very special and so very unique is its absolutely stunning, (literally) mind-blowing  unique mono mix, which we find to be dramatically different – way better, definitely! – than either the original stock stereo copies or rare promo-only mono mix of the album. Essentially, this is the story: when you play the stock stereo copy of this album (either original vinyl or one of numerous digital versions), you are listening to a fairly light – delightful, yes, but definitely lightweight and trite piece of trippy Texas psychedelia -- great but somewhat deficient in the “meat & bones” department. However, when you play this incredible mono acetate, what you get is a totally different beast altogether. This is a radical, sneering, in-your-face, crunchy piece of Texas garage/punk, more of a marriage between Chocolate Watchband, early Sir Douglas Quintet and Pretty Things than Strawberry Alarm Clock. The difference is so great that we wonder if someone at the record label didn’t deliberately “neuter” Roky Erickson’s original mix in order to make it more palatable to the buying public and render it more commercially viable. We are all but certain that this mix much more accurately reflects Erickson’s vision of what this album was supposed to sound than the final, released version of the album. 

The difference in the mixes is dramatic,  mostly in the rhythm section and Erickson’s vocals, both of which are pushed way, way up-and-front-center into the mix. Roky practically growls into your ear, and crunchy guitars and bass are sneering, punchy, pulsating, and extremely loud in the mix. When you play “Slip inside this House”, the feel is more of the Stooges-meet-Bo Diddley than some premeditated piece of sunshine psychedelia or baroque pop. It is, AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO BE HEARD, definitely a nasty, seething with angst and paranoia,’60s garage/punk album, and psychedelic album only as a possible afterthought, if even.  How many times during your lifetime will you get a privilege of hearing the original vision of the great artist, as it was meant to be presented to the world (but, for whatever reason, never was)?

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This was the second of the four great, classic psychedelic albums by Rocky Erickson & his Thirteenth Floor Elevators before Erickson was declared criminally insane and hauled off into the psychiatric asylum for a protracted and bizarre "treatment". Frankly, we don't know why - this album still sounds more SANE to us than most of the music of the period. Indeed, it sounds much better than most of the music created since!!! Don't miss this great psych relic, which almost never shows up for sale in ANY condition.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: While this acetate is in a beautiful state of preservation, we do expect bidders to understand that the aluminum-based, shellac-coated acetates can never be graded by using the exact, same stringent standards used by collectors for modern long-play, hi-fi LPs or singles. The buyer – if not familiar with acetate (reference) recordings - should be cautioned that these discs were intended for brief, limited use only; they were meant to be played only a few times, then discarded or destroyed. In view of this, the surface layer of the disc is manufactured in such a manner that it will wear off pretty quickly, even under normal conditions -- and specially if not handled with due care. Each subsequent playing increases wear and tear of the disc’s surface layer and diminishes the disc’s playability. This disc appears to have been unplayed recently and the grooves are still well-formed and fully visible.

This acetate is in about VG++ TO EXCELLENT (just a notch below NEAR MINT) , with some minor and superficial scuffs on the surface. Absolutely NO part of the shellac (surface layer) of the disc is  missing, and the surface layer is NOT dented, chipped, broken or otherwise compromised.

ON A SCALE FROM 1-10 (where 10 is the best), WE GRADE RECORD AS 6.5 to 7

THIS IS A RESERVE AUCTION!

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·                               CONDITION:

RECORD : CONDITION: AS NOTED ABOVE (VG+ TO VG++  ON A SCALE FROM 1 TO 10, ABOUT 7)

COVER: PLEASE NOTE: THIS ACETATE APPARENTLY NEVER HAD A CUSTOM COVER;  ACETATES AND REFERENCE PRESSINGS ARE RARELY – IF EVER – FOUND IN CUSTOM (STOCK) COVERS.  This acetate will be shipped in its original, plain, generic, white cardboard cover (NOT SEPARATELY GRADED but in a very decent condition overall)

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