PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS MONO OG
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ORIGINAL 1966 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RECORDS MONO PRESSING OF THIS ELEVATORS MASTERPIECE.
YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME
ROLLER COASTER
SPLASH 1
REVERBARATION
DON'T FALL DOWN
FIRE ENGINE
THRU THE RHYTHM
YOU DON'T KNOW
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
MONKEY ISLAND
TRIED TO HIDE
VINYL IS VG+, WITH VERY LIGHT SURFACE NOISE IN THE QUIETER PASSAGES (OF WHICH THERE ARE FEW)
SLEEVE TAPED ALONG SEAMS, VERY LITTLE WEAR TO FRONT AND BACK IMAGES!
Original 1966 Mono copy of the first LP ever released on the legendary Houston, Texas based International Artists label.
Recorded over a 9-month period during 1966, the LP was assembled with some haste as "You're Gonna Miss Me" became an unexpected national hit in the early Fall. The mono mix is clearly superior, as is particularly evident on "Roller Coaster" and "Monkey Island", where the stereo mixes sound unfinished and should be avoided. The mono LP was released in late November 1966, thus competing with the Deep and Blues Magoos as the very first "psychedelic"-titled album. The music, in case anyone needs to know, is a firebreathing blend of garage, folkrock and embryonic psychedelia, the latter represented by the two groundbreaking numbers "Roller Coaster" and "Kingdom Of Heaven". The LP was an underground hit and went on to sell some 40.000 copies. All promos and early runs of the mono stock have a slightly different back cover with a street address for IA and no credit to Gordon Bynum. Due to stamper degeneration this variation may be preferrable to later runs. Although 1966 is the nominal release year for the stereo version, it probably wasn't mixed and released until a few months into 1967. No stereo promos exist. The IA box set reissue (also available as a standalone item) is identifiable via a matrix number that begins 'Ach...'. Post-1980 reissues are too numerous to list; the crucial fact is that none of the re:s, including those above, are from master tapes. The mixdown masters were lost in the early 1970s and have never been found. The preferrable mono mix has been bootlegged twice in the late 1990s, all other reissues are the inferior stereo mix. [PL] -acidarchives
$6 DOMESTIC
$16 INTERNATIONAL
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This is an original first pressing, no Masterfonics in dead wax.
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