THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS "Easter Everywhere" - 1967 Intl Artists 1ST PRESS
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THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS
“THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS”
International Artists IA-LP-1
(Note: Back cover numbering shows: “ L.P. - I.A. – No.1 ”
1966
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OFFER / DEAL: If you buy or win all four of these wildly rare first pressings of the 13FE discography presently listed separately today, I will pay the postage, even if they are being shipped to Mars.
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Beautiful copy of this long long out of print first LP by the legendary 13th Floor Elevators. Gorgeous shape and a HUGE addition to any collection.
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THIS IS A FIRST PRESSING OF THE STEREO COPY. This is NOT a cutout (see below for detail).
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A cornerstone on any psych or Texas psych collection.
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First pressings are extremely hard to find today considering International Artists was a small independent label out of Houston, Texas and the pressing was very small compared to the major USA labels of the era.
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First use of the word “psychedelic’ on a rock & roll LP cover. First psychedelic cover art. Considered first psychedelic R&R LP ever pressed.
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The immense impact of this LP in particular (and the other 3 original LPs) can not be underestimated. It still is a major work today.
Provenance: I grew up in San Antonio, Texas and me and several buddies from Jefferson H.S. in SA used to drive up to Austin in 1965 – 1966 and see the Elevators and other seminal psych bands at The New Orleans Club and The Vulcan Gas Company. The Elevators played in SA at Love Street downtown and we didn’t miss. In 1969, International Artists’ Leland Rogers needed money to continue recording and selling records so he sold his warehoused stock to a reseller in Houston for resale as cutouts (a common practice at that time). That reseller accessed college bookstores to sell 1000s of LPs across Texas including almost all of the International Artists LP catalog. I walked into the Baylor Bookstore in the fall of 1970 and for 50 cents each I picked up an entire collection of the Elevators LPs brand new. I already had 4 LPs but every hip dude and dudette needed backups because they wore out after hundreds of playings. The four I have listed on eBay presently were my second backups and were not played much at all. The EX vinyl qualities prove that! Oddly, they were sold at these college bookstores (University of Texas, Houston, San Antonio College, etc) in cutout bins but were never marred by the normal cutout indicators in the covers like punch holes, cut-corners, notchings, eyelets, etc. This cover was never defaced.
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Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for 50 years.
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