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**Bio: The 13th Floor Elevators** Hailing from Austin, Texas, The 13th Floor Elevators are often credited as the first artists to label their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly endorsed the use of drugs, particularly LSD, as a means to enhance human consciousness. The band gained popularity in 1966 with their hit "You’re Gonna Miss Me," featuring Roky Erickson's distinctive yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland's guitar work, and Tommy Hall's electric jug runs, which were humorously said to be tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it. The Elevators were pioneers of garage psychedelia, releasing influential albums such as *The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators* in 1966 and *Easter Everywhere* in 1967. However, they faced significant challenges in the conservative environment of Texas, where authorities targeted them for drug use. This led to legal troubles, with Stacy Sutherland jailed and Roky Erickson pleading insanity to avoid prison, resulting in his three-year commitment to Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane. This marked the end of the band, although a posthumous album, *Bull of the Woods*, was released in 1968. After his release in 1973, Roky Erickson pursued a solo career, producing a CBS album with Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Despite struggling with mental illness during the 1980s and

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