13th Floor Elevators - "RECEIVE ALL YOU CAN HOLD", 76:26

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Kiloh

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13th Floor Elevators - "RECEIVE ALL YOU CAN HOLD", 76:26

Demos:
01. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 3:45
02. Monkey Island 2:28
03. Monkey Island (slightly truncated) 2:25
04. Through The Rhythm 3:16
05. Roller Coaster 3:48
06. Fire Engine 2:37

KAZZ-FM, Austin TX, 16 March 1966:
07. The Word 3:15
08. Monkey Island 2:48
09. Roller Coaster 5:08
10. DJ patter 1:34
11. I'm Down 5:29
12. DJ patter 1:15
13. Gloria 7:40
14. DJ patter 1:33
15. Miss Me 1:18

Int. Artists 1966 rough session tapes:
16. chatter 1:14
17. Monkey Island 2:50
18. chatter 0:17
19. Roller Coaster 5:12
20. chatter 0:55
21. Fire Engine 3:28
22. bits 0:57
23. Through The Rhythm 3:18
24. Tried To Hide 2:56
25. false starts 0:43
26. Don't Fall Down 3:08
27. You Don't Know 3:07

DEMOS
Tracks 1 and 2 are from the "demos" cassette. Tracks 3-6 are of the same era but
in much better quality. These were sourced from clean vinyl and processed to
remove stray ticks and pops. They have never appeared on CD and as such are a
major find.

Track 3 is the same performance of "Monkey Island", but it was truncated on the
LP. The differing sound quality made it impractical to splice them together, and
so both can be foundhere.

KAZZ
Tracks 7 through 15 are the KAZZ show. These have been presented previously by
the Roky CD Club on "Reverberation In The Round" but taken from a vinyl source.
That tape was edited and the songs out of sequence, although the processing may
have been more successful overall. (The vinyl boot may have come from cleaner
tapes, although none seem to be in circulation.) This new version is intended to
contrast the previous one, not to replace it. The speed is correct, and digital
artifacts kept to a bare minimum.

Half the enjoyment is in the DJ patter, most of which is missing from
"Reverberation In The Round". The announcer sounds as if he had come of age in
the swing band era. Presumably he despised the garage rock scene but, consummate
professional that he was, we will never know for sure.

SESSIONS
Much of tracks 16 through 27 overlap with the "Ortman tape" heard on "High
Baptismal Flow", and the quality is comparable to that. However several songs on
each are not found on the other. Since this tape came directly from
International Artists, it is worth preserving in its entirety here.

THE CASSETTE
With the exception of tracks #3 through #7, all of these were recovered from
reference cassettes found with a stash of International Artists multitrack
master tapes (as well as the reel-to-reel deck upon which "Easter Everywhere"
was recorded), purchased at a garage sale in the Southwest in 2004.

The "demos" cassette features a white printed label, blank except for "RCA
Cassette Duplicating, 8206 Westpark Dr. Houston, Texas 77063." One side contains
the KAZZ-FM show, the other is demos from January and April 1966, some of which
were later used for the so-called "Live" album. Applause was dubbed onto them,
but this tape contains the original mixes (albeit in mediocre quality).

This CD marks the first time "Everybody Needs Somebody" has been heard without
the crowd overdubs, as well as the first time this rendition of "Monkey Island"
has been presented in its entirety.


Titles on the demo side of the cassette are as follows:

1)You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
2)I'm Gonna Love You Too
3)Everybody Needs Somebody
4)Monkey Island
5)Roller Coaster
6)Splash 1
7)Through The Rhythm
8)You've Got To Take That Girl
9)Fire Engine
10)Miss Me
11)Tried To Hide

Except for #3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, all of these can be found in better quality on
"High Baptismal Flow" and "Psychedelic Sounds Alternate Mix".

#3-4 were used on this disc. The other tracks can be found on "Fire In My
Bones". (Since that album has been rendered permanently out of print, they can
be heard here as well.)

It is believed that this is one of a small set of reference cassettes that
International Artists would have dubbed for the band members to take home. (More
likely the KAZZ side had been blank originally, but this is believed to be a
low-gen copy, possibly 1st gen.)

The quality is what one could expect from such sources. Cassette was low-end
audio in the mid-1960s, and the tapes had not been lovingly preserved. However,
the material has been restored as much as possible, and is quite listenable for
what it is. There may or may not be better source tapes in existence.

Until such are released, these will serve to plug most of the few remaining
holes in the 13th Floor Elevators' ongoing discography.

This CD is NOT available commercially.
This music is NOT for sale.
Neither is anything else from the IA stash.
Neither are the fans who make it available to you.

Jeff Curtis

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Aug 16, 2012, 1:37:14 AM8/16/12
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I just want to say, this is a seriously incredible set of stuff here..
truly remarkable.

This version of "Through the Rhythm" is *amazing*, and really fierce
sounding -- it's crazy, just when you think you've heard everything,
something like this comes along!

It's truly a shame that stuff of this quality can't come out of
'legit' channels, but shit -- the goddamned music industry deserves to
die the long and painful torturous death it is experiencing anyway.
It's people like you who are truly dedicated to spreading high-quality
music to those of us who appreciate it that ought to be in charge of
these kinds of things. (and I don't even want to get into the whole
'where is the money' stuff.. )

Kiloh, thanks so much for making this available to us!

JC
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Kiloh

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Aug 17, 2012, 12:41:05 AM8/17/12
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Thank Mike Jensen for the tape. This was found in the bottom of the crate where the IA 8-track machine was. This machine was sold at a garage sale in New Mexico. Kids bought it and sold it for junk. Included with the machine was a stack of reels. The 8-track Easter Everywhere master was included in that stack. This cassette was kicking around in the bottom of the crate. To me, this is proof that the reels that Michael has are genuine.

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Thank Mike Jensen for the tape. This was found in the bottom of the crate where the IA 8-track machine was. This machine was sold at a garage sale in New Mexico. Kids bought it and sold it for junk. Included with the machine was a stack of reels. The 8-track Easter Everywhere master was included in that stack. This cassette was kicking around in the bottom of the crate. To me, this is proof that the reels that Michael has are genuine.

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