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From: todd@SCINEWS.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: 13th Floor Elevators LP's
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 18:15:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 18:15:09 1985
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> While record browsing the other day I noticed that all (3?4?) of the
> 13th Floor Elevators albums are back in the stores.
> 
That's because Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was the TFE lead guitarist.

> One of them, ``Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators'' was
> reissued a few years ago by England's Radar Records (as were all of the
> others--but only as part of the box set).
> 
> The copies of ``Psychedelic Sounds of...'' were Radar reissues.  The
> other albums were all apparently sealed original International Artist
> issue--though the bluriness of the covers was a bit suspect.
> 
> Does anyone have any info on this?  Is someone booting these, or was there
> a secret cache of original pressings discovered somewhere?  I heard a story
> a year or so ago about Whelan Rogers (?), IA President, selling a warehouse
> of junk--which included cases of original IA pressings.  They were slowly
> being leaked out on the East Coast for around $100. a pop.
> 
> ... gt
>     #1 Maynard G. Krebbs Fan