13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Pulp The first installment of Mekas’

The first installment of Mekas’ diaries

Meditations

and forced psychiatric imprisonments

this new edition includes startling new images: 15 additional black-and-white photographs and 14 color prints--long thought missing--of works originally published in black-and-white

and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language

13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Pulp The first installment of Mekas’Born out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators were formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums, and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal