Description: A visual dive into the 13th Floor Elevators.
Brief description: Paul Drummond is a renowned antiquarian bookseller based in London. He's the author of Eye Mind (2007), the exhaustive and definitive biography of the 13th Floor Elevators. Drummond has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of this amazing band, resulting in this comprehensive work. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History places the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged.
Review Quotes: The story of the 13th Floor Elevators is often told in sudden bursts and strange visions--part earthly chaos, part hallucination. The pioneering psychedelic rock group lasted just four years in the late 1960s before retreating back into the haze. There is little video footage and few interviews from that time period, and it was only later that the extent of the Austin band's influence became clear; their brief history was practically destined for underground music mythology. Fittingly, a new coffee table book compiled by writer and Elevators historian Paul Drummond captures the band's essence in telling fragments, through collected photos and memorabilia, mini oral histories with the members and copious records from the Austin Police Department. -Pitchfork, April 2020