Comments on Texas Psych - Psychedelic Music, 13th Floor Elevators, Golden Dawn, Red Crayola and more!: Review of Disc 8, A Love That's Sound, from Sign o...

Drummond is a tool.

2012-01-27T13:39:59.319-08:00

Drummond is a tool.

http://www.texaspsychedelicrock.com/2009/06/13th-f...

2012-01-27T13:37:36.789-08:00

http://www.texaspsychedelicrock.com/2009/06/13th-floor-elevators-sign-of-three-eyed_21.html

The nature of the bad sound quality in this album ...

2012-01-27T13:23:35.573-08:00

The nature of the bad sound quality in this album leaves me feeling that this material is not exactly what it claims to be. While I do not question whether or not these tracks came out of the Beauty and the Beast sessions, I do not believe they came from the original masters. I love the Elevators, but this album adds nothing to their legacy. I don't recommend it.

I've listened to two separate copies of this a...

2012-01-27T13:21:41.416-08:00

I've listened to two separate copies of this album, and both had significant sound quality problems starting with the third track...the music sounds wobbly, like the original tapes that this compilation came from were damaged. Has Charly records put out a flawed/inconsistent product, or is this album supposed to sound like its from the bowels of the archive and intended for completists? Anyone?

After the release of the 10 disk box set, Internat...

2012-01-27T13:04:39.420-08:00

After the release of the 10 disk box set, International Artist is releasing the 3 13th Floor Elevator albums as stand alone sets. For Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere, the addition of alternate bonus tracks from the box set irritated fans, who felt they were being ripped off and forced to buy the same albums multiple times. For Bull of the Woods, you get just the album and a Mono set of songs making up a theoretical 'lost' third album. Many of the songs later appeared on Bull of the Woods. There are no bonus tracks on this set, so it is the exact same album as 'Sign of the 3 Eyed Men' (Boxset) version.

Firstly, let me just say that I really enjoy this ...

2012-01-27T06:49:05.356-08:00

Firstly, let me just say that I really enjoy this blog! Long time lurker, first time commenter.

Regardless of whether or not "Bull of the Woods" is a good album, these recent reissues are not exactly lining Roky's pockets. Charly is notorious for screwing over their artists (almost as much as International Artists, the 13th Floor Elevators' original record label), and pretty much everything I've bought from them has been sketchy in one way or another. That said, the online retailer Burning Shed stocks their stuff, and is much less sketchy. If you do buy it, I'd recommend going through them. That said, Charly and Elevators biographer Paul Drummond seem to be as in-it-for-themselves as anyone else who's previously released Elevators material, especially considering that the new vinyl-only box set ("Music of the Spheres") contains a "newly-discovered" track that couldn't be included on any of the other simultaneously-released reissues! Talk about extortionists!

Michael Jensen Overall, I agree with Kiloh's c...

2012-01-27T06:41:30.562-08:00

Michael Jensen
Overall, I agree with Kiloh's comments and opinion on this disc. This is what I wrote a few weeks ago regarding "Bull": "Bull" has not received a proper chance, on its own merits, to actually showcase its artistry. Pompous Horn Sections; Incompetent Recording Techniques; Bad Mastering and Mixing; Poor Pressing... For a fact, I know there is a LOT more still rotting in cans and cases sitting in "Collectors Closets". There are at least 10 takes of "Never Another" fermenting in an old reel-to-reel box, for example. And, with some of the sub-maser tapes still available, there is an opportunity to remix, re-equalize and, lose the distracting horn section. This is the problem: Charly and their tool, Drummond, have the sub-master tapes. If work ever commences on "Bull", we can rest assured it will be compressed into a flat, mashed MP3 Sandwich lacking any of the original fidelity and depth a Sub-Master tape could achieve. A real record company, like "Sundazed" would do the Elevators tapes justice. In fact, "Sundazed" is in possession of a Mixed MONO Master tape of "Psychedelic Sounds". However, they are restricted by Charly to reproducing Psych Sounds on Vinyl ONLY!