BOB GALINDO REMEMBERS .......

The 13th floor elevators...........hmmm?????

I did not pal around with them, so I don't have too much too share. I suppose I could do a superficial treatment with a few ancecdotes. I should get my brother Danny (Elevators bassist) to start talking about it. This might take a while. The following is a list of anecdotes which could be expanded upon:

• Stacy Sutherland and either the bass player or the drummer (to be confirmed) quit Max and the Lingsman to start a new band (the Elevators). I believe I may have mentioned this when I wrote about the secret origin of the original Max and The Laughing Kind.
• Roky Erickson asleep on a couch with his head in an ashtray at the Goldstar Studios in Houston Texas. When he wakes up, he is speechless, but he wants to show me something. He opens his wallet and pulls out a picture of Elvis. His expression says "WOW".
• Love Street light show and circus, San Antonio, Texas. Roky will not take the stage because he fears that people will notice the third eye on his forehead. He sneaks onto the stage by duckwalking behind the amplifiers, with his hand covering his forehead.
• I was once asked to join the Elevators to replace Stacy Sutherland - he was going off to serve jail time. I turned down the offer, I did not want to flunk organic chemistry (very time consuming-no time to tour). Mr. Bill Dillard, vice president of international artists was stunned. He could not believe that I did not want to tour with a bunch of wigged out drug crazed outlaws. They did not make any money to speak of and they were so out of control that I am surprised that my brother did not beat the shit out of all of them one at a time or all together. But they did get lots of pussy and buttloads of free drugs. But I was engaged and I did not use drugs, so I just was not interested.
• I jammed with a few of them onstage at the old Vulcan Gas Company in Austin. It was an honor to play with Stacy Sutherland. He was an excellent expressive guitar player. I learned much from him that night.
• I used to play in a band called The Concentric Excentrics with the drummer, Danny Thomas, and of course the bass player, my brother, Danny Galindo. We played soul music. This was before they became the Elevators. At that time, Danny Thomas was the president of the sophomore class at Trinity University. He was VERY clean cut and had the manners of a southern gentleman. I believe he was originally from north/south Carolina or Virginia. My mother liked him because he was such a gentleman. We used to practice in my mother's living room. The last time I saw him was in the early seventies. He was working in a Der Weinerschnitzel in Houston, Texas.
• I once had the honor of crashing in a real Houston hippie pad full of real live stoned Houston hippies. But my brother was the only Elevator in the pad at the time. I was scared to death. I was afraid that the FBI, CIA, NEA, HPD, HCSD, the Texas Rangers and the Federales would bust the door down and take us all to jail. The place was HOT.
• I remember driving around Kerrville with my brother one day. He was very paranoid. He said the cops followed them all of the time. He was constantly looking in his rear view mirror. But then again, he is always paranoid. The night before, we went to some cool bluff overlooking the Guadalupe river just outside of town. All the local hippies and heads were there that night hanging out, playing guitars, smoking dope, saying things like "wow man, far fucking out!......groovy!"
• Gold Star Studios, Houston, Texas. Same night that Roky showed me the Elvis picture. The band is jamming in the studio. They are writing/creating a new song right before my eyes. I looked over and noticed that the jug player, Tommy Hall, was writing lyrics as quickly as Stacy could play riffs and hot licks. I was amazed at the ease in which this man wrote lyrics................
• Stay tuned..........................................!!
• (Contributed by Chris Holzhaus) Chris writes: "Names of original 13th floor elevator members: Stacy Sutherland lead guitar (gun shot in houston early 70's). Ronnie Leatherman bass (still lives in kerrville). John Ike Walton drums (still lives in kerrville). Tommy Hall jug (lasttime seen,san francisco), Roky Erickson (in and out of psyco-treatment still in austin). I did a cult record with Roky back in 84 titled "Live at the Ritz", Rokys mom recorded it on a cassette player from the audience. Believe it or not, it wasnt bad at all. So much so,that New Rose records(france) bought the tape for 10 grand and released it! You can still find this record on the net,but my name on it is Chris Holyhouse (hehehe), Rokys mom couldnt spell my name. The linup was: Roky-singer,guitar / Fred Krc-drums (pronounced kersh)/Appa Perry-bass/Will Sexton-guitar (charlies lil' bro)/Chris Holzhaus-guitar."