The 13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
1966

Roky Erickson – vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
Stacy Sutherland – lead guitar
Tommy Hall – amplified jug
Ronnie Leatherman – bass
John Ike Walton – drums, percussion

"Your Gonna Miss Me"

You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
You're gonna look around in your mind, girl, you're gonna find that I'm gone

You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize
You didn't realize

Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
Oh you're gonna miss me, child, yeah, yeah

I gave you the warning
But you never heeded it
How can you say you miss my lovin
When you never needed it

You're gonna wake up wonderin'
Find yourself all alone
But what's gonna stop me, baby?
I'm not comin' home
I'm not comin' home
I'm not comin' home

[gaiusleviathan]

It’s nothing short of a crime that this album isn’t as revered in rock n roll history as some of its contemporaries

[ruthdixon]

surf guitar + crazy electric jug + the punkiest vocals before iggy pop came along = perhaps the most intense garage record.

[daveapple]

I was in second grade when my big brother brought this album home. I think we may have driven our parents nuts with it. They thought it was the most horrible thing they had ever heard until my brother brought home "In a Gadda da Vida".

[nicky]

I went to high school with these guys. They played at a lot of our school Danes. They were so good. There is only one left alive nowJohn Ike Walton. So many memories drink a little wine smoke a little weed and drift into my memories. RIP rock on tfnd

[colin]

This has got to be the most unhinged garage song ever put to wax - the insane screams of Roky, the crazy harmonica, the sinister sounding surf like guitar riff in the bridge, many people have tried to top this song and all have died in the attempt.

[eoj]

In 1966, I was 14 when i first heard this - it was like a bolt of lightning

[trishbell]

Yep us kids born in the mid 50's heard this one on our transistor radios.

[flor]

You’re Gonna Miss Me by 13th Floor Elevators. They first coined the term psychedelic rock and played the electric jug.

[glenngamst]

Texas psychedelic at its best; fell in love with them during 10th grade in Houston, TX 1968-1969. They were the best part of my year there.

[tonyfiori]

Living in Corpus Christie, TX in 1969 was when I heard the 13th Floor Elevators for the first time and I was hooked on the energy and sounds never heard before.

[SHENDOH]

Thats the best two and a half minutes of music in a long time

[joegongora]

This is so awesome the way this song is so intense I heard people talk about them. I didn't know about them until I came across them here on Y-tube. Also I heard that they were from Texas and Texas has had its share of groups. Thanks for sharing this wonderful Gem with us being from Texas it warms my heart hearing from Texas groups that...Rock Especially when their music...Is Far-Out!!!

[TheItalianBeatnik]

Fantastic 60's garage psych classic.

[donmehl]

I saw them live sometime around 1967 at a dance at Our Lady of Fatima in Texas City, Texas. I was 15 or so. I also saw the Moving Sidewalks there around the same time.

[sherryglover]

Man, does this one bring back memories of downtown Houston back in the day!

[Comfy_Gaming]

I love this album, it's a go to for when you're chilling

[CantTellYou]

That amplified jug player absolutely killed it on this song. The jug talent is serious.

[rubystanley]

🥰 Needs more 'electric jug'!

[walterfechter]

Roger Corman should have got plugged into this sound and used it in for the into to "The Wild Angels." I remember hearing this for the very first time in 1966. This tune and "Talk Talk" (The Music Machine) and the music of Love changed my outlook on music forever. Thanks, WBM/Music.

[marshallaw]

Playing this song 🎵, G L O R I A and other simple tunes at my very first guitar gigs as a 14/15
Yr.old teen. Glorious!
We had 1 small teen club backed by keno radio station, Las Vegas. ( on paradise rd. )