13th Floor Elevators - We Are Not Live (1968/2026 Houston, TX) | Psychedelic Rock | Full Vinyl Rip

We Are Not Live is the 2026 Record Store Day reissue of the 13th Floor Elevators' 1968 album Live, released on Charly Records in a pressing of 2000 copies. This is catalog IA-LP8-2, cut at StarDelta Audio Mastering, pressed in the EU. UK release. The original Live was one of the great record label betrayals in psych rock history. International Artists assembled it from studio outtakes, alternate takes, and demos from sessions spanning the band's career - then slapped fake crowd noise on top, sourced from a boxing match, and sold it as a live album. The band had no meaningful control over it. By 1968 Roky Erickson was deteriorating under the weight of the Texas legal system and the band was falling apart. Live came out and collectors didn't know what to make of it. We Are Not Live strips all of that away and presents the same ten tracks in the original sequence, clean, no overdubs. What you hear is exactly what was on those tapes before IA's production team got to them. Some of these tracks exist nowhere else. You Gotta Take That Girl and You Can't Hurt Me Anymore are outtakes that only appeared on Live and its derivatives. The version of (I've Got) Levitation here is different from the Easter Everywhere take. Roller Coaster at five minutes is the longest stretch on the record and probably the most fully realized thing here. Y ou're Gonna Miss Me closes the record - the same song that started it all on 45 in 1966, and it still lands. 🔥 Standout tracks include: You Gotta Take That Girl, Roller Coaster, and She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own). 🎸 Sounds like: The Seeds, Golden Dawn, The Moving Sidewalks, The Electric Prunes 🎧 Vinyl Finds Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9oSXuMGglp1N8SlbZUEtCJ7 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ 💿 Tracklist 00:00 Before You Accuse Me 2:38 She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) 5:34 Tried To Hide 8:26 You Gotta Take That Girl 11:27 I'm Gonna Love You Too 13:28 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 17:12 (I've Got) Levitation 19:53 You Can't Hurt Me Anymore 23:38 Roller Coaster 28:45 You're Gonna Miss Me (removed by YouTube) #13thFloorElevators #RokyErickson #PsychedelicRock #RSD2026 #VinylRip #VinylPiper