![]() Long time Montrose resident and small business owner Robert Novotney recalls a Montrose in the 1970s when rents were “cheap” and a party atmosphere prevailed in the neighborhood seven days a week. Once considered a “hippie neighborhood,” by the late 1970s this inner city community was approaching the eve of gentrification, with each neglected bungalow soon to be torn down and replaced with several modern townhouses per city lot with no particular continuity regarding their style or design. Montrose is a neighborhood still in transition whose early 20th century architecture has all but vanished. Image from Emerald Wood Archives / Flickr. But Sutherland had another side of his personality he kept hidden deep inside and that was known only to those close to him. His signature guitar style appeared on four 13th Floor Elevator albums and countless live performances from Austin to San Francisco. Known as the soft-spoken member of the band, when the introspective Sutherland did choose to express himself, he did so not only with his thick central Texas drawl, but also with his reverb-drenched leads that cut through the band’s wall of sound, and whose sustained notes seemed like they would never end. ![]() In this house lived Stacy Sutherland, lead guitarist of Texas’ legendary psychedelic music pioneers, the 13th Floor Elevators, and if Sutherland were alive, he would be celebrating his 65th birthday this May. The lot was the previous site of a Craftsman-era bungalow that was recently demolished due to neglect. HOUSTON - On the corner of Pacific and Hopkins streets in the east Montrose section of Houston is a vacant lot with an untended vegetable garden. Image from .īy Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2011 Stacy Sutherland tombstone, Center Point, Texas. ![]()
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