An interview with

Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel

a really great 60s style psychedelic rock band from California

Hey guys! You’re Mr. Elevator and The Brain Hotel! You’re doin’ fuckin’ good things! What’s the style?

Hey, thanks man! The style? I guess if you combined a lot of hair, burritos, and bad jokes all at once in a weird magical spell it’d come out being somewhat of something like us….

You make many kinds of music like garage-psych-glam-pop-punk-rock in other bands as Feeding People, Cosmonauts*, Peach Kelli Pop, etc. How came the idea of the new style and band?

Mr. Elevator, like Moses, was a calling to us from a burning bush. A female’s burning bush.

Your music reminds me of The Doors and the Silver Apples (are an American pioneer psychedelic synth-drums duo. The group was active between 1967 and 1969. Reformed in 1996.  – editor’s note), but sometimes the Madness come to my mind too. What is your opinion?

All great bands man. There are very few bands that really gave light to what an organ or just piano related instruments can do and sound like. Ray did a very fine job though.. RIP (e.n: Ray Manzarek was the organ player of The Doors. He passed away on May 20.)  

Your name is very strange LSD-flavored. Were there some other alternatives?

We started actually as an all water zodiac signed jam band called Tropical Fish. Played a handful of shows with that name and a very obscure set of songs hahah but the name is actually a reference to a Donovan song. The ultimate musical mystic!

Your brilliant 1st LP is coming soon or…?

Soon! We’re re-recording what we just worked on the past few months because it just didn’t come out how we envisioned it. We have so many songs and not one album yet.. so expect a little something soon

Please offer some favorite local bands!

Froth! Mystic Braves! (Formerely known as Blackfoot Braves.) Jeffertiti’s Nile! Cool Ghouls! too many man good local music everywhere these days

And now please tell me a bizarre or a funny or a weekday story that happened in your circles nowadays!

Running Lolipop Records in Echo Park, we get a lot of strange encounters with homeless/batshit crazy folks. All ranging around supreme racial pride, death threats, and lactose intolerant homeless

What is your message to the readers?

You’re right where you ought to be why can’t you ever see everything you want is right here.

Their recently released single

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*The Cosmonauts are on Euro Tour in Aug-Sept in UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.