Editing Garage rock (section)

====Other US Regions====
[[File:Five Americans.png|thumb|upright|[[The Five Americans]] from Oklahoma had a hit with "[[Western Union (song)|Western Union]]" 1967.]]

In Texas, [[the 13th Floor Elevators]] from Austin, featured [[Roky Erickson]] on guitar and vocals and are considered one of the prominent bands of the era.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|title=The 13th Floor Elevators|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-13th-floor-elevators-mn0000504928/biography|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428143029/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-13th-floor-elevators-mn0000504928/biography|archive-date=April 28, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>  They had a regional hit with "[[You're Gonna Miss Me (song)|You're Gonna Miss Me]]" and a string of albums, but the band was hampered by drug busts and related legal problems that hastened their demise.<ref name="Deusner (13th Floor Debut)"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|title=The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-psychedelic-sounds-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-mw0000109270|access-date=December 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222170458/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-psychedelic-sounds-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-mw0000109270|archive-date=December 22, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>  Richie Unterberger singled out [[The Zakary Thaks]], from Corpus Christi, for their songwriting skills,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|title=Zakary Thaks: Artist Biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zakary-thaks-mn0000594426/biography|website=AllMusic|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508232023/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zakary-thaks-mn0000594426/biography|archive-date=May 8, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and they are best known for the frantic and sped-up "Bad Girl".{{sfn|Stax|1998|p=89}}  [[The Moving Sidewalks]], from Houston, featured [[Billy Gibbons]] on guitar, later of [[ZZ Top]].{{sfn|Ward|2013}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=The Moving Sidewalks|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-moving-sidewalks-mn0000503563/biography|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-date=May 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504131113/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-moving-sidewalks-mn0000503563/biography|url-status=live}}</ref> [[The Gentlemen (Dallas band)|The Gentlemen]] from Dallas cut the fuzz-driven "[[It's a Cry'n Shame]]", which in Mike Markesich's ''Teenbeat Mayhem'' is ranked as one of the top two garage rock songs of all time,{{sfn|Markesich|2012|pp=118, 387}} second only to "You're Gonna Miss Me", by the 13th Floor Elevators.{{sfn|Markesich|2012|p=388}}  [[The Outcasts (Texas band)|The Outcasts]] from San Antonio cut two highly regarded songs, "I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining", which became a local hit,  and "1523 Blair", that Jason Ankeny described as "Texas psychedelia at its finest".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason|title=The Outcasts|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-outcasts-mn0001627238/biography|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114060311/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-outcasts-mn0001627238/biography|archive-date=January 14, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Five Americans]] were from Durant, Oklahoma, and released a string of singles, such as "[[Western Union (song)|Western Union]]", which became a top 10 US hit in 1967.{{sfn|Markesich|2012|pp=21, 110}}  From Phoenix, Arizona, [[The Spiders (American rock band)|the Spiders]] featured Vincent Furnier, later known as [[Alice Cooper]], and  eventually adopted that name as the group's moniker.{{sfn|Aaron|2013|p=98}}  As the Spiders they recorded two singles, most notably "Don't Blow Your Mind", which became a local hit in Phoenix in 1966.<ref name="Hall of Fame (Alice Cooper)">{{cite web|title=Alice Cooper Biography|url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/alice-cooper|website=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame|access-date=July 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727093609/https://rockhall.com/inductees/alice-cooper/|archive-date=July 27, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>  The group ventured to Los Angeles in 1967 in hopes of achieving greater success, however they found it not there, but while in Detroit several years later, re-christened as [[Alice Cooper (band)|Alice Cooper]].<ref name="Hall of Fame (Alice Cooper)"/>{{sfn|Dominic|2003}}

From Florida, Orlando's [[We the People (band)|We the People]] came about as the result of the merger of two previous bands and featured songwriters Tommy Talton and Wane Proctor.<ref name="Unterberger (We the People)">{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=We the People|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/we-the-people-mn0000816941/biography|access-date=July 9, 2015|archive-date=June 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615044313/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/we-the-people-mn0000816941/biography|url-status=live}}</ref> They recorded a string of self-composed songs, such as primitive rockers, "You Burn Me Upside Down" and "Mirror of my Mind", as well as the esoteric "In the Past", later covered by the Chocolate Watchband.<ref name="Unterberger (We the People)"/> [[Evil (band)|Evil]] from Miami, had a hard, sometimes thrashing sound and a reputation for musical mayhem, typified in songs such as "From a Curbstone" and "I'm Movin' On".{{sfn|Lemlich|1992|pp=14–17, 29–30, 34–35, 49, 51, 88}}