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2023 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 35
BY REPRESENTATIVES MAGEE AND TURNER
A RESOLUTION
To commend The Elephant 6 Collective for its contributions to music and the music
industry.
WHEREAS, The Elephant 6 Collective, also known as The Elephant Six Recording
Company or Elephant 6, is a musical collective of more than fifty acts from the United
States; among these acts are several notable bands including The Apples in Stereo,
Circulatory System, Elf Power, the Minders, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and The
Olivia Tremor Control; and
WHEREAS, The Elephant 6 Collective began in Ruston, Louisiana, in the late 1980s
as an occasional name used to denote the home recordings made by high school friends Bill
Doss, Will Cullen Hart, Jeff Mangum, and Robert Schneider; after high school, Schneider
formed the band The Apples in Stereo, and Doss, Hart, and Mangum formed The Olivia
Tremor Control; Mangum also independently formed Neutral Milk Hotel, rounding off the
three bands that served as the basis for the collective; and
WHEREAS, Elephant 6 quickly gained notoriety in the music industry and began
welcoming a number of new bands from a wide range of musical genres; the collective
adopted Athens, Georgia, and Denver, Colorado, as its hub cities and experienced its peak
years of activity during the mid-to-late 1990s; and
WHEREAS, although the acts that make up The Elephant 6 Collective hail from
many different musical backgrounds, they all share an interest in the psychedelic pop music
of the 1960s; many acts take particular influence from bands such as The Beach Boys, The
Beatles, and The Zombies; and
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WHEREAS, The Elephant 6 Collective remains incredibly impactful in the
contemporary music scene as they laid the blueprint for many bands on how to maximize
production while preserving the aesthetic of an individual album; they are most deserving
of the highest recognition for their incredible contributions.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend The Elephant Six Collective for its
contributions to music and the music industry and does hereby express great pride in the
collective's Louisiana roots.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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