Danny Thomas, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, was the second drummer for the 13th Floor Elevators. Danny played drums and sang back up vocals on the final two studio albums, Easter Everywhere and Bull of the Woods. In an interview in 2001, when Danny was asked when he had quit the band, his reply was "I never quit".
Danny Thomas left the 13th Floor Elevators in 1968 and was hired as drummer for Delta blues guitarist Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins to perform and record with Hopkins the album Free Form Patterns. After leaving Texas and returning to North Carolina he played from 1970-1997 with the following bands: Lou Curry Band, Dogmeat, and Bessie Mae's Dream with Rich Carlson, Marcus Cheek, and Jerry Shaver. During this time, he owned his own delivery company called Gophers Inc. Prior to that he worked in accounting at Carolinas Medical Center (formerly Charlotte Memorial Hospital). A vegetarian and humanitarian, he retired, but had many hobbies including buying and selling antiques and gardening. He retired to Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife, Juanette. He had three children, two daughters, Christina Thomas and Tiffany Thomas Johnson, and an adopted son, Jason Vincent Brock.
Danny Thomas maintained a website containing subjects of interest on saving the Earth's environment as well as chapters recalling his life experiences as a musician.
- The 13th Elevation~Revelation...The 5th Estate~Evolution (Recollections of the 13th Floor Elevators)
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“A saint about to fall,
The stained flats of heaven hit and razed
To the kissed kite hems of his shawl....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)