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[[Image:Outcasts-ticket.jpg|right|Ticket for an Outcasts show w/ 13th Floor Elevators]]
In May 1966, they shared a bill with the [[13th Floor Elevators]] (ticket pictured) and also appeared at Texas Teen Fairs and other venues with such popular acts as [[Lou Christie]], [[Gerry and
''The Outcasts'' regularly participated in [[Battle of the Bands]] competitions, usually placing first or second;<ref name="Turner"/> in 1966, the band won the competition statewide,<ref name="Ryan">Jim Ryan posting, op. cit.</ref> at the peak of garage rock fervor, beating the large number of bands that were then active in Texas. (No other state is so heavily collected today in compilation albums of garage rock and psychedelic rock music; as one example, the landmark [[Highs in the Mid-Sixties series]] devotes five of their twenty-three volumes to bands from Texas.)
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