Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds
Information and reviews for 1960s psychedelic garage-rock pioneers The Seeds. Including Sky Saxon's numerous projects 1960-2009 and beyond.
Album of the day
In 1993 GNP Crescendo released their second-ever compilation of Seeds rarities (after the 1977 LP Fallin' Off The Edge). Travel With Your Mind included twenty songs from 1965-1969 – a mix of previously-released material (some on CD for the first time) and recordings new to this collection. Most of the songs from Fallin' Off The Edge appear for the first time on CD on Travel With Your Mind but not quite everything. Many of the other tracks seem to have been chosen because GNP's new overseer Neil Norman was fond of them (they mostly date from the Future era). Daryl Hooper worked with the label on some new mixes for this CD, and the archives were dipped into for alternate versions and outtakes. It was a most welcome collection at the time, and an indispensable one until Big Beat's massive Seeds overhaul in the 2010s. Among the singles and the one completely unreleased track ("Sad And Alone"), seven of Future's eleven songs are represented on Travel With Your Mind, as are nine of the eleven songs from Fallin' Off The Edge. (Criminally, the "Satan" version of "The Wind Blows Your Hair" wasn't included.)
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
The mesmerizing "Star Jewels" closes the 1977 Live At The Orpheum Theater LP. It depicts Sky Saxon's trip to Venus in a spaceship full of diamonds. Wow.
If an album's leadoff track is supposed to set the tone then "Black & Red" serves notice that Just Imagine is going to be a wild ride by some genuinely crazy
If one side of The Seeds was captured in the song "Pushin' Too Hard" – leave me alone to do my thing – then the other side is found in "Just Let Go". What does Sky Saxon
A lengthy hard blues workout, "Cry Wolf" is one of many such songs on the 1967 album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues credited to The Seeds' alter-ego The Sky Saxon Blues
Following on from the "Little Red Book" of the same style, Sky Saxon is again (or still) fried out of his brain in Transparency's third song, "Star Setter". Over
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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