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
A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family
Sky Saxon and Djin Aquarian, plus three of their friends, recorded some improvisational music in April 2005 which they released as King Arthur's Court on a CD-r called A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family. The physical disc is no longer available for purchase but the album can still be officially downloaded. The pieces on A Spring Honeymoon With God & Family are generally lengthy jams. They center around Djin's rhythmic acoustic guitar and Steve "Scones" Kozyk's bass, with lots of psychedelic electronic treatments and goodies washing through the album. Sounds of nature – birds and bees, rivers and thunderstorms – pop up frequently. It's mesmerizing, really. Sky Saxon actually only sings on four of the album's eight songs, including its longest piece "My Queen". This isn't the place for his growling garage rock posturing, so as on his Source Family recordings from the 1970s like Yodship and Lovers Cosmic Voyage he is gentle here. And very high. He free-associates the random bursts of his own synapses and takes his sweet time doing it. [caption id="attachment_1143" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Mr. Shasta, in the
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
Lo-fi psychedelia, all acoustic reverie with a minor-key drone and Sky free-forming words about everything from dogs, women, and "Mary Had A Little Lamb".
From Sky Saxon's earliest known existing recording comes the pre-psychedelic teen crooner song "There's Only One Girl", released on Rosco Records in 1960.
Sky Saxon recorded two different songs called "Paradise" in his career. The first, a long psychedelic guitar jam, was recorded in the late 1970s and released on the 1984
As original members continued to quit The Seeds, Sky Saxon and keyboardist Daryl Hooper soldiered on through 1970 with a new rhythm section and (briefly) a new label, MGM
One of the more complex arrangements on the flashy studio album Flashback was "Lonesome Prairie". The song, from the 1991 Sky Saxon/Dana Smith collaboration called
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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