“Starving For Your Love”
by Sky Sunlight Saxon and Fire Wall
1986 song
It’s a basic, relatable human sentiment, spoken of in unusual and manic poetry, played by gritty amped-up garage rockers set loose in some unfortunate studio. "Starving For Your Love" is a great way to begin Sky Sunlight Saxon and Fire Wall’s first album, Destiny's Children.
There had been little new music from Sky in the years preceding the 1986 LP, and no full album of new Sky rock music since The Seeds’ Raw & Alive way back in 1968. Scattered singles and EPs featuring excellent psych-garage rock and privately-pressed vinyl albums of long, drug-fuelled improvisations had periodically alerted the public that the 1960s stalwart was still at it, whatever “it” was at a given moment. But it was hard to get a handle on what exactly had become of Mr. "Pushin' Too Hard" over the years.
With Destiny's Children (released in France as ...A Groovy Thing) the world found out. Sky was older, hairier, and his eyes bore the marks of years of chemical visions, but as heard on "Starving For Your Love" he was still cranking out the passion, still most at home in front of a tough band of musical pugilists and blazing sixties keyboard textures. “Starving! Starving! Starving!” he pants, out of his mind. There’s even a middle eight section on "Starving For Your Love"; his new band Fire Wall was clearly a vehicle for Sky having one foot back in the sixties and one in the modern landscape.
Professional, wild, and a joy to hear, "Starving For Your Love" served notice that Sky wasn’t just back, he had been here the whole time.
