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 1989, Sky Saxon released the album Just Imagine, credited to Sky Sunlight Saxon Dragonslayers SSS. The Dragonslayers band included the irrepressible Mars Bonfire on keyboards, Tom "Atomic" Azevedo on guitar, Gary Stern on bass, and Paul Schofield on drums. The music on Just Imagine is professional late-80s studio rock, but with a pronounced carnivalesque keyboard sprinkled throughout. And of course Sky Saxon's electrified burnout vocals. The LP came hot on the heels of Sky's Fire Wall release World Fantastic and a brief reunion tour with some of the original Seeds. An unfortunate aspect of this album is that nearly every song goes on just a bit too long — they're good but tend to linger after making their point. This is most unusual in Sky's career; he either stretched out for a good long while, as on The Seeds' "Up In Her Room" or the lengthy Yodship jam sessions from the 1970s, or kept it short and sweet with his garage/punk/rock/(etc) songs which always kept up their energy from start to finish. On Just Imagine this innate sense of scale is lacking. It's a minor complaint, though. Just Imagine is great fun to
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
The terrifying "Did He Die" is one of the best moments of Sky Saxon's entire career. The song briefly appeared on a promo 7" in 1970, The Seeds' second and final release for
Sky and his pal Mars Bonfire, who wrote the song, released an energetic version of the Steppenwolf road biker anthem with 1980s neo-psych band SS-20.
In Sky Saxon's early "teen idol" phase he released two different recordings of the song "They Say". Both are led by a lovely little organ riff and a danceable shuffling rhythm. The
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
"Superman 5" by Sky Saxon is the story of the superhero set to dramatic minor-key garage rock music. It was released twice, on CD and on vinyl.
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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