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
One of the very last releases from Sky Saxon before his death in June 2009 was the Back To The Garden CD, first appearing in 2008 and representing Sky's rather atypical and generally non-psychedelic pop rock with multi-instrumentalist Michael Oak. The recordings (except for three bonus tracks) apparently date from the 1990s, and are presented in clear, professional audio quality. Of the thirteen tracks on Back To The Garden, two of the three "bonus tracks" (which were always on the album, calling their status as "bonuses" into question) had been released in the 1980s while the other bonus track would feature on a 7" single in 2009. The track "We The People" had been released on the obscure Golden Vaults CD-r back in 2001 but was generally unavailable by 2008. That leaves nine songs specific to the Back To The Garden CD. Several of Sky's regular contributors are featured on these tracks, including original Seed Daryl Hooper on three. Patrick McCarthy and Sam Andrew from Fast Planet are elsewhere, and Pete Sears, who was with Jefferson Starship and Starship during the 1970s and 1980s, guests on "Summer Of Love", an event deemed important enough
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
"Tell Me The Time" is tuneful and earnest, but completely un-psychedelic. The 2008 song finds Sky Saxon not just indulging in his Elvis-like croon but positively
Sky Saxon's final release before starting The Seeds was a non-psychedelic 7" on the Joie label pairing "Trouble With My Baby" with the raucous and joyous "Do The Swim". On
"Silver Leaves" is a chugging hard-rock blast from Sky Saxon's 1984 LP Masters Of Psychedelia. Over coked-up riffing from his unidentified band Sky adds a double-tracked
From an obscure 2008 promo CD comes "Breaking News" featuring Sky Saxon, Dana Smith, and the impressive rhythm section of Billy Cox and Buddy Miles on bass and drums respectively
The otherwise unavailable song "Red Shoes High Sky Dancer" appears on CD versions of the 1982 European LP Bad Part Of Town. The live recording, one of several that
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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