“Buzzin’ Around”
by The Sky Saxon Blues Band
1967 song
The final track on The Seeds’ controversial 1967 album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues is "Buzzin' Around". The song features Sky Saxon in the persona of a flying insect, “buzzing around your eye” and “making raspberry honey in the twilight”. The album, credited not to The Seeds but to The Sky Saxon Blues Band, removes psychedelia and weirdness from the music in favor of straight blues. The tricky keyboards on "Buzzin' Around" do make it sound like The Seeds, though, if not the same version of the band that the world had come to know and love.
Being the record’s last song, "Buzzin' Around" acts like an aftertaste of what listeners just experienced. And, for those impressed but unsated, it’s an impetus to pick up the needle, turn over the vinyl, and play it all again.
