“Just Let Go”
by The Seeds
1966 song
If one side of The Seeds was captured in the song "Pushin' Too Hard" – leave me alone to do my thing – then the other side is found in "Just Let Go". What does Sky Saxon want to be left alone to do – what is “his thing” exactly? The answer, of course, is simply to be free, to abandon the senses, to wander and trip and explore and experience unencumbered.
And to act as the randy leader to young women everywhere – a role Sky in fact had during the sixties and would spent the remainder of his decades working to recapture. “Follow me!” he exhorts on "Just Let Go". And presumably, they did. At least for a while.
The music on "Just Let Go" is not unlike that of "Rollin' Machine", which precedes it on A Web Of Sound. Tense and spooky, with psychedelic flourishes thanks in large part to Daryl Hooper and his single-note keyboard sparkles. Jan Savage’s ultra-basic fuzz riffs give the song its meat while Rick Andridge’s clop-clop drums give it shape.
Take eleven of "Just Let Go", the final one recorded on July 12, 1966, was given new a lead vocal recorded on July 21 and put onto A Web Of Sound. Take 4 appeared as a bonus track on the expanded Big Beat 2-CD version of the album in 2013.
