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
"Wild Thing", the super-famous Troggs song, was one of the 1960s nuggets that Sky Saxon chose to record for his awesome 2008 covers album The King Of Garage Rock
The band was called Lighter, and their album Transparency also features a song called "Lighter". Sky Saxon's 2005 project was a showcase for some strange studio concoctions
"The One I Adore" is one of many tracks of unknown provenance on the 2001 Sky Saxon-released CD-r Golden Vaults Volume 1: Timeless. Plodding and dominated by piano
After addressing their audience on the spoken "Sunlight's Introduction", the 1977 live album Heavenly Earth kicks off with the new song "Spirit Of America". It's
The Seeds' unusual blues-drenched album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues opens with the song "Pretty Girl". It may have touches of the blues but "Pretty Girl" is really
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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