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
Sky Saxon recorded some music around 1973 or 1974 with some of the musicians in the Source Family; these resulted in a vinyl LP called Yodship, released rather after the fact in 1977. Companion records called In Praise Of Our Father and Lovers Cosmic Voyage were also released around the same time. The musicians on Yodship, as reckoned by Source Family musician Djin in latter-day interviews, were Sky Saxon (aka Sunlight), Osiris, and Sirius. If this is true then there must have been overdubs (highly unlikely), or Sky must have been on bass, because sometimes even three people don't seem to account for the different instruments. In fact, it seems that others would wander into the room periodically and pick up an instrument for a couple minutes, especially towards the middle of Side 2. The album is thirty minutes long, fifteen minutes per side of vinyl. It consists of long, continuous performances, spliced together from three different recordings. Yodship's music consists of an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, a flute, occasional maracas, and a bouncy bass. (Not all are present simultaneously.) Sky Saxon, and occasionally others, talks/sings over
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
What if The Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" were about everyone, not just girls, and instead of sleazy were merely observational? You'd have something like "Some People", Sky
The brief spoken-word opening track to the Future album, with Sky holding forth on his wide-eyed hopes for the future over a soft musical backing.
“Where Is The Entrance Way To Play”
"Where Is The Entrance Way To Play" is a somewhat controversial song from The Seeds' 1967 LP Future. While some fans love the intense psychedelic fun of the track
Mars Bonfire's radiant keyboards start off "Focus Point" but it's the phased heavy electric guitar that inflicts the most lasting damage. The track speeds by, full of garage
A lively blues, "One More Time Blues" was recorded by The Seeds with blues guitarist Luther Johnson; George Smith adds harmonica. "One More Time Blues" was recorded on October
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
Deep Sky
Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.