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
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
The smooth and good-timey rock and roll tune "Fallin' In Love" appeared on The Seeds, the band's 1966 debut album. Daryl Hooper's wild sixties organ is the star of
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
"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
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
Deep Sky
Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.