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
The last Sky Sunlight Saxon album to be released in his lifetime was a fitting final word for his monumental career: The King Of Garage Rock (2008) is an outstanding collection of groovy and heavy sixties covers. With a wonderfully able band, Sky opts for an eclectic selection of classic songs, mixing evergreens like "Gloria" and "Wild Thing" with surprising choices from disparate names like The Beatles, Iggy and The Stooges, and (of course) his own Seeds. Every song on The King Of Garage Rock is fantastic – each is suffused with energy and glows incandescent with the band's affectionate touch. Sky is focused and enthused about the material and even the cover art is great. Everything just came together on this project. The King Of Garage Rock was released as a CD and as corners-cutting a vinyl LP which sounds great but uses a blank white label on each side. Part of the fun of playing the record is that you don't know which set of songs you're going to get. Not that it matters; you need to hear it all every time. The musicians on The King Of Garage Rock are: Sky Saxon – vocals Danny B. Harvey – guitars and background
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
"It's A Hard Life" is one of the classic garage punk songs from The Seeds, the 1966 debut album by the genre's infamous champions. In Italy, "It's A Hard Life" was
Released on the clear-vinyl mini-LP Starry Ride of 1984, "24 Hour Rocker" is a nine-minute jam mostly on a single chord from Rainbow Starburst. It's full of muscly
“Sha La La La It’s A Groovy Thing”
As might be gleaned from its title, "Sha La La La It's A Groovy Thing" is not a deeply lyrical song. It is, however, a fine psych-garage singalong by Sky Sunlight Saxon and
"Hijack" opens the 1994 Fast Planet CD Down The Nile. It's a brutal heavy rock stomper, not unlike the first side of the Masters Of Psychedelia LP. There's
A surprisingly poppy performance from 2002 that finds Sky Saxon and Djin Aquarian trading lead vocals. Conventional song that turns pretty mind-blowing.
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
Deep Sky
Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.