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.
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Flashback by Sky Saxon's U.S.A. proves that, despite his reputation for sticking doggedly to one narrow type of music his whole career, Sky Saxon in fact released a wide range of music in addition to his better-known garage-punk nuggets. Still, you've never heard Sky Saxon like he is on this anomalous, obscure CD from 1991. Flashback, released on a label called Ocean (ORCD 1-2), consisted mostly of Sky and his friend Dana Smith, who took care of the arrangements, and some guests (such as Mars Bonfire on one track). The songs themselves, like the mixing, are credited to Sky and Dana (except Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender"). Most of Flashback is covered in 1980s-era drum machines and Pointer Sisters-esque synthesizers, an incongruously professional sheen never even hinted at on any Sky project before. Having ridden the late 80s psychedelic revival as far as he could, perhaps Sky was miffed that he hadn't truly reclaimed the limelight as much as he might have hoped. His most recent releases at the time, a pair of albums with his band Dragonslayers in 1989-90, had not made any impact whatsoever on the market. By 1991 he seemed up for anything — even, say, crisp
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
On the live performance captured on the Rockin' The Croc/West Coast album by Fast Planet of 1995, the band improvises a song they call "Locust". For three minutes
"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
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