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 Presents “A Starlight Date With Richard Marsh”
The 2003 vinyl LP Sky Saxon Presents "A Starlight Date With Richard Marsh", released by Arcania, finally gathered all twelve of Sky's known pre-Seeds singles in one handy place. Other compilations had included a few of them but this was the first time that Sky's 1960 single as Dick Marsh, "What Chance Have I" b/w "There's Only One Girl", had been reissued. (Sky's real name was Richard Marsh.) Unfortunately, sound quality is a major distraction on the album. The compilers fed the audio through computers to remove vinyl pops and clicks. It worked, but it also sucked most of the sound from the tracks as well. What made it into these grooves is a pinched and muffled version of these needle-dropped recordings. The songs are still enjoyable and good to hear but this overzealousness is a strike against Sky Saxon Presents "A Starlight Date With Richard Marsh". The title of the album is a reference to a never-heard song that Sky Saxon recorded in the mid-1950s called "Starlight Date". According to the jive hipster (that is, difficult to understand) liner notes, young Richard Marsh had an acetate of this song made and it was played on local radio in his home city
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
Following on from the "Little Red Book" of the same style, Sky Saxon is again (or still) fried out of his brain in Transparency's third song, "Star Setter". Over
This wheezy and artfully psychedelic tone poem grated its listeners' ears with extreme stereo separation at first, while a later remix smoothed the edges.
The chiming "Extra Extra" is the seventh track on the obscure 1991 CD Flashback by Sky Saxon's U.S.A. The music, programmed and played by Dana Smith, is heavily
For years, "Satisfy You" was a Seeds fan favorite that existed only in annoying and bastardized form. And few knew how hard The Seeds worked to get the perfect version of
Sky Saxon demonstrates a willingness to sing a conventional sunshine-pop psych tune on "Mystery Man", one of the tracks from the 2008 CD Back To The Garden to feature
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
Deep Sky
Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.