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
"The One I Adore" is one of many tracks of unknown provenance on the 2001 Sky Saxon-released CD-r Golden Vaults Volume 1: Timeless. Plodding and dominated by piano
After addressing their audience on the spoken "Sunlight's Introduction", the 1977 live album Heavenly Earth kicks off with the new song "Spirit Of America". It's
The Seeds' unusual blues-drenched album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues opens with the song "Pretty Girl". It may have touches of the blues but "Pretty Girl" is really
The five-minute piece "Chapel Of Love" (no relation to the 1960s pop song) opens with the sound of gently running water, as befits the nature-psych realm of A Spring Honeymoon
In 1984 Sky Sunlight Saxon put out a mini-LP on a 12" clear-vinyl record called Starry Ride. Among its songs of unclear recording date was featured the great "Drums
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