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
So how does a band follow up a debut album that reveled in its crudity and hinted at a new psychedelic outlook? By amping up the psychedelia, overtly referring to drugs, and grasping the string of the mind's balloon as it floated skyward, ever further from the distorted landscape of that debut. At least, that's how The Seeds handled the situation for their second album, A Web Of Sound, released in October 1966. A Web Of Sound is soaked in drugs and sex in a more blatant and obsessive way than The Seeds was: "Mr. Farmer" and "Rollin' Machine" deal with marijuana, while "Pictures And Designs" and "Tripmaker" pay homage to the LSD that was sloshing around the L.A. scene – and especially in Sky Saxon's brain. Take the legendary "Up In Her Room", a long, brainlessly repetitive ode to screwing a girl in her titular hippie pad. If certain uptights had been worried about Elvis's influence on the youth of the 1950s, The Seeds must have represented an unimaginably depraved bluntness. While the songs on A Web Of Sound retain the primitive underpinnings of the first album (and really, with Sky Saxon's wild wolf-growl voice, would anything else have been
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
The Seeds had done long 'n' repetitive before but "Fallin'" has always deserved its special place in the band's canon. "Up In Her Room" was longer, "Six Dreams" and "Travel
The 1980s outtake "Red Stone Romance", recorded by Sky Saxon and his band Fire Wall, appeared on the homemade CD-r Golden Vaults Volume 1: Timeless in 2001. It features
Sluggish and druggy and charming, "Sweet Fragrant Melodies" is a Sky Saxon song that lives up to its title. Relaxed and psychedelic, "Sweet Fragrant Melodies" is indeed
A raucous and sniveling statement of intent from Sky and the guys. The origins of much garage and punk rock music is right here on this headspinner.
Sky Sunlight Saxon, on the last major musical project of his life, covered two Beatles songs, "Come Together" and the heretofore un-garage-able "Love Me Do". But as on all
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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