“Crashing Thunder”
by Fast Planet
1994 song
Fast Planet was always one of Sky Saxon’s more musically ambitious projects. The 1994 song "Crashing Thunder" speaks to that truth. It’s a mini-suite, beginning with an amped-up guitar section before mellowing into a longer psychedelic mid-section. But the band isn’t settling into a formula, even own of its own making: the electric guitar part is milder than the rest of the Down The Nile CD and the transition is a welcome bit of dynamic structure. There’s even some saxophone – just like one of The Seeds’ lost nuggets, "The Other Place" – from Tommy Goodwin. Sky sings in his usual way, manic and simple lyrics with a voice that somehow combines the weary sigh of a drug burnout with the energetic growl of a thunderstorm.
