“Sky’s Theme”
by Sky Sunlight Saxon and Purple Electricity
1986 song
"Sky's Theme" is the opening musical interlude, if you will, on Sky Saxon’s live album Private Party, the Voxx Records document of a night of drug-induced lunacy recorded at Los Angeles’ Cavern Club in 1986. The ad-hoc band is credited as Purple Electricity. "Sky's Theme" is a short piece, done without Sky (it seems in fact before he made it onto the stage). His generous musicians play a slow, vaguely psychedelic version of the “Dazed And Confused” riff from the first Led Zeppelin album.
"Sky's Theme", which perhaps acted as a sort of tune-up and informal introduction to the show, is followed by Sky finally stumbling into the spotlight, approaching the microphone, and leading his troops into a version of The Seeds’ "Pictures And Designs" (retitled "You Blow My Mind" for some reason).
