Sky Sunlight Saxon is a musical genius whose greatness has been ignored for far too long on this board and elsewhere (RIP June 2009)

Hey roger, have you heard the new Neil Hagerty lp? SHould I go see him tomorrow?

as for the 'Hag, I just interviewed him for Your Flesh...the new record RULES. Equal parts Thank you / Accelerator plus some way out dub, Black Mass style synth, and live tracks. It's his first very 'complete' solo record, and live, if Dan Brown and Tim Barnes are backing him, you'd be a fool to miss it.

OK, I gotta cut and paste one of my favorite ever posts on ILM, from the Simon Reynolds is a gobshite thread:

who the fuck is this limey simon reynolds anyway? never has he spoke of sam the sham or kiss, as far as I can tell. never has he wrestled with another human being in the dirt. never has he listened to both Dust albums. never has he said ONE THING THAT IS FUNNY. he is a jerk, like most limey critics. every CREEM writer worth his salt knows that music writers from ENGLAND ARE THE ABSOLUTE WORST.... and they are the very reason we have all had to endure the likes of Oasis and Radiohead and, heaven help us, RAVES!! Simon Reynolds is nothing, I mean nothing: think of this--once i interviewed Sky Saxon who was undergoing a blood transfusion in Hawaii and he was so feeble he could barely talk on the phone and he talked about how shriveled his cock was and how he hoped one day that shriveled cock would become hard again so that he could once again perform "Mr. Farmer" with the fervor in which it was intended: well, Mr. Simon Reynolds IS NOT EVEN WORTH THAT SHRIVELED COCK OF SKY SAXON...

-- Robot A. Hull (xavie...), May 22nd, 2001.

Also, "No Escape" is a killer song. Same song as "Pushin' Too Hard" but I think I like it better due to the more chant-like chorus and the fucked-up keyboard break which is six bars of the same notes. Haha, man the Seeds were wonderful.

I remember Sky Saxon circa 1985 claiming that the reason Michael Jackson was so popular was because his name rhymed with "Saxon"!

Seek: The live (or "live") version of "Up In Her Room" (a poor man's "Sister Ray".)

the only band anything like the seeds, is Cosmic Michael. just as great, in a slightly different way

http://www.lysergia.com/LamaReviews/lamaMain.htm

RIP
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R.I.P. Sky Saxon
By Joe Gross | Thursday, June 25, 2009, 10:18 AM
Sky Saxon, founder of the brilliant ’60s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David’s Hospital.

The newly minted Austinite was hospitalized Monday with what doctors suspected was an infection of the internal organs, but cause of death has not yet been released.

Saxon fell ill last Thursday, but performed at Saturday at Antone’s.

Sky’s wife Sabrina Saxon posted news of his passing on Facebook this morning: “Sky has passed over and YaHoWha is waiting for him at the gate. He will soon be home with his Father. I’m so sorry I couldn’t keep him here with us. More later. I’m sorry.”

We are sorry as well.

What? No way. Don't do this to me...

OK time to play some Seeds albums.

RIP you crazy genius

Who's left now???!?? Roky and Beefheart, once they're gone what will we do then? RIP Sky.

He's up there in Dog Heaven.

RIP

:( RIP

Ah fuck, will good dudes stop dying all over the shop? RIP.

no seeds on my ipod, best i can do is the nuggets II boxset and high tide

Oh no! OH FUCKING NO!

RIP. So glad I got the chance to see him.

RIP

On another board, someone posted a link to the Seeds appearance in PSYCH OUT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDJOMuxYfs

I'd seen the movie, but I'd forgotten what the sequence they appear in was about. The quality is awful, but I found it sharply poignant to see this tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywfPT9K3PU

RIP Mr. Farmer

RIP I'll miss you more than either MJ or Farrah Fawcett

RIP Sky.

RIP.

Anyone have the "alternate" version of "The Wind Blows Your Hair"??

RIP I'll miss you more than either MJ or Farrah Fawcett

OTM!

I'm gonna find out about this guy and his music

Met him after a show a few years ago. The guy was an absolute star. Would say RIP but for once I want there to be some sort of mystical space-cake shit for him to go hang out in.

I remember Sky Saxon circa 1985 claiming that the reason Michael Jackson was so popular was because his name rhymed with "Saxon"!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, May 14, 2006

HOLY. SHIT.

RIP (to both of those doodz)

RIP I'll miss you more than either MJ or Farrah Fawcett

OTM!

RIP

http://www.myspace.com/shapeshavefangs - dude still had it.

RIP

totally recommend everyone check out the version of "starry ride" on the yahowa box set, i think on the "related singles" disc. i wish i was more familiar with his post-seeds stuff, but the seeds RULED.

I remember Sky Saxon circa 1985 claiming that the reason Michael Jackson was so popular was because his name rhymed with "Saxon"!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, May 14, 2006

Awesomeness.

Aww man. He was gonna tour this summer too.

nobody like him.

RIP

Oh Jesus. RIP, RIP, RIP... now the wind will blow your hair in some kind of psychedelic heaven.

Listening to "The Seeds" album now, having only heard "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and "Pushing Too Hard" before. It's all great. RIP.

try "web of sound". it's better.

oh shit is everyone dying today? :( RIP

Blasting "Raw & Alive", an old favorite. Love the way the audience screams become part of the music. (I was always told they were dubbed on anyway!) "The Gypsy Plays His Drums" is incredible.

From a recent Billy Corgan newsletter sent out to fans:

"So I'll get to my point. This website is going to change. It is going to transform into something that is consistent with the concepts of love, grace, and community. We are not looking backwards anymore, only forward. I for one am willing to stand for something good here, in this little corner of the blogosphere, and say it's time.

What makes the things I'm saying here even more real to me is the passing of my dear friend Sky Sunlight Saxon. Sky lived everyday with the concept of LOVE as his guide, and he walked the talk. He was a spiritual warrior who would tell me that Yahowa knew the beauty of our hearts, and that musicians were the living prophets of the world. So in Sky's memory I am going to re-dedicate this website to represent the things he cared about most; love, life, music, his spiritual family, and the protection of all God's creatures, big and small."

I love you too Billy. Now shut up and stop sucking.

Hahaha, pretty much my exact thoughts.

God Bless 'em - 'The Bottomless Pit' (band made up former Silkworm - they know loss, huh?, Seam, .22 members) covered 'A Faded Picture' at Schubas last night in Chicago. I hadn't heard that Saxon had died - very sad - pulling out 'Web of Sound' today....

Does Corgan just drop names that sound cool, or.....

The Seeds were all I listened to for about two and a half years. I don't know what got into me.
Future is my favorite. Painted Doll is just nutso.

I know nothing of Saxon's other work, however, is it nothing but a bunch of collecto-crap?

is "pushin too hard" an interpretation of sorts of nina simone's "sinnerman"?

also, brazilian cover of PTH by wanderléa
http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/VouLheContar.mp3

I love you too Billy. Now shut up and stop sucking.

I gotta admit, he heeded my words. Took a lot of photos at the tribute show last night but search for all the inevitable YouTubes that must be up now for the various performances -- Billy's contributions included a great three-song set fronting the ad hoc Spirits of the Sky near the start (and yes, they did the song they're named after), a good solo guitar turn with the Electric Prunes, playing bass with Sky Aquarian in a YaHoWa33 set and doing "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" during the concluding Seeds set.

And it was a great, great set -- what the configuration of Seeds players were during the end (and it kept rotating a bit), they were kicking some *major* ass, I kept thinking that Mudhoney would kill to be seeing it and figured that the one person missing from the various guests who would have loved to have been there was Lux Interior, just because I could see him going crazy with some of the songs as well as acting appropriately lewdly with the go-go dancers.

Yeah. What Roger said.

Heck, I even like Future by the Seeds. A lot. The Seeds jamming with the addition of tubas & things like that is so transcendentally WRONG that it becomes Too RIGHT.

Sky's LPs from after the Seeds are uneven, but all are interesting & worth a listen. Firewall is particularly good. The one with Purple Electricity (basically Redd Kross) is also cool. I guess the only thing he's done that I didn't care for was A Spoonful of Seedy Blues.

Check this out, Sky Saxon in his last days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXV2gyULLg

It's happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMLpekTetg

excellent news !

After nearly a decade...

...

...the Seeds documentary can finally be streamed on Vimeo

Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K413r4kR9zU

Hell yes.

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ah i have that somewhere, so good!

Had forgotten that Sky died on the same day as Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

I love that cover! Seeds covers are great in general. I love Wanderléa's cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55aJeWjeUc

And the cabs cover as well

ha I heard the Cabaret Voltaire cover of No Escape before I heard the Seeds' original, and also got a Thee Headcoats album around the same time where they cover that song (uncredited), so for a while I thought Billy Childish was a Cabaret Voltaire fan, which didn't make much sense