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."
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I love you too Billy. Now shut up and stop sucking.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha, pretty much my exact thoughts.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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....
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― I DIED (u s steel), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
is "pushin too hard" an interpretation of sorts of nina simone's "sinnerman"?
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
also, brazilian cover of PTH by wanderléahttp://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/VouLheContar.mp3
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.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Check this out, Sky Saxon in his last days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXV2gyULLg
― DDD, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
It's happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMLpekTetg
― DDD, Monday, 11 August 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
excellent news !
― mark e, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
After nearly a decade...
...
...the Seeds documentary can finally be streamed on Vimeo
― DDD, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link