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

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...

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