The Decibel Tolls » sky saxon http://thedecibeltolls.com A daily, usually vulgar, music blog focused on psychedelic, shoegazing, space rock, folk, post rock, hauntology, ambient/noise, and related genres. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Remembering The Seeds’ Sky Saxon http://thedecibeltolls.com/remembering-the-seeds-sky-saxon/ http://thedecibeltolls.com/remembering-the-seeds-sky-saxon/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:17:43 +0000 Xavier Van Zandt http://thedecibeltolls.com/?p=341 ISSUE41B Remembering The Seeds Sky Saxon

The NYT reported Friday that Sky Saxon (born Richard Elvern Marsh), lead singer and bassist for LA psychedelic band, The Seeds, had left this mortal coil.  His death was apparently due to heart failure and was “thought to be 71.”

Anyone with a Nuggets compilation is likely to have heard “Pushin’ Too Hard” or “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” with the latter ditty featuring Sky’s gruff warble and a trademark bent guitar lick.

Apparently the celebrity death rule of threes is in force with MJ, Farrah and Sky all passing during the week. If you’ve had enough “Thriller” for the time being… check out The Seeds on American Bandstand circa 1965:

MP3 :::
The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard

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