THE STORY OF THE SEEDS! | Garage Files - a show about Garage Rock - s1 e2
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- Garage Files is a show about the great bands of Garage Rock! Every episode we take one band from the annals of garage rock history and break down their story, their sound, and their impact. Today we're talking about garage rock power house THE SEEDS!
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I was the drummer for The Seeds after Rick left the band in 1968. They were very much a garage band, as we rehearsed in Sky's garage at his home in Malibu's Big Rock area. One song from our show in July '68 at Melodyland (across the street from Disneyland) is on TH-cam, Satisfy You. When searching for it, look for the one that has a picture of a pretty girl holding a drink. Unfortunately, it is audio only. Carl Belknap
The Seeds have been one of my favorite bands since I heard them. Thanks for giving them attention. Sky Saxon played a pretty great show at Coney Island High in New York in '96 with the Mysterians an Mark Lindsey of the Raiders. All time!
Agreed 👍
@@haroldfridkis9235 I hope there were alot of curious youngins there .
Sky Saxon passed a few years back ?
Remember "Pushing Too Hard " back onid 9- to 10 when tune was 1st heard by meon Philadelphia's Famous 56 WFIL .
Unfortunately , seen dudes sent over to NAM between 1975- 1969 .All came back , luckily , except for my kia uncle mid3/78 , tail end of bloody ass TET , 10 days b-4 my 11th bday .
Boy this sure brings back memories. I used to work at a radio station in Sacramento and played a 45 (record) for Tony King, one of our well known DJs..It was KXOA. Tony really liked the sound of THE SEEDS, and brought them to to Sacramento to play at THE GOVERNOR'S HALL concert. I met Sky and the band there and, ended up dating Sky, once I moved to Los Angeles, back in 1968. He was living in Malibu and I was living in HOLLYWOOD. I dated him for a few months, and traveled with them to various concerts in the Los Angeles area. I ended up getting married and lost contact with Sky in 1969. Many years later (about 2008) my grand daughter found Sky's web page..So for fun, I tried to contact him. To my surprise, Sky actually called me a few hours after writing him. He said he had been in Europe and was now living in Mt. Shasta area. He wanted to know if I was still in contact with anyone in the music business, that he could get a hold of and wanted to start up again. Unfortunately I was not any help to him at all. I completely forgot all about it, until I read that Sky had a heart attack while he was performing on stage and died. I believe it was in Texas. Very fond memories of those old HIPPY DAYS..He was always a very caring man, and it was great knowing him and the band.
+ Judy Anstess: Judy, great post, gal. I'm prob. a few years behind you (68 right now in '23) but like most teen kids back then, I had a very keen eye and ear as to what bands were doing and the personnel in them. You sure lived in the "bullseye" of the era, I'd say. I'm glad to hear that Sky was a really good and caring man to you. Everytime I see him on rerun clips, etc. he sure looks to me to be "too stoned and too far gone" to have been much of a guy one could relate to on a personal level. Lord knows I took the party train for too long and almost didn't make it back. But...a happy ending there, thank The Good Lord. Anyhow......it IS too bad that he left us too early. It would be so cool to have him weigh in on much of what was going on during those insane times. What a weekly show THAT could possibly have been. But we'll catch up with him down the road. Thanks Judy, for speaking up. God Bless us all .....jbeinarizona
2024 listen to the story about the seeds here in Indio California
I like to see things to play the song all the time pushing too hard etc❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😢🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Still play it on the radio kids so El Centro California 12:30 a.m.
@@joelewing4498 I honestly don't remember Sky being all that loaded. Maybe a little weed, but that's about it. I went with him and the band in their BLUE BUS, to a concert in Whittier, California, and THE SEEDS played with GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP. I completely lost touch with Sky when he moved to Europe, and never heard from him again, until my grand daughter gave me some info about Sky and his new band. I was seriously surprised to hear from him, just a few minutes after trying to contact him, through the info on one of his albums. When I was dating him, I had a lot of contacts in the music business. I worked part time for Concert Promoter BILL GRAHAM in San Francisco. There wasn't many famous bands, that I didn't meet many times, while working for BILL GRAHAM..It was definitely an exciting time. Believe it or not, I was never really into the drug scene during that time. If you enjoy things from the PEACE-LOVE-DOPE era of the San Francisco/Height-Ashbury times, you will enjoy watching a DOCUMENTARY about RODNEY BINGHAMHIMER (probably spelled that wrong)..I think HBO did the DOCUMENTARY and it was called THE UNOFFICIAL MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP...It is a really good one with lots of interviews of famous bands, etc. Boy, those were the GOOD OLD DAYS. I really missed those days. Sky was 11 years older than me. I am just an OLD FART NOW...LOL I am 75. I just now read this ..
Very good research. Dates are right on. Nice job.
The Seeds got more chicks than today’s mumble rappers.
Sky Saxon died the same day as Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson
cool factoid
How cool is that ???
one of the best fuzz sounds ever!
indeed
FANtastic….. !
So WELL Done
GOOD JOB
Great video. Thank you so much for this. The Seeds.....one of the all time greats.
truly truly
Summer of Love 20 years later concert . @Luther Burbank in Santa Rosa. I was with Sky and he asked me to travel on the road with him and the other bands, Great time,
I remember the Seeds and the song Pushin to Hard. I heard it on the mighty CKLW out of Windsor Canada.
Brilliant little history of one of the best 60s garage bands.
Met sky in sf, before my father passed away sky sighned my dad's records I took many years ago. My dad sat me down and played the seeds when I was about 10 yrs old. My mom and dad met in the summer of love. The seeds is one of my favorite bands. Rip sky sunlight Saxon .
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Thx for the doc about this band. Always been curious about them. Pushin too hard is a damn fine song, and that’s all really all I’ve known by them. Your doc whets my appetite to search for more of their stuff
thanks..Sky Saxon and the Seeds were an awsome band..
Thanks for featuring The Seeds, Sky was my boyfriend in the late 80’s
Amazing! I'm digging this oasis of garage rock you got going on.
Everyone should smoke heaps of weed and listen to the Seeds. One of the best bands ever! I don't know why they aren't more popular.
LOVE the Seeds! Great video. I also noticed you have the Monks and The Sonics on your channel, and I've got all afternoon! So here i go...
.........Legend has it that Sky Saxon went to see The Beatles at Shea Stadium Aug,65..
Pushin to Hard came out late 65 and made it big early 66!
Back in the 60’s in LA it was The Seeds, The Doors and Love…
Thanks for you having taken the time to make a video about The Seeds. I ended up here doing a search for the THE SEEDS PUSHIN' TOO HARD documentary, so your video definitely fills a void for those seeking info about the band. I just recently purchased the 2-LP 50th Anniversary Edition of their 1st album, and quickly found myself grabbing their other ones on vinyl as well. I've kind of had a peculiar relationship with their music going back to circa 1984, and even had "The Flower Punk" multiple CD box-set for a while. Your video is very informative, respectfully done, and is overall everything I'd hope the documentary will be (when I eventually see it), except it will have actual interviews with the band, and other scene makers of the time. Thanks!
I don't know how versed you are in 60's garage rock but ---oh wait you just called it freak beat. Freak beat is more a Euro term for the Uk or Euro equivalent of garage like Q65 or Wimple Winch. Acid Rock? Not even close-that's like Hendrix or other heavier bluesy rock. You could call the Seeds PopSike before they are freakbeat or acid rock. But not even really that either and not that that really matters in the end anyway. No one does r&r like the Seeds alright..Used to love that song Evil Hoodoo. It's cool that a chick is doing these kinds of videos even tho there's a lot more music out there from the 60's that's cool. You state you're a punker so you should out the Sonics, the Music Machine, the Electric Prunes, any Pebbles, Boulders, Highs in the Mid60's or Back from the Grave comps . The UK and Euro freakbeat scene was great with the aforementioned bands and Pretty Things, The Troggs , any Rubbles, Circus Days, Electric SugarCube Flashbacks or Electric Sitar Headswirlers comps. I find that with this kind of music, you can't just dabble-ya gotta go all in. There's a fuck ton of other 60's Pop~Sike bands out there. Some of my favorites are WCPAEB, The Factory/Norman Conquest/Peter& the Wolves/the Bunch(interchangeble, all had 1 central figure-John Pantry who is a genius), Sagittarius, the Zombies, Blonde On Blonde somebody stop me, I could go on talking about this subject for days.. Beau Brummels, Left Banke, the 13th floor elevators.....~Peace~ July, Kaleidoscope(USA version)..
Thanks, Psychedelic Cherry, for the look back. 1966 - THE year for Garage.
Se consider " The Seeds " Punk, garage/ punk, or garage ,punk , psych. I consider them all of the above ; garage , punk , and morphing into psych.
I remember hearing " Pushing ,To Hard " back in late 10/ 65. Heard 1st on Philadelphia Famous 56 WFIL . I was about 8 years old in3rd grade .Also, rember my friends early wild/ child sister playing the 45 back in late 10/ 65 .
Also, remember friends brothers , and neighbors sons sent to NAM between 1965- 1969 last one hm
By late 1971 ,and all had PSTD cases .y uncle was kia in NAMs Central Highlands , mid - 3 / 1968 , tail end of bloody TET 10 days b_4 my 11th bday .
Great video. . .definitely captures the spirit of the band. . .Seeds were so badass. . .they had an innocence but they were not safe really. . . and when they found some killer sound they knew how to repeat it effectively
Thanks for this video!, and for this channel
Good band. Satisfy you.... You should do paul reveres garage days.
I loved this band
One of their songs was even in the first episode of Stranger Things. "Cant Seem to Make You Mine".
They also did a show on THE MOTHER-IN-LAWS, TV sitcom..
@@janstess86 yep. Played Pushing Too Hard
I didn't know about the Seeds before they used them that Axe commercial.
They used them in an axe commercial? weird.
@@ThePsychedelicCherry Yup, I saw the English version,not this Dutch one, but the music is the same. th-cam.com/video/_0pSImISbnQ/w-d-xo.html
@@ThePsychedelicCherry Psychedelia was out way before the Seeds came out with their 1rst!
Wasn't the tune "Walk Don't Run" , by the Ventures pretty much was a psych tune that came out back in 1961-62
I have all of their albums and some 45's in mint condition and a few rare Sky Saxon records...lucky me ! The Rolling Stones once opened for the Seeds...as it should be lol. Loved this thanks
Great work...thanks!
Love the Seeds and this channel/video, sending good vibrations your wae 🎸👻🎸
Good stuff. I appreciate that you listed the individual instruments played by the members. I'll be watching more of your videos if they're as good as this one. Cheers!
Die Seeds, wow Pyschedelic Rock veile späß!
Times were changing by the 60s , especially 63 - 64 . By 65 , about a year after The Beatles had arrived , and the British Invasion , Motown / RnB , Serf/ Beach Music , such as , The Beach Boys , Jan n Dean all genres , and various sounds of different gents was coming into fruition , which the various inflections of instruments with fringe instrumental experimentations roots go back to the jazz of the 1920s when a mixture of sounds were being played by various instrument itself .
By 1960 a serf guitar playing musician by a man named Dick Dale was the indo - pre / psych pioneer , especially in laying the guitar . You could say Chuck Berry falls somewhat in the guitar rill type genre . A Great early proto psych tune was by 1962-63 called " Walk Don't Run " , and db me can't bring the band that played a tune game changer in alot of ways , and is very overlooked .
Great stage band when I was then live in LA! Cool 😎 times too!
Hii🙌 just discovered your channel love it the seeds definitely one of my favorite bands!!! Garage punk 🤙
I think that Cherry is right in that some of these early garage PUNK bands were into the instrumentals fringing on echoing sounds in their guitar riffs , organ keys jumping as some experimental guitar jangling in , out , and up , and down , and all around tunes echoes / reverberates in ones head , especially if some outside help In somewhat help of an mind playing substance .
mr farmer is a classic. i got to see them in 1966, valley music theater in the valley. first concert. a year later it was iron butterfly and canned heat, lightshows and strobes. i was hooked.
If TH-cam clips are to be believed, Saxon also played bass. Good show!
The Seeds are cool, gotta love that fuzz!
I can here their influence on such bands as the Cramps .
I'm much more a full blown psych, proto prog and symphonic prog guy, but i have ONE sixties garage album.. it is the one you're holding! Otherwise garage is only represented in my collection by some tracks on my earlier Pretty Things and Master's Apprentices comps. The Seeds were great. Daryl "Beethoven" Hooper's keyboard sounds are fabulous, as is Sky's vocal, really awful (to the oldies of the time) which is what makes it so great. "Evil Hoodoo" i swear could pass for 80s underground paisley. Love The Seeds, the Big Beat reissue CDWIKD 308 has a very informative booklet. Gonna check Future after watching this - great video.
Nice job
Thank you! I was listening to you but now I have the Seeds playing - Web Of Sound- look's like a compilation? They were unavailable for so long.
Love The Seeds
Thank you. Great channel. Thank you for sharing. I know there was a documentary is it good, is it hard to find?
The Seed have always loved The Seed once i heard "I can't seem to make you mine". None of my friends liked them. So I got better friends, lol.
My current favorites are "Up in her Room" and "I just want to have some fun"!
Here here one of my favorites
Is this show still on? Fucking love it
I played with Sky in the 90s , he was a kind of hero to me but meeting him and playing with him was another thing, a spoiled brat, acid casualty that wanted people to do everything for him. Later I worked on the Seeds reissues with Alec Palao and fell back in love with the Seeds. Alec and Paul Kopf are now part of the new Seeds, they’re pretty darn good even if Darryl is the only one yet. Give ‘em a try!
Sky was my boyfriend in the 80’s he was sweet. But I understand your take on him
There was an album by Lou Reed that was written completely by 1967 , and has the tune " Heroin " in it . The tunes were written in 1966 , and , with that beautiful German , Blonde , model had a punkish , psych type album out the same time as The Beatles "Sargeant Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band " that also came out inid spring 1967. Personally I liked Lou Reeds album better .
Where is the actual FULL-documentary,from Creshendo Records ? Not just the trailer
Hey friends ! I've got on DVD, the Seeds LIVE in 1989, the return of the original Seeds : " The Seeds LIVE - From the underground Golden Vaults of the S.S.S. video library. Is someone interesting to get this video for making a remastering in studio because the sound need to be remastered.
This video has been filmed with a cellular by Marianna Dapello but the sound is bad, it needs to be remastered.
"The Other Place" was another good single by them on GNP records.
What happened to this channell?? Do more garage specials and diy FX pedal videos! Love The Seeds and Sky Saxon 4ever! Garage need a revival, again. AND AGAIN.
Yeah to,me they are the grans of hair bands garage bands are every gen but the doors never would have opened had not been for the seeds !
Great job! You should invest in a mic though.
Posso fazer uma versão traduzida para português?
Intro song?
The seeds to doors but remember Ray an sky were close in age and bit more old fashioned but jim in his UCLA days sucked up the seeds as much as possible the night time sound as la perfected the goth ! Sound
Evan their print titles are in psychedelic print .
Hi I wasn't a big fan of the Seeds most of their songs sounded to similar .Most of these garage /psych bands though had some great moments but lacked consistency of quality material .My three favourite bands were The Music Machine .They looked great as well and had their own unique style .We the People had some fantastic tracks " In the past .When i arrive, Half of Wednesday , were just three of a host of other great songs . and The Sonics .The Witch as to be the first proto punk song .I can only imagine what people thought of that when it was first played around 1961 .I liked some of the Electric Prunes stuff as well particularly " Underground "lp.I find it weird that a host of these young garage bands were trying to copy the UK bands The Rolling Stones ,The Beatles etc .In my opinion The Rolling Stones were boring .I don't like one song they ever did .The Beatles were better but not that great either .The Kinks were probably better but they lacked the energy of those young American kids who produced some great psychedelia as well Think CA Qunitett , Frumious bandersnatch Dirty filthy mud etc Anyway we all have opinions Before i go can you tell me that name of the opening track in the credits .It doesn't sound like a typical Seeds track Thanks in advance take care
One thing frustrates me is compare 1964 65 eara seeds to guns rosses right they were metal! And very heavy and hard rock they got surpassed by a much more popy sound and sky did keep it go in the last version 69 70 was the new seeds heavy acid rock I don't roll along with genre tech but let's face it any thing comes out of la is goth !
1965 ....seeds.1966..the doors
Just a suggestion:
A better microphone and/or better microphone placement would really improve your channel.
You have some knowledge of music history...
A sonic upgrade would up your cred...
Sky Saxon was the baddest-ass rock vocalist in all of rock's history, Period.
Is this you Lori ?
best stuff ain't popular it's rare and obscure ,you have to search for it, strange but isn't that how we want it.
I grew up on the East Coast , never heard of them . They are probably all dead but thanks for taking the time to talk about their music .
His drums are red sparkle Ludwigs.
A whole minute lost on unecessary title sequence!
The first lp is good, a web of sound is shit except for "mr farmer"
Shame on today's kizz azz radio stations that cater to dinosaur rock, dusty hip hop and todays crappy manufactured.... well crap.
Hooper manzerek and music machines keyboardist but standels lary tamblin was earliest
Pushing too hard.