Singer, bassist and songwriter Sky Saxon was certainly one of the most colorful and eccentric musicians to emerge from the groovy 60s psychedelic garage rock scene. He was born Richard Elvern Marsh on August 20, 1937 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sky moved to Los Angeles, California after he graduated from high school. Saxon started his music career in...
Well, I think you could retire when you die. I don't, however, believe in death, so I guess I will retire when I leave my body. But I plan to continue writing and performing in heaven.
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Saxon dissolved the band in the early '70s and joined a California commune, the Source Family. He adopted the name Sunlight and occasionally performed with their trippy house band, the Ya Ho Wa 13.
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In 1989, Saxon reformed the Seeds to tour with other Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Arthur Lee and Love. They toured again in 2003, and Saxon kept busy musically, recording with the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Influenced heavily by the Rolling Stones, Saxon founded the Seeds in 1965 in California. The next year, the psychedelic rockers released two albums, 'The Seeds' and 'A Web of Sound.' In 1967, the band released two more albums: 'Future,' a psychedelic rock album, and 'A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues,' which featured liner notes by the legendary Muddy Waters.
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Lead singer of 1960s rock group The Seeds ("Pushin' Too Hard").
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Stranger Things
2016
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Aquarius
2015
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Jimi: All Is by My Side
2013
writer: "Can't Seem To Make You Mine"
Taking Woodstock
2009
writer: "No Escape"
Her Minor Thing
2005
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
Riding the Bullet
2004
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
Secretary
2002
writer: "Can't Seem to Make You Mine"
Almost Famous
2000
writer: "Mr. Farmer"
Cop Land
1997
writer: "Cant Seem to Make You Mine"
Wild America
1997
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
The Wharf Rat
1995
TV Movie writer: "Pushin Too Hard"
Life 101
1995
Video writer: "Pushing Too Hard"
Bodies, Rest & Motion
1993
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
976-Evil II
1991
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
A Girl to Kill For
1990
writer: "It's A Hard Life"
Air America
1990
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
Getting Wasted
1980
writer: "Pushin' Too Hard"
Psych-Out
1968
writer: "Two Fingers Pointing To You"
The Emperor
1967
Documentary short writer: "Rollin' Machine" - uncredited
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