{"id":2116,"date":"2017-02-03T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/reviews\/2030-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:12:51","slug":"2030-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-music\/2030-revision-v1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarded as one of the earliest punk bands The Seeds<\/strong> were a prolific Los Angeles band during the rise of Psychedelia. The group was first headlined by ex Electra-Fires \/ Soul Rockers<\/strong> singer Sky Saxon<\/strong> who recorded during the pre-Beatle<\/strong> days under the name Richie Marsh.<\/strong> The Seeds<\/strong> formed in 1964 when keyboardist Daryl Hooper<\/strong> and drummer Rick Andridge<\/strong> from the Four Sharps<\/strong> in Michigan moved to California replying to an add by Sky Saxon<\/strong>. Saxon <\/strong>had already recruited a hot surf guitarist called Jan Savage<\/strong> from Jack & The Rippers <\/strong>and rhythm guitarist Jeremy Levine<\/strong> to complete the quintet, The Seeds<\/strong> officially formed in 1965 whose \u2018debut performance was supporting an early formation of The Doors<\/strong> at the \u2018Turkey Joint West\u2019. The groups debut “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” was a regional Californian hit in 1965 (years later \u2018Axe Bullet\u2019 underarm TV jingle) The Seeds \u2019only national # 40 hit  in 1966,  the angst “Pushin’ Too Hard” characterised Hooper\u2019s \u2018Wurlitzer\u2019 sound while live sessions had Hooper also utilizing keyboard bass like latter day Ray Manzerak of the Doors.<\/em><\/p>\n

During album sessions although Sky<\/strong> is credited for bass it was actually Harvey<\/strong> Sharpe<\/strong> from The Beau Jives<\/strong> that stood in. The Seeds<\/strong> were rampant and highly toxic with their scorching \u201cEvil Hoodoo\u201d and Hooper\u2019<\/strong>s fab \u201cTripmaker\u201d, all sensational alien encounters. The Seeds<\/strong> also appeared live in the soundtrack Psyche Out<\/em> performing “Two Fingers Pointing to You” with actor Jack Nicholson <\/strong>on guitar alongside music by Strawberry Alarm Clock<\/strong>. The follow up single after the Psyche Out<\/em> soundtrack was the trippy \u201cThe Wind Blows through Your Hair\u201d. The Seeds<\/strong> also had a guest appearance on the sitcom The Mothers-In-Law<\/em> and featured on the soundtrack- Riding the Bullet<\/em>. Controversy arose when their single<\/strong> \u201cMr Farmer\u201d, first song about marijuana was regionally banned, years later appearing in the soundtrack Almost Famous<\/em>. Levine<\/strong> was the first to leave replacing Lee Freeman<\/strong> in Strawberry Alarm Clock<\/strong> in 1968. while Andridge <\/strong>was then replaced by ex Eliminators\/ Glass<\/strong> drummer Carl Belknap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The 1966 self titled debut and A Web of Sounds<\/em> were riffing fearless boosted by “Mr. Farmer”, and a re-release of “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” (1967) and “A Thousand Shadows” (1968). Notably slide guitarist Cooker John<\/strong> (aka Norman Desrosiers) from The Downchildren<\/strong>, later The Rain<\/strong> is credited on the sleeve to Web of Sound<\/em> .The latter 1967 Future <\/em>was largely a psychedelic conceptual album reeling through \u201cTravel with Your Mind\u201d and March of the Flower Children\u201dwhile A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues<\/em> had liner notes by Muddy Waters<\/strong>. In 1968 The Seeds <\/strong>launched their Raw and Alive<\/em> covering the classic songs in a mean fashion plus a sassy new number called \u201cSatisfy You\u201d. By 1969 the band was renamed Sky Saxon & the Seeds<\/strong> with ex Yellow Payges<\/strong> guitarist Bob Norsoph<\/strong> & ex Good Guys<\/strong> drummer Don Boomer <\/strong>(later with Point Of Doom)<\/strong> replacing Savage & Andridge<\/strong>. Yet strangely the last Seeds<\/strong> 45 released by \u2018GNP Crescendo\u2019 was the Kim Fowley<\/strong>-produced \u201cFalling off the Edge\u201d \/ \u201cWild Blood\u201d from Feb 1969. The Seeds<\/strong> disbanded in the early \u201870s and Saxon <\/strong>joined a Californian religious group, \u2018The Source Family\u2019 and often played with their band Ya Ho WA 13.  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regarded as one of the earliest punk bands The Seeds were a prolific Los Angeles band during the rise of Psychedelia. The group was first headlined by ex Electra-Fires \/ Soul Rockers singer Sky Saxon who recorded during the pre-Beatle days under the name Richie Marsh. The Seeds formed in 1964 when keyboardist Daryl Hooper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-music","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}