Seeds Frontman Sky Saxon Dies in Austin

I have difficulty describing the influence Sky had on me. And will continue to have on me.

In the few years I knew him he taught me a lifetime worth of lessons. Sky taught me to never give up. Sky showed me the way of forgiveness and true love for my fellow beings of all sorts.
Sky taught me patience. With his help he taught me how to make a great album (Pisces Rising was produced by him over the phone!).

The musical legacy he left us will continue to enrich our lives and the lives of those yet unborn for ages to come!

Right now I just want to reflect on the loss of my friend and teacher...Perhaps at a later time I will get into more detail, but more than likely I won't.
So many people were always trying to ride his cosmic and very long coat tails.
For me just having him as a friend and being blessed with having worked with him for a brief time is enough...If Sky taught me anything it was that with my heart in the right place and my mind unpolluted, I don't need to be anybody's side man. I can shine on my own.

So in closing I would like to say thank you Sky. Thank you for seeing something in me that I did not. Thank you for your influence and helping to shape my music. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for your love.

I love you and I will miss you my friend...

Jimmy Valentine
jimmyvalentine.biz

I met Sky Saxon in the late 60's. I gave him a ride home to Topanga. He was sweet but a little strange, very, very loaded. He warned my friend and I not to kill the ants that were crawling all over his house. It was an experience, to say the least. Sad that he never left the 60's. A fun place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there. Sorry to hear of his passing.

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ROCKNROLL LEGEND SKY SAXON'S L.A. MEMORIAL WITH THE SEEDS' DARYL HOOPER & JAN SAVAGE, THE ELECTRIC PRUNES, STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK, BILLY CORGAN, NELS CLINE 07/24/09 ECHOPLEX OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

-- For Immediate Release --

- Los Angeles, California -


Richard Marsh, otherwise known to the rocknroll world as SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON, will find tribute & love visualized at a memorial in his honour to be held Friday, July 24th 2009 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, California. At 8pm the service gathering will commence with performances by friends THE SEEDS' DARYL HOOPER & JAN SAVAGE with other members of SEEDS line-ups with Sky, THE ELECTRIC PRUNES, STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK's GEORGE BUNNEL - RANDY SEOL - MARK WEITZ - GENE GUNNELS, BILLY CORGAN of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS & MARK TULIN of THE ELECTRIC PRUNES one-night-only as SPIRITS IN THE SKY, NELS CLINE of WILCO, solo set by Djin Aquarian of YaHoWha 13, solo set by MIKE RANDLE of BABY LEMONADE (ARTHUR LEE'S LOVE back-up band), the Simon Stokes Band, Sofizel, & very special guests. Attendees are encouraged to dress in flower children ware & bring flowers for the stage.

The Echoplex is located at:
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 413-8200
http://www.attheecho.com/
The venue is 18 yrs & over
Advanced tickets available at Ticket Web

SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON of the psychedelic garage rock legends THE SEEDS passed away at 9:10am Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at St David's South Austin Hospital in Austin, Texas. Sky died of heart & kidney failure, due to an undiagnosed infection of his internal organs. He passed peacefully with his wife Sabrina Smith Saxon & his spiritual brother in YaHoWha Joshua Aquarian by his side. He died, in his words, at the age of "eternal".

SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON, fell ill as early as Thursday, June 18th in his new home in Austin. Despite feeling under the weather Saturday, he performed a short set of SEEDS classics at the local night club Antone's with his local collective WORLD SPIRITS, his favourite local Austin band SHAPES HAVE FANGS. After continuing illness, he was rushed to St David's South Austin Hospital Monday morning & was immediately placed in ICU. He remained in critical condition in ICU until his passing several days later. Sky & his wife Sabrina recently moved to Austin, following his exciting headlining performance at the Austin Psych Fest #2 in March. Several tours were scheduled, including the East Coast/Mid-West tour in August with the California Revue, with members of LOVE & THE ELECTRIC PRUNES. The tour will still continue despite his absence.

Sky had many projects in the works that will undoubtedly still be completed & released in the coming months if not years due to his wealth of creative material left behind. One of which is a documentary about his legendary band THE SEEDS to be released next year in 2010. The documentary chronicles the band's activities with exclusive interviews with all original members, & rare never-before-seen footage of the band live & in session. The project is spear-headed by Alec Palao of Ace Records U.K. (The Zombies' box set "Zombie Heaven") -

"Part of the impetus for the SEEDS documentary is to correct a lot of the misperceptions about the band," explains documentary-maker ALEC PALAO, "and to properly state their role and achievements, and celebrate their music for what it is. The band were way ahead of their time, which I realize more and more as I go thru the nuts and bolts of their recordings. Due to various circumstances beyond the band's control, the original integrity of what the band was doing got lumped in with the worst commercial hype of the psychedelic scene as it expanded. Ultimately it means that the hipsters and tastemakers got turned off by the hype, and those prejudices have remained with all the commentators and writers ever since. So THE DOORS remain hip and leaders and THE SEEDS are seen as commercial hippies, followers, or not even an authentic part of the initial movement, which of course is dead wrong. I'm doing my part to correct that!"

Learn more about SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON by visiting
these official sites:

http://www.skysaxon.com
http://www.myspace.com/theseeds

For inquiries, please contact:

Jennifer Marchand
Publicist :: Sky Sunlight Saxon
"Pushin' Too Hard" by THE SEEDS - Top 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Bleu French Laundry Rocknroll Promotions
Austin, Texas
bleufrenchlaundry@hotmail.com

Pushin Too Hard rocked! Sky Saxon was one of the best. May he play on in Rock and Roll Heaven.

my first concert ever was 1967 at the melodyland theater....sam riddle hosted from 93 khj...it was the seeds....& music machine........went to many concerts after that but this was my first.....rip

Not to be a mean-spirited gossip, but I actually met Sky Saxon about two years ago when he was my GF's house-mate in a tiny little town in Northern California. He was the MOST burned out hippie I have ever met, literally stumbling around in a stupor, couldn't carry a conversation, ate mostly boiled vegetables and pasta cooked in one big pot. We all called him "Richard", but later learned he was really Sky Saxon, and he gave us a Seeds LP at one point. He had a bunch of really weird burn-out friends who would come over and apparently they had a Kabbala study group together. He was definitely in his '60s, could've been in his '70s from the looks of it, he looked like a very old man. I have more stories but maybe 'nuff said. :) I am not so much surprised to hear he passed, but it does blow my mind to imagine him getting his sh*t together enough to play with the Smashing Pumpkins last year!! Most of the time he was muttering to himself and cursing under his breath when we were around him, and that was back in '07...

Sky Saxon is my Brother. In YaHoWha . . . our Spiritual Father - who named him Arelich Aquarian.

Sky is a dear and gentle soul and the real thing. He did not speak ill of anyone - always had something positive to say of everyone - was always respectful of all and knew exactly who he was.

He will be remembered fondly by many and leaves a big hole in alternative rock and roll. The dogs of the earth have lost a great champion (spelled backwards = God).

On a light note, we - the Source Family - were living in Hawaii in 1975 and I had lined up a gig working in the muddy tropical rain forest. I asked for 10 of our brothers to help and Arelich (Sky) showed up in satins and patent leather shoes ! We shard a laugh about it for years.

Many who would be saddened by his final passage might be comforted to know that death is not the end. It is the beginning. Life and death are but the bookends of our lives. Arelich will have a smooth and easy passage as his soul reviews his life’s river for the next 3 1/2 days. The Source Family is arranging for 24/7 live chanting of the Sacred Name of God during his Rite of Passage. The Sacred Name is YA HO WHA . . . which has been known for thousands of years and hidden from the common man. Our Father came to teach through his music and that Name - saying that we need all the help we can get in our hour of need. Find more at YaHoWha.org.

Everything that happens - every circumstance and event - is for your own Soul's Growth. YaHoWha - 1973

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Skye miss ya.