Sky Sunlight Saxon & The World Peace Band (aka The New Seeds)
1973-xx-xx Santa Monica, California Home Recordings (M?-ST)
(aka the 'United Artists Demos')
"I wanna take you where the aliens live."
01. Got The Magic #1
02. Lead Singer
03. Wives Tales
04. American Eagle
05. Got The Magic #2
06. Starry Ride
07. You Got The Power
08. Wake Up
09. Sleepwalking
10. The Village
11. Young Girl #2
Total Time ::: 39:23
::: "What it is" quality for collectors & psychheads but you read, you NEED. Check samples for ear & brain damage potential & a few small doses of Saxon.
::: Warts: Got de ol' multi-gen rushing hiss & some distortion & was no cakewalk to begin with. #11 is partial. Surely missed some dropouts & dullspots but fixed many of them.
::: http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/SkySaxon/lamaSkySaxon.htm has more information about this recording.
::: My cassette, received circa '83, was labeled "The Seeds - 1973 United Artists Demos".
::: Young Girl #1 (an aborted, partial version only) apparently also circulates.
::: Many of these songs are early versions of material that appeared thru the 70s in various guises, but none of these versions are released.
::: If you can upgrade these demos for us, please do so!
Recording Information ::: unknown recording equipment -> master mono analog tape (while the channels vary a bit it certainly seems mono) -> unknown analog generations -> Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on (circa '83).
Playback 2014-01-06 ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, further speed fixes if necessary, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-01-25.
Line-up (some unknown) ::: Sky Saxon - vocals, tambourine // Michael Neal (aka "Rainbow" or "Rainbow Starburst" - electric & acoustic guitars, vocals 2.4,11 // ? - electric bass // ? - lead electric & acoustic guitars (possibly, but probably not, Mars Bonfire tho' he played with this band at one point) // Thundercloud Cassidy (son of Ed Cassidy of Spirit) - drums. Also possibly Elliot Ingber and...
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
CoolSonics 298 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Man, you can file this sucker right beside your YaHoWha "God & Hair" box & relax with the certainty it's in good company, even if it doesn't become one of your daily staples. If wasted is a virtue, the World Peace Band are carrying its banner here in beautiful, transcendent, mystical, musical glory. Listen to the growls to open the lyrics on "lead singer" or dig the vibes of "Got The Magic" or "Starry Ride". I got this from a very cool source - the other 2 items on the tape were Mystery Trend demos '68 & Red Crayola 1967-06 Venice, CA. Those were 3 extremely hip, rare recordings at the time!
I got into the Seeds at a fairly young age. While I was fascinated by many of their waxings, "Future" was the one that I ultimately settled in with the most, I think... I considered it so completely different than almost anything else I listened to. It seemed to come from a psychedelic variant where no other band had ever dared to tread. The timing, instrumentation, lyrics & presentation are like entering a MUCH more warped rabbit hole than the one Alice went down. I mean, the giant flowers still talk & all, the chess pieces undoubtably are out for a stroll & their is nonsense in the air, but is like the cubes that melted in Sky's mouth dissolved out of his ears & the windowpane out of his eyes & he was talking a musical journey into an altogether alternate universe that wasn't going to let you go until the needle lifted offa the vinyl. The digital versions I've heard so far haven't done the album justice at all - in fact, I would love to go back to a first mono pressing on a good stereo with a good black light in the room. If acid could talk to some people, then in Sky's world it was screaming - fun to visit with him but nowhere anyone would want to live permanently by choice.
At any rate, I find even much of Sky's later work eminently digestible. Most of it has an appealing groove & to say it is unapologetically psychedelic would be to do it a disservice, for when yr livin' in The Land of Nod, your magic carpet is your car & you don't drive places, you Sky & that's simply where it's at, no need for questions. If you dig it, ENJOY!
Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees
Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!