Here's the link: http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/06/25/rip_sky_saxon.html Sky Saxon RIP!! piepsi said:

Oh no, he died :(

Oh no, he died :(

i really hope he pulls through. sounds like he's on the up and up though, so i'm not too worried.

You're right, Julia. Our Hideout friend Martha was planning to see the Chicago show. They've got in show in Pittsburgh too: California '66 Revue!!!Where can you find Sky Sunlight Saxon of The Seeds, Electric Prunes and Love on the same bill?An amazing late summer tour is in the works that will put all three of these amazing bands touring together as California '66 Revue! Dates so far: August 4, 2009 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 5, 2009 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ August 6, 2009 - Quick Center (WPNK Benefit) - Fairfield, CT August 7, 2009 - The Middle East - Cambridge, Massachusetts August 8, 2009 - Theatre Plaza - Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 9, 2009 - B.B. King Blues Club - New York City, New York August 10, 2009 - Patriot Place - Foxborough, Massachusetts August 12, 2009 - Double Door - Chicago, Illinois August 13, 2009 - Shark Hall - Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 14, 2009 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 16, 2009 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, Ohio August 17, 2009 - Hard Rock Cafe - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 18, 2009 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, Virginia To be able to visit these venue websites, please go to www.skysaxon.com and you can click on their name to go to the website.

Here's a link to a story in The Austin Decider: http://austin.decider.com/articles/the-seeds-sky-saxon-in-critical-condition-at-st-da,29636/

This troubles me.
Hope he pulls through.
Isn't he on a triple bill this summer with Love and the Electric Prunes?

I apologize if this thread has already been started......

Last night Sky Saxon was admitted to the ICU at an Austin, Texas hospital. Here''s a note from his wife, Sabrina (visit her Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/sabrinasaxon for up-to-the-minute details of his condition):

Sky is in ICU and is still considered in critical condition.

Needless to say Sky seemed to be getting a wee bit better but took a turn for the worse .... I won''t go into details here but suffice it to say when we got him here in the ambulance, the doctors were telling me they just couldn''t tell me he would be okay. I was devastated.

It has been touch and go all day .... and probably about 3 hours ago the nurse told me he was going down ... blood pressure was dropping like crazy and they were trying one last medicine. she asked me to go over and start talking to him ... as his sedation was low enough that he would understand me ....

so i did ... and it slowly got better and better and better ..... and it was going steadily up .... and he was feeling better ....

he has a tube down his throat so he could not talk and that was very frustrating for him .... so i told him i would ask him yes and no questions ... and he was good with that .... slowly i figured out all the questions he had and answered them .....

now his color is back ... and the purple is receding a lot ..... his blood pressure is normal ... the heart rate is still a little erratic but they are more confident now that that will get better ... once all of his vitals are steady and normal they will take that darn breathing thing out of his throat .... this was only a precautionary tubing so they could get him breathing well while they worked on all of his other vitals ....

once he gets stable they will start trying to figure out what is the root cause of the problems is ... there seems to be an infection somewhere and since he has suffered from stomach pain for basically all his life ... we are certain it is somewhere in there ... but the gastro guy can''t do anything to check it out until he is stable ....

I feel much better about it now ... he seems more able to fight to stay alive .... and is gaining his strength little by little ...

he is asleep right now and seems to be resting well ... i''m here in the room with him in ICU .... they have wireless here and i had thought to bring my computer just in case they did ... just felt confident enough he is okay to pull it out .... he is sleeping really well right now ...

so please keep him in your prayers that he will beat this .... and be able to get out of this place!

will keep in touch and let you know what is happening ... now that i''m hooked up here in his room that will be easier to do ....

Sabrina
Sabrina is requesting that Seeds/Sky fans send him cards and balloons (no flowers, please -- the ICU doesn''t allow them).

Here''s the mailing address (remember, Sky''s legal name is Richard Marsh):

St. David''s South Austin Hospital
901 West Ben White Boulevard
ICU-10 (Richard Marsh)
Austin, TX 78704

Of course, your prayers and good thoughts/energies are most welcome as well!
Hey bros and sistas.....sign Sky''''s guestbook here...........http://guestbooks.netservices.gr/readgb.cgi?name=Sunlight

Another deed done well in saving all our cash and time, ahahaha!

At least the Moody Blues and Bee Gees had some very good early tunes ("Lose Your Money", "Go Now", "Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You", "In My Own Time"). Can't say much for the garage resumes of Procal Harum and Cat Stevens though... The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Well...about the content of the book : reading this, ok you'll find pages about great bands as The Sonics, The Count 5 and so on...but you'll also find some about The Moody Blues (aaargh), The Bee Gees (bluurgh), Procol Harum (beaaargh), Cat Stevens (please stop this, I ain't nothing left to spew up !!!)...Let's just say this is not exactly what I call garage bands...
...About the man, let's say that the little I know about him ( some kinda mod listening to Barbara McNair in his nice looking apartment with framed James Bond ost on the walls and writing for crappy magazines ) makes me quite sick...

By the way, why am I writing about this ???
Sorry, I'm going back with the dead right now...
Cheers !!!

The Moody Blues ??? That's fuckin' WRONG ! Thanks for the heads up...I won't be looking for this book ! Cheers, Wig The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Well...about the content of the book : reading this, ok you'll find pages about great bands as The Sonics, The Count 5 and so on...but you'll also find some about The Moody Blues (aaargh), The Bee Gees (bluurgh), Procol Harum (beaaargh), Cat Stevens (please stop this, I ain't nothing left to spew up !!!)...Let's just say this is not exactly what I call garage bands...
...About the man, let's say that the little I know about him ( some kinda mod listening to Barbara McNair in his nice looking apartment with framed James Bond ost on the walls and writing for crappy magazines ) makes me quite sick...

By the way, why am I writing about this ???
Sorry, I'm going back with the dead right now...
Cheers !!!

Thanks, Elpollacko. i was gonna say that very thing. ELpollacko said:

richard holguin said:

punk is self expresion ,

Way to simple. Under that definition nearly everything is "punk" which it is clearly not.

ya know, I can 't say that i've heard a lot of clash punk. i heart punk i hear harmony?

Little Black Egg by The Nightcrawlers.

I'm really startin' to loath these lists but fuck it here go a few o' my all-time favs off the top o' my head:

SONICS "Here are..."
les SEXAREENOS "Live in the Bed" (actually a tie w/ "14 Frenzied Shakers")
DEL-GATORS "Pound Down"
the A-BONES "Life of Riley" (again a tie w/ the 7'' comp, "Daddy Wants a Cold Beer...")
the TRASHMEN "Best of"
SAM the SHAM & the PHARAOHS "Lil' Red Riding Hood"
BLEED "Motor Psycho"
the CHURCH KEYS "Work With It!!!"
the BLACK LIPS "Let It Bloom"
COCOCOMA "self-titled"
GREENHORNES "Gun For You"
& anything by thee wild Billy Childish...

Jesus...I know I'm fergetin' a few favs....how did this list get so long? (I actually left off albums already mentioned by others, too!!)

The MONKS - Black Monk Time is my all time fave.

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Yeah, saw this on Pitchfork yesterday. Almost lost all control. So excited! http://pitchfork.com/news/35678-black-lips-king-khan-mark-sultan-almighty-defenders/

Just got this e-mail from Vice Records VICE ANNOUNCES ALBUM FROM GARAGE-ROCK SUPERGROUP, ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS KING KHAN BBQ SHOW + BLACK LIPS RELEASE SELF-TITLED ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 22nd When the Black Lips had to flee India after almost getting arrested (long story) and getting their passports confiscated (longer story), they fled to Berlin to hole up with their old pal and label-mate King Khan. Mark Sultan (aka BBQ, one half of King Khan BBQ Show) also happened to be there, and it happened to be freezing in Berlin that week so no one really wanted to leave the house. So what do a bunch of garage-rock all-stars (and international refugees) do in the middle of winter in cramped conditions? They give birth to an album and band of the same name, The Almighty Defenders. The guys went to Moon Studios and recorded these tracks, brimming with soul, earnest shouts, cries and hand-claps over post-modern gospel-rock anthems. This album is being released on LP and digitally on Vice Records on September 22nd Almighty Defenders: http://www.myspace.com/thealmightydefenders

the above link has listenning to the record! enjoy!

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Well, well, well. Hello, Bob. Through obsessive & fanatical digging & hunting & investigating & snooping, I've managed to track down Peter P., Gordon R., and Mary ... though I haven't yet contacted Mary. I'm hoping eventually to interview everybody and do an article or oral history of the P&MSG experience.. If you want to participate, please e-mail me off-list, I'm at pmadreenter@yahoo.com

Cheers --


H.

that '45 single, " Queen Of The Night" / "Sensitive Man", 1978......i was the drummer. It was distributed by Bomp Records, and i'm surprised that there is any mention of it anywhere !

Amazing ...went the strings of my heart;
waited thirty years for this to happen,
quite moving;
Cheers, beerrs and dynamite (and Mud)
Ivan

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican June 19, 2009 In recent months (years?) my musical tastes have become so retro it’s disgusting. Frequent readers of my column have surely noticed.

There are embarrassingly few new “modern” (whatever that is) rock acts that I really like — TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, and Dirty Projectors — but not a whole lot more. As far as new bands go, I relate far more to South American groups like Los Peyotes riffing on the old Question Mark and the Mysterians sound or to guys like King Khan and Black Joe Lewis rekindling the James Brown/Otis Redding fires than I relate to spoiled suburban alt-rock brats bellyaching about their empty lives.

But sometimes archaeology reaps rewards that ring truer and sound fresher than the news. The truth is, I get more exited about discovering long-forgotten or totally unknown music from the days when rock ’n’ roll and rhythm and blues were wild and truly subversive, when it was considered too risky to be mass marketed.

You can hear the secret-history-of-rock ’n’ roll stuff on the new I Still Hate CDs: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection Vol. 2. It’s a collection of 45 songs that’s almost as uplifting as the first volume, I Hate CDs. I described that collection (which took its title from a song by the pride of Lubbock, Texas, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy) as “a grand tour of rock ’n’ roll’s glorious underbelly.” That works for this new collection also.

There’s a smattering of fairly recent material here. You’ll find a new garage-rock growler called “It’s a Lie” from the mighty King Khan (without The Shrines and without his frequent collaborator Mark Sultan aka BBQ). And there’s “Stop and Think It Over” from Dangerous Games, the “comeback” album Mary Weiss of the ShangriLas made with the Reigning Sound a couple of years ago.

But most of the tunes on I Still Hate CDs are from the ’50s and ’60s, mainly by groups that are long forgotten. There are unrepentant R & B, rough-and-tough rockabilly, silly surf songs, garage-band goodies, drag-strip diamonds, some stray doo-wop, and punk-rock echoes. This could be the soundtrack of the best black-and-white teen-exploitation B movie never made. As I said of the first I Hate CDs collection, most of these songs are way too raw for “oldies” radio. Not that the lyrics are obscene; most of the musicians don’t need to use dirty words to sound outright filthy.

There are a few names you ought to recognize in this compilation. There are songs by rockabilly royalty Benny Joy and Charlie Feathers, as well as cuts by recently deceased R & B prophets Nathaniel Mayer and Rudy Ray Moore. In the ’70s, Moore was best known for his “party” albums and pimp-adelic character Dolemite. But here he sings a ’50s-style jumper called “Rally in the Valley.”

Some of the same acts from I Hate CDs are represented here — Weiss, the Hentchmen, the Dictators, and the Real Kids. But best of all, there is Andre Williams with an old recording of a song called “Daddy Rollin’ Stone,” backed by a vocal group called the Eldorados and someone playing an irresistibly nasty guitar hook.

I have a few of these tunes from previous Norton albums — such as the proto-punk “It’s Lame” by Figures of Light; Feathers’ “We’re Getting Closer to Being Apart”; “Camel Walk” by the Saxons from the equally amazing Mad Mike’s Monsters, Volume 2 collection; and the notorious (and criminally politically incorrect), “Hello Lucille, Are You a Lesbian” by T. Valentine.

Other favorites so far are “Put de Pot on Mary” by a soul shouter called Poontang Perkins (remember, we were told long ago by a vocal group called the Treniers that “poon” is a hug and “tang” is a kiss); “Little Girl Gone,” by Mogen David Wrath and the Grapes of Wrath, which puts the rage in “garage”; and “Surfin’ Crow,” a splendid rip-off of the Trashmen’s “Surfin’ Bird” by the Jades.

One of the most outrageous but most endearing songs on I Still Hate CDs is “What a Way to Die” by the Pleasure Seekers, a ’60s group that included none other than Suzi Quatro and her sisters. Talk about politically incorrect — this is a joyful ode to teen sex and alcohol consumption. Call the attorney general! What kind of message are we sending to the children?

This collection has the original version of “Rock-N-Bones” by Elroy Dietzel, which was covered by The Cramps. When rock ’n’ roll daddy Lux Interior passed on in February, all over the blogosphere, fans quoted one of the verses of this song:

“And when I die, don’t you bury me at all/Just hang these bones upon the wall/And beneath the bones let these words be seen/This is the bloody gears of a boppin’ machine.”

(Here’s a little Cramps trivia: Norton Records co-founder Miriam Linna was the original drummer of that band.)

Like its predecessor, I Still Hate CDs lives up to its name by not being available on compact disc. But you can download any or all tracks at iTunes, Amazon.com, and eMusic. And if you like this kind of stuff, get thyself to Norton Records. Bill and Miriam have a new blog at nortonville.blogspot.com.

June 21th

Lowcut Radio 19.30-20.30:

Mig & Min Ven - Cola Tombola
Hunches - Actors
Country Teasers - Black Change
Functional Blackouts - Modern Man
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Carcass
Victims - Flipped Out Over You
Bags - Babylonian Gorgon
Cola Freaks - Tænder Slukker
Black Diamond Heavies - White Bitch
Birushanah - Kairai
Career Suicide - Do Some Harm
Psychedelic Horseshit - Nothing Sacred
Framtid - Nuclear Power Genocide
Blowtops - Tailor Made Psy
No Hope For The Kids -Triblinka
Marble Sheep - Count Fire
The Birthday Party - Dead Joe
Formaldehyde Junkies - Religious Monster
Mig & Min Ven - Jeg Slår Op