@mazzy505 Damn, it doesn't get better than this. I was l5 at the time and pushing the envelope of trying to be a hippie, with a father in the Army. He didn't allow anything hippie in the house, so I had to sneak out and listen to GOOD music. He loved classical while he operated (was a trauma surgeon) and forbade anything remotely cool. But I persisted, and now at 59, I still groove to anything good, no matter what it is.
"rock 'n roll blues" Some songs just fit-the-bill. My station never played it enough. Must have been too intense for the average Joe back then. I was 17 and jilted.
THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE TRY TO HARD TO WIN OVER A POTENTIAL LOVER OR MORE THAN THAT....THAT HAS TO STOP..NOW....I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED WITH KITTY....AND I GUESS I DID, BUT ....TO GET OVER THIS PAIN, IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE...DAMN...DAMN...DAMN..DAMN..GOOD LUCK HONEY AND WISH ME THE SAME..I NEED IT MORE.ITS ALWAYS EASIER FOR A GAL TO FIND A GUY..WE HAVE TO WORK AT IT MORE THAN LADIES DO..DAMN...SO MUCH FOR EQUALITY..BULLSHIT ON THAT...
Way to go marinegreensub. I was born in 1948 so I was kind of older than you in the 60s but cool that you got to experience a part that many little kids didn't get to see.
@valeriemci1 i was 18 in 66 and look at that year as the best.it was hot fast cars,women were liberating and we had the Beach Boys,Beatles,Stones but best of all we had garage rock.if you think of punk as the best,garage rock was like that for me.Sky was true hard rockin'.i think if you look up Question Mark and The Mysterions."96 Tears".you'll get an idea of 65-66 local group talent.(Saginaw,Mich)
I did most of my surfing there in the late 70's and early 80's. A total surf/skate shredding Z-Boyz type scene. Honored to have surfed with the whole pro Carlsbad crew, Buran, Barr, Mata, Treibel. Those guys just RIPPED!!! Went back to the State Park in the late 80's, the bottom had changed from a combo reef and sand to just reef. The sand just was not there and neither was the break. Who knows what its like now. It's still state park. About a mile south of the power plant in south Carlsbad
I was born in 1961, and while my friends were all watching Romper Room and Hobo Kelly, I was hanging out at the the beach at Carlsbad body surfing and stringing beads with my brother and his hippie friends. Someone always had a transistor radio on the sand and this song was played all the time on KCBQ, THE station back then!!. Even though I was only 7 or 8 years old,,, I DID THE SIXTIES!!!
@marinegreensub In 1961 i was 5 years old but was already listening to rock from my moms collection. Which was alot of 50's, like the kings of rock, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and i think the real king of rock. The one and only Chuck Berry. These three alone inspired The Beatles. I am so greatful for being alive in the 60's and 70'. This song had hourly rotation were i live and it was one of my favs from the 60's and there were a ton of cool tunes. Man how i miss those days.
@marinegreensub Oh ya. I was a littel boy with a transistor radio set on "Boss Radio" 93 KHJ Los Angeles, listening to stuff like this and wearing out the 12 volt batteries!
@IllIIIlIIIllllI A few times but that was a little too far south. My favorite break was what we called 'State Park' or 'campgrounds at the far end of Carlsbad. We would get to the coast highway and then thumb the few miles south. The place was awesome, hollow and powerful. There was mornings were I would 'make it out' of 30 tubes! There was a break right off the main stairs always with 8 or 10 guys. We would go about 100 yards south and have it all to ourselves.
@SmokeandxxMirrorsxx They were better than the Ramones on their best day I only heard a few songs by them and then they were gone from NY radio I was 16 and still got the 45 packed awayGreat Song
I TEND TO PUSH TOO HARD TRYING TO FIND MY NEXT DREAM GIRL...I LOST THE ONE I REALLY WANTED BUT THAT WASNT THE ISSUE..THANX ANYWAY KITTY FOR CHANGING MY LIFE AND OPENING ME UP TO NEW HORIZONS...BUT I STILL WANT AND CRAVE U.
I've never held anything against "one hit wonders" and this excellent song stands as an example as to why I don't. I liked it when it came out and I like it now.
what a great song ive just picked up on thisin scotland we did not have alot of airplay like now and in the sixties i had heard of this american band but till i played pushin to hard wow were have i been all these years looong live the sixties and u tube for reaching out to us
This song came out in late 1966, not 1967. In fact, in L.A., this song(a debut song for The Seeds, an L.A. group)was a No. 2 in L.A, and never got higher than that. =)
I met Sky "Sunlight" Saxon a couple of years back after a SUPER GREAT preformance which was rare, and he was very kind indeed. Glad to have met him and family his members. The song "PUSHIN TOO HARD" is right- on in today's rough times! Great!
Revalution is now!!! not when ever - get ur shit together - your country needs your clear heads together in making a diffrance - shit of get off the pot, yeah man this is we the people.
Richard Marsh. A total parasite. I threatened to flush one of his kids down the toilet if said kid touched our gear when he was around 3 or 4 and Robin (the kid) believed me. Made my day, and I'm still laughin' over it. There were good things about Sky, though. Vegetarian, and animal rights activist. Good musician, but I didn't like him as a person. Such a total user.
9th grade for me, I saw them do this one afternoon on the 'Lloyd Thaxton Show' and the next day the entire school was buzing about them. Great stuff from the 60's, thanks.
I love this bubbling music style from the 60s. It´s a kind of raw and honest music without samples. It´s hard to say but it´s the first time I listen to The Seeds but not the last. I´m from Scandinavia and has been a big fan of garage rock from UK and Sweden. Listen for example to THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and Beautiful Delilah". What a bloody "drive"!!!!
@Civitatuccillo ive been thinkin the same thing, but its hung around for long time.. ..too long...maybe with music being more independent, some new/old can come along...
@Civitatuccillo Don't hold your breath. Music has been pretty crappy for about 30 years now and it only gets worse. In the mid-1980s I was hoping that the musical style of rock's golden era (1955 to 1979) would return, but it never did. I have since given up hope of ever seeing anything like that era again regarding music.
No frills, but straight to the point. It is interesting to hear how the guitar sound changed over the years. 1967, the fuzzbox made his entrance into rock music. Check out music from 1965. At that time the guitar sound clear and clean. Listen to THE ZETTLERS and the tunes "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Incredibly good. Compare the guitar- and the bass sound between The Seed and The Zettlers.
Sky Saxon and The Seeds still get it! I'd like to have all of the change I dropped into a jukebox to hear this one. My bike riding pals used to dance with their ladies to this one (and Liar, Liar by The Castaways and Who Do You Love by The Woolies). Real people, real music, real motorcycles, real times. I need the Way-back Machine like right now!
I remember the 1st time I heard this tune on my am transistor getting ready for school in 66 or 67 ? some station in Windsor ON, I was in Philly, it blew me away, copped the guitar solo and played it in my 7th grade garage band. Yeh I'm an old fossil now.
I sat in the ER after a fall down concrete steps : June 25, 2009. All the nurses were tumbling over each other for the TVs in the rooms saying Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had both died. Incredulous. I was in bad shape myself! Only many months later did I really have a heart tug: Sky Saxon had also died on that day. Wow.....Sky was in my high school class in L.A. and this tune was played by me as a DJ out there zillions of times. Instant fantastic it was. Sky is in music-sky now.
I was 17 when this song hit the charts, In their day they were quite poplular. they had many hits, such as " farmer, farmer," and "can't seem to make you mine", and others I can't recall. they were big stuff. After 47 years memories fade, but the beat goes on.
BS, you think every white had it easy in this country? One side of my family almost starved to death in the early 1900s when they first arrived and then again during the depression. They were discriminated against for employment and were beat up on the street. No welfare for them, no special laws either. Hell, they would have thought they went to heaven if they could ride the back of a bus. No, tired of hearing that, after some seven trillion dollars in welfare, enough!
@joesphx19 Ok, now I see the truth. Being white has never been an advantage over being black. Thank you for your indisputable message of light. Of course you are right. How could I have been so mistaken? I'm sorry to hear about how your family struggled just because they were white. When will black people give us equal rights? How long must we suffer? How long my brother? How long? Did we not die in the trenches too fighting for America's freedom? Does not our blood spill red as well? Oh Lordy!
@joesphx19 I'M TIRED OF WHITE PEOPLE bringing up blacks and WELFARE the welfare system was started by in the 1930's as part of the new deal. THERE WERE NO CIVIL RIGHTS FOR BLACKS THEN SO BELIEVE ME IT WAS WHITES WHO RECEIVED THE GREATEST BENEFITS FROM THIS SYSTEM. if you your family didn't get any money that's their damn fault, BECAUSE WELFARE WAS SIT UP HELP YOUR WHITE ASS RACE. WERE THEY CONSIDERED LAZY ASS BUMS BECAUSE THEY GOT FREE CASH FROM THE GOVERNMENT?
Waz yo problem militant ghetto rat? That shi* is old hat. have you not heard we all have a black presiden. Go round and round or go down, but up has already been reached. Whitey got no lower gear dog, next gear is war,
@radiowwww WAZ YO PROBLEM YO RADIO DIAL DONE SWUNG OUT PLACE,have you not heard even though WE ALL GOT A BLACK PRESIDENT IT'S TALK GO ROUND AND ROUND AMONG BLACK LEADERS AND COMMON BLACK FOLKS THANGS STILL FUCKED WITH RACE RELATIONS, THAT "RACIAL UP" IS JUST JUST AN ILLUSION DOG, AND DOG THEY SAY MISSISSIPPI'S STILL BURNING SEE IT'S ALL ABOUT THOSE TWO WHITEY BOYS WHO PURPOSELY RAN OVER A YOUNG BLACK MAN WITH THEIR TRUCK AND KILLED HIM A FEW MONTHS AGO, THEY SAID THEY HATED NIGGERS DOG
The guitarist looks like he could be Jack Black's dad. This is one of those cool songs you forget about until YouTube because The Seeds weren't grossly popular but they were excellent, especially by 1960's standards.
I had no idea "sky" died. His voice was amazing. I love this song. I always associated this with the first punk song ever. Even though they look more like "mods" then punkers.
You know what I do to people who get up in my face and tell me I should recognize Billy Corgan's originality? I show them this video. And then they shut up.
WOW- WHAT A COOL GROUP. I USE TO DATE THEIR MANAGER. SHE WAS REALLY SOMETHING BUT WE QUICKLY BROKE UP BECAUSE SHE SAID THAT I WAS "PUSHIN TOO HARD" DAMN I MISS HER.
I was 17 in hs in San Diego when this song came out. Classic rock and roll. Thanks Sky, Daryl, and others.
drmattdenver 1 week ago
Where are they at? The Grand 'Ole Opry? anyways, the organ bit makes this song,.
BleedBNG 1 week ago
Just recently a friend and myself were trying to remember who did this song. Their name don't ring a bell even though I had this 45.
1danrobbins 2 weeks ago
Classic Hippie, original hippie, quintessential hippie...18yrs old smokin gold
mazzy505 2 weeks ago
@mazzy505 Damn, it doesn't get better than this. I was l5 at the time and pushing the envelope of trying to be a hippie, with a father in the Army. He didn't allow anything hippie in the house, so I had to sneak out and listen to GOOD music. He loved classical while he operated (was a trauma surgeon) and forbade anything remotely cool. But I persisted, and now at 59, I still groove to anything good, no matter what it is.
Rock on forever and ever.
57IAM 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Groovy!
ftsjr 2 weeks ago
"rock 'n roll blues" Some songs just fit-the-bill. My station never played it enough. Must have been too intense for the average Joe back then. I was 17 and jilted.
microvantastic 1 month ago
THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE TRY TO HARD TO WIN OVER A POTENTIAL LOVER OR MORE THAN THAT....THAT HAS TO STOP..NOW....I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED WITH KITTY....AND I GUESS I DID, BUT ....TO GET OVER THIS PAIN, IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE...DAMN...DAMN...DAMN..DAMN..GOOD LUCK HONEY AND WISH ME THE SAME..I NEED IT MORE.ITS ALWAYS EASIER FOR A GAL TO FIND A GUY..WE HAVE TO WORK AT IT MORE THAN LADIES DO..DAMN...SO MUCH FOR EQUALITY..BULLSHIT ON THAT...
rexrockandroll 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Way to go marinegreensub. I was born in 1948 so I was kind of older than you in the 60s but cool that you got to experience a part that many little kids didn't get to see.
valeriemci1 1 month ago
@valeriemci1 i was 18 in 66 and look at that year as the best.it was hot fast cars,women were liberating and we had the Beach Boys,Beatles,Stones but best of all we had garage rock.if you think of punk as the best,garage rock was like that for me.Sky was true hard rockin'.i think if you look up Question Mark and The Mysterions."96 Tears".you'll get an idea of 65-66 local group talent.(Saginaw,Mich)
nomiclas 1 week ago
I did most of my surfing there in the late 70's and early 80's. A total surf/skate shredding Z-Boyz type scene. Honored to have surfed with the whole pro Carlsbad crew, Buran, Barr, Mata, Treibel. Those guys just RIPPED!!! Went back to the State Park in the late 80's, the bottom had changed from a combo reef and sand to just reef. The sand just was not there and neither was the break. Who knows what its like now. It's still state park. About a mile south of the power plant in south Carlsbad
marinegreensub 1 month ago
love the vox bass!
imajeepster 1 month ago
bassfernando thanx amigo from a greatful canuck been playing guitar 50 years never seen one before
warehousetroll1 1 month ago
A classic rock song that still beats strong
habs5792 1 month ago
what kind of bass is that anybody know
warehousetroll1 1 month ago
@warehousetroll1 Vox Teardrop Bass
Bassfernando62 1 month ago
This song kicks ass ! We lost an original. Real deal !
furgore1 1 month ago
He died of old rocker...the best way..
knowallcity 2 months ago
this is awesome! what show is this from?
dnegativeproductions 2 months ago
yeah!
turtleondope 2 months ago
SKY SAXON DIDN'T DIE AT THE AGE OF 63!? HE WAS 71!
MisterPopp 2 months ago
Nice tune..
mtcats 2 months ago
I was born in 1961, and while my friends were all watching Romper Room and Hobo Kelly, I was hanging out at the the beach at Carlsbad body surfing and stringing beads with my brother and his hippie friends. Someone always had a transistor radio on the sand and this song was played all the time on KCBQ, THE station back then!!. Even though I was only 7 or 8 years old,,, I DID THE SIXTIES!!!
marinegreensub 2 months ago 10
@marinegreensub
Me too. Kid in Chicago in the 60's. The teens had this on the radio, wishing we were on a beach in Carlsbad.
HVYMETL 2 months ago
@marinegreensub In 1961 i was 5 years old but was already listening to rock from my moms collection. Which was alot of 50's, like the kings of rock, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and i think the real king of rock. The one and only Chuck Berry. These three alone inspired The Beatles. I am so greatful for being alive in the 60's and 70'. This song had hourly rotation were i live and it was one of my favs from the 60's and there were a ton of cool tunes. Man how i miss those days.
ElectricHellfire 2 months ago
@marinegreensub Oh ya. I was a littel boy with a transistor radio set on "Boss Radio" 93 KHJ Los Angeles, listening to stuff like this and wearing out the 12 volt batteries!
MrRaiderfan1000 1 month ago
@marinegreensub did you ever surf swamis?
IllIIIlIIIllllI 1 month ago
@IllIIIlIIIllllI A few times but that was a little too far south. My favorite break was what we called 'State Park' or 'campgrounds at the far end of Carlsbad. We would get to the coast highway and then thumb the few miles south. The place was awesome, hollow and powerful. There was mornings were I would 'make it out' of 30 tubes! There was a break right off the main stairs always with 8 or 10 guys. We would go about 100 yards south and have it all to ourselves.
marinegreensub 1 month ago
@marinegreensub
do you think it still breaks like that anymore or if it has a different name now?
IllIIIlIIIllllI 1 month ago
@marinegreensub How were you with Sheriff John?
goducks20101 3 weeks ago in playlist A Garage
This tune epitomized the amalgam of different musical styles back then. The Moodys and The Jefferson Airplane did the same.
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
Oh my gosh, forgot about this! Thank you for posting!! FUN remembrance!
Jany1954 2 months ago
You know they aren't really playing when there are no microphones and the guitars aren't plugged in..
slpplexi1969 2 months ago
THIS MUSIC BROUGHT EVERY RACE TOGETHER.
MrErnie408 2 months ago
This was heavy metal back then.
megashegem 2 months ago
the guitarist in the back looks like Ashton Kutcher.
EverybodyLovesRamos 2 months ago
Classic
IchiroKenji 2 months ago
THIS SONG IS FRIGGIN BAD STILL IS TODAY YEA!
Tori6250 2 months ago
Not only do they have Ramones hairdoos, they can also pass for PUNK ROCK!
SmokeandxxMirrorsxx 2 months ago
@SmokeandxxMirrorsxx They were better than the Ramones on their best day I only heard a few songs by them and then they were gone from NY radio I was 16 and still got the 45 packed awayGreat Song
elamite66 2 months ago
I hear that's how you get hemorrhoids
Perkerr 2 months ago
I TEND TO PUSH TOO HARD TRYING TO FIND MY NEXT DREAM GIRL...I LOST THE ONE I REALLY WANTED BUT THAT WASNT THE ISSUE..THANX ANYWAY KITTY FOR CHANGING MY LIFE AND OPENING ME UP TO NEW HORIZONS...BUT I STILL WANT AND CRAVE U.
rexrockandroll 2 months ago
@rexrockandroll You couldn't stop.....bye...
Muffett53 2 months ago
I saw The Seeds perform this great song in a concert at San Francisco Civic Audit-
orium in the late 1960's.If I remember correctly,they were the opening act for The
Beach Boys that night.It was a great show!!!
"I Want Yo' Number"
loungerenownrecords 2 months ago
Hes not even playin that thing!!!
joetubealong 3 months ago
I've never held anything against "one hit wonders" and this excellent song stands as an example as to why I don't. I liked it when it came out and I like it now.
guyNbluejeans 3 months ago
hmmm, think I'll sing this song the next time I have to go thru airport security!
ANICON2006 3 months ago
what a great song ive just picked up on thisin scotland we did not have alot of airplay like now and in the sixties i had heard of this american band but till i played pushin to hard wow were have i been all these years looong live the sixties and u tube for reaching out to us
thunderersargo 3 months ago
This song came out in late 1966, not 1967. In fact, in L.A., this song(a debut song for The Seeds, an L.A. group)was a No. 2 in L.A, and never got higher than that. =)
nuts4clara 3 months ago
This song never got the credit it deserved!!!
ninethmarines1 3 months ago
AIR AMERICA !
P71CVPI07AZ 3 months ago
I met Sky "Sunlight" Saxon a couple of years back after a SUPER GREAT preformance which was rare, and he was very kind indeed. Glad to have met him and family his members. The song "PUSHIN TOO HARD" is right- on in today's rough times! Great!
mosesram3 3 months ago in playlist More videos from clotho98
Revalution is now!!! not when ever - get ur shit together - your country needs your clear heads together in making a diffrance - shit of get off the pot, yeah man this is we the people.
LeGridStudios 3 months ago
the song im listening to while flying in america air
aabbklll101 3 months ago
This was one of the best rock songs from that era.
gallantrycross 3 months ago
this was one hell of a band
TheLadandLass 3 months ago
Well at least you didn't put your username at the beginning for a whole minute +.
Kals33 3 months ago
This song sounds like its right off the Frank Zappa Lp. Freak Out !
J0EYbagaDONUTS 3 months ago
Richard Marsh. A total parasite. I threatened to flush one of his kids down the toilet if said kid touched our gear when he was around 3 or 4 and Robin (the kid) believed me. Made my day, and I'm still laughin' over it. There were good things about Sky, though. Vegetarian, and animal rights activist. Good musician, but I didn't like him as a person. Such a total user.
apprenticeofvergilx 3 months ago
This has always been "The Stuka Song" to me- and it drops its napalm on the refrain "too haaaaaaaaard...!"
Goodbye Moulin Rouge, indeed!
Now Captain, this plane is a DIVE bomber- get real verticle, ya know?
harponercam 3 months ago
Just one of the best guitar solos ever.
mdugand 3 months ago
This guy obviously didn't like lip syncing.
LessIsMoor 3 months ago
9th grade for me, I saw them do this one afternoon on the 'Lloyd Thaxton Show' and the next day the entire school was buzing about them. Great stuff from the 60's, thanks.
rastamon52 3 months ago
Concert in Phx. Az. 1968, was blown away!
importantisimo1 3 months ago
Cheers!! This song is just perfect!! Thanks to whoever posted it! I salute you!!
joliebeanbagful 3 months ago
I HAVE LOVED THIS AS A KID IT STILL STANDS
BooBoo1005x 4 months ago
The Seeds "Pushin' Too Hard" is the quintessential rock and roll. It doesn't get any better.
lnu6688 4 months ago 12
@lnu6688 It's still KING TONE, baby!
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
look how fucking fly sky saxon was! best-dressed, coolest motherfucker in music.
YouAre256ColoursToo 4 months ago
THX I Love This Song And The Seeds! thx
Bronson309 4 months ago
The "Butthole Surfers" of their day.
rubbersole79 4 months ago
RIP
Deepred67 4 months ago
I love this bubbling music style from the 60s. It´s a kind of raw and honest music without samples. It´s hard to say but it´s the first time I listen to The Seeds but not the last. I´m from Scandinavia and has been a big fan of garage rock from UK and Sweden. Listen for example to THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and Beautiful Delilah". What a bloody "drive"!!!!
TheSunbau 4 months ago
Does anyone know guitar Savage has got there? Some kinda les paul/epiphone thing...but I must know exactly!
And that thing Saxon has?
infirmarybluesism 4 months ago
This is good stuff. Betting it fueled many a 60's or 70's acid trip. ;)
jockojonson17 4 months ago
what do you mean "estimated age"? does no one really know when he was born?
beatles5445 4 months ago
long time no hear this song
ricardoorsv 4 months ago
Thanks for posting. I was born in '58 and enjoyed watching this on tv. It Rocks. :)
jonnybgoode007 4 months ago
. . . @joesphx19 . . . My Friend . . . if it wasn't for your generation . . .
. . . and, generations before . . . WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE EXCELLENT
MUSIC WE HAVE NOW!!! . . . Blues, Rock and Roll and Other Music
would not have become the MUSIC We All Enjoy Today ....... THANKS!!!
akaTheQ97 5 months ago
Cool
ymurak 5 months ago
Sky was older than 63, but, of course, who cares: He isn't really dead. His wife explained that....
jannyrcobs 5 months ago
Too bad BOTH sides of your family didn't die of starvation!
duckbrew 5 months ago
Great Song! Loved the spirit and funky spunk of this group!
theshit88able 5 months ago
FIERCE!
tiranchula 5 months ago
More lip syncing
MrCaptainRhythm 5 months ago
cool song, can't wait till the current "rap crap" goes out and fun cool music comes back.
Civitatuccillo 5 months ago 20
@Civitatuccillo ive been thinkin the same thing, but its hung around for long time.. ..too long...maybe with music being more independent, some new/old can come along...
olhobbler 5 months ago
@Civitatuccillo Don't hold your breath. Music has been pretty crappy for about 30 years now and it only gets worse. In the mid-1980s I was hoping that the musical style of rock's golden era (1955 to 1979) would return, but it never did. I have since given up hope of ever seeing anything like that era again regarding music.
45vinyljunkie 3 months ago
@Civitatuccillo Good luck waiting. I've been waiting for 20 years & that shit still dominates the airwaves.
museack 2 months ago
@Civitatuccillo is that Jack Black on the guitar? Take a look for grins
stcabell 2 months ago
Gone but not forgotten---Sky & the Seeds---the music lives on The Tube.
brucer12 5 months ago
this is reeeetarded lmao
seonfox 5 months ago
R.I.P Sky.. Your Music will last forever!
merlin6945 5 months ago 2
at the Bar , after the Mosh Pit :) QC
Quaaludedude714 5 months ago
no es tan buena cancion :l
therotiv4 5 months ago
I love the music from mid 60s.
No frills, but straight to the point. It is interesting to hear how the guitar sound changed over the years. 1967, the fuzzbox made his entrance into rock music. Check out music from 1965. At that time the guitar sound clear and clean. Listen to THE ZETTLERS and the tunes "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Incredibly good. Compare the guitar- and the bass sound between The Seed and The Zettlers.
TheSunbau 5 months ago
Shellshock '67.
WarcraftMelodies 5 months ago
Kempi
Notesial 5 months ago
i hate that he's gone and i never got to see him play "live" --- this is one of the greatest recordings of the era --- i LOVE this band !!
TheMoonchildiva 5 months ago
Thanks for posting..............love this and had no idea about the lead singer. :(
MsBluheart 5 months ago
why cant musicians play like they did before? they were so original and they oozed coolness. pushin too hard is timeless.
olana808 5 months ago
I remember them performing this on the sunset strip?.......not sure but it was in the 60's and it came on everyday after school
camoman270 5 months ago
An incredible and hot song indeed!
norseleague 6 months ago
Sky Saxon and The Seeds still get it! I'd like to have all of the change I dropped into a jukebox to hear this one. My bike riding pals used to dance with their ladies to this one (and Liar, Liar by The Castaways and Who Do You Love by The Woolies). Real people, real music, real motorcycles, real times. I need the Way-back Machine like right now!
mickeymousebiker1 6 months ago 2
Do you know how hard it is to sing lead and play bass?
Tonithenightowl 6 months ago
@Tonithenightowl Not on this song.
pretorious700 5 months ago
@pretorious700 I'm saying in general.
Tonithenightowl 5 months ago
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ShapelyDice 6 months ago
JESUS CHRIST is the only only only -one way- to HEAVEN...Reverend Norman Edward Vail
NormanEdwardVail 6 months ago
I remember the 1st time I heard this tune on my am transistor getting ready for school in 66 or 67 ? some station in Windsor ON, I was in Philly, it blew me away, copped the guitar solo and played it in my 7th grade garage band. Yeh I'm an old fossil now.
odanak100 6 months ago 2
not to make anyone mad... but why was this uploaded on Mar 19, 2009, when he passed away on june 25, 2009? or did the author edit it...?
StrawberryFeilds67 6 months ago
I sat in the ER after a fall down concrete steps : June 25, 2009. All the nurses were tumbling over each other for the TVs in the rooms saying Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had both died. Incredulous. I was in bad shape myself! Only many months later did I really have a heart tug: Sky Saxon had also died on that day. Wow.....Sky was in my high school class in L.A. and this tune was played by me as a DJ out there zillions of times. Instant fantastic it was. Sky is in music-sky now.
SpeegBJ 6 months ago 10
@SpeegBJ Did you ever work with a guy by the name of Dick Sainte, voted #1 DJ on the west coast in the 60s.
Hell of nice man,when he passed in 2005 the world of radio broadcasting lost an icon, and i a close friend.
bingobongo445 3 months ago
according to Wikipedia, he was 71. August 20, 1937 – June 25, 2009
interestingly, he died on the same day as Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
the cause of death has still not yet been released.
1stDewboy 6 months ago
I was 17 when this song hit the charts, In their day they were quite poplular. they had many hits, such as " farmer, farmer," and "can't seem to make you mine", and others I can't recall. they were big stuff. After 47 years memories fade, but the beat goes on.
radicright 6 months ago
@radicright i was seventeen when i discovered this song. Now im seventeen and a half and the beat will keep going on!!!
aflyhas2legs 6 months ago
awesome! under rated group. What a sound!
CanadaAstro 6 months ago
@CanadaAstro You darn rights, man! I have a copy of the original LP that includes this awesome hit song.
I like the dual solo part where the two guitars 'argue' with one another.
FischerFan 6 months ago
FANTASTIC!!
Thanks for sharing this. You just made my Saturday
full of coolness!!
Thanks
breachborn 7 months ago
i wish i was young in that time...not now=(
lizzylovesdarcy1992 7 months ago 18
@lizzylovesdarcy1992 same here!
aflyhas2legs 7 months ago
@lizzylovesdarcy1992
Same here aswell!
charlieflint 7 months ago
@lizzylovesdarcy1992 Not if you were black! lol
1971SuperLead 5 months ago
@1971SuperLead
BS, you think every white had it easy in this country? One side of my family almost starved to death in the early 1900s when they first arrived and then again during the depression. They were discriminated against for employment and were beat up on the street. No welfare for them, no special laws either. Hell, they would have thought they went to heaven if they could ride the back of a bus. No, tired of hearing that, after some seven trillion dollars in welfare, enough!
joesphx19 5 months ago
@joesphx19 Ok, now I see the truth. Being white has never been an advantage over being black. Thank you for your indisputable message of light. Of course you are right. How could I have been so mistaken? I'm sorry to hear about how your family struggled just because they were white. When will black people give us equal rights? How long must we suffer? How long my brother? How long? Did we not die in the trenches too fighting for America's freedom? Does not our blood spill red as well? Oh Lordy!
1971SuperLead 5 months ago
@joesphx19 I'M TIRED OF WHITE PEOPLE bringing up blacks and WELFARE the welfare system was started by in the 1930's as part of the new deal. THERE WERE NO CIVIL RIGHTS FOR BLACKS THEN SO BELIEVE ME IT WAS WHITES WHO RECEIVED THE GREATEST BENEFITS FROM THIS SYSTEM. if you your family didn't get any money that's their damn fault, BECAUSE WELFARE WAS SIT UP HELP YOUR WHITE ASS RACE. WERE THEY CONSIDERED LAZY ASS BUMS BECAUSE THEY GOT FREE CASH FROM THE GOVERNMENT?
wolof2000 4 months ago
@wolof2000
Waz yo problem militant ghetto rat? That shi* is old hat. have you not heard we all have a black presiden. Go round and round or go down, but up has already been reached. Whitey got no lower gear dog, next gear is war,
radiowwww 4 months ago in playlist WHITE
@radiowwww WAZ YO PROBLEM YO RADIO DIAL DONE SWUNG OUT PLACE,have you not heard even though WE ALL GOT A BLACK PRESIDENT IT'S TALK GO ROUND AND ROUND AMONG BLACK LEADERS AND COMMON BLACK FOLKS THANGS STILL FUCKED WITH RACE RELATIONS, THAT "RACIAL UP" IS JUST JUST AN ILLUSION DOG, AND DOG THEY SAY MISSISSIPPI'S STILL BURNING SEE IT'S ALL ABOUT THOSE TWO WHITEY BOYS WHO PURPOSELY RAN OVER A YOUNG BLACK MAN WITH THEIR TRUCK AND KILLED HIM A FEW MONTHS AGO, THEY SAID THEY HATED NIGGERS DOG
wolof2000 4 months ago
@lizzylovesdarcy1992
it was a magic time
meggafish 5 months ago
@lizzylovesdarcy1992 you and me both...I was a baby when this came out
kansascitycomputers 4 months ago
Sheesh...Sky isn't even trying to lipsynch properly...
lemurianchick 7 months ago
You predicted his death by about 3 months in advance when you uploaded this.
R.I.P. etc.....
loxi59tica 7 months ago
i like during the guitar solo the camera man zooms in on the bass lol
1baboswell 7 months ago 3
When they cut this one, they broke the mold.....never heard anything like it since....
rainstormz28 7 months ago
Don't know how anyone can hear this and not want to get up and shake a tail feather.
bksanf01 7 months ago
@bksanf01 shake a tail feather? ... lol
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
The middle of this cut has the coolest ever lead solo to play air guitar with!! Maybe, the Kinks YOU REALLY GOT ME, comes in second.
turdy3birdy 7 months ago
SUPERB!!!!!!!!!
1934LORLAN 8 months ago
The guitarist looks like he could be Jack Black's dad. This is one of those cool songs you forget about until YouTube because The Seeds weren't grossly popular but they were excellent, especially by 1960's standards.
USAFdude84 8 months ago
THE SEEDS. JTIK
garvaltwins 8 months ago
@garvaltwins what does tht stand for?
FinnAndJake13 8 months ago
good old song.
indico80 8 months ago
Take me back......
dlminier 8 months ago in playlist FM Radio - Oldies Rock N Roll - 1950's, 1960's, 1970's
2 years on and we don't forget you Sky. RIP great man !
justre1989 8 months ago 20
R.I.P. Sky .
johnhharley48 8 months ago
Count Dracula on the organ, ladies and gentlemen.
DoolittleKid 8 months ago 2
@caferacer066 Googled it. The band was called Jet Trash.
MrJamesrnolan 8 months ago
the pianist is my guitar and piano teacher right now!
emak05 8 months ago
It´s always great with focus on the bass during a guitarsolo!
baskethilt 8 months ago
Lead guitarist damn busy playing rythm too! Organist was a busy little guy on this song too!
SkidRowJosephine 9 months ago
I had no idea "sky" died. His voice was amazing. I love this song. I always associated this with the first punk song ever. Even though they look more like "mods" then punkers.
fudgefucker666 9 months ago
the lyrics pretty much say it all
slytherinwitch999 9 months ago
You know what I do to people who get up in my face and tell me I should recognize Billy Corgan's originality? I show them this video. And then they shut up.
codeaires 9 months ago
That guitar solo in the middle is one of the best that I've ever heard. Quentin Tarentino should use this song in one of his movies.
Jupiter2able 9 months ago
@Jupiter2able really, you not heard many solos, even for the time Blacksabbath was miles a head
ubernagash 9 months ago
Does this song remind anyone else of the Nina Simone song "Sinnerman"?
cemeterytan 9 months ago
By far, one of the greatest Garage Rock songs ever.
intlradartech 10 months ago
Gone but not forgotten---Sky &the Seeds-- probably smoked a little,toked a little,poked a little, maybe weird a little--but the music lives.
brucer12 10 months ago
Memories! Brings me back to 1966, Senior in HS, and cruisn with my girl in my modified 56 Plymouth, a real sleeper! Peace
MrPopsman 10 months ago
this song mirrors the frantic pace of change that occured in the late '60s. "can't seem to make you mine" was the sexiest.
radicright 10 months ago
WOW- WHAT A COOL GROUP. I USE TO DATE THEIR MANAGER. SHE WAS REALLY SOMETHING BUT WE QUICKLY BROKE UP BECAUSE SHE SAID THAT I WAS "PUSHIN TOO HARD" DAMN I MISS HER.
HEARTHEANGELSVOICES 10 months ago
Back when pretty much everybody had to lip-sync to the recording because performing live was too technically difficult and politically risky...
flizbarg 10 months ago
Shebang! That show had some great guests.
yourtubesteak 11 months ago
@yourtubesteak What ever happened to the show Malibu U ???? usteak???
Lolyf55 11 months ago
@Lolyf55 Don't know what you are talking about, but this clip is definitely from a show called "Shebang".
yourtubesteak 11 months ago
@yourtubesteak What ever happened to the show Malibu U ???? usteak??? Or is Wiener????
Lolyf55 11 months ago
I've not been born yet and I love this song!
repoman1980 11 months ago
@1:09 sounds like "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks.
AmiraAlBalad 11 months ago
personifies the fast pace of the 60's. Could be called stereotypical of the era. love it !
radicright 11 months ago
This song pops in my head whenever I'm henpecked. >: (
etks1957 1 year ago
this song pops up in my head whenever im bored.!:p
susieinthesky98 1 year ago
RIP Sky.
smokeydman 1 year ago