Nothing's new except, this site uploads much faster now than before. I've cut some images on the sidebar and made some updates on song videos. Anyway, I found a Smashing Pumpkins video of the song "Drown" and paste it at the sidebar. Hope everyone enjoy this.

Watch me bleed.....

Nothing to write nowadays but this. I'm into watching some cartoons on television lately. Avatar, Spongebob, etc. Some months back, I found this video with a "Tears for Fears" song "Watch Me Bleed" off their 1983 album "The Hurting." One day, I found myself burning some CD's with this song. I guess I miss the 80's a lot. Anyway, enjoy the music and the video.

The Seeds Need Sunlight.....

Sad news of the passing of celebrity figures has unfortunately been coming in droves over the past week. The recent tragic deaths of high profile figures such as Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and even pitchman Billy Mays have generated a lot of media attention, outpourings of support from fans, and plenty of discussion about their lives and accomplishments. Another musician and friend of the Pumpkins passed away last Thursday, but drew slightly less media attention. Sky Saxon, the founder of the 1960's psychedelic garage band The Seeds died in Austin, Texas of a suspected infection of internal organs at the age of 72. Pumpkins fans will most likely recognize Sky from his appearance alongside Billy and Jimmy in the band's 2008 video for "Superchrist." He was the guest bass guitarist seen jamming the opening notes of the song and rocking out the tune throughout the video. Billy Corgan had a very strong personal relationship with Sky outside of just their musical connection, and his passing comes a very sad news.

Sky began his music career under the name Little Richie Marsh, singing doo-wop songs in the early 1960's. He experimented with several different bands before joining forces with Jan Savage, Darryl Hooper, Jeremy Levine, and Rick Andridge to form the act known as The Seeds in the early days of the psychedelic movement in 1965. Their two most widely known hits were "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and "Pushin' Too Hard," (seen below) which reached the top forty charts in the United States in 1967. Shortly thereafter, however, Saxon disbanded The Seeds to pursue his "Sky Saxon Blues Band" project. After just one album under that moniker, The Seeds would re-unite to continue writing and releasing music into the late 1960's. They would also release sporadic albums throughout the 70's, 80's, 90's, and even into the 2000's while Sky experimented with solo albums and side projects of various forms. According to Saxon's website, there are thirty six albums or EP's officially attributed to him and the different projects he embarked upon over the years. The most recent of these releases was The Seeds' 2008 album "Back to the Garden."

The Seeds performing "Pushin' Too Hard" in 1967.

The Seeds played a very important role in the development of the psychedelic era of rock n' roll music. It's impossible to measure just how far a band's influence spreads, but they received shout outs in the form of a cover of "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" from acts as wide-ranging as Alex Chilton, Garbage, The Ramones, and Yo La Tengo. The Seeds themselves were heavily influenced by the Rolling Stones, and drew comparisons as the "American version of the Rolling Stones." They were among the first American bands (along with The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, and others) to take the blues and R & B base provided by bands like the Rolling Stones and experiment with it, trying to replicate the affects of drug experimentation in their music. The Seeds were based out of Los Angeles, close to the heart of the psychedelic rock movement in San Francisco. While their music may have been more popular at that time within the local California psychedelic scenes than it was on a national scale, they were certainly among the pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of the hit acts of the late 1960's and 1970's.

From: www.smashingpumpkins.com