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The Seeds: Can’t Seem To Make You Mine

R.I.P. Sky Sunlight Saxon, lead singer of The Seeds, who died today.

Born Richard Marsh in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Different sources suggest a birth year of either 1937,1945 or 1946), he began his career performing doo-wop pop tunes in the early 60s under the name Little Richie Marsh.
After changing his name to Sky Saxon, he formed the Electra-Fires in 1962 and then Sky Saxon & the Soul Rockers.
In 1965, Saxon founded the psychedelic flower power band The Seeds with Jan Savage (guitar), Rick Andridge (keyboards) and Darryl Hooper (drums).Hit songs for Saxon and the Seeds included Can’t Seem to Make You Mine and (You’re) Pushin’ Too Hard, which became a top 40 song in 1967 and was covered by the Monkees.

Breaking up the Seeds band in 1967 he formed the Sky Saxon Blues Band. After the release of one album, A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues, Saxon reestablished the Seeds but the group did not attract any mainstream attention.

In the 1970s Saxon became a member of the Source Family religious group, a Hollywood Hills commune led by YaHoWha who gave Saxon the names Sunlight and Arlick.

In subsequent years, Sky Saxon released a number of recordings under various band names including Star’s New Seeds, Sky Saxon & Firewall and King Arthur’s Court.

In 2008, Sky Saxon and the Seeds collaborated on some new songs and recordings with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. Saxon later appeared in the music video of the Smashing Pumpkins’ song Superchrist
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