Sky Saxon, RIP
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With no disrespect to the passing of 70s girl power icon, Farrah Fawcett (so iconic that even a punk rock bad girl took her name... that woman was no angel tho).... 60s garage rock legend Sky Saxon also shuffled off this mortal coil. He had recently moved to Austin, TX and began to resurface in the rock scene that he never really left. Read more about it here.
I worked recently with music producer and weirdo (and I mean that in the best of possible connotations), Kim Fowley who once related an encounter he had with Sky Saxon in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Grind, a garage rock festival.
Sky shouted some abuse at Fowley and punched him, then he ran into a concert room and hid in plain sight, on stage with the A Bones, presumably, since Fowley is a fan of the A Bones and wouldn't disrupt their set in order to hit Sky back. Its much funnier when Fowley tells it... and maybe he will on his Sirius radio show next weekend....
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Sad news to hear. A Web Of Sound was a favourite album back then and Pushing Too Hard and Can't Seem To Make You Mine remain solid favourites all these centuries later. Kim Fowley....a national heritage!
Sad to hear...RIP
Weird day for pop culture passings. Rip Sky, for for a little pushing to hard.
Sad News...I didn't see your post on this until I posted mine. Found a video of Pushin' Too Hard one of my favorites when i was a child and still holds up today.
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I have difficulty describing the influence Sky had on me. And will continue to have on me. In the few years I knew him he taught me a lifetime worth of lessons. Sky taught me to never give up. Sky showed me the way of forgiveness and true love for my fellow beings of all sorts. Sky taught me patience. With his help he taught me how to make a great album (Pisces Rising was produced by him over the phone and on line!). The musical legacy he left us will continue to enrich our lives and the lives of those yet unborn for ages to come! Right now I just want to reflect on the loss of my friend and teacher...Perhaps at a later time I will get into more detail, but more than likely I won't. So many people were always trying to ride his cosmic and very long coat tails. For me just having him as a friend and being blessed with having worked with him for a brief time is enough...If Sky taught me anything it was that with my heart in the right place and my mind unpolluted, I don't need to be anybody's side man. I can shine on my own. So in closing I would like to say thank you Sky. Thank you for seeing something in me that I did not. Thank you for your influence and helping to shape my music. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for your love. I love you and I will miss you my friend... Jimmy Valentine