Being sky sunlight saxon
By Lorenzo Woodrose.
I really don’t know
whether it was my own childish curiosity or perhaps the special talents
of Mr. Krogh, that somehow convinced me to do this interview with Sky
Saxon when he visited Loppen at Christiania with a new crew of Seeds,
but the fact is that I did it. In case you didn’t know, I am indeed
a great fan of bands like The Seeds myself and there were actually a lot
of questions I’d like to ask a guy like Sky Saxon: Was he actually
involved in the making of the legendary Fire Escape LP on GNP along with
Kim Fowley as was the rumour? Who was in the obviously revised Seeds that
he played with on the protopunk anthem “Bad Part of Town”?
How long did the recording of a song like “Pushing Too Hard”
take back then? How was it recorded? And what about his involvement with
sixties cult guru Father Yod and the obscure band of his followers Yahowa13?
These were the kind of questions running through my mind, as I made my
way up the stairs to Loppen, with the final notes of “The Wind Blows
Your Hair” still ringing out from the soundcheck. I introduced myself
to Sky and we chatted a bit while he finished his coffee and a joint of
sacred herb. I also handed him some CD’s of my own band Baby Woodrose
and we agreed to go outside and sit on the lawn for the interview. My
questions would soon prove to be absolutely worthless.
LW: How do you feel about bands like Baby Woodrose, who let themselves inspire by the sound of The Seeds and sort of build on that?
SS: Well, I think I might have launched 10.000 bands at least – including a lot of people who saved their career doing Seeds music…
LW: You might be right…
SS: Yeah, I never thought it was to that degree, but everybody’s done it…The Damned, The Hoodoo Gurus… I consider it a form of flattery, but I think…I would be really thrilled if the people who copied the music and imitated it…if they would become vegetarians and doing it, you know…then they would even get higher…I think that’s all we’re here for…to be vegetarians and find Yahowa…Fire, Water, Air… See, I’m not here to do music – I’m really here to give God’s name and save dogs…and if somehow I can do it through my music, then that makes me as powerful as whatever…you know…but in the opposite direction of ending all wars, see - the wars will never end, ‘till people know God’s name, which is Yahowa, and it will never end as long as people eat animals…but what will happen is that people will come together, who don’t eat animals and who do know Yahowa’s name…and the rest of the earth will probably be, you know…wiped out.
LW: I would really like to hear something about the conditions you recorded under back then. The first album for example…
SS: Well, ok…I went around to different record labels and I asked them for help, and they didn’t give me any help….the record industry was mostly mafia back then…it wasn’t until the Beatles came out that the mafia influence faded away – they couldn’t match the power of a band, you know…they could hire backup musicians, but without the power of a band… I think it’s like…George Harrison said: “All things must pass”…so in time, everything will pass, but the one thing that won’t pass is God’s name and it’s Yahowa – you know, last time I saw Jim Morrison – I knew Jim, he opened for me and I loved him and I wanted to take him back to my spiritual home and he told me he couldn’t stop eating bacon & eggs and Joe Cocker told me he couldn’t stop eating cheeseburgers, well…had Jim gone back with me, he would have had to forget that he was Jim Morrison, just like I had to forget I was Sky Saxon and do Father Yod’s music, he always used to say: “You don’t like my movie, go make your own movie…!” In other words, he was saying like…. You know, we had people coming to our family who thought they were Jesus Christ, and said: “I don’t know father, but I think I’m really Jesus Christ” - it’s a consciousness thing, but consciousness needs more consciousness, so the one who really believed that he was Jesus Christ, Father said to him: “You’re right my son – go out on the earth and teach…”
LW: Why do you think so many young people today find enjoyment in the music of bands like The Seeds and Yahowa13?
SS:Someone told me earlier that we were ahead of our time and I think we really were. And I think that maybe I wrote all those songs or channelled them back then so they could be used now as some kind of ammunition, you know like…Bush is getting 3000 new warplanes, I don’t know what he’s gonna do with them, bomb the earth? Well, I hope not, but what I think is that…if he’s building 3000 warplanes, then I’m just gonna write 3000 songs…I had a song called Rocking The World Today, meaning tip the world on its axis, the bombs and the planes would fall and be buried deep in the ocean. There is a power of God that won’t allow that much destruction. I also have a song about him coming back as a fly, I think he’s gonna come back as a fly as well as Hitler, Reagan and of course Nixon…
I mean – it’s an ultimate disgrace to humanity, somebody who believes it’s ok to bomb another part of the earth needs to be locked up in a mental hospital. Because we’re all brothers and sisters and uh – what we’ve done is we’ve really entered the golden age. The golden age started…a lot of people thought the changeover was 2000, but it wasn’t….according to the Gregorian calendar, the change came 2001, September 17th – so that’s officially when we entered the golden age.
LW: What are the implications of the golden age?
SS: Well, I think that everybody that didn’t listen in the last 100 years is probably gonna get really sick and die…because, uh…I think that…uh…I mean…If you really wanted to save your soul and live forever, you’d have to be a vegetarian, you know? That’s what God said in Genesis: “Behold, I’ve given you every herb bearing seed and every tree which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat!” So, really mammals are only supposed to eat fruit, but that’s ok, you know – you can eat salads and you can eat grains and… you know – like you can have a bouquet on earth, but you will never get a bouquet as long as you’re eating animals. Because I was taught that it makes a graveyard out of your mouth and it makes a cemetery out of your stomach, this represented by some people who go along with their stomachs hanging out. It’s what the Beatles said, when they were singing about “little piggies with forks in hands”.
My movement is to sow the seeds of peace on earth and teach vegetarianism, cause that way for sure you’ll go back to God, and then the earth is really divided because of 4 religions, but the four became a 1000 – but anyway… the four religions, everybody knows them - one is Buddha, one is Krishna, one is Jesus Christ and one is Mohammed or Allah, you know? But you see – all those were the ones who were sent to teach, they weren’t ever supposed to be worshipped, you know. If they were living today, they’d tell you that whatever they’d done, they’d done it through the father, you know. So - what I like to tell people is that if you’re breathing, you’re Jesus. So, everybody you see on the planet is Jesus. God doesn’t make any distinguishing between them…well, maybe if they’re eating meat, maybe they’re not Jesus? They probably aren’t, I’ll take that back, ok so… if you’re not eating meat and you’re breathing, then you’re Jesus.
Now - Christ is one that’s enlightened, and one that’s enlightened is a really tricky thing. The bible was never meant to be read by the wise man, that’s where people fail with the bible. It was only ever meant to be understood by the man of spirit and a man of spirit would of course be a vegetarian, so – the bible is only true as far as you can translate it correctly and very few people know how to translate it correctly…I can translate it correctly cuz I’m a vegetarian and I’ve studied the bible, but I’ll tell you this – we are the living bible right now.
I will tell everybody what my father said, he said: “70% of the earth is bastards”, hard language, I know - but I don’t like to sugarcoat truth – a bastard is someone who doesn’t know his father, so – all these people that has just walked by here, if you could go up and ask them the name of God almighty, then…I bet you could ask a thousand people and they couldn’t tell God’s name to you. The best they could come up with would be Christ, Buddha, Krishna or Allah and that’s not good enough, you know? Because everyone of those religions killed billions of people and if you ask to go there, then that’s where you’re gonna go. You’re gonna be surrounded by people who’ve killed billions, enforcing what they think God wants. God is like a dog, man…he’s like a little puppydog, he’s waiting for his children to love him and take care of him, that’s why it’s important to take care of the dogs, it’s the symbol of God almighty…
LW: Have you seen all the wild dogs running around out here? There are lots of them.
SS: I did and I’m making my new album and I’m giving 25% off of it to the dogs here in Christiania. Now… we don’t need wars, we don’t need to build up for wars, because…let me tell you something: We had spacetravel back in the time of the pyramids. For your information, I don’t know if I should say it, but I will say it – the reason the pyramids were built in the first place is that there’s a spaceship underneath. Now - if man is to master those spaceships and try to dig out and find them, he might cause a real calamity, a catastrophe…
LW: Where did you get this knowledge?
SS: From God. Well, let’s just say from a higher source. I’ve kept it quiet for 25 years, but…at the right time a command could be given and those spaceships will rise from the pyramids, at the right time…in the meantime you can’t screw with it, because…I don’t know what will happen if they tried to…maybe a part of the earth would go, because there must be a lot of power under there…but anyway, they had spacetravel back in that time…and when the great mighty Atlantis was sunk, it wasn’t sunk by an accident, it was sunk because the elementals turned a ray on it. So…what I’m saying to earth is, if earth got in such a space where they need 3000 warplanes to blow people up, the elementals would just get tired and turn a ray on it and just take out a piece of the earth, if not the whole earth, it would be that quick…(Sky snaps his fingers)… so…we really shouldn’t bomb anybody...and check this out - when a bird is flying overhead and a feather falls from that bird and just flitters down to earth, the earth feels that vibration…so when the earth is being pounded with 25.000 pound bombs it is effecting the wellbeing of everything on this planet, it is changing the energy…it is making what would have been cold, a hot day, what would have been hot, a cold day, it’s effecting everything, it’s effecting earthquakes, floods, tornados, tsunamis, whatever…you name it…and for anybody to drop a bomb on anybody is the most asinine thing I could ever imagine, it could not ever be sanctioned by anybody with a real brain – you know, cause nobody wants to blow people up…if you’re gonna kill people, you need to do it hand to hand, so you can see their eyes, so you can see that you’re really killing a brother, you know…and at that moment you probably wouldn’t do that. Not if you realise that…you know?
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