I saw the Seeds in 1966 ...They opened for The Supremes at the Hollywood Bowl...It was my first rock concert!!

@brotzmannsax

2 жыл бұрын

That's a fun fact , the Seeds and the Supremes, interesting.

@MWSLV

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!!!

@karenrogers4036

2 жыл бұрын

I was at that concert too!didnt buffalospringfield,supremesand Johnny? Play too?

@marladell6091

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenrogers4036 Hi Karen....I don't remember the BS or JR opening for that concert. Just the seeds. I did however see the BS at a small venue just off Sunset Blvd in '67. I am certain that this concert was sometime in the Summer of '66. I am from the SFV and now live in N. Ca. I saw a lot of concerts in my day and am so blessed to be a part of this music revolution. Best to you!! Marla

@John_Fugazzi

2 жыл бұрын

What a weird combo that was. They were so very different, the supremes all glamor and choreographed moves and the Seeds barely contained punk chaos.

I was in Junior High when this came out. One day a teacher was giving us a hard time about something and I said, "You're pushing too hard!" Detention for me.

@rs-oj7jt

3 жыл бұрын

Haa

@suenatewa7472

3 жыл бұрын

This can never happen at this age of time. Lesson learned the hard way we did. Not so much now.

@stevegrieb6596

3 жыл бұрын

Well, crap! We are getting old Jake.

@martinbachmann6283

3 жыл бұрын

Markko17, I was in 4th or 5th grade I think, when I first heard this. LOVED your "Junior-High" experience! Yup, as far as junior-high (teachers) went for me, I turned into a BONAFIDE smart-ass myself - and hey, I'm pretty much still the same way today in my mid-60s! Funny thing though; I'm a retired career elementary-ed/early-child Teacher? Hmmm....

@peterlydon5100

3 жыл бұрын

a true heroe of The Revolution!

I've been pushin too hard for 50 years! Now I'm old an tired but never too tired for this song!😂😍

It’s amazing! My heart and soul have remained between the ears 1964-67 since then! This is the greatest era in Rock music history! I love this song!

@FRANKIESIXTOES

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@ae2yosemitesamvp48

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Graduated from high school in 1966 and got drafted in 1967 and went to VietNam in 1970.

@trttt139

Жыл бұрын

@@ae2yosemitesamvp48 what do you think of the vietnam war now?

@rasjjmitchell7977

Жыл бұрын

THE GREATEST ERA OF MUSIC! The music of today sucks by comparison

@pappies.c.9583

Жыл бұрын

I too want to go back to those days so peaceful good music

I've always loved that garage/proto-punk/psychadelia-influenced sound of the 60s. You get that from other bands like Syndicate of Sound (Hey Little Girl), Blues Magoos (We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet), Music Machine (Talk Talk) and a few others. Thanks for posting.

@hugbug4408

3 жыл бұрын

You stole my thunder! How right you are! Was in the 3rd grade when this came out on phillies famous 56 wfil in early fall 65. My grade schools friends bro was sent to SouthVietnam in the Mekong Delta with the big red 1: 1st infantry division USA.

@HamptonGuitars

2 жыл бұрын

If you aren't familiar with Masculine Intuition by Music Machine, check it out. My favorite.

@hugbug4408

2 жыл бұрын

Don't 4get Dandylions don't tell no lies ! Lol. I' ll listen to some of The Music Machines fine tunes of the mid- to late 60s ! Some of the tunes you mentioned came out around 1965-66 , and I was 8/9 years old listening to Phillies Famous 56 WFIL ! Rember very well some of my friends brothers , and neighbors sons , being sent to a hell in South East Asia--SouthVietnam ! My uncle was kia there mid- March , 1968 , @ tail end of TET! Also , 10 days before my 11th bday . The 60s was a interestingly crazy time line in our country's history ! The music , from all genres was into the psychedelic scene by 1964 , actually earlier than that . I'd say more back into the late 50s , and early 60s. Be Bops , Beatniks , Merry Pranksters , to the quintessential hippies , of course so did drugs like LSD , Mushrooms , Speed/Methamphetamines , Barbituates , Heroin , and Marijhuana . By the mid- to late 60s , Heroin , Smack , H , Horse , Junk , Scag , Dope became a bad epidemic ; more than the other drugs , believe it or not. Alcohol was the biggest abused drug , and always will be. Alot of these tunes of the mid- to late 60s were danced to , and listend to by people under the influence of something that would eventually deprave them later. Blues Magoos "We Ain't Got Nothing Yet " , and "The Easy Beats 'Got Fri. On My Mind' " were great beer drinking , among other indulgences , songs to dance to ! Alot , of the pop psych / psychedelic songs were good to dance to . My friends sister was one of those early hippies , and had a plethora of some early psych tunes .

@PAULLONDEN

2 жыл бұрын

Agree totally ...The Nugget compilations are full with them ,"Count Five" ,"Amboy Dukes", Electric Prunes".....and a whole lot lesser known brilliant ones.

@hugbug4408

2 жыл бұрын

@@PAULLONDEN Don't 4get the SEEDS ; "PUSHIN ' TO HARD"

The best Rock and Roll music came from this era. We, who grew up with this music are so fortunate. Rock and Roll music will never be the same. 😀

@dennismurillodennis3079

6 ай бұрын

You are correct.

@user-hs7kn3ng2z

5 ай бұрын

What about Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber? (Meaning, you are 100 percent correct! As Joni Mitchell said about today's music, "It's a septic tank!")

@gaylonmurphy1298

15 күн бұрын

The stuff today is just like Sleepy Joe a Joke

The seeds were perhaps the top garage band of all time!In no other garage band will you see such perfection and vocal harmonies!RIP Sky Saxon.

@jong0000

Жыл бұрын

They were indeed, excellent, but should only be considered as possibly second best. AS Ray Wylie Hubbard says, no band was ever cooler than the 13th Floor Elevators..

@schuberttim

Жыл бұрын

The Seeds were a great garage band, but there were no vocal harmonies on "Pushin' Too Hard". Perhaps you liked the background vocals, which were pretty cool.

@andrewjohnstone963

Жыл бұрын

Says you so it must be true ¿

@andrewjohnstone963

Жыл бұрын

​@jong9539 Says you Its juvenile get a grip

@waynesilverman3048

11 ай бұрын

Jong u know that !

Those garage bands in every neighborhood man, God I miss them. Being a kid then, it was great.

@hawkinsa90

3 жыл бұрын

But never played in a garage!

@balloonfarm5903

3 жыл бұрын

@@hawkinsa90 I was in a basement band.😆😎✌🏽☮️🎸

@rockettebob

2 жыл бұрын

i think the MOTHERS played bollero bowling alley in east san diego. beefheart delivered bread out of his dad's helms truck. i bought penny candy...it is strange being in reno in 2021.....rockettebob

@hermanrego8115

2 жыл бұрын

Weren't the 60's the best time for music. Great garage rock!

@larryfitzgerald2945

12 сағат бұрын

So much great music from the garage bands of the day, REAL FROM THE GUT. Now it’s all corporate, image more important than the music, which is what squally formatted, formulated, & soulless. We had choices, today we are force fed what we hear, like it or not.

I saw the Seeds play this song in 1966.They were playing in a parking lot in Granada Hills,CA two blocks from my parents house.I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

@johnriselvato5838

6 жыл бұрын

Jim Moriarty I was there in Granada Hills at this parking lot. A local record store was promoting their first album. I remember this epic moment as if it was yesterday. Good to here from someone that was at this event.

@54dobro

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! I was there too!

@NoWayOut55

6 жыл бұрын

I wasn't there. But nice to see some Vals checking things out! Tim Bogert used to go to the Lamplighter at mission and Balboa. I heard from folks who were old enough to drink when he was hanging out. Van Nuys here, Balboa and Sherman Way!

@nancyhogue4345

5 жыл бұрын

you guys must be as old as i am! did not see the concert, but saw Steppenwolf in 64. still love the sounds of the 60s and still dancing!

@stevemiller7433

5 жыл бұрын

Neat!!

I was on Shebang in 66! Met Casey Kasem. Last year of high school. Then I got a personal letter from “Uncle Sam”. Love these guys and their sound!!👍

This song still sounds great after all these years. RIP Sky.

@ianhenning2422

8 ай бұрын

Classic Song,My Pops put me on to this song and it's been a favorite since the first words I heard...

@mikethebike7372

5 ай бұрын

R I.P. Jan Savage

Love that song 🎵....a underrated song... Kasey Kasem had an amazing voice..

RIP Sky and Reg! You guys help create the sound of a generation.

@janiellenathan

3 жыл бұрын

I was with Sky at the summer if love concert at Luther Burbank. In Santa Rosa

@StevenCarinci

Жыл бұрын

Proto Yardbirds!

@franciscocordova7083

Жыл бұрын

Who is sky and reg?

@Selvikus

Жыл бұрын

@@franciscocordova7083 sky = sky saxon(lead vocalist of Seeds; guy you see on bass in this video)

@billyangus

Жыл бұрын

Rick Andridge was drummer for The SEEDS, with Sky Saxon on lead vocal, Jan Savage on guitar, and Daryl Hooper on keyboards. Hooper is the last surviving original veteran of The SEEDS. Sky passed away on the same day we lost Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, on June 25, 2009. Rick Andridge died in 2011, and Jan Savage passed away in 2020.

That Piano Solo was mindblowing.

A song before it's time..kicking song that never gets old..

@rrock2025

Жыл бұрын

A comment before its time

@shanearmstrong9618

Жыл бұрын

Actually they were right in time with the scene

@laurastafford6217

Жыл бұрын

@@shanearmstrong9618 you don't know shit..

@laurastafford6217

Жыл бұрын

@@rrock2025 you so dam funny

Love that song. One of the best 60s classics.

@bobbywall172

4 жыл бұрын

What a driving song, makes me want get up and dance(move)!!!!!

My grandpa Is the drummer

@Vidiod

9 жыл бұрын

Really? - What's his name?

@gogetafuckinsama6500

9 жыл бұрын

Rick Andridge

@urdivine

9 жыл бұрын

Ricky Andridgeiv Really? I just posted a comment saying that the keyboard player, Daryl Hooper, was my childhood, friend.

@gogetafuckinsama6500

9 жыл бұрын

Cool👍

@cataddict1

9 жыл бұрын

Ricky Andridgeiv OMG!!! That is just wonderful!!!! LOLOL!! I love it!

Always a great idea to get a tight shot of Sky playing the bass during the entire guitar solo, especially when the whole band tries to cue the camera director by looking over at the lead guitarist right before he goes into it. Brilliant...

@John_Fugazzi

2 жыл бұрын

Sky didn't play any instruments. Darryl had an extra bass keyboard for his Farfisa organ in live concerts. On recordings it was usually session bass player Harvey Sharpe. You're right that Jan Savage should have been on camera then.

My Pop's is a Vietnam vet and he told me to give this song to listen and his music is very vast and his knowledge is exceptional and first time hearing this song it was anything like I've ever heard before you could tell the guy I meant what he was saying and what lyrics you know what Harmony they were on the same just a classic song...

I had a recording studio behind my house in Hayward CA., I did a number of recordings with Sky Saxon and friends, but sky didn't just walk in, he BURST in the studio the first time we met. I could tell you many interesting stories about those sessions. He was a very kind and loving human being after all the shenanigan's were over.

Timeless piece of music that will last forever in rock history

@hoss73ford

9 жыл бұрын

I know, isn't it awesome??

@kellywalker5580

4 жыл бұрын

You'd better believe it.

@stevencorsoe9575

4 жыл бұрын

Made the nuggets set great and so did the other great bands.The change in our freedoms.

@hawkinsa90

3 жыл бұрын

Pop history.

@tillitsdone

Жыл бұрын

I think it stinks

The cool part about most of the bands from this era is when they played the same song live, it usually not only sounded different from the studio version, but was usually just as good or sometimes better than the studio versions due to the energy of the audiences. They all had raw pure talent!

@brucewilliams2106

6 ай бұрын

all the TV shows were lip synced back then.

@jamesewanchook2276

3 ай бұрын

no computers or backing tracks to rely on.. most live musicians like to experiment.

Very unique sound, thats what made the 60 magical. This song exemplified that !!! Will we ever be blessed with this magic again !!!!!

I like the way the show does a close up of the bass guitar during the guitar solo...

@tonyrussi7777

3 ай бұрын

the camera person had no clue.

@scottbivins4051

Ай бұрын

Pissed me off I hate when camera guys don't know shit about music. Show the fuckin solo idiots.

@StandingStones1776-vb6zn

9 күн бұрын

@@tonyrussi7777 yeah they did not wants us to see the Vox Electric Guitar

Just 16 and exploring all the dark clubs in obscure corners of the city playing a wild and new sound, still sounds pretty fresh, especially the clean guitar riffs

Got as high as #36 on the Billboard charts in Feb.1967...a CLASSIC!!!

@scottjones7562

7 жыл бұрын

Really, a better tune, I think, than that number implies.

I've commented before that American beat music from the 60s is phenomenal. This music can't be bettered

@randallalan4221

4 жыл бұрын

@reitsound 60's Garage Band music...an example of one of it's finest!

I was a sophomore in college in the fall of 1967. Every Friday when the weather was great, one of the guys in the fraternity would put this 45 on repeat and set the speakers in the third floor window towards the greektown walkway. Got everyone psyched for the w/e-damn I miss those days sometimes. its not what u did, but, what u didn't do....thanx for the memory.

One of the first guitar solos I learned. Glad I got to see the Seeds opening for Jefferson Airplane here in San Diego.

@isaelcorona3424

Жыл бұрын

Woah that sounds amazing

Haven't heard this great classic in 50 years ! Fantastic tunes from back then, remember it like it was yesterday ! Listening on WKBW-am radio, Buffalo.

I got to see the seeds live a couple of times as a kid. I’m in my seventies now.

This song kicks ass. Love Sky's crazy voice. He sounds like an insect when he sings "on meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Had a relative who saw these guys in concert at Santa Monica Beach in the 60s. He said they stunk up the joint and the crowd showered them with watermelon. Even so I love this song.

I'm watching an episode of "The Mothers-in-law" (remember that?) and the Seeds are on it as a group called "The Warts". Lol! I never heard of them. I was 3 when this came out. I'm a young 59 now. 😳 Saw in the credits who they were so I looked them up. This song is mesmerising, as are the band members. Time...goes way too fast. To be able to go back...and not come back! 🙏

@dianagruver5767

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I’m watching that show and I hear this song come on. I’m thinking “I know that song, who does it?!” Lol. I was only a couple of years old when it came out but I had an older sister so I got into music at a young age. I miss 60s music! Thank God for KZread.

@Alva778

7 ай бұрын

Esto quiere decir que esta banda apareció en 1962?

Cruisin' the avenue with this on the radio.....CRANKED UP!

The Seeds from 1966 with your pushing too hard excellent Rock song excellent electric guitar work and percussion this rock song stands out as a Rock classic nice to see Casey Kasem in his Heyday to

The SEEDS only had a hand full of hits, but they had an impact. Non compromising. They had an Alternative vibe. Love Mr. Farmer.

@andyvlasis1601

6 жыл бұрын

Fred Stickley. I so agree.

@maxinestannard9463

6 жыл бұрын

Hell yes!

@emmaduncan2991

6 жыл бұрын

one of the "proto punk" bands of the 60's!

@NoWayOut55

6 жыл бұрын

You bet Fred! Mr. Farmer and Pushin to Hard were songs that were very well made for the genre. The Count5 and ?and the Mysterians also had the sound and groove nailed. Ya gotta love it

@ludannelasyvyus1824

5 жыл бұрын

"Can't Seem to Make You Mine", cool catchy song.

The electric piano during the bridge is AWESOMELY trippy---love it!!

@susancioban-dwyer2569

4 жыл бұрын

I love that electric piano sound. That section reminds me of 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks, another great early power rocker. 👍

@larryfairbanks1734

2 жыл бұрын

Wurlitzer? Popular back in the day.

Love the guitar riffs in this great oldie

Awesome 60s garage,love it,poppa................

Still sounds nasty in 2021, and I remember when it came out. Still have the single.

The guitar solo, economical and absolutely perfect.

First time I heard this song I was a struggling freshman in college. It instantly struck a chord & helped ignite my bottled up rebelliousness & passion to tell off the world!!

Miss the great songs of the 60's. I was 11 in '66. Loved the songs so much.

This reminds of early garage rock bands late 60's and we had band competitions where something like a exhibtion hall was used and all the bands had their turn on stage. They were really good and especially because many of them played at our high school dances in the high school gym. The dance nights in our gym even though chaperoned with priests and nuns were so fun with these small bands out of nowhere.

The greatest guitar solo ever. The best rock and roll sounds like it could fly apart any second. This song has that in spades.

@cre8lite11

2 жыл бұрын

Yes isn’t that the greatest guitar solo, it’s still sends me into orbit. I was fortunate to hang out with Darryle when they brought the seeds documentary to San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. He still teaches music at his ranch in Northern Cal. And his keyboard solo sent me into another orbit. They gave me a T-shirt that night and I have some pictures somewhere. I saw them twice in Santa Barbara and one time they opened for the doors or the other way around

A garage band classic. Thanks for posting it.

The Seeds: Three great chords, FIVE great albums!!

Great song. Gets the blood flowing. Great Guitar

DAMN!!! What a classic!

THEY PLAYED AT MY FRESHMAN DANCE IN 1966' AT SERRA HIGH SCHOOL IN GARDENA, CA.❣️

I remember Kasey Kasem! He used to DJ on KRLA Radio in L.A., CA.during the 1960s. I used to listen to him while I was in elementary and high school. Since I lived in L.A., I enjoyed listening to all of the rock radio stations, such as, KFWB and KHJ. For those of you, who lived in L.A,, you may remember KGFJ and XERB. The latter was DJed by Wolfman Jack, who is now deceased. But I can say, they'll never be another Kasey Kasem. The days of memorable Disc Jockeys are all gone!

@Hope-fv3kf

6 ай бұрын

I worked in Beverly Hills for a Doctor on Robertson Blvd early 70s. Wolfman was 1 of our patients.

Just a great band. What talent. Music that moves you.

Brilliant Post ! Thx for this ! Now I can alert those of my buddies from the 60s who couldn't find any of their music. This band was way ahead of their time !

Cruising around on my blue Stingray bike, not a care in the world - ahhhh, the Good Ol' Days . . .

First remember hearing this around ‘80 when a roommates friend came over and he had these old albums from 60s. We we’re all listening to punk and new wave, so was a bit of an education in the more raw sounds of the 60s. Good times.

Valuable bit of rock history here. So cool to see the band playing here, even if it was lip synced -- and Casey Kasem, too! Wow. Love that guitar tone. Fuzz box boosting a trebley, surf sounding amp. The Seeds always struck me as a super California band, sort of like the Standells. A distinct 'cool' vibe to them and their music. Thanks for posting this cool vid.

This is the way rock and roll should be in 2018.

@hawkinsa90

3 жыл бұрын

Only baking to the sixties!

I saw The Seeds when I lived in a two up two down three to go. In those days we got up before we went to bed. But we were happy!

A relentless song, the beat keeps driving all the way through, even through the keyboard solo. Daresay this song was the inspiration for many later bands.

@jesincere8589

3 жыл бұрын

Sky was everything a 60's rock star could have been. All those prior years gigging made him a stellar front man. Outstanding to watch them.

@bullfrogdaddy

Жыл бұрын

gives me Doors vibez

"Pushing Too Hard" by The Seeds. was showing Brit. Invasion mixing with California's "psychedelic" sound. 1967. sung and written by Sky Saxon.

@kattalady8114

6 жыл бұрын

alan chrisman it's gold in my heart

@cesarcesar8545

5 жыл бұрын

Class of 1978 Digs 60s and 70s the most :)

@scottconnors8419

5 жыл бұрын

shot pool w sky last time I saw him in Portland Oregon,n he passed away not long after,he was talking alot about digs n his dogs?maybe flash backs..I know he was lil unstable few early times I met him.friend mine played in lollipop shoppe n passed away not long ago..rip. Fred...your missed....

@paulcarlsen9469

5 жыл бұрын

It came out in late 65 or early 66...

@charlesroberts3650

5 жыл бұрын

@@cesarcesar8545 Dig it the most.

Released in November 1965...re-issued in October 1966...got to #36 on the Billboard "Hot 100" chart in Feb.1967. A garage band CLASSIC!!!

@haroldfridkis3536

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 👍

I never get tired of listening to this song. Classic RocK!!!!!

Classic punk/garage band song. These boys were way ahead of their time.

This song was played over and over and over on the radio in L.A back in 1965.

@TheStatue1

7 жыл бұрын

yes, 1965 was quite early for psychedelia.

@MikeS-um1nm

4 жыл бұрын

Once woulda' been enough. ...or maybe one time too many.

Wow, man! I'm just sitting here cruising youtube and it's the Seeds doing 'Pushing too hard'! I was there when it was first played on the radio. We said, "Ennnnh".

Fond memories hearing this song and before that, I Can't Seem To Make You Mine, both back in 1967. I still get pumped up by it some 55 years later. The Seeds were under rated.

Love all the changes in this one. Especially the chorus and bridge. 😂

They played The Seeds’ song “Up in Her Room” at the "Desert Trip" 2016 concert over the loudspeakers during intermission (Stones, McCartney, The Who, Roger Waters, Neil Young, and some other guy). It was very cool! Funny to hear them play this on the loudspeakers between Led Zeppelin and Cream songs. So finally after 50 years, The Seeds have finally been accepted into the main stream of cool music (none of my friends appreciated my playing music from The Seeds back in the 70's, lol).

Great song, and the legendary Casey Kasem besides!!!!!!!!!

@toddinthemiddle

7 жыл бұрын

zoinks!

@XMIR10C

6 жыл бұрын

utah

@XMIR10C

6 жыл бұрын

kcpx

@TheRomundus

6 жыл бұрын

Kasem was lamer than lame.

@XMIR10C

6 жыл бұрын

KASEM WAS A LEGEND. WE COULD HEAR KCPX IN CANADA AT NIGHT 1967 - 1975. tHEY USED TO SEND ME THE TOP 40 (500 EVERY WEEK

Great song. Played this song in my band when I was 12 year's old. You can still rock out to this song.

I was tripping on acid one night in 1967 and a friend played the Seeds album. Have loved them ever since.

Love the keyboard and guitar solos!

If this song came out today I wonder how it would do in a Rap/Hip-Hop music world that needs to be dynamited into oblivion. These lyrics have the same bite now as they did then. A timeless classic!!!

@hoss73ford

9 жыл бұрын

Cryo837 Its been 48 years (Dec '66) since it first hit the charts and time hasn't diminished it sound at all but rather enhanced it 'cuz as you say there is stuff out now that needs to go to the scrap heap.

@steveasat2

9 жыл бұрын

Are you being sarcastic? The lyrics are godawful junior-high rhymes. Not that it matters when the message is merely "stop nagging me to get a job, girl". www.metrolyrics.com/pushin-too-hard-lyrics-seeds.html

@thorts

9 жыл бұрын

Cryo837 If you think hip hop has no lyrics u obviously have only heard commercial rap, check sage francis, cecil otter, ceschi etc ignorance is bliss

@steveasat2

9 жыл бұрын

KoivuTheHab Heh, "bite", that's a good one. The lyrics consist of a whiny punk telling off his girlfriend for being naggy. That isn't even a nibble, let alone bite. Google "Ramsey and Stanley and Neville were the names of the mules" if you want to see some bite.

@steveasat2

9 жыл бұрын

KoivuTheHab Even as a teen anthem, these lyrics don't have any "bite", however you choose to redefine that term. It's petulant, not visceral. Now, that's no objection to you LIKING the song. I happen to LOVE a lot of songs that have lame-ass lyrics. So I know bite-less lyrics when I hear them, and these are among them. The chorus is just a complaint and the stanzas are only the singer wanting and demanding instead of actually DOING anything. It was perfect for inclusion on the Easy Rider soundtrack because it reflects the tone of the whole movie.

Go GrandPa Go! Bless his heart! Always loved this song since it first came out and am dancing to it now! This is for all the people that pushed too hard on me! 😎✌

If this song had no lyrics and was just an instrumental it would still be classic One of the greatest psychedelic garage rock riffs ever

This was one of my favorite songs and album when I was in high school.

OK, forgive me for "name dropping" here. I was childhood friends with Daryl Hooper, the keyboardist. I remember we were playing on a property with new construction of a house and stepped on board with a nail in it. It went pretty deep into his foot. That happened right at the very beginnings of the rock era, mid 50's. I know I was obsessed with this "new" kind of music, but I never talked to him about music. I wish I would have. This song, first released in 1965 was a head of it's time.

I was in junior high school when this song was new I remember hearing groups playing in the garages you can hear the band more the Singer!

I like it how Sky sings with an attitude.

pretty cool that you have comments from the artists descendance here.

I was born in 1960. And this song is ingrained into my memory. Work is hard and they still want more. You have to make a living but " ALL I WANT IS TO JUST BE FREE TO LIVE MY LIFE THE WAY I WANT TO BE. ALL I WANT IS TO JUST HAVE FUN TO LIVE MY LIFE LIKE IT'S JUST BEGUN. But your pushin too hard your pushin too hard on me.

@hoss73ford

9 жыл бұрын

perhaps the lyrics of this song (first heard when I was 11 in late 1966) is why I never chose the married with kids route. I like being free & having fun.

@ProudKansan08

6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the 1960's teen/young adult mentality back then. That song expresses it in a nutshell.

@ProudKansan08

6 жыл бұрын

Mark, I sometimes people who chose your route did the right thing. Its too late for me, but, sometimes, I wonder what my life would be like if I chose to stay single with NO kids.

Gritty sound, gritty lyrics. Every man has composed a song like this.

Love this song! I used to think The Animals did this song until I found out these guys were the ones who did it!

What a great riff !

This was the first band that I was a roadie with @ 18. At 19, I spent '68-The Summer-of-Love as a roadie with Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees, People, and other Top-Hit Wonders. Then came Vietnam...

@chasbodaniels1744

3 жыл бұрын

Which experience damaged your hearing the most ... Nam, Blue Cheer or Iron Butterfly? Also, some members of People were into the early days of Scientology.

@deansuffka6844

3 жыл бұрын

@@chasbodaniels1744 Didn't do Nam-Did my tour-of-duty@ hard labor in a military stockade as a conscientious objector. The loudness level was "normal" with The Seeds, People, Boyce & Hart/Monkees and Kansas. My tinnitus is the result of tours with Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, and Captain Beyond.

@deansuffka6844

3 жыл бұрын

@@chasbodaniels1744 Didn't do Nam-did my tour-of-duty @ hard labor in a military stockade as a conscientious objector. The loudness level was "normal" while on tour with The Seeds, People, Boyce&Hart/Monkees, and Kansas. My tours with Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, and Captain Beyond gave me tinnitus. 68summerrofloveroadie

This songs brings back memories. We had so much fun back then 👍🏻

What a great piece of rock history!

This was a great song and a great group

The Seeds played at the Madison County armory or whatever it was called in the 60's in Huntsville, Alabama -one of the first bands I ever saw.

@itisonlyme1

5 жыл бұрын

Something to tell your grandchildren about!! What a great memory

@TheDonnalovesmusic

4 жыл бұрын

Madison County Coliseum, Huntsville, AL - was there and they were great!!!

Great music was the soundtrack of our lives then. I'm 9 in '67. We pretended we were go-go dancers in my backyard kickin' it to this and all the songs ...now classics...on am radio. Best music thru the 80s.

i keep coming back to all these great garagerock classic tunes...good stuff plus a singing bass player w/these guys.

Great band - great songs

I was 7 years old ...love this song to jam on back in the day🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶

Two chord song, Simple, beautiful!

Awesome find, thanks for posting!!!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS BACK THEN THAT MY BAND LOVED TO PLAY IN THE 60s. In SAN FRANCISCO. CASPER.

That was my tree on stage! I let them borrow it for this show and never got it back. Still bitter. It was a rare “Linoleum Ficus”.

@gigid9606

3 жыл бұрын

???? wtf you should be honored your tree was on TV. Chill

"Sky Saxon's father I heard was in the military and that they moved around a lot and I'm from southern Oklahoma and I heard that Sky had lived there in a nearby town for awhile until his father had to move them again, not sure how long he lived here in Oklahoma maybe a year or two, but eventually ended up in California, and became musician, years later he lived in Texas not far from the part of Oklahoma where I live and lived there until his death, the Seeds were one of the many bands that didn't make it as big as some of the others but were still a great band and put out some more music that never got airplay on the radio " Pushin' to Hard" was the only song they did play, thanks."-😎. 🌐🎤🎸🎹🌐.

Ricky Andridgeiv....My husband sat in for them (your grandpa?) at the Rosemont in Chicago. The drummer was sick and my husband's (town) band was playing so they asked him to sit in for the drummer. Small world.