@@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
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..
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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....
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.
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.
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 .
Agree totally ...The Nugget compilations are full with them ,"Count Five" ,"Amboy Dukes", Electric Prunes".....and a whole lot lesser known brilliant ones.
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
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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
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!!
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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! 🙏
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 RU-vid.
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 !
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....
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!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 😎✌
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...
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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
About the earliest sneak peak we would have at American Punk Rock. I wonder what the New York Dolls, Blondie, and The Runaways would sound like without the success of this sneering, defiant yowl of a record. In style of music and attitude of lyrics, it is about a decade ahead of its time and still sounds brave and subversive even today.
+Donald Morrow It absolutely was. This is one of my favorite songs, still have the 45. My older brother was a greaser/biker (still is) and would play this among other cool, badass 60s bands and we'd have dance parties in the living room. Good times.
+Donald Morrow I grew up and played drums with John (Thunders) and know that when we were in HS in Queens, we both listened to Music Machine's "Talk, Talk," and the Seeds's "Pushin to Hard," over and over again. We lost a rock and roll legend when Sky Saxon died. Peace.
Great song. As soon as I heard it on the radio I begged my parents to take me shopping so I could buy the 45. As a teenager at the time it`s all I could afford with my allowance money. I didn`t have enough money to buy lps at the time.
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).
One of if not the best garage or hard rock songs of the decade up there and of course there classic appearance on mothers in law so cool how much rock bands were on sitcoms back then.
