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Songs featured in the acclaimed rockumentary The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard - classics, rarities and many previously unissued cuts. The Seeds remain one of the most iconic American rock bands of the 1960s. Once depicted by rote rock histories as the one-hit wonders behind the Top 40 placement 'Pushin' Too Hard', the Seeds' powerful legacy has only grown in ensuing decades, wielding notable influence on several generations of musicians. The band's sound continues to pack a singular punch to this very day. Directed by GNP Crescendo's Neil Norman and written/produced by Ace's own Alec Palao, Pushin' Too Hard is an extensive two-hour trip through the career of the exemplary garage rock quartet and its eccentric frontman, Sky Saxon. The fascinating and picaresque rags-to-riches-to-rags story is related via extensive interviews with members of the band and their retinue, vintage footage and rare photos and memorabilia, along with compelling insights from Seeds fans such as Iggy Pop, Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, and the Bangles. So much for the publicity spiel. It's been a full dozen years since I first knocked on the front door of Neil Norman's gothic mansion - well, actually a standard, if nicely-appointed tract home - secreted in the Hollywood Hills. I was there to politely inquire about reissuing the Seeds' recordings on behalf of Ace Records. Little would I have guessed that this was the innocuous beginning of an odyssey that would take the two of us all over the United States in search of the truth about a group whose music I had grown up with, a major quasar within that magical 1960s garage and psych firmament that had me transfixed from my early teens on. Early on in our association, Neil related his desire to direct a film about the group, rhapsodising about his memories of the band. Pretty quickly it was obvious that my reissue plans - basically rehabilitating the band's entire GNP Crescendo catalogue, in both sound and content - dovetailed precisely with his dream, and so we embarked upon assembling the film, while simultaneously rolling out the remastered, expanded deluxe versions of the Seeds' five original albums on Big Beat, along with a definitive singles collection. Highlights have been many - Iggy was a great interview, articulating the importance of Seeds music in expert fashion - but the most satisfying by-product of working on the film has been getting to know and befriending Daryl Hooper, Jan Savage and the other original members of the Seeds, musical heroes all, and in the process making sure the story was as much about their partnership with Sky Saxon as it might be about the more copy-worthy exploits of their enigmatic frontman. Speaking of whom, not long after we got going, Sky moved on to the great gig in the sky, but I did meet with him in anticipation of a filmed interview, and he was certainly behind the project. Nevertheless, both Sky and the late Rick Andridge, whose ill-health forbade his participation in the docu
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