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The Seeds: Pushin\u2019 Too Hard<\/em>\u2014named after the band\u2019s aforementioned lone Top 40 hit\u2014is the creation of documentarian Neil Norman and will be brought to Long Beach thanks to the efforts of Bluff Heights vinyl haven Third Eye Records owner Gary Farley.<\/p>\nWith 110 minutes of vintage footage, photos, memorabilia, audio files, and contemporary interview, Pushin\u2019 follows what Normal calls \u201cthe rage-to-riches-to-rags\u201d tale of the band. The film focuses on keyboard player Daryl Hooper, guitarist Jan Savage, drummer Rick Andridge, and singer Sky Saxon, and how they became a SoCal phenomenon before quickly fading into the annals of obscure music history.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe growing ego and drug-fueled eccentricities of frontman Saxon alienated the other members, and led to the original quartet\u2019s fracture in the summer of 1968,\u201d Normal said. \u201cAfter 1970, Saxon renamed himself Sunlight, embarking on a strange odyssey that took him from life as a street person in Hollywood to a commune in Hawaii. Sky returned to performing in the late 1980s and, using several different sets of musicians, performed Seeds music the world over until his untimely death in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruling the Angelino world by way of their live show reputation at venues like Bido Lit\u2019s and Hullabaloo, The Seeds was signed to GNP Crescendo and recorded five albums\u2014largely popular in SoCal thanks to regional hits like \u201cMr. Farmer\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Seem to Make You Mine\u201d\u2014but failed to capture the attention needed to become a national act.<\/p>\n
The Seeds: Pushin\u2019 Too Hard will have its formal premier on August 16 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. It will show at the Art Theatre in Long Beach, located at 2025 E 4th, on August 23 at 9PM.<\/em><\/p>\n {FG_GEOMAP [33.77198200000001,-118.166965] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Seeds are largely considered one of the most influential prototypical punk bands\u2014despite only having one top 40 national hit. Their odd and relatively short-lived tale is one that is only known amongst the most hardcore of music lovers but thanks to a long-awaited documentary set to show at the Art Theatre, the garage band\u2019s tale will no longer be relegated to the shadows of sonic geeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":68602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[926,292],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-documentary","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}