Planting Seeds That Produce Nuggets

Three weeks and one day until summer "vacation." Then I hand in my No. 2 pencil and retire from being a full-time teacher to my kids. (Well, at least until the next wave hits, eh?) Yes, just like when I was a lad, I'm counting the days until school's out. Tonight, after a particularly trying day of work and school, neither done as well as they could and should have been, I was horizontal on the couch vegging out and watching episodes of the late '60s sitcom "The Mothers-in-Law" and hoping for sleep when I hit season 1, episode 30, called "How Not to Manage a Rock Group." This ridiculous program really lifted my spirits because L.A. garage rockers the Seeds portrayed fictitious band the Warts and performed the biggest hit the Seeds ever had in "Pushin' Too Hard" (No. 36 in Feb. '67). Man, seeing frontman Sky Saxon on screen was a hoot. Here's a clip. Lester Bangs called him an American ripoff of Mick Jagger. Hmm. What do you think?



Now I'm awake as can be and have all three of my Nuggets box sets out and ready to spin. I have a feeling I won't be pushin' too hard tomorrow. Here's a fun cover from a band we all seem to have time for in this little corner of the 'Net.