Sky sought to take advantage of the internet age and released this album as a CD-r on a mysterious label called Radio V in 2001 through a website. Golden Vaults is a compilation of several recordings housed in a homemade-looking package; it’s been unavailable for years.
Golden Vaults is a mix of unreleased stuff with various groups of musicians, plus songs fans had heard before. Sound quality throughout the CD is less than stellar, even on songs that have been released elsewhere in good quality.
Which is of course a shame. There’s some intriguing material on Golden Vaults, and it hints that Sky had a lot of unreleased stuff sitting around on various tapes from various eras. We bet there’s more where this came from. Hopefully someone can secure the rights to recordings Sky Saxon made with people like The Lemurians and The Chesterfield Kings and release a higher-quality set someday.
As for Golden Vaults, it’s a very hard-to-find CD but there is some worthy stuff on it. And Sky Saxon completists will want it regardless. (By the way, this CD is proudly called “Volume 1” but there was never any Volume 2 as far as we can tell.)
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