domingo, 2 de janeiro de 2011

KAK







Although formed in Davis, California, Kak were based in San Francisco for a good part of 1968, when they recorded their only album. Lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter Gary Lee Yoder and lead guitarist Dehner Patten had been in the Oxford Circle, an obscure early Northern Californian psychedelic band that had cut one garage/psych single ("Foolish Woman"/"Mind Destruction") and played some shows on the San Francisco psychedelic circuit, while bassist Joe-Dave Damrell had been on a 1965 single on Scorpio Records with Group "B".




The self-titled Kak LP was minor-league San Francisco psychedelic rock colored by a lot of influence from bigger Bay Area bands, particularly Moby Grape; the vocal harmonies and curling guitar work on tracks like 'Disbelievin'" and "Everything's Changing" in particular sounded like a more pedestrian Moby Grape. There were also more distant echoes of Quicksilver Messenger Service (in the guitar work) and the Grateful Dead (in faint traces of country-blues-rock). Kak were best, and least derivative, at their quietest, as on the gentle country-tinged rocker "I've Got Time, " the good-time wistful psych-folk-rock of "Lemonade Kid, " and the harpsichord-decorated ballad "Flowing By, " which was as derivative of Donovan as much of their other songs were of Moby Grape.


Kak's album was barely promoted and sold little. It didn't help that the band played less than a dozen shows before breaking up in early 1969,Damrell having already quit prior to the split. Yoder did a single for Epic and and then joined Blue Cheer. The Kak album eventually became a pricey collector item, and was reissued on CD by Big Beat (with the new title Kak-ola) in 1999 with plenty of bonus cuts, including previously unreleased acoustic demos and Yoder solo tracks from the late sixties. - Richie Unterberger







a voice cried out and it said to me,


you better start walking boy


so i jumped upon my feet and i cried


and i faced my maker that day and it cant be denied


i said he father don't you think that maybe you lied


i've only got one thing to do and that's to die


you can't be denied.


i said i don't have to learn how to walk


i said i don't have to learn how to talk


all i've got to do is.... die


you can't be denied


ooooohooohhhhhoooh






you don't have to play by societies rules


you don't have to go out and mix with the fools


all you've got to do is die


you can't be denied






your mirror she past like a shadow


watching each life of mine flash into nothing


and i wonder which direction she would go


can't you see what you're heading for?


turn around walk away


run back for more


life is free


but you got to take a look around.


From a desert she cries for an ocean


watching her saviour there rise in the moonlight


and she thirsts for the affection he would show


got to come down,


off that dream


things aren't always what they seem


it's only you you're using to create that illusion


theres a story without any ending


theres a friend of mine that needs mending


i don't need her, no i don't.



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