KAK - Kak-Ola (1968) - 1999
Psychedelic Rock
Fans of West Coast psych should not hesitate to grab this
.../...right
along with the best of the Airplane, the Dead, QMS and Love.
Derivative? Sometimes, but who cares? Kak absolutely NAILED this idiom.
If you like the above-named groups, you simply have to check out
KAK-OLA.
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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,