Kak,LP,Kak, USA Press Epic BN26429 Mint 1A/2A "Everything's Changing"Flowing By"
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SORRY to my buyers from USA – I will be unable to send!
Instead of paying £13.02 for a record to USA today, I have just been charged £17.73!
Apparently prices on parcels to USA have dramatically increased making it unviable as a posting destination at present.
Kak
Title and label: Kak, Epic BN26429, USA Press
Condition of vinyl: Mint
Matrix Side 1: XSB 138476 -2A
Matrix Side 2: XSB 138477 -2A
Condition of sleeve: EX
Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger
Although formed in Davis, CA, 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 then joined Blue Cheer. The Kak album eventually became a pricey collector's item,
Side 1:
HCO 97658
Everything's Changing
Electric Sailor
Disbelievin'
I've Got Time
Flowing By
Side 2:
Bryte 'N' Clear Day
Trieulogy:
(I) Golgotha
(II) Mirage
(III) Rain
Lemonade Kid
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