Father Yod / Ya Ho Wa 13

I've been checking out the Stigma Rest Room blog Pete shouted out, which is really pretty dope, and I found the collected works of Ya Ho Wa 13.

I heard of Ya Ho Wa 13 but never checked them out because their LPs are so rare and expensive. Lead by Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa features members of The Source Family, a commune (cult?) who lived in the Hollywood Hills in the early 1970s. It's improvisational, psychedelic rock. They recorded after hours of meditation at 3:00-6:00 a.m. in a soundproofed garage that served as the musicians’ studio at the family's communal residence. All of the records with Father Yod’s participation were completely improvised, with no rehearsals or overdubs. Most of the albums were pressed in small runs of only 500 to 1000 copies on the the Higher Key label. They were sold to the general public in Father Yod’s wildly popular vegetarian Source Restaurant for $10 each. Though only nine LPs were produced and released, it is rumored that more than 65 albums were recorded by the group but were lost over the years.

FYI, I stole that shit from Wikipedia. Check out the Father Yod page for more craziness. That is him and his 13 wives above.

Anywho, super rare and expensive, and I just downloaded like 10 LPs, the whole known discography. The blog era is fucking bananas.

dc

P.s. Oh yeah, Schwartz, there is a rare LP of George Harrison singing Indian devotional songs. Check it out.