“Creativity works forward, taste backwards,” says NME journalist Felix Jay. “A culture’s vitality has to be rooted in this sort of dynamic to progress at all. Essential new styles are constantly spawned from the amorphous vagueness of experimental music.”

Re-Visiting Father and the Source Family
Format: DVD
Price: $26.00
Catalog #: SWF 001DVD
Documentary video by Evan Wells, in conjuction with Isis and E from the Source Family. “This 2 1/2 hour documentary traces the history of the Source Family, Father Yod/Ya Ho Wha/the man formally known as Jim Baker. Going back to the Beatnik era of the late ’50s when Baker ran a sandal shop in Hollywood it goes through the origins of the Family in Los Angeles in 1967 to the dispersal in the mid ’70s. Many of the original members of the Family are interviewed and the new and extensive footage from the ’70s is featured throughout. For anyone who has been fascinated by this mysterious cult/commune, this documentary should provide the answers to most questions and allow you to make up your own mind as to who Father Yod / Ya Ho Wha / Jim Baker was. ‘A story that not even Hollywood could have scripted to be more entertaining.'” NTSC format DVD, Region 0.