The Source Family

The Source Family was a spiritual commune led by Father Yod (James Edward Baker, 1922-1975) in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Its members ran the Source, an organic vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip opened in 1969, and lived together in a mansion in Los Feliz. The commune's band, Ya Ho Wha 13, played improvised psychedelic rock with Father Yod as singer, and its records were pressed in small runs on the Higher Key label. Ya Ho Wha 13 had Djin Aquarian on guitar, Octavius Aquarian on drums and Sunflower Aquarian on bass, and Sky Saxon of the Seeds also joined the family.