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You may not know where Snakeland is, but you want to go there. Zak Daniels and the O.E.S. have released their hard rockin' CD Snakeland, complete with some delicious booklet photography. It's hard to focus on the music while looking at the pictures, but one does one's best. Zak Daniels and Jim "The Kat" Katsikides provide the sleazy, greasy guitar work (Kat on lead) for this Los Angeles area band, and if that's not entertaining enough (it is), their humorous, sarcastic approach to lyrical content will leave you laughing - "...skin and bones and silicone..." from the track "Silicone", as one publishable example. These guys have done their homework on XXX movie sets, and in gentlemen's clubs, corner bars and crossroads honky-tonks across the country, and their righteousness is evident. With mean lead guitar, driving rhythms and the aforementioned experiences, they have a winning formula.

Zak DANIELS: "& The One Eyed Snakes" 8 Big water 2000 Review by Urban "Wally" Wallström, 01-04-15 WoW!!! I guess it´s true... You just can´t stop Rock´n´roll!!! This is one of best freakin´ CD´s I´ve heard for a long time. ZAK DANIELS & THE ONE EYED SNAKES are a band from the USA that play straight in your face Hardrock/Blues with some SLEAZE influences. Imagine a mixture of bands such as ZZ TOP, ASPHALT BALLET, STONES, POISON, GEORGIA SATELLITES and youre close. This is Rock with a capital R! Guitarist JIM "KAT" KATSIKIDES has got a really fat & mean guitar sound and style a-la Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) & Jimmy Page (Led Zep). Vocalist & main man ZAK DANIELS is a great singer and the rhythm section of JACK THEIL (Bass) & DOUG LAVERY (Drums) is really tight. The production by ZAK & KAT is huge with a marvelous guitar sound and with 15 songs you really get value for your money. In fact it´s easier to say that 2 of the songs are a bit weak and the rest all rocks! They even get away with a really cool cover on the old BOB DYLAN song "HWY 61 revistied" though I hate most of DYLAN´s stuff. The killer stuff are "Sweep it under the rug" a superb rocker that begins with a "Thin Lizzy" twin guitar intro, before it rocks off in a cool boogie woogie strut. "Timeless travelers" a ZZ TOP meets POISON kinda song with some Power riffs from KAT."Tombstone hat" a lovely semi-ballad with a cowboy feeling all over the song, you just gotta love the raspy, blues vocals by ZAK. "Tired of love" a great rocker again with some mean licks & tricks by the KAT-man, "Fast ones" is a real knockout, this is sleaze rock at it´s best!!! "Sky boy" is a superb ballad with both acoustic/electric guitars & piano, this is a song that ALICE COOPER wishes he´d done. "TV re-run" sounds like a mix of GEORGIA SATELLITES & Black Crowes, great stuff and "Brown eyed beauty" is a superb rocker that sounds a lot like the STONES goes Hardrock. "Womanizer" is more like the SATELLITES again but ZAK & The Boys do have a sound of their own. This is a real Buy or die album that all fans of good guitar rock should have! Check em out at: www.zakdaniels.com