Oak - Set the Night on Fire
1980 Housekeeping
Oak
Set the Night on Fire
Genre: AOR
3.25 out of 5
Another in a long series of Foreigner or Styx or Kansas or Southern Rock dwellers. The Venn diagram on those bands are more circular than I might have believed as a young’ un.
Oak had been around since the 60s with no one giving a crap about them. This is their last try.
I imagine that these songs played well in local pubs, but, so did my band’s. This is a very late 70s sound that is about to be left in the dust by…everything.
There’s nothing to hate here. “Your Love” is fine. So is “Melissa”. And a couple other tracks. But I wouldn’t wanna add them to a playlist or anything. But I liked what Rick Pinette brought to this party.
Researching:
I spent my summers in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island growing up. My brother revisits frequently. I’ve not been back since my dad died there. I really do wanna go, though.
We have members of this group that live there.
One of them I KNOW went to MDI High.
And this band, gulp, played the prom in 1981! At MDI High. I know because I read about them during my research on the “Growing Up in Bar Harbor” Facebook Group.
Lori? I KNOW you saw them. Was this…your prom????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxKKhdNQSNo
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