- Format: LP
- Label: Sundazed
- Genre: Psychedelic
High definition LP
Like a mind-boggling combination of Summer of Love acid-rock, goodtime
saloon music and a Middle Eastern jam session, Side Trips, the debut album
by Kaleidoscope, stood out, even in the eye of the psychedelic hurricane, as
something altogether different! Staffed by a hall of fame roster of multi-instrumentalists—
David Lindley, Chris Darrow, Solomon Feldthouse, Chester
Crill (aka: Fenrus Epp) and John Vidican—this Berkeley, Calif.-based combo
cut their dazzling 1967 album with a startling arsenal of instruments that included
banjo, fiddle, doumbeg, mandolin, viola, saz bouzoukee, dobro, vina,
authoharp, oud and clarinet. When they entertained the wide-eyed customers
of San Francisco's Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms and Los Angeles' Ash
Grove, they frequently employed flamenco and belly dancers onstage. Just
like the see-through tube with bits of colored glass and mirrors that gave the
band their name, the Kaleidoscope was never the same, no matter which
way you turned it!
Track listing: Egyptian Gardens / If the
Night / Hesitation Blues /
Please / Keep Your Mind
Open / Pulsating Dream /
Oh Death / Come On In /
Why Try / Minnie the
Moocher
