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Artist:	KALEIDOSCOPE, THE
Title:	Side Trips
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SC 5111LP

"Like a mind-boggling combination of summer of love acid-rock, good-time saloon music and a Middle Eastern jam session, Side Trips, the debut album by The 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, CA-based combo cut their dazzling 1967 album with a startling arsenal of instruments that included banjo, fiddle, doumbeg, mandolin, viola, saz bouzoukee, dobro, vina, autoharp, 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!"

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