Kaleidoscope - Side Trips (1967)

Kaleidoscope - Side Trips (1967)

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Kaleidoscope - Side Trips

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"Egyptian Gardens" (Solomon Feldthouse) – 3:08

"If the Night" (Chris Darrow) – 1:51

"Hesitation Blues" (Charlie Poole) – 2:27

"Please" (Feldthouse, Mark Freedman) – 3:18

"Keep Your Mind Open" (Darrow) – 1:56

"Pulsating Dream" (Darrow, Feldthouse, David Lindley) – 2:16

"Oh Death" (Dock Boggs) – 3:25

"Come on In" (Traditional, arranged by David Lindley) – 2:07

"Why Try" (Lindley) – 3:39

"Minnie the Moocher" (Cab Calloway, Clarence Gaskill, Irving Mills) – 2:15

 

Kaleidoscope Band Members / Musicians

David Perry Lindley – banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, harp guitar, 7-string banjo

David Solomon Feldthouse – saz, bouzouki, resonator guitar, veena, goblet drum, dulcimer, fiddle, twelve-string guitar

Chris Darrow – bass, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, autoharp, harmonica, clarinet

Fenrus Epp – violin, viola, bass, piano, organ, harmonica

John Vidican – percussion

Barry Friedman – producer

Mike Goldberg – production supervisor

Arnold Shaw – liner notes

Side Trips is the 1967 debut studio album by American band Kaleidoscope. It was released in June 1967, on Epic Records BN 26304, and re-released on vinyl by Sundazed Records (2007). The album has a raw, non-limited instrumental mentality, for each member played many instruments, for example, David Lindley played guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, and Solomon Feldthouse played saz, bouzouki, dobro, vina, oud, doumbek, dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, and vocals.

Kaleidoscope (originally the Kaleidoscope) was an American psychedelic folk and ethnic band who recorded 4 albums and several singles for Epic Records between 1966 and 1970. The band membership included David Lindley, who later released numerous solo albums and won additional renown as a multi-instrumentalist session musician, and Chris Darrow who later performed and recorded with a number of groups including the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The group was formed in 1966. The original members were:

David Lindley (born March 21, 1944, Los Angeles, California)

Solomon Feldthouse (born January 20, 1940, Pingree, Idaho)

Chris Darrow (born July 30, 1944, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, died January 15, 2020)

Chester Crill (a.k.a. Max Budda, Max Buda, Fenrus Epp, Templeton Parcely) (born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

John Vidican (born Los Angeles, California)

Kaleidoscope Discography Full - Studio Albums

Side Trips (1967)

A Beacon from Mars (1968)

Incredible! Kaleidoscope (1969)

Bernice (1970)

When Scopes Collide (1976)

Greetings from Kartoonistan... (We Ain't Dead Yet) (1991)

Compilation Albums

Bacon from Mars (1983) (compilation)

Rampe, Rampe (1983) (compilation)

Egyptian Candy (A Collection) (1990) (compilation)

Beacon from Mars & Other Psychedelic Side Trips (2004) (compilation)

Pulsating Dreams (2004) (compilation of the four Epic albums and other recordings of that period)