The Kaleidoscope - Side Trips

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 and John Vidican – this San Gabriel Valley, California-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.