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Kaleidoscope Linkage

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Home Pages

Chris Darrow

Info on Chris' recordings, song publishing & photography. Also contains a discography.

David Lindley

Tour info, photo gallery, links to David's political, social, artistic interests. Descriptions & ordering info for David's CDs, with sound clips for some. There's also a new section on David's instruments.

David Lindley at the Rosebud Agency

Mini-bio, sessionography, discography, tour dates

David Lindley Group on Yahoo

Group devoted to David's doings past & present.

Brave Old World

Homepage of Stuart Brotman's Klezmer group.

Veretski Pass

Hoempage of Stuart Brotman's new "Old Country Music" ensemble.

Sirocco

Homepage of Sirocco, the duo of Sulyman el Coyote (aka Solomon Feldthouse) & Armando Mafufo. Solomon bio, information on the duo's CDs, & Solomon's handcrafted zills & jewelry.

The Liän Ensemble

Homepage for another of Solomon's ventures, a group that performs "mystical Persian music."

Interviews

Chris Darrow & Chester Crill

An interview conducted by Paul Gouldhawke in 1999 for Picnic, his interviews site. Quite a few choice nuggets that didn't come up during the Richie Unterberger interviews.

David Lindley for Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Wide-ranging interview from June, 2000, conducted by Peter Kotapish.

David Lindley: Gitarre & Bass Magazine Interview

From 5/98. In German. (Nice pic of David relaxing at home with an exotic instrument.)

Terry Reid Interview

Reprinted from Comstock Lode No. 6, a charming 1979 interview which includes some priceless stuff about his time with David Lindley.

Articles

David Lindley

Good, succinct career overview by Brad Bechtel, on a site devoted to slide/steel guitar.

Max Buda Thank You Letter

A hand-drawn note from Max (aka Chester Crill) to writer Ellen Sander, thanking her on behalf of Fenrus Epp no less, for a favorable review of Side Trips she'd written .

Review of "A Beacon from Mars"

A perceptive retrospective review of the album on Julian Cope's marvelous Head Heritage site.

"Martians at The Window": Review of "Pulsating Dream"

A lengthy review (in Italian) of the Kaleidoscope box set on Ernesto de Pascale's excellent music site, Il Popolo del Blues.

Kaleidoscope Tape Survey

A description of currently-known Kaleidoscope & Kaleidoscope-related live recordings, compiled by Patrick Lundborg.

Ben Harper - Roots

Claremont slide wiz kid Ben Harper talks about his family & the Claremont scene he grew up in. Contributions by Chris Darrow & David Lindley.

Barry Friedman Bio

Career overview of Barry, aka Frazier Mohawk, producer of Side Trips. Kaleidoscope is only mentioned in passing, but it's nonetheless an entertaining read.

Discographies

Kaleidoscope (on All Music Guide)

Discography with capsule album reviews by Richie Unterberger & others. Helpful to anyone new to the band, but someone ought to point out to reviewer James Chrispell that Kaleidoscope hardly came out of the "San Francisco scene."

Kaleidoscope (on Picnic)

Covers the albums, with track listings & personnel.

Fellow Travellers

Kim Fowley

In his amazing career Kim Fowley has been involved in virtually every kind of pop music known to man. Folk rock & country rock are no exceptions, & a CV of his involvement in these areas can be found here.

Frank Reckard

Claremont has spawned more than its share of great musicians, & Frank, longtime guitarist for Emmylou Harris' Hot Band, is most certainly one of them. This interview is from 1989.

Robb Strandlund

Homepage for the fine singer-songwriter & longtime musical partner of Chris Darrow. Biography, discography, photos, & an extensive library of lyrics & sound files.

Wilderness Road Website

Official homepage of Wilderness Road. Archives, sound samples, and more.

Side Trips

The Lama Workshop

Patrick Lundborg's site, devoted to the sounds of psychedelia.

Picnic

Paul Gouldhawke's interviews site. Currently running, along with the Chris & Chester interview mentioned above, a very good piece on the lost years of Skip Spence.

The Ptolemaic Terrascope

Online version of the British journal of psychedelic & experimental music.

Rock's Backpages

(Subscription site) Unmatched online library of rock journalism, old & new.

Technicolor Web of Sound

60s Psychedelic Web Radio. A large number of Kaleidoscope tracks are included on the station's excellent playlist.

Ugly Things Magazine

Homepage of the magazine devoted to "wild sounds from past dimensions."

Richie Unterberger

Info on Richie's books, including Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers & the just-published Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock. Transcripts of a number of interviews he conducted for his books can be found there.

Up-Tight Group on Yahoo

Lively and informed discussion of the "cult figures and unknown legends" of the music world, inspired by the books of Richie Unterberger.

West Coast Psychedelia and Acid Rock Group on Yahoo

UK-based, frighteningly knowledgeable discussion group.