Kaleidoscope (Slight Return)

andrew andrew at DELUMINATE.FREESERVE.CO.UK
Wed Apr 7 22:19:13 EDT 1999


><< Since Edgar Frose made up the name for his group in the late 60's after
>hanging
> with Salvadore Dali I would be interested in the timing.  Like many "great"
> inventions perhaps the two usage's sprang up independently
>  >>
>
>---Dave Thompson in the book "Space Daze" says they took the name from
>Beatles' reference to "tangerine trees" in "Lucy in the Sky..." and decided
>to exchange the "trees" w/"dream"...
>...but then Thompson is sort of a wank anyway.

The date for the Kaleidoscope release was the 24th November 1967, but they
probably thought it up some time before that; the L.i.t.S.w.D. influence is
the common source iwould put my my money on.

andrew



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