Discography

This soundtrack album did fairly well for MGM mostly due to the canny selections of bands by producer Don Hall- the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, John Fahey and last on board after all the others had recorded, the Kaleidoscope. The reviewers and anyone who has ever sat through the flick can tell you that it is incoherent and it stinks. The acting stinks, the dialogue stinks, and the whole thing is “directed” with no direction whatsoever. Odd how that parallels working on it. Initially brought in to “patch up” a few loose spots Kaleidoscope spent many hours at MGM making hours of music that was original while playing to the huge screen in a hangar-like studio. In particular the “orgy” scene (twelve minutes?) received quite a few passes at accompaniment. None of it was used. Instead, tiny tiny pieces of the two tracks on the album were used in the film, almost totally unnoticeable and shortened to mini-seconds. They were undoubtedly the least interesting or worth using moments recorded by the band. Fast forward about 35 years and I am contacted by someone now with MGM who wants to know about the project. I end up telling MGM that it has reams of material in the vaults of the Dead, Jerry Garcia and The Pink Floyd along with our stuff and what happens? They find and issue the Garcia/Dead stuff as a long-lost gem they have just found. I wait a year and contact them again. What about the original unissued Kaleidoscope material? Their response; we’ve no knowledge of any such thing what are you talking about? Great to know MGM has its head up its ass just as much as it did when MIKE CURB (what a buffoon!) was sitting in the head chair. In essence MGM told me try again every year because who knows what idiot may be in charge of what you’re asking about by then. Sound familiar?