Kaleidoscope
Mick Houghton, Fat Angel, 1973
THERE MUST BE something in the air in L.A., besides photochemical smog, to make it the home of such a lot of fine music, and none finer than that produced at their peak by the Kaleidoscope, one of the best and least well-known bands from that city.
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