TOUCHSTONE Tarot Orig US LP Grateful Dead Prog Psych

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TOUCHSTONE

Original Cast Album From TAROT

Original US LP released on United Artists Records in 1972. Gatefold Sleeve.

Tom Constanten began his career as a classical musician in 1961. He shared an apartment, and worked with Phil Lesh (bassist), and met Jerry Garcia (guitar) and Robert Hunter (lyricist), before they formed the Grateful Dead.

TC joined the band in 1968 after a short spell in the US Air Force. During his time with the band they released 3 classic psychedelic albums, ‘Anthem Of The Sun,’ ‘Aoxomoxoa’ and ‘Live Dead.’ The avant-garde influence TC brought to the band can be heard most clearly on ‘Anthem’ an album that merges bold new ideas with fluent, archetypal acid-rock.

After his departure the band combined more traditional American musical roots into their style and of course went on to rock ‘n roll immortality. TC’s contribution was not forgotten, though, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame along with the other founding members of the band.

He has had a long and illustrious career as a solo artist working with such worthy names as Robert Hunter, Mickey Hart, Jorma Kaukonen, and Henry Kaiser, to name but a few, in the band Touchstone (with ex-Country Joe and the Fish drummer, Gary
‘Chicken’ Hirsh), and currently has a multimedia partnership with Bob Bralove, the Dead’s former sound engineer, MIDI expert, and technical innovator (check out the brain-sizzling ‘Infra-Red Roses’), named Dose Hermanos.

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pOoTers pSycheDelic shAcK: After leaving the Grateful Dead, you were involved in the ‘Tarot’ mime show with the band Touchstone. How did you get involved with the project?Also, who was/is Rubber Duck, who plays tambourine on the album and seems to have been behind the original Tarot mime project? Who was in the line-up at various stages of the band’s career?:

"Joe McCord, aka Rubber Duck, had been doing gigs around the Bay Area, and I wound up in the “backup” band to his mime show. The “Rubber Duck Company.” Sometimes I was the entire band. A student of Étienne Decroux, he was developing a mime play at the time, based on the characters in the Tarot. The “ride” then moved to New York, and I went along. Touchstone had "evolved" a bit betwen the Tarot show (1970-71) and the KEMO-TV appearance (September, 1972). Guitarist Paul Dresher and Bassist Wes Steele were still with me, but we'd added Bill Ruskin on guitar (I saw him a couple of years ago - he's a fire chief now!) and Gene Reffkin on drums."

Note: the line up on the LP was TC, keyboards; Paul Dresher, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, flute; Gary ‘Chicken’ Hirsh, percussion; Wes Steele, bass, cello; Art Fayer, violin; Jim Byers, classical guitar; Rubber Duck, tambourine.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

The Turtle

Greed

The Thief Of Cups

Harlequin (The Fool's Theme)

The Maiden's Waltz

The Lover's Walk In The Magic Forest

The Birth Of The Hermit / Mandala Music

The Mystic Carpenter

Side Two

The Chariot Space Voyage / The Star

The Moon

The Old Fool's Reel

The Devil / The Fight

Limbo

The Turtle

Released on 'United Artists Records' in 1972

Catalogue No. UAS- 5563

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition (corner cut bottom left)

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