The 1968 self-titled album by Touch – featuring Don Gallucci (ex-Kingsmen organist and future Stooges producer) – was a wild and glorious explosion of keyboard-led proto-prog that foreshadowed later styles of Yes, The Nice and Chicago, reeling through jazz, blues, silent-film music, doomy organ figures and tricky time changes aplenty.
The track Down At Circe’s Place – a thumping piano riff that collapses into a well of psychedelic oddness – started off a suite that enveloped the album’s second half.
Mick Jagger, Grace Slick and Jimi Hendrix all attended the recording of the album.
Don Gallucci
Keyboards, vocals
Bruce Hauser
Bass, vocals
John Bordonaro
Drums, vocals
Jeff Hawks
Vocals
Vern Kjellberg (Joey Newman)
Guitar, vocals
