Games - Stargazer (1977)

As discogs so succintly says, 

California Rock Band, Released one album in 1977 before disbanding after the death of their bassist, David Miller.

It amazes me how many US albums we will post in the next 2-3 months, perhaps longer if the supply doesn't run out, all from the period 1974 to 1984, basically either prog rock, prog fusion, or straight pop or rock, jazz or fusion with progressive moves (the four categories).  Most of them you will never have known existed.  In fact I didn't either until friends introduced me to these many lost artists.

This very very obscure band's one-off LP starts off with a kinda circus type chromatic pattern with quite gorgeous female vocals from that very beautiful blonde on the verso scan.  Usual comments about how each of the male musicians must have had a hand in opening that shirt down to her innie belly button and even further on down.  She is the only vocalist, so the whole reminds me a bit of the Canadian Sky High posted earlier.  For those old enough, I'll just mention that circuses were very popular back in the seventies, countless songs reference taking the kids to those circular tents.  Luckily, they are truly a thing of the past today except in Las Vegas where you can go to the grand old 19th c. antique hotel Circus Circus for an idea of what used to transpire back then: terrifying, almost nightmarish clowns-- no kid wouldn' t have been afraid of them, especially when equipped with a huge knife wherewith to stab people-- mangy bears being tortured to stand, elephants with spindly wrinkly legs who performed tricks like picking up sticks with their trunks, roaring tigers beaten to a pulp in order to get them to jump through hoops, magicians performing tricks like pulling money out of your wallet, the all-homosexual trapeze troupes, the Mussolini-like bald ringmaster with that whip that reminded you of your parents when they took off their belt to beat you for not eating spinach-- those wonderful memories will remain with us even as the experience has faded into oblivion, with few to miss it.  But behind the scenes of course was the most terrifying aspect of the circuses (which rivalled the Roman amphitheatres for cruelty and sadism): the carnies.  These were 'professionals' who traveled from one city to another, setting up the tents, working for the 'entertainment', all the while stoned on stimulants such as meth or more cheaply and more likely household intoxicants such as model airplane glue or vapours from open gasoline tanks, or DEET insect repellant, having unlimited promiscuous sex with each other and each other's children thereby creating new species of deformed humans who then grew up to perform in the freak shows (bearded ladies, midgets, etc.) that were a 'sideshow' of the whole spectacle.  In this respect they were as a closed-in world unto themselves, like Biosphere 2, but far more interesting.  And productive.
It's amazing how much we've lost from the seventies.

Anyways back to the matter at hand.  Here's the aforementioned circus track to give you an idea of the music-- not necessarily the best one: