Side Trips is the debut studio album by American band Kaleidoscope.

Their first single "Please", backed by the non-album track "Elevator Man", was released in December 1966.

The album combined rock & roll with roots and world music along with several traditional songs including Charlie Poole's "Hesitation Blues" and Cab Calloway's signature song "Minnie the Moocher".

Bassist Chris Darrow contributed a couple of psychedelic numbers, "If the Night" and "Keep Your Mind Open", while Solomon Feldthouse penned the Middle Eastern influenced "Egyptian Gardens".

Allmusic's retrospective review praised nearly all of the individual songs and called the album "arguably the most diverse effort of 1967", but concluded that enthusiasts and collectors would be better off getting the more comprehensive Pulsating Dreams anthology, which includes the entirety of Side Trips.