Present Tense is the first
Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by
Columbia Records. Though the record was basically a
Gary Usher solo project, he enlisted many top
LA session musicians, and heavily utilized
Curt Boettcher as a songwriter, musician, vocalist, and producer (even going so far as to include two tracks that Boettcher had produced on his own as the leader of the group The Ballroom). The album also contains the recording "
My World Fell Down", which had no Boettcher involvement, albeit the LP version was edited, with the
musique concrète bridge from the single version being excised (though a few extra bars of music were added in between the first and second verses). The single "Hotel Indiscreet" also had a similar fate when it reached the LP.