Ghost's trippy music drew from all corners of classic psychedelia. The Incredible String Band's Indian-flavoured folk ballad “Three Is a Green Crown” gave them a love for spiritual world music and Quicksilver's jazzy acid rocker “Gold and Silver” taught them about free-form improv. For their most far-out experiments, they looked to cosmic electro-acoustic drones on the Taj Mahal Travellers' album August 1974.