Spirit: It Shall Be: Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
Spirit: It Shall Be: Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
Format: CD
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Artist: Spirit
Label: Esoteric
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929471948
Genre: Rock
2018 five CD clamshell box set by the legendary American band Spirit. Formed in Los Angeles in 1967 from the remnants of The Red Roosters, Spirit was one of the great bands to emerge on the US West Coast in the psychedelic era. Featuring the talents of 16 year old guitarist Randy California (who had played guitar with Jimi Hendrix in New York the previous year), his step-father drummer Ed Cassidy along with Jay Ferguson (vocals, percussion), John Locke (keyboards) and Mark Andes (bass), Spirit signed to producer Lou Adler's newly established Ode Records label in late 1967. Their self-titled debut album appeared some months later and demonstrated the breadth and diversity of the band covering psychedelic, rock and jazz influences and featuring such legendary cuts as 'Fresh Garbage', 'Uncle Jack', 'Topanga Windows', 'Mechanical World', 'Elijah' and 'Taurus' (the subject of a court case decades later when it was alleged Led Zeppelin had taken the musical structure of the piece as a basis for 'Stairway to Heaven'). The band's follow-up album, The Family That Plays Together, spawned the hit single 'I've Got a Line on You' and was one of their finest works thanks to material such as It 'Shall Be', 'Aren't You Glad', 'Silky Sam' and 'Darlin' If'. Leading up to the recording of 1969's Clear album Spirit recorded the soundtrack to Jaques Demy's film The Model Shop. In 1970 Spirit recorded the classic The Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus for Epic Records, from which the single 'Animal Zoo' was taken and included excellent material such as 'Nature's Way', 'Mr Skin', 'Space Child', 'Morning Will Come' and 'Soldier'. Sadly, the original line- up of Spirit fell apart some months later leaving just Ed Cassidy and John Locke to assemble a new incarnation of Spirit for 1972's Feedback, which saw brothers Al and John Staehely join the band on bass and drums respectively. Spirit went on hiatus soon after, although California and Cassidy would continue to tour and record as Spirit on and off until California's untimely death in 1997.
Tracks:
1.1 Fresh Garbage
1.2 Uncle Jack
1.3 Mechanical World
1.4 Taurus
1.5 Girl in Your Eye
1.6 Straight Arrow
1.7 Topanga Windows
1.8 Gramophone Man
1.9 Water Woman
1.10 The Great Canyon Fire in General
1.11 Elijah
1.12 I Got a Line on You (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.13 It Shall Be (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.14 Poor Richard (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.15 Silky Sam (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.16 The Drunkard (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.17 Darlin' If (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.18 All the Same (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.19 Jewish (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.20 Dream Within a Dream (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.21 She Smiled (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
1.22 Aren't You Glad (Original 1968 Stereo Mix)
2.1 The Moving Van
2.2 Mellow Fellow
2.3 Now or Anywhere
2.4 Fog
2.5 Green Gorilla
2.6 Model Shop I
2.7 Model Shop II (Clear)
2.8 The Rehearsal Theme
2.9 Song for Lola
2.10 Eventide
2.11 Coral
2.12 Aren't You Glad (Demo)
2.13 Dark Eyed Woman
2.14 Apple Orchard
2.15 So Little Time to Fly
2.16 Ground Hog
2.17 Cold Wind
2.18 Policeman's Ball
2.19 Ice
2.20 Give a Life, Take a Life
2.21 I'm Truckin'
2.22 Clear
2.23 Caught
2.24 New Dope in Town
3.1 Prelude - Nothing to Hide
3.2 Nature's Way
3.3 Animal Zoo
3.4 Love Has Found a Way
3.5 Why Can't I Be Free?
3.6 Mr Skin
3.7 Space Child
3.8 When I Touch You
3.9 Street Worm
3.10 Life Has Just Begun
3.11 Morning Will Come
3.12 Soldier
3.13 Rougher Road
3.14 Chelsea Girls
3.15 Cadillac Cowboys
3.16 Puesta Del Scam
3.17 Ripe and Ready
3.18 Darkness
3.19 Earth Shaker
3.20 Mellow Morning
3.21 Right on Time
3.22 Trancas Fog-Out
3.23 Witch
4.1 Fresh Garbage (Mono Mix)
4.2 Uncle Jack (Mono Mix)
4.3 Mechanical World (Mono Mix)
4.4 Taurus (Mono Mix)
4.5 Girl in Your Eye (Mono Mix)
4.6 Straight Arrow (Mono Mix)
4.7 Topanga Windows (Mono Mix)
4.8 Gramophone Man (Mono Mix)
4.9 Water Woman (Mono Mix)
4.10 The Great Canyon Fire in General (Mono Mix)
4.11 Elijah (Mono Mix)
4.12 Veruska
4.13 Free Spirit
4.14 If I Had a Woman
4.15 Elijah (Alternate Take 2)
4.16 I Got a Line on You ("Time Circle" Mix)
4.17 It Shall Be ("Time Circle" Mix)
4.18 Poor Richard ("Time Circle" Mix)
4.19 Silky Sam ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.1 Scherozode ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.2 All the Same ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.3 A Dream Within a Dream ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.4 Aren't You Glad ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.5 Eventide ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.6 Model Shop Theme ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.7 Green Gorilla ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.8 Rehearsal Theme ("Time Circle" Mix)
5.9 Fog
5.10 So Little to Say
5.11 Mellow Fellow
5.12 Now or Anywhere
5.13 Space Chile
5.14 Fuller Brush Man
5.15 Coral
5.16 1984
5.17 Sweet Stella Baby
5.18 Animal Zoo (Mono Single Version)
5.19 Red Light Roll on
5.20 Morning Will Come (Mono Mix)
