Spirit - Spirit (stereo version) (CBS 1968) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/progressive rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.

Spirit's self-titled debut album is one whose multifarious experimentalism owes a lot to the contemporary successes of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It marked the humble beginnings and grand aspirations of its eponymous authors. The eclecticism of Randy California's writing coupled Barrett's psychotropism with Morrison's West Coast bohemianism; and although the result proved somewhat inaccessible to the mainstream masses (at least commercially), it made the project ripe for underground FM airtime. The band would later curtail its psychedelia, focusing on a broader array of genres. Wikipedia



Track listing:

A1. Fresh Garbage
A2. Uncle Jack
A3. Mechanical World
A4. Taurus
A5. Girl In Your Eye
A6. Straight Arrow

B1. Topanga Windows
B2. Gramophone Man
B3. Water Woman
B4. The Great Canyon Fire In General
B5. Elijah

Personnel:

Mark Andes – Bass and Vocals
Cassidy – Drums and Percussion
Randy California – Guitars
John Locke – Keyboard
Jay Ferguson – Vocal and Percussion
Strings & Horns arranged by Marty Paich
Producer Lou Adler