The next band I've been obsessing over for the last few months is one that stumbled into my lap. My roommate and I were digging through the everyday vinyl bins and stumbled across two albums by the L.A. based band Spirit. Neither of us had ever even heard of the band but the album art was awesome and the years were just the right time period. My roommate took a chance and bought them both, it was well worth it. Spirit is a psych band that had everything we wanted, a mastery of multiple genres that blend together, and both were total concept albums.
The band is a headed by guitarist Randy California, along with his step dad drummer Ed "Mr. Skins" Cassidy. Randy had been playing in New York, at age 16, with pre "experience" Jimi Hendrix. It's pretty clear that he learned a lot. The band only gained cult success, opening shows for the likes of Jefferson Airplane. But one of their songs has been ripped off and turned into one of the most famous rock ballads of all time. The song "Taurus" was stolen by Jimmy Page and turned into "Stairway to Heaven". Take a listen.
Anyways the band has some awesome tunes that no one has heard, so I figure I'd share a few.
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