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Spirit was an American rock band founded in 1967 and based in Los Angeles. Their most commercially successful single in the United States was " I Got a Line on You ". They were also known for their albums, including their self-titled debut album , The Family That Plays Together , Clear , and Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus .
At one of these shows, French film producer Jacques Demy saw Spirit perform and decided he wanted them in his next film. It led to a cameo role for the band and a short speaking part in which Ferguson played a character based loosely on himself in the film Model Shop. Spirit also provided much of the instrumental soundtrack. The band went on to ...
Clear is the third studio album by American rock band Spirit. It was released in August 1969 by Ode Records. [3] The album was written largely in the wake of Spirit's work on the soundtrack to the 1968 film Model Shop. Several of the band members have said that they felt there wasn't enough time for developing the album after releasing two ...
The Spirit Bear was a reflection of Cole's inner journey and represented the incident with Peter Driscal. Cole beat Peter senseless out of his own anger, and, as it turned out, he could do nothing to make up for it. The Spirit Bear mauled Cole to the brink of death, but showed mercy and later even a more tender side as he lay helpless on the shore.
Feedback was the only Spirit album to feature John and Al Staehely as band members. Musically it was a different turn for the band, in favor of a country influenced hard rock style and lyrics mostly dealing with conventional male-female love topics, with only the tracks "Darkness" and the instrumentals "Puesta Del Scam" and "Trancas Fog-Out" recalling Spirit's earlier psychedelic rock.
The recording was released in 1968 on the band's debut album, Spirit. [1] [2] It is perhaps best known for having similarities with the 1971 Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven", in which guitarist Jimmy Page used an opening acoustic guitar arpeggio bearing a resemblance to the instrumental without any legal permission from the band. [3]
The Family That Plays Together is the second album by the American rock band Spirit.It was released by Ode Records in December 1968. It was voted number 575 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).
John Tilden Locke (September 25, 1943 – August 4, 2006) was an American keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. In the early 1980s, he was a member of the band Nazareth . Biography