Released January 22, 1968 Artist Spirit Label CBS Records International | Length 41:55 (original) Release date 22 January 1968 Producer Lou Adler | |
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Recorded August 31 - November 17, 1967 Genres Rock music, Psychedelic rock, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion Similar Spirit albums, Rock music albums | ||
Spirit is the debut album by rock band Spirit, released on January 22, 1968. The experimental album was commercially successful, spending more than six months on the Billboard album charts, peaking at #31, and garnered significant underground FM airtime. The album was first published by Ode Records in 1968. It has since been reprinted by Sony, repackaged in compact-disc form and remastered from original analogue tapes.
Contents
Spirit
Production
Charts
Album
Miscellanea
The song "Fresh Garbage" has been sampled in the Pink song "Feel Good Time", found on the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. "Fresh Garbage" was also used as the title (and theme music) of a rock music program on BBC Radio London in the early 1970s.
In 1973, Epic released a two-disc LP repackage of Spirit and Clear entitled Spirit.
The guitar riff that occurs about :43 into "Taurus" is said to have influenced Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in 'composing' his famous intro to "Stairway to Heaven". Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit on an American tour in 1968, and also borrowed the riff of "Fresh Garbage" during early live performances of the song 'As Long as I Have You'.
Songs
1Fresh Garbage3:12
2Uncle Jack2:43
3Mechanical World5:16