Spirit (Spirit album)
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| Studio album by Spirit | ||||
| Released | January 22, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | August 31 - November 17, 1967 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 41:55 (original) | |||
| Label | Epic/Legacy Recordings | |||
| Producer | Lou Adler | |||
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| Rolling Stone | (positive) |
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.
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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'.
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