Randy California & Spirit - The Euro-American Years - 1979-1983 - 6 CDS

Randy California & Spirit - The Euro-American Years - 1979-1983 - 6 CDS - 2020 

In mid-1979 the trio incarnation of spirit broke up and randy formed a new solo band and embarked on a european tour supporting Ian Gillan. After recording a series of demos further studio sessions produced the recordings which would form his solo album euro-american, released in 1982 (and included in this set). The original boxed set of the euro american years was compiled by spirit archivist mick skidmore and was issued in 2006. The original concept for this box (which sold out very quickly in its first pressing, only to be consistently bootlegged in various countries via downloads and separate cdr discs for which the artists received no compensation) was to pull together the vast amount of music that randy released during 1979-1983 period (although some tracks were recorded earlier and were shelved due to lack of a record deal).

Due to demand from fans, Mick Skidmore has recovered from the archives an additional two cds worth of previously unreleased material, namely a live concert by spirit recorded in greensboro, north carolina in april 1981 before a wildly exuberant audience, along with the randy california band’s entire set at reading festival in 1982 and a part of the band’s set at glastonbury festival from the same year.

Disc 1 

THE RANDY CALIFORNIA BAND

01. You stole my heart

02. California man

03. Song for laura

04. Thinking of you

05. Reeling in the night

06. Lani by the sea

07. Shattered dreams

08. Rock of ages

09. Magic wand

“EURO AMERICAN” – THE ORIGINAL ALBUM

10. Toy guns

11. This is the end

12. Mon ami

13. Rude reaction

14. Calling you

15. Wild thing

16. Easy love

17. Fearless leader

18. Five in the morning

19. Skull and crossbones

20. Breakout

Bonus tracks

21. Man at war

22. Write you a letter

Disc 2

01. Hand guns

02. Come on woman

03. Trouble in mind

04. Cabin de telephone

05. Shane

06. All along the watchtower

07. Don’t bother me

08. Downer

09. Brittany

10. Second child

11. Man at war

12. Killer weed

13. Radio man

14. Superchild

15. Run to your lover

16. Love’s not a game

17. Love is war

18. Childhood’s end

19. Overloaded ships sink (previously unreleased)

Disc 3

SPIRIT LIVE 1980 AND 1981

01. 1984 

02. Turn to the right

03. Five in the morning 

04. Hungry driver

05. I want somebody 

06. Hey joe 

07. Shattered dreams

08. Fish fry road

09. Magic wand

10. Come on woman

11. Breakout 

12. Downer 

13. Song for laura

14. Wild thing 

Disc 4

01. Grosser herrscher

02. His spirit is travelling on (previously unreleased)

03. Pt 109

04. Whispers from heaven

05. Trying to get closer to you

06. Since she’s gone

07. Past love

08. Stepping son

09. Otter in the sea

10. California man

11. Childhood’s end

RANDY CALIFORNIA BAND LIVE IN AYR, SCOTLAND – OCTOBER 1979

12. Downer 

13. You stole my heart

14. Move on up

15. California man

16. Rebel’s flight

17. Breakout

18. Song for laura

Disc 5

SPIRIT – LIVE AT LOUIE’S, GREENSBORO, SOUTH CAROLINA 1981: PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

01. 1984 

02. Turn to the right

03. Animal zoo 

04. Magic wand 

05. Nature’s way

06. Five in the morning

07. So little time to fly

08. Mr. Skin 

09. Come on woman

10. All the same 

11. I got a line on you

12. Fish fry road

13. Wild thing 

14. Like a rolling stone

15. Come and get it (magic spirit) 

Disc 6

THE RANDY CALIFORNIA BAND LIVE AT THE READING FESTIVAL 1982 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

01. Second child

02. Downer 

03. Man at war 

04. Like a rolling stone

05. All along the watchtower

06. Come on woman

07. Nature’s way

08. Killer weed 

09. Run to your lover

10. I got a line on you

11. Song for laura

12. Wild thing 

THE RANDY CALIFORNIA BAND LIVE AT THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 1982 – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

13. Hand guns

14. Lisa 

15. Don’t bother me

16. Rebel on attack

17. Killer weed

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Spirit - The Last Euro Tour

Spirit - The Last Euro Tour - 2010

With the 2010 release of The Last Euro Tour, the ongoing series of posthumous releases by Spirit continues under the aegis of Floating World Records' Retroworld imprint, having moved from the Acadia label. But Spirit archivist Mick Skidmore is still in charge of preparing vintage tapes of the band for release, and the album chronicles what turned out to be the final European outing by the trio of singer/guitarist Randy California, drummer Ed Cassidy, and bassist/singer Mike Nile in November 1991. They played eight shows in England, Germany, and Austria, and came home with DAT soundboard tapes from which Skidmore has assembled an idealized, lengthy performance containing versions of all but one of the songs performed on the tour. (He deemed neither of the two takes of "Love Tonight" releasable.) Spirit was promoting its then-recently released Tent of Miracles album, and they played half-a-dozen tracks from it, including several written by Nile, who also took lead vocals on them, making him much more than a hired bassist accompanying principals California and Cassidy. Wisely, however, the group also presented an extensive "hits" repertoire, drawing ten songs from the four albums made by the original Spirit lineup, 1968-1970, including such favorites as "Nature's Way" and "I Got a Line on You." The rest consisted largely of blues covers by the likes of Mance Lipscomb and Jimmy Reed, plus the Jimi Hendrix arrangements of songs like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Hey Joe," reminding listeners of California's connection to Hendrix, with whom he played as a teenager. This is not the fully loaded Spirit of the early days, but it is a tight power trio led by California's psychedelic and bluesy guitar leads and Cassidy's powerful drumming, which means it is the version of Spirit that actually maintained the band's name for more than a quarter-century after the breakup of the original lineup, pleasing a lot of fans along the way, many of them in Europe.

 
CD 1
01. Love From Here
02. Uncle Jack
03. Fresh Garbage
04. Tent of Miracles
05. Nature's Way
06. Like a Rolling Stone
07. Ship of Fools
08. Animal Zoo
09. Darlin' If
10. Miss This Train
11. Hey Joe
12. Zandu
13. Deep In This Land
14. Kokomo

CD 2
01. Downer
02. Stone Lover
03. Mr. Skin
04. Turn to the Right
05. Dark Eyed Woman
06. Old Black Magic
07. Going Up, Going Down
08. All the Same/I Got a Line On You
09. Prelude: Nothing to Hide
10. All Along the Watchtower
11. Wild Things






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