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Spirit — Aren't You Glad
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QuestionMark
(Toto's homeland)
Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 14:46
 
This group did not recieve the notice it was very deserving of !

vanmas
(Leiden, Netherlands)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 02:47
 
This ain't make me glad...

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Aug 18, 2012 - 17:55
 
Thank you my Family!
Love to you all!!! 

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 07:25
 
wow. i love this.

johnnieboy
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 07:24
 
NICE.

tgapen
(Valencia, CA)
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 18:04
 
HA! Looking at this I was thinking it looked like somebody made a mock-up of a retro rock poster, as if Spirit would be playing at the Grande on July 19, 2021.
Grew up listening to Spirit but didn't see this gig. But went to the old Grande Ballroom for many others who used to play there a lot including the Stooges, Frigid Pink, Seger, SRC and MC5.
Fantastic place!

jagdriver wrote:


1968: 'Twas a great concert!
 



bachbeet
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 17:43
 
"A terrific example of Randy California's guitar chops."

I think there was some kind of connection between Jimi and Randy but I don't remember what it was.  I just remember hearing of something like Randy jamming with Jimi. etc.

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 17:40
 
Man, this feels real good right now.

Thanks.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 13:53
 


1968: 'Twas a great concert!

ocbrander
(Orange County, CA)
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 13:46
 
A terrific example of Randy California's guitar chops.

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: Feb 10, 2012 - 19:29
 
Randy California, Jay Ferguson and Ed Cassidy are gods. Love this record. Silky Sam got a line on me, for sure.


bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 23:43
 
"I'm So Glad" ripoff....haha...

10

GrooVy
(Planet Earth, Mainly...)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 23:43
 
The post below is classic. Read that 1 instead of this post. Yeap, this song is fun and i am Glad i caught it!

SpamNRice
(Northern, Italy)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 04:23
 
Hippy trippin to the cosmic wave of perpetual light waves coming off that crazy guitar riff in my mind... love it... {#Cool}

alvarorb
(Sacramento, CA)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 12:32
 
By accident, I met Ed Cassidy, the drummer for this band while having breakfast at a diner in Arroyo Grande, CA.
Very cool guy
 

salzburg4321
(Salzburg, Austria)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 12:31
 
Wow, does this take me back. Thanks for the jolt from the past!

drewd
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 12:29
 
 annie_fannie wrote:
i don't know exactly why, but i really love the album cover.
 
Maybe you have a thing for cheap motels ??


annie_fannie
(Iowa)
Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 12:26
 
i don't know exactly why, but i really love the album cover.

kcar
Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 14:12
 
If you weren't around when a band like Spirit was in its heyday, you only hear the same 1-2 chestnuts of their work on FM radio. I only knew Spirit from "I Got a Line On You" and "Nature's Way." This is really fun!  

kurtster
(sometimes the statue and sometimes the pigeon)
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 05:00
 
 unclehud wrote:
A Spirit album I don't have, and a tune that's not on the two compilations I have.  Learn something new every day, thanks, Bill!

PS:  The Cream song must be the reply in their clever trans-oceanic collaboration:  "Aren't you glad?"   "I'm so glad!  I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad!"
 

I always kinda thought that, too.  That was part of what made the time and music actually fun back then.  I'm sure I heard them played back to back at least a couple of times back in the day in the wee hours, when there were no playlists and the DJ's could f*ck with your mind in a playful way.

It was and still is all about the segue. 

rtkmusic
(SoCal)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 23:18
 
Such an awesome album - I listened to it over and over and over when I was 11 and 12. Remember when I moved to LA, one of the first things I noticed while driving down Sunset Blvd was the hotel where the album cover was shot.



helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 23:16
 
Wow, i had to get up to see, who is this?! Very nice tune!


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 12:56
 
 just_me wrote:

I think that was "I'm So Glad", but they do sound a little similar.
 
Cream indeed performed "I'm So Glad" on their debut album, Fresh Cream. The song was written by bluesman Skip James around 1930. There used to be a CD around called, at least as I recall, Roots of Rock'n'Roll with "I'm So Glad," "When the Levee Breaks" by Kansas City Minnie and Memphis Joe, "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and others.


MinMan
(Bay Area, CA)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 11:39
 
 FrankMc wrote:
You must be a Brit. "Spirit have been..."

MinMan wrote:  
The release of this tune preceded Nugent's Stranglehold by 8 years.
Spirit have been the inspiriation for many others too.
Nope - but close - "third culture kid" due to 6 years in north London during 1970's.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 11:37
 
A Spirit album I don't have, and a tune that's not on the two compilations I have.  Learn something new every day, thanks, Bill!

PS:  The Cream song must be the reply in their clever trans-oceanic collaboration:  "Aren't you glad?"   "I'm so glad!  I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad!"

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 11:31
 
I am glad this is playing....

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe, PA)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 05:32
 
I hear a hint of "Heaven is in your mind" by Traffic.

just_me
(Avondale, AZ)
Posted: Dec 27, 2010 - 21:21
 
 spindrift wrote:
Didn't Cream do this?  I like it, no matter who.
 
I think that was "I'm So Glad", but they do sound a little similar.



Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Oct 25, 2010 - 12:41
 
I just finished "Roomful of Mirrors", the Jimi Hendrix biography that came out a few years ago.

Randy California figures in that story also.

spindrift
(Philadelphia PA)
Posted: Oct 25, 2010 - 12:40
 
Didn't Cream do this?  I like it, no matter who.

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 10:45
 
 jagdriver wrote:
Led Zep opened for Spirit on one tour. There are claims that Jimmy P., uh, "borrowed" a Spirit riff to form the basis of Stairway.

I heard this band in the summer of '68 at Detroit's fabled Grande Ballroom. Fever Tree was a support act.
 
I'm reading the new Led Zep book; you can find out what everyone was borrowing back then in all its detail. And a lot of artists did it; but maybe not to the extent that he did.


Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 10:44
 
 MinMan wrote:
 Papernapkin wrote:
This sounds so much like Ted Nugent's 70's song, Stranglehold. I wonder whose came first.
The release of this tune preceded Nugent's Stranglehold by 8 years.
Spirit have been the inspiriation for many others too.
 
Thanks. I doubt Ted will fess up to stealing their riff.

k_trout
(Dream State)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 10:41
 
 Jazbo wrote:
Gary MaGaths' basement, Leather drapes, black lites, hooka, Spirit.....Ahh.. 9

 
the DEA is still looking for that MaGath fellow


samiyam
(Ecotopia West)
Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 20:42
 
 swoeller wrote:
Spirit is one of the bands that went missing from my life when I sold all my vinyl in the 80's. RP has reminded me of so many important pieces of my musical life history including these guys. Great sounds and melodies, use of studio tools, etc! thanks RP. sw
 
Funny... I was just thinking about this album the other day and wondering where I could find a copy.  I love this song!


FlatCat
(Chicago)
Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 20:38
 
Now why is this following Gave Dixon Band's "And the World Turned". Similar chord progressions on the piano?

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 06:20
 
Gary MaGaths' basement, Leather drapes, black lites, hooka, Spirit.....Ahh.. 9


swoeller
Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 10:40
 
Spirit is one of the bands that went missing from my life when I sold all my vinyl in the 80's. RP has reminded me of so many important pieces of my musical life history including these guys. Great sounds and melodies, use of studio tools, etc! thanks RP. sw

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 10:38
 
very Beatles like!!

DaveInVA
(In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA)
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 12:49
 
wonderful song....

bachbeet
Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 20:15
 
Deserved a higher rating so I gave it an 8.  Always dug Spirit and always dug this song.

jadewahoo
(Beautiful Earth)
Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 19:40
 
I am so glad, I am so glad baby... to be hearing more Spirit on RP!

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 19:38
 
Led Zep opened for Spirit on one tour. There are claims that Jimmy P., uh, "borrowed" a Spirit riff to form the basis of Stairway.

I heard this band in the summer of '68 at Detroit's fabled Grande Ballroom. Fever Tree was a support act.



Pyro
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:31
 
 brander wrote:
Lead guitarist Randy California played with and was given his nickname by Jimi Hendrix. RIP Randy.


His guitar work certainly has some Hendrix influence....



mr_toad
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 07:31
 
always something new to me on here

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 06:31
 
The first four Spirit CDs are great - and the reissues have bonus tracks!

brander
(Southern California)
Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 16:27
 
Lead guitarist Randy California played with and was given his nickname by Jimi Hendrix. RIP Randy.


stkman
(Texas)
Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 01:14
 
great band, put on one hell of a concert  not best song on album still a strong one tho

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Nov 28, 2008 - 10:37
 
I'd never heard of these guys until now...thanks RP!

mgtom
(Mansfield, Ohio)
Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 16:54
 
The archetypical Spirit tune. Heavy fuzz, bright lead, strong drums, great Jay Ferguson voice. Thanks RP.

FrankMc
Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 16:49
 
You must be a Brit. "Spirit have been..."

I am glad that some still remember and appreciate Spirit. You may have had to have been there, but they really were good.

 MinMan wrote:
 Papernapkin wrote:
This sounds so much like Ted Nugent's 70's song, Stranglehold. I wonder whose came first.
The release of this tune preceded Nugent's Stranglehold by 8 years.
Spirit have been the inspiriation for many others too.