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  • Cream of The Crate: CD #42- Spirit: Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

    "A Blockbuster." (Nick Tosches - Rolling Stone)
    "If you ever find 12 Dreams, buy it." (Anthony Nownes - Music Columnist Metro Pulse)

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    This is number fourty two in the series of retro-reviews of Cd albums in my collection.

    The series is called,
    "Cream of The Crate (CD's)", and they represent CD albums that I believe are of significant musical value, either because of their rarity, because they represent the best of a style or styles of music or because there is something unique about the group or the music.

    The name of the group is Spirit and the CD is Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus. It was released on the Epic label in 1989 and its code is CDEPC 32006. The Cd is a reissue of the original vinyl album released in 1971. This version of the Cd mirrors the track listing of the vinyl album and has 12 tracks, mirroring the twelve dreams. More recent re-re-releases on Cd have 4 more bonus tracks.

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    I originally purchased the vinyl album not long after it was released and it was played to death back in the shared house that I lived in, in Prahran. There is a good reason for this, it is a most excellent album and was very much an album for the "head".

    The music of Spirit has been labeled with more varieties than almost any other group. Variously described as jazz rock/ hard rock / progressive rock / psychedelic and head music - the truth of the matter is, that all these labels are fairly worn! The group had its formation in LA and the year was 1967. Randy California is credited in bringing together the initial four other members that made up Spirit.

    There is no doubt that the heart of the group was indeed Randy California, a man immersed in music from a very young age and who indeed, grew up surrounded music as his uncle, Ed Pearl, owned The Ash Grove, a music venue in Los Angeles.


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    Young Randy

    Spirit was initially made up of:

    - Randy California / guitars, vocals
    - Jay Ferguson / vocals, percussion, keyboards
    - John Locke / piano, keyboards, moog synthesizer
    - Ed Cassidy / drums, percussion
    - Mark Andes / bass, vocals


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    Locke, Andes, Cassidy, California & Ferguson

    The following gem of info came from an obituary written after Randy died in 1997, Pierre Perron. "In 1966, when only 15, the precocious Californian Randy Wolfe met Hendrix in a New York music store. They got talking, played some slide and soon Hendrix was adding the nickname "California" to Randy's name and asking him to sit in with his band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village.

    The following three months (and five sets a night) had a lasting influence on both players; Hendrix was spotted the Animals' bass-player Chas Chandler (who became his manager and brought him to London) while the under-age Randy eventually headed back to the West Coast and formed the psychedelic outfit Spirit, successfully merging jazz, blues and rock to create a truly progressive sound."

    Yet he never tried to emulate Hendrix, he didn't need to he had his own "genius". After his death, his step-father and Spirit drummer, Ed Cassidy said of California, "I consider Randy a genius. As a player, he was totally unique. He never tried to be Jimi Hendrix, or anything like that. He played his thing, in his way."

    Following the release of the album, the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (aka Dr. Sardonicus), membership changed, and changed constantly and another 16 musicians lay claim to being members of the band, through to 1997. Although leaving the band for short periods, only California and Cassidy were in the first and last incarnations of Spirit. In 1974 Randy California gained control over the group name "Spirit".

    The group produced 14 studio albums, 4 live albums and a massive 10 compilations, along with 7 singles. Their first release was the 1968 self titled album "Spirit", reached #3 in the US album charts. Their second album, "The Family That Plays Together", also released in the same year, rose to #2 on the US charts. now the group was gathering a large and dedicated following.


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    In 1970 the (legendary) Dr. Sardonicus was released and while it only reached #6 in the US charts, it became their first UK charting album, reaching #2. Although not gaining the chart popularity it can be claimed it deserved, it is an album much in the same nature as Tommy, Electric Ladyland and Dark Side of the Moon - that is, an album that clearly broke new ground and added something to the human experience through the tales of the life experiences of the musicians through the compositions. Three tracks from the album were released as singles but what blew most musicians away was, the lack of response from the public to what were three excellent tracks.

    Certainly the use of the Moog synthesiser put the band in to the group of artists that were among the first to use it in a commercial venture and it features in When I Touch You, Space Child and Love Has Found a Way.

    In regard to the album title, some reviewers have suggested that it was a reference to William Castle's great 1963 horror flick Mr. Sardonicus, however, given the band had nicknamed their mixing desk, Dr. Sardonicus, I can't help wondering if this has a more direct connection to the album title.

    In 1970, Animal Zoo was released as a single backed up with Mr Skin, and then the following year Natures Way was backed up with a slightly reworked Mr Skin. The singles reached #6, and #92 respectively. The album Dr. Sardonicus went gold in June of 1976.

    Tracklist

    1. Prelude-Nothin' To Hide - 3:32
    2. Nature's Way - 2:32
    3. Animal Zoo - 3:19
    4. Love has Found A Way - 2:42
    5. Why Can't I Be Free - 1:05
    6. Mr. Skin - 3:50
    7. Space Child - 3:25
    8. When I Touch You - 5:38
    9. Street Worm - 3:43
    10. Life Has Just Begun - 3:31
    11. Morning Will Come - 2:52
    12. Soldier - 2:46


    There are almost no known video clips of Spirit in its original form, playing live, and so I have broken with my tradition of using four tracks and supplementing them with live video clips, and have chosen six of the tracks on this album, including the three released as singles.

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    Cassidy, California, Andes & Ferguson

    Starting with track #1 - Prelude: Nothing To Hide. This is a ripper of a track, despite the somewhat confusing lyrics. You can read into them what you want - a song warning about the man-made changes that are negatively affecting this world, or what's in your pants! What is undeniable is the guitar playing of California. From acoustic through to electric and, electronic, this is the track which not only opens an album, but opens our ears to a guitar genius. Another thing to appreciate are the vocal harmonies although what the fuck, the off-the-wall "fuck" hidden in the lyrics is about, escapes me.



    Prelude: Nothing To Hide

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    John Locke

    Track #2 - Natures Way, is a definite warning that draws our attention to the fact that even while we set about polluting the planet, (maybe polluting ourselves?), nature has a way of letting us know that things are out of balance. Any doubts about that are dispelled when as the track fades, we are left with the band coughing and spluttering, reminding us the LA was a city that was very smog driven back in the early 1970's. Sure Spirit were not the first group to draw attention to the ecology issues that were beginning to become an issue - hell the Yardbirds back in 1966 spoke of this matter on "Shapes of Things", but then, no one was listening!

    Although the track has a more ballad feel about it, this doesn't stop Randy California in using his electric guitar skills to present us once again with some sweet licks. I also really like the use of the tympani to add an extra dimension of drama. No doubt about it, the track fairly wears the title of the "prettiest" track on the album.


    "It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
    It's nature's way of telling you in a song
    It's nature's way of receiving you
    It's nature's way of retrieving you
    It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong

    It's nature's way of telling you, it's in the breeze
    It's nature's way of telling you, dying trees
    It's nature's way of receiving you
    It's nature's way of retrieving you
    It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong

    It's nature's way, it's nature's way
    It's nature's way, it's nature's way

    It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
    It's nature's way of telling you in a song, oh
    It's nature's way of receiving you (it's nature's way)
    It's nature's way of retrieving you (it's nature's way)
    It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
    Something's wrong
    Something's wrong"



    Natures Way

    Animal Zoo is track #3 . The track, released as a single, is indeed a very commercially sounding track. Now to call a track "commercial" is not at all a put-down, but does reflect the capability of the group to reach a broad audience. Again the lyrics pay homage to the issues of ecology and pollution, particularly in the "Animal Zoo" - the big city!

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    Mark Andes

    The track kicks off with some nice conga playing and a simple Randy riff sets up a track that has a melody that really sticks. Mark Andes bass playing is a feature of the track, I love the way it's been bought right out in the mix. Now don't think these guys were not without humor in their music you just have to note that along with the sarcasm is, at the end, a range of silly voices that suggests that maybe the guys recognised that the message was there, but probably was going to be ignored.



    Animal Zoo

    Track #6 - Mr Skin, is probably the closest thing to a perfect rock track on the album. Now Mr Skin actually refers to drummer Ed Cassidy and I have to say, the drum beat he lays down is most excellent. As an aside, Cassidy was actually California's step-father. Cassidy, came from a jazz background and may have been the world's oldest surviving rocker, after all, he was about 20 years older than the rest of the band. He always wore black, performed the occasional solo with his bare hands and was nicknamed "Mr. Skin" for his shaved head. Sadly he died in 2012 from Cancer.

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    Ed Cassidy

    This track apart from being a real rocker, is quite magnificently infused with some great horn lines.


    Mr Skin

    The next track that really grabbed me was track #8 - When I Touch You. This is indeed a very "spacey" if not "head" track. Full of drama it kicks off with some tape reverse before a short pause (for dramatic effect), and then the band pours in behind the vocal delivery of Jay Ferguson. I have enjoyed Ferguson's voice throughout the album, but its this track that demonstrates his ability to sing both sweetly, and to really stretch his larynx. Again the guitar work of California is aptly supported solid bass/drums combo, and it has some great effects that were not, developed on the Moog, but rather from some very clever engineering.

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    Having taken us up with the emotion of the music, the group beautifully drops right down, before slowly and surely bringing the track, and us the audience, up to a screaming climax - what great piece of bass playing, and then, the track slowly dies out, finishing with guitar, keyboards and hand-claps. Whew!!!



    When I Touch You

    The final track for your consideration is track # 10 - Life Has Just Begun. A most beautiful example of the collaboration between some beautiful poetry and some very beautiful music. Yet, it's not chinsy or sugary - it's a declaration of life! Written California I struggled to find out why the track commences with a mention of Kiowa? Sure the Kiowa are a nation of American Indians of the Great Plains, but somehow I don't think this is what California was singing about. To my knowledge he never married, but it leaves the possibility that he was talking about the mother of his child, Quinn.

    "Oh hey Kiowa, I know your name
    Catch me a glancing with one of your eye
    So much we are chancing if we said goode, Ohh
    Softly say you'll be my bride and
    our hopes all sun and feel
    Say you'll always be here my side
    With the hopes all constantly ohh
    We walked in the dream and we knew it was
    Married in the dreams
    Strange as it seemed that we knew because
    Because life has just begun
    Life has just begun, life has just begun
    Because life has just begun

    Hey Kiowa, I know your name
    Hey Kiowa, I know your name
    Walking in that sunny hour
    I even know your names Atowa
    No war on the rocky hour
    I meet some people of desire
    Walked in the dream and we knew it was
    Strange as it seemed that we knew because
    Because life has just begun
    Life has just begun, life has just begun
    life has just begun, life has just begun
    Because life has just begun
    Because life has just begun"

    (Repeat To Fade)


    Life has Just Begun

    Currently there is a court case being bought against Led Zepplin on behalf of the estate of Randy, claiming that Led Zepplin "ripped off" the music of Randy, as recorded on the track "Taurus" from that first album - Spirit. In particular is the "notable" Zepplin run in Stairway To Heaven. Is it the the most amazing coincidence, given Zepplin Toured with Spirit for a short while, prior to writing Stairway, while Spirit played Taurus? Here is that track, you listen and decide for yourself. Pay particular attention to the piece commencing at around 0:45 and 1:37sec.



    Very sadly Randy California passed away in 1997, doing something he loved with his son. To celebrate the New Year, Randy and his 12-year-old son Quinn went swimming off the coast of Molokai, in Hawaii. A tidal wave caught them both but California managed to push his son away from the riptide toward the shore before he was himself pulled out to sea. The guitarist's body has never been recovered.

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    Randy Wolfe (California)

    Randy Wolfe (Randy California), guitarist, singer, songwriter: born Los Angeles 20 February 1951; died Molokai, Hawaii 2 January 1997.

    So is this a masterpiece of an album? No! Those albums are albums such as Sergeant Pepper, Electric Ladyland and The Dark Side of the Moon. However, it is an excellent album and is a must in any record collection that includes the music of the 1970's.


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    The 1996 re-release has four bonus tracks, but they add little to the overall quality of the album. A quick check on Ebay revealed that the Cd is available for around $16.00 (free postage), new re-released vinyl albums at about $50,00 (inc postage), and second hand albums for about $25.00 (inc postage).
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    VIDEOS - It's a shame that there are so few live clips of them original line-up available. Here a couple of tracks for you


    I Got A Line On You


    Natures Way

    Previous Cream of the Crate Albums

    If you are interested in checking out the first fifty vinyl albums reviewed, just click
    HERE

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