spirit of 76....by spirit

Spirit's "Family That Plays etc." is positively brilliant. A great, sadly underrated, band.

Randy California is one of the great characters in RnR history. He had an original vision as a songwriter and was a great, really underrated guitar player. (Purportedly Jimi was a big fan of his when Randy was still in high school.)

Sadly, but sort of fittingly, he died when he was swept out to sea and (I understand) just disappeared. (I'm not sure if that part's apochryphal, but - if true - it is a fitting end to his story.)

Sometimes it takes a thread like this to jog one's memory & dig out an old fav, Thanks for the reminder phasecorrect, hadn't listened to Spirit in years & "fresh garbage" is playing now, what a great group they were.