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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Unable to download. The Recuro links page says my daily limit has been reached, even though I did not download anything yet. Any chance you could post the actual files on Mega.nz (instead of just a txt file with the links to Recuro?)
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ResponderExcluirThank you !
ResponderExcluirThanks for sharing! I have the actual CD's, but will be nice having these in digital format too. Similar to the comment above, I was unable to download via the first link, but the Mega links worked without any issues.
ResponderExcluirLoads of thanks for sharing this set. Randy's solo work was often erratic, but always interesting. The period represented in this collection will be new to me as I was never aware of any official releases during this time until I stumbled across your post. Thanks again.
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