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Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Speaking of flashback Classic hits | Spirit - I Got a Line on You

 Spirit - I Got a Line on You



second perhaps only to Fresh Garbage comes this early ‘hit’ for me a classic Spirit track (check the guitar solo a stone cold classic and favourite sound ) and I loved this when it came out. . . . . I found them by listening to Rock Machine Turns You On (Taj Mahal, Spirit, Bob and Leonard I think, the first compilation sampler album for under 30 bob (ask your Brit grandparents! think it was 17/6d) you could buy with new artists on followed up with the British 'You Can All Join In' (Traffic, Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Spooky Tooth et al) then Gutbucket (12/6d) a heavier sounding blues comp (Captain Beefheart!) and its bastard son Son of Gutbucket - Roy Harper, The Groundhogs) Interesting quite how many bands I followed from those samplers and still do today

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