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Jay Ferguson - My Father's Place, Roslyn, New York October 11, 1977

Track listing:
  1. Snakes On The Run 4:25
  2. Babylon 4:41
  3. The Island 4:32
  4. Happy Birthday Baby 4:38
  5. Mr. Skin > I Got A Line On You 12:10
  6. All Alone In The End Zone 10:31
  7. Thunder Island 4:24
  8. Losin' Control 6:40
  9. Medicated Goo 5:00

Notes


Here's another reseed (Spirit related).
I'm also including a comment posted back when I uploaded this on EZT by "pgl", where he questions the date. It's relevant so I'm including that.
All files are my original files, except the new text file.

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Ferguson, Jay .... October 11, 1977
My Father's Place, Roslyn, New York, U.S.A.

jay ferguson,vocals & keyboards
joey murcia, guitar
bob webb, guitar
harold coward, bass
stan kipper, drums


(with some tape hiss) .... ex- fm
Size: 9 tracks; 57:06 minutes; ~364MB (flacs, etc.)
Source: FM> Cass(?)> CDR> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> FLAC frontend 1.7.1 (level 6; align on sector boundaries)

01. Snakes On The Run
02. Babylon
03. The Island
04. Happy Birthday Baby
05. Mr. Skin> Got A Line
06. All Alone In The End Zone
07. Thunder Island
08. Losin' Control
09. Medicated Goo


ffp:
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Prepared by Jeff James (roryglzep@aol.com)
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Additional info:

pgl at 2004-12-19 20:03:04 GMT
if i am not wrong, the correct date should be may 19 1978.
i got this tape some 20 years ago, and i have checked with
other spirit collectors, but of course i may be wrong.
the title of track 2 is "babylon", one of the best songs
by ferguson.

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Unofficial Jay Ferguson Homepage: http://www.bostream.nu/johanb/jay/index.htm#jay-links
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Jay Ferguson Biography by Steve Huey
Best known as the lead singer of Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, Jay Ferguson pursued a solo
career in the late '70s before eventually moving into film scoring work. Ferguson was
born May 10, 1947, in Burbank, CA; tired of piano lessons, he began playing folk music
as a teenager, but soon discovered rock & roll through the British Invasion, and
played in several garage bands for fun. One of those bands, the Red Roosters, featured
several future members of Spirit, the eclectic, jam-oriented psychedelic rock outfit
that Ferguson joined in 1967. Spirit released four albums from 1968-1970 and became
cult favorites through their exposure on the newly emerging, album-oriented FM radio
underground. However, band infighting eventually led to Ferguson's departure; he and
Spirit bassist Mark Andes left in 1971 to form Jo Jo Gunne, which played a more
straightforward, melodic brand of hard rock, and began to feature Ferguson's
piano/keyboard playing. Jo Jo Gunne released four albums before disbanding in 1975
amid a loss of musical direction, and Ferguson went solo, remaining with the Asylum
label.

Ferguson's debut album, All Alone in the End Zone, was released in 1976, and showed
him moving away from the hard rock that Jo Jo Gunne was best known for. Instead, it
had more in common with the slick Southern California pop/rock of the era, the sort
that found the middle ground between soft rock and album rock; it featured
substantial contributions from then-Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. So did the slightly
more pop-oriented follow-up Thunder Island, whose title track hit the Top Ten in
1977 and helped make the album a commercial success. After a limited-run live album,
Ferguson released his official follow-up, Real Life Ain't This Way, in 1979; it
produced another Top 40 hit in "Shakedown Cruise." With those successes under his
belt, Ferguson jumped to Capitol for his next album, 1980's Terms & Conditions.
However, it and the 1982 follow-up White Noise failed to produce any more hits. With
his keyboard and MIDI expertise, however, Ferguson was primed to begin a new career
as a soundtrack composer for film and television; he worked on The Terminator,
Nightmare on Elm Street 5, and the UPN television series Viper, among many others,
and remained active into the new millennium.