Live from the Time Coast

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Live from the Time Coast
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Live album by
ReleasedOctober 25, 2004
RecordedNovember 18, 1989 – March 27, 1994
Length155:57
Label Acadia
Producer Mick Skidmore
Spirit chronology
California Blues
(1993)
Live from the Time Coast
(2004)
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Live from the Time Coast is a double live CD by Spirit with 28 tracks. It is the fourth album to be released from the archives of the late Randy California. Recorded between 1989 and 1996, with a line-up that features founding members Randy California and drummer Ed Cassidy with Mike Nile on bass. This incarnation of Spirit is referred to by Spirit's hard-core followers as "The Tent Of Miracles Band".

Contents

Never released in any form previously and recorded in a number of venues from Manchester to Colorado and from London to Utah.

Track listing

All songs written by Randy California except noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Soldier" 3:50
2."Mike and Bob's Party"California, Nile, Valuck7:12
3."Rapture in the Chambers" 6:21
4."Love Tonight" 3:04
5."Tent of Miracles"Nile5:13
6."All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan 13:38
7."Ship of Fools"Nile5:14
8."Golden Jam"California, Cassidy, Nile, Valuck6:59
9."Dark Eyed Woman"California, Ferguson5:41
10."I Got a Line on You" 3:43
11."Jam Free" 7:12
12."Downer" 8:51
13."In a Young Man's Eyes/Life Has Just Begun" 6:43
14."Future in My Hands" 3:10
15."Victim of Society" 2:31
16."Holy Man" 2:55
17."Love from Here" 14:02
18."Fresh Garbage"Ferguson11:00
19."Taurus" 1:31
20."Darlin' If" 3:08
21."Burning Love" 3:43
22."Logical Answers" 4:08
23."Blues for a Nation"Nile2:43
24."Old Black Magic"Nile4:45
25."Animal Zoo"Ferguson4:18
26."Deep in This Land"Nile4:03
27."Zandu" 4:36
28."Turn to the Right" 3:38
29."Working in New York" 2:05
Total length:155:57

Personnel

Spirit

Production

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