Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Midnight Chaser
2. Red Skies
3. High Upon High
4. Way Of The Kings
5. No Reprieve
6. Don't Be Fooled
7. Fool For The Gods
8. Watch Out (Bonus Track)
9. Backs To The Grind (Bonus Track)
10. Cheetah (Bonus Track)
11. High Upon High (Alternative Version - Bonus Track)
12. Midnight Chaser (Alternative Version - Bonus Track)
13. Suffragettes ('Midnight Chaser', B-Side - Bonus Track)
14. Arthur Guitar ('High Upon High',B-Side - Bonus Track)
15. Red Skies (Alternative Version-Muthas Pride EP - Bonus Track)

Disc 2:

1. No Reprieve (Demo)
2. Cheetah (Demo)
3. Backs To The Grind (Demo)
4. Nowhere To Run (Demo)
5. Can't Take It (Demo)
6. High Upon High (Demo)
7. Red Skies (Demo)
8. Midnight Chaser (Demo)
9. Suffragettes (Demo)
10. Watch Out (Demo)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185297 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-11
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
White Spirit - White Spirit

From the Artist
Hi everyone. Just a few quick words. The album was recorded within 2 weeks. It took so long to appear on cd becasuse the last thing I heard was that Janick was trying to buy the rights to it for many years, and finally discovered the master tapes in his own record companie`s archives. The original could have sounded better if more time had been spent on it, but thanks to all the reviewers here for commenting on things that I am in total egreement with. Mally was a briliant keyboard player. I remember doing the working mens clubs in the north east and he played Bach on their pub piano, haha. Janick is the most honest guy I ever met, Phil was great company and Crash was a character! Happy days. This brings it all back after all these years. I am now singing again in the clubs and pubs in the North East for a living and love it. Maybe I`ll make a CD one day who knows. Thank again all!

Customer Reviews

A Trip Down Memory Lane
As a young man in the early 80's, who had been schooled on his older brothers record collection with bands such as The Who and Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath et al, there was a genuine excitement when the NWOBHM scene exploded and my "generation" had finally got it's own scene.
Although best remembered for giving us (a very much more raw and exciting) Def Leppard and that globe straddling behemoth that is Iron Maiden, the NWOBHM movement threw up a few surprises too. Along with Tygers of Pan Tang, White Spirit were one of the more intelligent and musical bands and this album (in its original form) was on heavy rotation with me and all my mates.
Although the vocal performance is not exactly startling, it is the blistering guitar work of a then little known Janick Gers that propels this album. Red Skies features a truly amazing solo, and Fool for the Gods features some fretwork which Richie Blackmore (whose style Gers emulates flawlessly)would have been proud of.
Indeed it is fair to say, that in many places, the band do seem to have a purple-ish tinge to them, although this does not spoil things, if anything it enhances the mood. Midnight Chaser has a great driving riff and sets the tone perfectly for the rest of the album.
All I can say is, if you were into the whole NWOBHM thing, this is an absolutely essential album and will bring memories flooding back in spades and also serve as a reminder as to just how influential the whole movement was.

Memories of Croydon
At last this album has made it to CD and with a lot of great extras-& the production quality is a lot better. I saw this band in Croydon as a mere teenager and thought they were the new deep purple (who I had never seen, sadly). Janick Gers had all the Blackmore moves and they use to do great twin attack organ/guitar solos just like Ritchie and John. I must admit I was a bit disappointed with the production when the LP came out and as they disbanded shortly afterwards the LP fell out of use. But every now and then as I read my Classic Rock mag and looked through the reissues page, I wondered whether it would ever get re-issued itself and hey presto here it is. The addition of the driving'Backs To The Grind' and 'Cheetah' plus Metal For Mutha's and Mutha's Pride versions of 'Red Skies' and 'Higher & Higher' ( better than the album versions) means you can do your own even better 'best of'White Spirit version and as a result I've been listening to it non stop. Finally the 'Nowhere to Run' riff is the same as Rainbow's 'Can't Happen Here' yet I reckon was recorded first. So Janick - respect from the man in black!!!

Great Memories
Saw these quite a few times in my youth at Trimdon Comrades Club, along with Cycle,Brass Alley,Mind and many more great times sadly now only a memory does anyone know if the groups i mentioned released anything on cd let me know at skiddlyxp@hotmail.com many thanks in advance