Feedback is the fifth album by the rock & roll band Spirit

Spirit (band)

Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/progressive rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.- The original lineup :...

. Released in 1972, it was the first Spirit album without original members Jay Ferguson

Jay Ferguson (American musician)

Jay Ferguson is an American rock and roll musician, known for his work with Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, and his 1978 solo hit "Thunder Island". His later career has been as a composer of music for television programs and films.-Childhood and early musical career:He was born in Burbank, California, in...

 and Mark Andes

Mark Andes

Mark Andes is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, Heart, and Mirabal.-Early life:...

, and it was also the only Spirit album that did not feature Randy California

Randy California

Randy California was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit, formed in 1967.-Biography:...

 performing on it, as California had left the group to pursue a solo career.

Feedback reached the same chart position on the U.S. Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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album charts as its predecessor, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is the fourth album by the psychedelic rock ensemble Spirit. Produced by David Briggs, who is best known for his work with Neil Young. The original LP was released in 1970 by Epic....

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Description

Feedback was the only Spirit album to feature the John and Al Staehely

Al Staehely

Al Staehely was a singer/songwriter from the 1970s. He was featured in Spirit, The Staehely Brothers, The Nick Gravenites John Cipollina Band and recorded with labels such as Epic and Polydor.He is now an entertainment lawyer based in Houston, Texas...

 as band members. Musically it was a different turn for the band, in favor of a country

Country music

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 influenced hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 style and lyrics mostly dealing with conventional male-female love topics, with only the tracks "Darkness" and the instrumentals "Puesta Del Scam" and "Trancas Fog-Out" recalling Spirit's earlier psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

. Although the album wasn't widely heard in later years, it has finally surfaced on cd and has received some extremely satisfying notices. The Feedback tour saw the remaining original members (Locke and Cassidy) leave the band during the tour, and Chris and Al Staehely regrouped the band under a new name, Sta-Hay-Lee, recording another album self-titled under the Sta-Hay-Lee name in 1972. Chris Staehely would later join Jay Ferguson's band Jo Jo Gunne

Jo Jo Gunne

Jo Jo Gunne is a rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes after they had left Spirit...

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Al Staehely

Al Staehely

Al Staehely was a singer/songwriter from the 1970s. He was featured in Spirit, The Staehely Brothers, The Nick Gravenites John Cipollina Band and recorded with labels such as Epic and Polydor.He is now an entertainment lawyer based in Houston, Texas...

, already a lawyer at the time, went on to become a full time entertainment lawyer.

Track listing

All songs written by Al Staehely except noted.

• † - CD bonus track

Spirit

• Ed Cassidy
  Ed Cassidy
  Ed "Cass" Cassidy is an American drummer who was one of the founders of the rock group Spirit in 1967.His family moved to Bakersfield, California, in 1931, and he started as a professional musician in 1937. He was in the Navy during World War II, and after his discharge worked at many jobs before...
  
   - drums
• John Locke
  John Locke (musician)
  John Tilden Locke was an American rock keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. Locke was also a member of the band Nazareth in the early 1980s....
  
  - keyboards
• Al Staehely - bass, vocals
• J. Christian Staehely [credited as Chris Staehely] - guitar, backup vocals

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1972	Billboard 200	65