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Skip Spence. Alexander " Skip " Spence (born Alexander Lee Spence, Jr.; April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American singer-songwriter and musician. [1] He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year, he released his only solo album, Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music ...
Aug 29, 2022 · Per Louder, Skip Spence continued writing songs in the 1980s and 1990s, but aside from his well-documented personal demons, he was also dealing with extended periods of homelessness; in 1981, he became a ward of the state of California. By the early-to-mid-'90s, he was rejoining Moby Grape for reunion shows, and had even been asked to write a ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Skip Spence onstage with Moby Grape at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 17 1967 (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives) Spence’s growing addiction to drugs and alcohol meant that he was unable to sustain much of a career at all. In 1970 he’d had a regular gig with a band called Pachuko at a biker joint in the Santa Cruz mountains.
April 19, 1999. Alexander “Skip” Spence, one of the founding members of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape — two of the Bay Area’s most influential bands — died on April 16th from ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Alexander (Skip) Spence, a pivotal figure in psychedelic San Francisco rock, died Friday at Dominican Hospital in ...
May 1, 2020 · “Skip was a complex person,” reckons guitarist and ex-Jefferson Airplane colleague Jorma Kaukonen, who’d visited Spence in Bellevue. “Whatever unresolved emotional issues he had, he was ...
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Alexander " Skip " Spence (born Alexander Lee Spence, Jr.; April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American singer-songwriter and musician. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year, he released his only solo album, Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry.
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