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Sep 28, 2018 · Alexander Spence – a singer, songwriter, and guitarist commonly known as Skip, recently relieved of his duties in the San Francisco rock band Moby Grape after a descent into excessive hallucinatory-drug use and a psychotic episode with a fire axe – is recording Oar, his first album as a Columbia solo artist. It will also be his last.
Like a rough, more obscure counterpart to Syd Barrett, Alexander "Skip" Spence was one of the late '60s' most colorful acid casualties. The original Jefferson Airplane drummer (although he was a guitarist who had never played drums before joining the group), Spence left after their first album to join Moby Grape. Like every member of that ...
Skip Spence. Former Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane member who released one solo work, Oar, a watershed work of hallucinogenic country blues. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1960s - 1990s. Born. April 18, 1946 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Died.
Nov 24, 2021 · In June 1968, to record their second album Wow/Grape Jam, San Francisco psych rock band Moby Grape traveled to Columbia Records’ New York studios. Towards these sessions’ end, guitarist Alexander “Skip” Spence vanished with an acid mystic known only as “Johanna.” Her LSD induced a three-day trip, during which a paranoid Spence turned against his bandmates. Two days later, Spence ...
Oct 13, 2021 · Alexander “Skip” Spence was another musician besieged by drug use during the psychedelic 60’s … but again, I’m getting ahead of myself. Skip had a more than illustrious past that included work with Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Jefferson Airplane, and touched another dozen groups in one manner or another.
Apr 16, 1999 · Added: Nov 25, 2005. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 12508185. Source citation. Rock Musician. Born Alexander Lee Spence, he was one of the founders of the psychedelic rock band “Moby Grape.”. He was initially the drummer for the influential San Francisco, California rock band “Jefferson Airplane”, and performed on their 1966 debut album release.
Jun 21, 2016 · Skip Spence 4/1999. April 16, 1999 – Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence was born on April 18, 1946 in Windsor Ontario, Canada. His parents moved to San José, California in the mid 1950s where his father found work in the aviation industry, having been a decorated bomber pilot during the war. He was given a guitar by his parents at the age of 10.
