Spence skip

Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18th, 1946 - April 16th, 1999) was a musician, singer and songwriter, born in Windsor, Canada.

Spence was a guitarist in one of the first formations of Quicksilver Messenger Service before becoming the beater of Jefferson Airplane. After an album with Jefferson Airplane, it leaves the group for cofonder Moby Grape, it takes again the guitar for the occasion. Spence suffered from Schizophrenia. In 1968 whereas it recorded the second album of the group, Wow, Spence, in full trip LSD demolished a door of hotel to the axe and, subsequently, was interned six months in a psychiatric hospital. After its exit, it recorded its single album solo, become the traditional album folk psychedelic Oar (1969, Columbia Racords) which had the unhappy privilege to be the album less sold of Columbia.

The mental disease and alcoholism empéché Spence to continue any musical career, and he lived the majority of his life like one without fixed residence with Santa Cruz, in California. Whereas it seemed to remake surface, cancer came to catch it in an irremediable way.

The musical contributions of Spence after Oar were anecdotic, one of the rare recordings known is " Land off the sun" , which belongs to the BO of X-files.

A disc homage to Oar, heading More Oar: tribute to Alexander " has; Skipe" Spence, was recorded with particpants of first choice: R.E.M., Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Beck, Mudhoney and well of others. Unfortunately, Spence did not have time to listen to it, it died a few weeks before its exit, at 52 years.

Discography

  1. Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (RCA 1966)
  2. Moby Bunch (San Francisco Sound 1967)
  3. Oar (1969, Sundazed Music 2000)
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