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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. [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 industry.
Aug 29, 2022 · Skip Spence was the original drummer for Jefferson Airplane, but he was fired and joined Moby Grape instead. He had a mental breakdown, a near-fatal car accident, and a solo album that influenced many rock musicians.
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.
Nov 26, 2021 · Spence, later days… Rubinson, who was not present at the recording sessions at all, simply took the 12 tracks to Columbia to be issued as the aforementioned Oar album. The result — one of the ...
Alexander (Skip) Spence, pivotal figure in psychedelic San Francisco rock, dies at 52; he was a founding member of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape; photo (M)
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.
