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	Alexander "Skip" Spence: Oar ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Alexander "Skip" Spence first came to the attention of the record buying public when he played drums on the first Jefferson Airplane album, but his first and preferred instrument was guitar.
		Spence was too much of a free spirit to last with the Airplane or any other band.
		This episode led to a lengthy psychiatric hospitalization, the first of many instigated by the schizophrenia that dogged Spence for the rest of his life until he died of lung cancer.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Skip_Spence_Oar.htm (445 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Oar [Remaster] - Alexander "Skip" Spence at Epinions.com
		Skip rebounded to become a member of the band "Moby Grape." This was a band quite like Cream, who was conflicted with too much talent, and met an untimely end.
		Skip took the $1,000 that the record company gave him up front and bought a Triumph motorcycle that he rode to the Nashville recording studios to make this album."Oar" was written, played, produced, and recorded by Skip in a few short days.
		Skip goes onto say you'll be spending the night under me. He goes from one extreme to the next with his songs.
	www.epinions.com /content_38497848964 (761 words)

	The Hangar
		Spence wasn't one for staying in one place too long, though, and he took off to Mexico one day with a girlfriend or two, neglecting to tell the band he was going.
		Why Skip Spence would choose to continue working with Katz was just one of the many unfortunate mysteries in which his life became tangled during the three-plus decades following his Airplane stay.
		In addition to Spence, the quintet included two other guitarists: Peter Lewis (the son of actress Loretta Young), who used to play with Spencer Dryden down in L.A. and was most recently working with a band called Peter and the Wolves; and Jerry Miller.
	www.gotarevolution.com /mobygrape.htm (1843 words)

	Skip Spence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (born April 18, 1946 in Windsor, Ontario - died April 16, 1999 in Santa Cruz, California) was a musician and singer-songwriter.
		Spence continued to have minor involvement in later Moby Grape projects and reunions, as well as helping the Doobie Brothers get signed to Warner Bros. Records (the Doobies idolized Spence and the Grape).
		More recently, Spence's "Land of the Sun," one of the only post-Grape recordings he ever completed, was nearly placed on the X-Files soundtrack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skip_Spence (261 words)

	Music: The Memory of Music (Austin Chronicle . 12-20-99)
		Spence was fired from the Airplane by the time the song appeared on their classic second album Surrealistic Pillow, released in 1967.
		Spence was only 22 when he made Oar, but he was already a veteran rock musician and songwriter.
		Spence died just as More Oar was scheduled to be released this past spring, coinciding with the release of Oar on CD for the first time.
	weeklywire.com /ww/12-20-99/austin_music_feature.html (2933 words)

	"Skip Spence Gallery" Oil Paintings by Paul Berenson
		Alexander "Skip" Spence was one of the key figures in developing the San Francisco Sound, while a member of Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane in the 1960's.
		Spence played all the instruments, wrote all the songs, and produced it himself.
		It was premiered by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, and explores the similarities between the creative genius and disease of Robert Schumann and Skip Spence.
	www.paulb.com /spencegal.htm (155 words)

	Oar
		With the Airplane, Spence showed tremendous promise on sticks and had a fine flare for songwriting, penning “My Best Friend” on the Airplane’s masterwork “Surrealistic Pillow.” A year from his hiring however, he was fired for missing a gig to take an acid trip to Mexico.
		Skip used the money to buy a motorcycle and rode down to Nashville to begin recording what would be his lone album in December of 1968.
		Spence recorded the entire album, which was titled “Oar,” in six days, playing every instrument and producing every track (with the help of a Nashville studio engineer) using a three-track recorder.
	burnttoast45.tripod.com /id98.html (1620 words)

	Moby Grape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frontman and rhythm guitarist Skip Spence (the original drummer for Jefferson Airplane), lead guitarist Jerry Miller and drummer Don Stevenson (both formerly of the Frantics), rhythm guitarist (and son of actress Loretta Young) Peter Lewis (of the Cornells), and bassist Bob Mosley all wrote songs for their debut album Moby Grape (1967).
		Spence's "Omaha" reached the lower rungs of the American singles charts in 1967, and Miller-Stevenson's "8:05" became a country rock standard (covered by The Grateful Dead, Robert Plant, Guy Burlage, and others).
		Homeless for years and suffering from long-term mental illness and a multitude of health ailments, the mercurial and brilliant Skip Spence died in Santa Cruz, CA in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moby_Grape (829 words)

	village voice > music > Skip Spence: Oar-al history by Richard Gehr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Spence's former band, Moby Grape, could have been America's answer to the Rolling Stones, with Spence their perfectly coiffed Brian Jones.
		Spence sounds shamanic in the droning, newly restored, and mostly indecipherable "Grey-Afro"/"This Time He Has Come" medley, as though he were searching the void for a messianic presence to lead him home.
		Spence oozes charisma even when obviously making it up as he goes along, but the songs stand tall, often sounding even better when somebody else sings them.
	www.villagevoice.com /arts/9936/gehr.shtml (777 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Skip Spence
		Alexander "Skip" Spence was a member of pioneering 1960s bands Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane.
		Spence played all the instruments on OAR and the album became a watershed work of hallucinogenic country blues.
		Shortly after Spence's death in 1999, a number of artists, including R.E.M., Tom Waits, and Beck, performed on MORE OAR, a "Skip" Spence tribute album.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/artist.jsp?artistId=133526 (80 words)

	Skip Spence Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
		Spence's recent past is unhappy; he was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia, was an alcoholic and lived as a derelict on the streets of Santa Cruz, although reports suggest that he had finally managed to stop drinking a few years before his death from cancer on Friday in a Santa Cruz hospital.
		Though Spence had overcome alcoholism and schizophrenia in years past, Bentley said that it seemed the recent diagnosis of lung cancer was too much for him.
		Oar, recorded entirely by Spence in 1968 after a six-month stay in a New York mental hospital, was not a commercial success, but is considered by many to be a groundbreaking work.
	elvispelvis.com /skipspence.htm (1557 words)

	2 Walls Webzine - music review - Alexander Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Luckily Skip got to sort out his issues, with a pad of paper and a crayon, for the next six months at New York City's Bellevue Hospital.
		Skips indecipherable lyrics are perhaps the greatest instrument showcased on the track.
		I don't know what Spence was thinking when he made this album.
	www.2walls.com /REVIEWS/MUSIC/spence_alexander.asp (336 words)

	eBay - skip spence, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE Oar 180gr LP SLD Moby Grape PSYCH
		Alexander Skip Spence Oar 180 gram vinyl LP New
		ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE OAR 69 MOBY GRAPE REMAST SS CD+XT
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=skip+spence&newu=1&krd=1 (381 words)

	the of mirror eye » Sounds Of Summer
		And Oar, by Skip Spence is the personification of these up and coming days.
		Oar is certainly unretouched Spence, straight from the id. But there is just as much reason as intuition in the sound and character of Oar.
		Yet the languid, bass-y ambience of the record was deliberate-to emphasize intimacy and heighten the dank air of enforced isolation.
	ofmirroreye.net /blog/2006/04/sounds-of-summer (416 words)

	Skip Spence - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Like a rough, more obscure counterpart to Syd Barrett, 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.
		Sadly, it was his only solo recording; more sadly, mental illness prevented Spence from reaching a fully functional state throughout the remainder of his lifetime.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,495960,00.html (395 words)

	Skip Spence - AOL Music
		More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence, featuring contributions from R.E.M., Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Beck, and many others, was released a few...
		Skip Spence: His troubled life might serve as a parable of the dark side of the '60s -- but his amazing music lives on.
		Download, listen and watch Skip Spence music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/skip-spence/5497/main (147 words)

	Dallas - Music - More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album - dallasobserver.com
		Hence the tales about Alexander "Skip" Spence, the former Jefferson Airplane drummer and Moby Grape guitarist-songwriter who died in April, three days before he was to turn 53.
		Myriad stories abound about Spence, many involving axes swung at bandmates and men possessed by demons and long stays in mental institutions and, eventually, a painful death brought on by cancer.
		After all, deep down Spence and Beck were not so different: pop freaks with ears too big to keep a good sound down.
	www.dallasobserver.com /1999-08-05/music/more-oar-a-tribute-to-the-skip-spence-album (619 words)

	Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage \| Unsung \| The Book of Seth \| Alexander Spence - Oar
		Alexander Spence’s “Oar” is simultaneously one of the simplest AND most complex albums I’ve ever heard.
		From acoustic balladry, country-seasoned laments, ribald conclusions and unswervingly elongated irrigations a silent weight hangs upon every word, every chord and even the drumming is as altogether an otherworldly rhythmic device that rolls on unfettered by its dropped beats and minor lapses of tempo.
		Spence’s electric lead guitar bursts in midway chipped and fragmentary and falling like glittering silt as echoed whispering and whistling crisscross the patch of snapped tight hit-hats and bass lines like posts demarcating an unswerving boundary into the distance.
	www.headheritage.co.uk /unsung/thebookofseth/1014 (740 words)

	Skip Spence - Oar \| 104.9 EZ Rock
		Alternately heralded as a "soundtrack to schizophrenia" and a "visionary solo effort," Oar became delegated to cut out and bargain bins shortly after its release in the spring of 1969.
		As a solo recording, Oar is paramount as Spence performed and produced every sound on the album himself at Columbia Records studios in Nashville in the space of less than two weeks.
		This burst of creativity was directly preceded by a six month incarceration in New York City's Bellevue Hospital after chopping down a door at the Albert Hotel en route to do the same to fellow Moby Grape members Jerry Miller and Don Stevenson.
	www.ezrock1049.com /album/18603/review (392 words)

	Amazon.com: Oar: Music: Alexander "Skip" Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alexander "Skip" Spence, according to the liner notes in Oar, recorded the entire album himself in short sessions after checking out of a sanitarium.
		You're in luck--although Spence's sometimes unfocused songwriting and his decision to play all of the instruments hold Oar back from being a flawless outing, it's a classic of 60's psychedelia and still holds up well nearly 40 years later.
		Within the first three tracks, Spence shows his propensity for different singing voices, with an airy falsetto on the joyful "Little Hands," a Fred Neil-like baritone on the dark country folk of "Cripple Creek," and a wheezy, tired whisper on "Diana." Throughout the album he'll continue using these voices, and it works pretty well.
	www.amazon.com /Oar-Alexander-Skip-Spence/dp/B00000JJ2R (2030 words)

	Musicians - Skip Spence
		Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (born April 18 1946 in Windsor, Ontario - died April 16 1999 in Santa Cruz, California) was a musician and singer-songwriter.
		He was a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service before Marty Balin got him to be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane.
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	listing-index.ebay.com /musicians/Skip_Spence.html (307 words)

	Alexander "Skip" Spence
		Spence eased my worries on track one with a little ditty called "Little Hands" and I only noticed a couple of hints of that typical San Fran fuzz guitar dotting the otherwise drum and bass atmosphere of this very sparse recording.
		I have every-thing Skip ever recorded with the Airplane, Moby Grape and the Buffalo Springfield jam and they are all brilliant tracks.
		The whole American Syd Barrett thing is a joke to me, I don't think Syd bless him could hold a candle to Skip Spence and the more people hear his music the more they would agree.
	www.markprindle.com /spence.htm (2275 words)

	Alexander "Skip" Spence : Oldies.com
		Alexander Lee Spence, 18 April 1946, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, d.
		Alexander "Skip" Spence played a pivotal role in the history of several San Franciscan bands.
		While awaiting his audition he was spotted by Marty Balin, who invited Skip to drum in Jefferson Airplane.
	www.oldies.com /artist-view/Alexander-Skip-Spence.html (190 words)

	NPR : Musician Skip Spence
		Spence's album, "Oar", is being re-released, along with a new tribute album.
		A number of artists who were influenced by Spence's unusual style contributed to "More Oar." And even though Spence's life was marred by tragedy..including mental illness and drug addiction, he was able to hear the tribute album on his death bed, just an hour before dying of lung cancer.
		Skip Spence' album "Oar" is being re-released by Sundazed Records; ASIN: B00000JJ2R, and the tribute album released by BirdmanRecords; ASIN: B00000JCBU
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1058233 (189 words)

	SUNDAZED MUSIC - PRESS QUOTES
		Spence heard the sound of the future and, before he forgot, scribbled it on a cocktail napkin.” - Philadelphia Weekly ****
		It’s an album that demands attention—it’s probably the quietest ‘rock’ record ever; perhaps Spence wanted listeners to feel as though they were overhearing Oar.
		The Grape re-cut the song years later, but Spence’s demo is a hot diamond of jangle, la-la-la’s and unconditional giving, a feast of joy from a guy who knew so little in his life.”
	www.sundazed.com /scene/reviews/skipspence_review.html (1325 words)

	MUDHONEY: Articles
		Although Bentley hasn't spoken about the project to Spence, who he said is currently living with his girlfriend in a mobile home in Santa Cruz, Calif., he said the singer's publishing representative has been acting as a go-between, helping to decipher the album's lyrics.
		The only snag, so far, is that even Spence can't recall the words to the track "Grey/Afro", which Bentley said might be turned into an instrumental, since no one can seem to figure out what Spence was saying.
		The song, which Bentley said was "too weird," features Spence repeating the title over and over on top of an eerie drone created by Spence's drumming and former Jefferson Airplane member Jack Cassidy's bass.
	www.mudhoney.net /press/1998/980109.htm (675 words)

	Skip Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Fired from the Airplane for going AWOL to Mexico with legendary teenage runaway Martha Wax (of "Martha" fame), Skip Spence was recruited by Marty Balin to replace original drummer Jerry Peloquin.
		Really a guitarist, he was hijacked by Balin while a guitarist for an embryonic Quicksilver Messenger Service, who Balin was letting use the "Matrix" as a rehearsal hall.
		After being fired fron the Airplane, he went on to be one of the original members of wild boys of the bay area, "Moby Grape", a band put together by ex-Airplane manager Matthew Katz.
	www.airplane.freeserve.co.uk /skip.htm (93 words)

	Skip Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Spence continued to have minor involvement in later Moby Grape projects and reunions, as well as helping the Doobie Brothers get signed to Warner Bros. Records.
		More recently, Spence's "Land of the Sun," one of the only post-Grape recordings he ever completed, was nearly placed on the X-Files soundtrack.
		''More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence'', featuring contributions from R.E.M., Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Beck, and many others, was released a few weeks after his death.
	www.artistopia.com /skip-spence (300 words)

	Cargorecords.co.uk: Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar
		Sundazed is ecstatic to be able to reissue Spence's cult classic on 180-gram vinyl, with original track listing, liner notes and photos intact.
		Spence-a founding member of seminal San Fran skullbenders Moby Grape-cut his only solo work in Nashville immediately after being released from New York's Bellevue Hospital late in 1968.
		Frequently compared to the likes of Syd Barrett and Nick Drake, Spence's visionary work walks the tightrope between reality and delusion and remains a national treasure.
	www.cargorecords.co.uk /release_zoom.php?item=536 (142 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Jefferson Airplane?s Skip Spence Dies
		10:00 PM PT Skip Spence, from the original Jefferson Airplane rock group, and the founder of the group Moby Grape, died of lung cancer Friday at the age of 52.
		In 1969, Spence began suffering from drug and mental problems which forced him to stop playing music and rendered him homeless, living off welfare and charity, in Santa Cruz.
		Spence died shortly before the release of a CD honoring him with music from Beck, Robert Plant, Tom Waits and members of R.E.M., said the San Francisco Chronicle.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|51518\|1\|,00.html (155 words)

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