Alexander "Skip" Spence was the Jefferson Airplane's drummer in their first album "Take Off", dated back in 1966.
A take off for JA, but a hard landing for Skipe that after the record never reappeared with JA. He left to found "Moby Grape" and thereafter lost himself in a sad journey to destruction, featuring drug addiction and alcoholism, which brought him far away from the music industry and from the recognition that his immense talent would have deserved.
A discontinuous genius, he left us with a solo album entitled "Oar". JA dedicated him a song in the notorious "Surrelastic Pillow" record, called "My best Friend", and many late contributions include artists such as Robert Plant, Tom Waits and Beck.
Another lost phantom in the history of music.
http://www.myspace.com/apageforalexanderspence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Spence
A take off for JA, but a hard landing for Skipe that after the record never reappeared with JA. He left to found "Moby Grape" and thereafter lost himself in a sad journey to destruction, featuring drug addiction and alcoholism, which brought him far away from the music industry and from the recognition that his immense talent would have deserved.
A discontinuous genius, he left us with a solo album entitled "Oar". JA dedicated him a song in the notorious "Surrelastic Pillow" record, called "My best Friend", and many late contributions include artists such as Robert Plant, Tom Waits and Beck.
Another lost phantom in the history of music.
http://www.myspace.com/apageforalexanderspence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Spence
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