Alexander Spence - Oar album flac

Oar is the only solo album by Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence. It was recorded in 1968 over seven days in Nashville, on which Spence plays all of the instruments. Described as "one of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made", the album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in Bellevue Hospital. Spence had been committed to Bellevue following a delusion-driven attempt to attack Moby Grape bandmates Don Stevenson and Jerry Miller with a fire axe.

This is the only solo album by former Jefferson Airplane drummer and Moby Grape gwriter Alexander Spence, aka Skip Spence. He wrote the material during his six-month confinement to New York City’s famous (some might say infamous) Bellevue Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward, which some New Yorkers refer to as the looney bin. Columbia refused to promote the album, with the result that it was the lowest-selling album in Columbia’s history at that time, and it was deleted from the Columbia catalogue within a year of its release. Nevertheless, these tracks are diamonds in the rough, and with a little imagination it’s easy to see how they could have been brilliant songs if Skip had been able to give them the time and effort to polish them.

This poor-selling but influential album by Moby Grape singer-guitarist Alexander Skip Spence is a cult classic.

Alexander "Skip" Spence recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself. The end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. In the same year he released his only solo album: Oar. The album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in a mental institution following a delusion-driven attempt to attack his Moby Grape band mates with a fire axe, after having ingested LSD. As the urban myth goes, on the day of his release he drove a motorcycle - dressed in only his pyjamas - directly to Nashville to record his only solo album. Fact is that he recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself, and that the end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album.

More Oar: Tribute to Alexander Skip Spence. Classic album that I like and play much more than I ever expected. Blend of several different musical styles, but all tracks come from the heart and are haunting and compelling.