ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE Oar LP COLUMBIA 1969 US orig CS 9831 MOBY GRAPE-JEFFERSON

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ALEXANDER 'SKIP' SPENCE

 Former Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane member 

who released one solo work, Oar, a watershed work of hallucinogenic country blues.

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.

"OAR"

1969     LP     COLUMBIA RECORDS     STEREO CS 9831

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

First pressing on a red 360° Columbia label with white lettering

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  COLUMBIA - <360 SOUND> RED LABEL - BLACK/WHITE TEXT

Catalog on cover: CS 9831  

Catalog on labels: CS 9831 (XSM 139778 / XSM 139779)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): XSM 139778-1A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): XSM 139779-1A

Matrix / Runout (both sides, Stamped): o   A3

On labels: ?"360 Sound" Stereo "360 Sound"?

rim text reads '® "Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.'

 On back cover: The selections are BMI

Dedication: Olga

Date Recorded: December 16, 1968

Engineering: Charlie Bradley, Mike Figlio and Don Meehan

Produced by Alexander Spence

Recorded in Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee

Liner notes: David Rubinson

Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc./51 W. 52 Street, New york, N.Y./ ®"Columbia", Marcas Reg. 

Printed in U.S.A.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: LITTLE HANDS - CRIPPLE CREEK - DIANA

MARGARET--TIGER RUG - WEIGHTED DOWN - WAR IN PEACE

Side B: BROKEN HEART - ALL COME TO MEET HER

BOOKS OF MOSES - DIXIE PEACH PROMENADE

LAWRENCE OF EUPHORIA - GREY/AFRO

  grading

RECORD VG(+) (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG but (please, see pictures and read above description)

No one except psychedelic Renaissance man Alexander "Skip" Spence could have created an album such as Oar. 

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. 

However those who did hear it were instantly drawn into Spence's inimitable sonic surrealism. 

As his illustrious past in the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Moby Grape would suggest, 

this album is a pastiche of folk and rock. In reality, however, while these original compositions may draw from those genres, 

each song has the individuality of a fingerprint. 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. A common motif to this album is the presence of saints and demons....(AllMusic)