ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE Oar LP EDSEL 1969 UK reissue ED 282 MOBY GRAPE
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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"<reissue, originally published in 1969>
LP EDSEL RECORDS ED 282
MADE IN ENGLAND 1988 REPRESSING
SINGLE COVER
Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: 5 014757132827
LABEL: EDSEL - LILAC LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: ED 282
Catalog on labels: ED 282 (ED 282-A) / ED 282 (ED 282-B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 31 000282 1A1 TY1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): ED 282 B2 TY1
On labels: rim text reads "All Rights Reserved............Manufactured in the UK"
All track written by A. Spence
Produced by Alexander Spence
SBK Songs Ltd
CBS Records are the exclusive licensees for the UK
? 1969 Original sound recordings made by CBS Inc
© 1988 Demon Records Ltd
On Front Cover: sticker reads "FILE UNDER MOBY GRAPE ED 282"
On Back Cover: Notes by Brian Hogg March 1988
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
Issues under license from CBS Records
Edsel Records A division of Demon Records Ltd. Brentford, Middlesex
Manufactured in England
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 MOSESDIXIE PEACH PROMENADE - LAWRENCE OF EUPHORIA - GREY/AFRO
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE EX 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)
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