Rare psych lp OAR Alexander Spence VG++ moby grabe Amazing story about this lp
$
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This record is part of a rare 30 year collection that will be sold over the next few months.
They include some very rare soul and garage 45's also rare albums.
This is an amazing record, an album written by a mad man.
This is
OAR
ALEXANDER SPENCE(MOBY GRABE)
Here is the background on this lp straight from wikipedia...
Described as "one of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made",[5] 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, after having ingested LSD.[2][6]
At the time of Spence's release from hospital, he had written a number of songs that he wanted to record. Producer David Rubinson suggested that Spence record at the Columbia studios in Nashville, where there was a particularly patient recording engineer, Mike Figlio. Rubinson instructed Figlio to keep the tapes running at all times, to record everything that Spence did. The majority of the tracks were recorded using a three-track recorder. Rubinson chose to stay away from the studio, concerned that Spence's recording activities would be distracted by the presence of a producer.[2]
According to Spence, the Nashville sessions were intended by him to only be a demo, which he gave to Rubinson with the intent that the songs would be fleshed out with full production for the actual album. Instead Rubinson had the demo recordings released by Columbia.
When first released, Oar was not promoted by Columbia Records, despite pleadings from Rubinson. It was at the time the lowest-selling album in Columbia Records history, and was deleted from the Columbia catalogue within a year of its release.[2]
The record is in excellent condition, the sleeve has a seam split top right and seam split bottom center and runs to the righ edge, still they are clean splits and the cover is still solid and holds together well, very little ring wear. The recod is mint- apart from 3 small needle drop marks on side 2, slight tic for a minute. This is a beauty and apart from that this record was prob only played a handful of times if that.
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