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21 de jun. de 2016 · Skip Spence 4/1999. April 16, 1999 – Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence was born on April 18, 1946 in Windsor Ontario, Canada. His parents moved to San José, California in the mid 1950s where his father found work in the aviation industry, having been a decorated bomber pilot during the war. He was given a guitar by his parents at the age of 10.
1 de may. de 2020 · Kaukonen remembers Spence as “somewhat mercurial. I guess today that he might be diagnosed as bipolar on some levels, but everyone in Jefferson Airplane always thought he was so cool. A ray of ...
From A Whisper to a Scream. So goes the Allen Toussaint song, yet another that can fit the story of Skip Spence. Starting out as a member of the obscure West Coast band The Other Side, and being one of the initial members of Quicksilver Messenger Service, one of the revered San Francisco bands of the ’60s, Spence, who immediately showed his guitar-playing skills, was chosen by Jefferson ...
19 de abr. de 1999 · Alexander “Skip” Spence, one of the founding members of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape — two of the Bay Area’s most influential bands — died on April 16th from lung cancer ...
31 de may. de 2023 · Skip Spence was one of those many somebodies—one of the huge swathe of folks cast to the ash heap of history in the winter of discombobulation that followed the summer of love. He was a genius who grabbed hold of the music industry before a cataclysm resigned his destitute fate. Spence’s father often travelled along Route 66 as a musician.
This is probably the most amazing story I've covered on my channel so far. There have been many casualties in the history of rock. Shannon Moon, Janis Joplin...
La fotografía que ilustra la portada de "Oar" (Columbia, 1969) fue tomada en el pabellón psiquiátrico del Bellevue Hospital de Nueva York.En ella, Albert Lee “Skip” Spence posa bajo los efectos de la torazina, entre sonriente y sedado. Una imagen que ha devenido en icónica con el paso de los años y que ilustra a la perfección la trágica historia de este Ícaro de la era lisérgica ...
