ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE Oar LP NEW SEALED VINYL SUNDAZED MOBY GRAPE PSYCH
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Description
ARTIST: Alexander Spence
TITLE: Oar
FORMAT: LP (180 Gram)
LABEL: Sundazed
CATALOG #: LP-5030
RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW
DESCRIPTION:
"The visionary solo work recorded during Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence’s last days as part of the seminal San Francisco band Moby Grape. Sundazed restores the original Columbia album version of Oar directly from the 2-track master tapes, circa 1968. Our 180 gram vinyl edition is an exact reproduction of the original Columbia LP. We’re proud to present a fitting tribute to the legacy of this undiscovered national musical treasure." - Sundazed
"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." - Lindsay Planer & allmusic.com
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