Alexander "Skip" Spence - Cripple Creek скачать видео бесплатно


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From his only solo album, "Oar"

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Wikipedia:

Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 -- April 16, 1999) was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Spence was a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service before Marty Balin recruited him to be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane. After one album with Jefferson Airplane, their debut Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, he left to co-found Moby Grape, once again as a guitarist.

During the recording session of the group's second album, Wow in 1968, Spence allegedly attempted to break down a bandmate's hotel room door with a fire axe while under the influence of LSD. Spence was committed for six months to New York City's Bellevue Hospital, where he was subsequently diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Upon his release, he recorded his only solo album, the now-classic psychedelic/folk album Oar (1969, Columbia Records). However, mental illness and alcoholism prevented him from sustaining a career in the music industry, and he spent most of his later life homeless in and around San Jose and Santa Cruz, California. He died in 1999, from lung cancer. He was 52.

Комментарии

8 years назад

Medieval Richard

Excellent!

9 years назад

Valeria Violet

Fall in love, everytime.

9 years назад

Fk the Police

his shit is just like madcap laughs 

9 years назад

robotkarel

pura sicodelia

10 years назад

Tom68070

I have some Moby Grape songs, I did not know the history... On the Dime, Took it All away, and Further on Up the Road.. Kinda reminds me of a Jimmy Ray type song. When I play those songs no one knows who it is. Thanks Alpha for the song and the info .

11 years назад

Zigiwy

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11 years назад

Will Dockery

David Cunningham, not only do I not agree, I think my description perfectly describes my opinion of the song "Cripple Creek", on my first hearing of it I felt these vibes from the song structure and performance, but also my description beats anything you've managed... which so far is no description at all, lazy or otherwise. Perhaps you're still working on one?

11 years назад

David Cunningham

What a lazy inaccurate description of this great song.

12 years назад

John Barkley

Get the adblock plus add-on for FF and never have to worry about that shit again.

12 years назад

loverz4lyf

You know what sucks? I had a Skrillex ad before this.

13 years назад

fatcatbuzz

@Sandbagger300 Exactly, CDs are still a great format. Don't get me wrong, I love having MP3s on my computer. But, when I'm at home and have my stereo on, I prefer the vinyl or CD. Downloading music is OK, but it's still not that great of a medium and doesn't have the personally feeling of having the physical medium like vinyl or a CD. But, that's just me. I think there is a giant disconnect between the music and the fans these days, especially in mainstream music.

13 years назад

Sandbagger300

@fatcatbuzz Wow that sounds like something I would say, People today are like why do you still buy CD's when you can get songs online? #1-You get liner notes where you learn a lot about the music and groups, #2 I like "non mainstream" 60's garage music which good luck finding most of it on MP3, and #3 I like hearing a entire album not just the 2 good songs out of 13 that most groups put out today! Most music "fans" today know nothing about the groups they listen too!

13 years назад

ioriorioriorio

Too high a price to pay, but definitely a demented genious, and all- around '60's character

13 years назад

fatcatbuzz

@Alwaystuned I think the worst thing about music and the culture today is that no one reads the history of rock or music for that matter. I still get vinyl and CDs (I actually have this one on both formats) and the thing I use to love about even CDs is that at least they had liner notes. That's how I knew that bit of information about Skip leaving a New York hospital and not San Francisco. I read this before they even had the Internet because of music magazines. I miss those days.

13 years назад

fatcatbuzz

@1smokie1 Yes, but only for the first album. He also wrote "My Best Friend" for Surrealistic Pillow.

13 years назад

Alwaystuned .

@fatcatbuzz Finally someone who knows their rock history. He requested the motorcycle from the record company after being released from Bellevue Hospital in N.Y.---then went to Tenn. and recorded this gem of an album.

13 years назад

spadge321

deep shit baby

13 years назад

1smokie1

Wasn't Skip Spence the drummer for the Airplane, early on?

13 years назад

hugatag

@worldwarlego7 My father was your Grandfathers recording engineer. Not sure if he did Oar but he did a MobyGrape album.

13 years назад

valuablescum

@WhyYesImAlwaysRight Are you kidding me? You're lame. Those two morons rape every artist they cover, with their pretentious know-it-all crap. God, do you just think you're always right or something? Yeah, I think I AM valuable scum btw. We all are. Thanks for specifying which Beck it is. For your information Jeff Beck fucking killed it.

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