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10 feb 2022 · Alexander Lee Spence, detto Skip, va di diritto tra i luminescenti, scintillanti, otherworldly, intelletti che si sono lasciati cadere così lontano da non poter tornare. Prima di morire nel 1999 all’età di 52 anni, era diventato un itinerante, per lo più un senzatetto, in California a Santa Cruz e San Josè, frequentemente in cura.
5 ott 2023 · Skip Spence was according to Allmusic one of the brightest lights of the world of Psychedelic Rock. An essential member of early Jefferson Airplane and Moby ...
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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 ...
Alexander Spence. More images. Real Name: Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence. Profile: Born: April 18, 1946, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Died: April 16, 1999, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, California. 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.
L’anno è il 1965, il luogo è il Matrix Club di San Francisco, dove Alexander Lee Spence – detto “Skip”, canadese, classe 1946 – si disimpegnava come chitarrista nei Quicksilver Messanger Service in embrione. Lo notò Marty Balin, che rimase particolarmente colpito da quella nervosa fisionomia: perfetta, a suo dire, per un batterista
31 mag 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.
19 apr 1999 · April 19, 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 ...
