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Alexander Spence - Oar album

Alexander Spence - Oar album

  • Performer: Alexander Spence
  • Genre: Rock
  • Title: Oar
  • Released: 1999
  • Style: Folk Rock
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1240 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1631 mb
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  • Rating: 4.1
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Description

Формируйте собственную коллекцию записей Alexander Spence.

Oar - Alexander 'Skip' Spence. Открывайте новую музыку каждый день. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией.

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Album by Alexander Spence. Margaret - Tiger Rug. Weighted Down (The Prison Song). All Come to Meet Her. Books of Moses. Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang).

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.

Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American musician and singer-songwriter. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. He released one solo album, 1969's Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry.

Alexander Skip Spence. Released May 19, 1969. 1. Little hands Lyrics. This is the only solo album by former Jefferson Airplane drummer and Moby Grape gwriter Alexander Spence, aka Skip Spence. He wrote the material during his six-month confinement to New York City’s famous (some might say infamous) Bellevue Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward, which some New Yorkers refer to as the looney bin. Indeed, Skip’s tenure as a Bellevue patient came as a result of an incident involving his use of a fire axe as a means of attempted entry to the New York hotel rooms of Moby Grape bandmates Jerry Miller (guitar) and Don Stevenson (drums).

Alexander "Skip" Spence recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself. The end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. In the same year he released his only solo album: Oar. The album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in a mental institution following a delusion-driven attempt to attack his Moby Grape band mates with a fire axe, after having ingested LSD. As the urban myth goes, on the day of his release he drove a motorcycle - dressed in only his pyjamas - directly to Nashville to record his only solo album. Fact is that he recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself, and that the end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album.

Oar is a 1969 solo album by Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence History. Described as "one of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made", 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 ax. .In June of 1968, Alexander "Skip" Spence was admitted into the Psychiatric Ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital in lower Manhattan, putting an end to a highly creative period of his life. Oddly, it also signaled the beginning of his most prolific writing cycle. Unbeknownst to everyone involved with his career at that point, Bellevue provided Spence the safety he needed and the time to create what was to become his best-known work. Andrew Lau, "Oar After 40 Years: Brilliant or Mere Ramblings?". As described by critic Ross Bennett

Tracklist

Original Oar
1 Little Hands 3:44
2 Cripple Creek 2:16
3 Diana 3:32
4 Margaret - Tiger Rug 2:17
5 Weighted Down (The Prison Song) 6:27
6 War In Peace 4:05
7 Broken Heart 3:29
8 All Come To Meet Her 2:04
9 Books Of Moses 2:42
10 Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin For Yang) 2:53
11 Lawrence Of Euphoria 1:31
12 Grey / Afro 9:38
Extra Oar
13 This Time He Has Come 4:42
14 It's The Best Thing For You 2:48
15 Keep Everything Under Your Hat 3:06
16 Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) 3:36
17 Givin' Up Things 0:59
Unissued Oar
18 If I'm Good 0:47
19 You Know 1:47
20 Doodle 1:02
21 Fountain 0:34
22 I Think You And I 1:14

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright (c) – Sundazed Music, Inc.
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
  • Manufactured By – Sony Music Special Products – A 30731
  • Pressed By – DADC – DIDP-098418
  • Mastered At – Sundazed Studios

Credits

  • Design [Original Cover Design] – Lloyd Ziff
  • Design [Package Design] – Rich Russell, Sundazed Music
  • Engineer – Charlie Bradley, Don Meehan, Mike Figlio
  • Liner Notes – David Fricke, Jud Cost
  • Liner Notes [Original] – David Rubinson
  • Liner Notes [Review] – Greil Marcus
  • Management [Project Manager] – Tim Livingston
  • Mastered By – Bob Irwin
  • Mixed By – Bob Irwin (tracks: 13 to 22), David Rubinson (tracks: 1 to 12), Don Meehan (tracks: 1 to 12)
  • Producer – Alexander Spence
  • Written-By – Alexander Lee Spence*

Notes

Similar to Alexander Spence - Oar, but without additional DADC code on label.

Mastered at Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, NY, May 19, 1999.

Originally issued as Columbia CS 9381, May 19, 1969.

Original recording dates:
Tracks 3 & 6 recorded December 3, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee.
Tracks 1, 2 & 5 recorded December 5, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee.
Tracks 9 & 11 recorded December 6, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee.
Tracks 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 & 13-22 recorded December 12, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee.

"Sundazed is proud to restore the original Columbia album version of 'Oar' (tracks 1-12 on this disc) directly from the Nashville 2-track master tapes, circa 1968.

The bonus cuts (tracks 13-22) on this Sundazed edition are exact representations of what Skip recorded on December 12, 1968 - the last day of the heady and historic 'Oar' sessions."

Dedicated in loving memory to Mrs. Gwenneth Spence (May 21, 1918 - October 14, 1992).

Original dedication: Olga

©1999 Sundazed Music, Inc.
℗1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 090771107527
  • Barcode (Text): 0 9077-11075-2 7
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI L422
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 1T02
  • Matrix / Runout: DIDP-098418 02 1A 01

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
CS 9831 Alexander Spence Oar ‎(LP, Album) Columbia CS 9831 US 1969
ED 282 Alexander Spence Oar ‎(LP, Album, RE) Edsel Records ED 282 UK 1988
CS 11075, A 30731 Alexander Spence Oar ‎(CD) Sundazed, Sony CS 11075, A 30731 US Unknown
SC 11075, A 30731 Alexander Spence Oar ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) Sundazed Music, Sony Music Special Products SC 11075, A 30731 US 1999
CS 9831 Alexander Spence Oar ‎(LP, Album) Columbia CS 9831 Canada 1969

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