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14632556 | Play | Little Hands | 03:40 Tools | |
87305197 | Play | War in Peace | 03:40 Tools | |
14632557 | Play | Cripple Creek | 02:13 Tools | |
14632559 | Play | Diana | 03:29 Tools | |
14632560 | Play | Weighted Down (The Prison Song) | 06:24 Tools | |
87305198 | Play | All Come To Meet Her | 06:22 Tools | |
14632561 | Play | Broken Heart | 03:25 Tools | |
14632562 | Play | Books of Moses | 02:41 Tools | |
14632564 | Play | Lawrence of Euphoria | 01:27 Tools | |
14632567 | Play | Margaret - Tiger Rug | 02:17 Tools | |
14632565 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang) | 02:53 Tools | |
14632569 | Play | It's the Best Thing for You | 02:48 Tools | |
52661818 | Play | Grey/afro | 02:53 Tools | |
14632576 | Play | Givin' Up Things | 00:57 Tools | |
14632572 | Play | Doodle | 01:00 Tools | |
14632571 | Play | If I'm Good | 00:47 Tools | |
14632574 | Play | Fountain | 00:31 Tools | |
14632570 | Play | This Time He Has Come | 04:38 Tools | |
14632575 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat | 03:03 Tools | |
14632573 | Play | You Know | 01:44 Tools | |
14632580 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade | 02:49 Tools | |
14632577 | Play | I Think You and I | 01:14 Tools | |
14632579 | Play | Grey / Afro | 09:38 Tools | |
87305199 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold) | 09:38 Tools | |
14632583 | Play | Furry Heroine | 03:32 Tools | |
52661820 | Play | To Think You And I | 03:32 Tools | |
14632581 | Play | Margaret/Tiger Rug | 00:00 Tools | |
14632615 | Play | Halo of Gold | 03:06 Tools | |
14632595 | Play | Dixie Peach Pomenade | 00:00 Tools | |
52661821 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin For | 00:00 Tools | |
52661822 | Play | It's The Best Thing For You (Bonus) | 00:00 Tools | |
87305200 | Play | This Time He Has Come (Bonus) | 00:00 Tools | |
87305201 | Play | Land of the Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
87305202 | Play | If I'm Good (bonus) | 00:00 Tools | |
14632633 | Play | I Think You And I (Bonus) | 01:14 Tools | |
87305203 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) (Bonus) | 00:00 Tools | |
14632589 | Play | Fountain (bonus) | 00:34 Tools | |
87305204 | Play | Doodle (Bonus) | 00:34 Tools | |
14632597 | Play | Givin' Up Things (bonus) | 00:57 Tools | |
52661826 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat (Bonus) | 01:02 Tools | |
52661825 | Play | You Know (Bonus) | 01:02 Tools | |
14632596 | Play | This Time He Has Come [*] | 04:42 Tools | |
14632611 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat [*] | 03:05 Tools | |
14632587 | Play | Weighted Down | 06:29 Tools | |
14632620 | Play | Doodle [#] | 00:00 Tools | |
87305205 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold) [*] | 03:05 Tools | |
14632584 | Play | All My Life (I Love You) | 00:00 Tools | |
52661827 | Play | All My Life - I Love You | 03:35 Tools | |
52661828 | Play | I Think You and I [#] | 00:00 Tools | |
14632627 | Play | You Know [#] | 00:00 Tools | |
14632612 | Play | Fountain [#] | 00:34 Tools | |
52661829 | Play | Grey - Afro | 06:29 Tools | |
52661830 | Play | Grey,Afro | 06:29 Tools | |
14632616 | Play | 03 - Diana | 00:00 Tools | |
14632607 | Play | Grey -- Afro | 00:00 Tools | |
14632669 | Play | 04 - Margaret/Tiger Rug | 00:00 Tools | |
14632602 | Play | Margaret -- Tiger Rug | 00:00 Tools | |
52661832 | Play | Margaret / Tiger rug | 00:00 Tools | |
52661831 | Play | Lawrence Of Euphoria (Bonus - 1991 Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
14632586 | Play | Grey-Afro | 09:38 Tools | |
14632691 | Play | Diana (Bonus - 1991 Remix) | 04:45 Tools | |
14632677 | Play | 10 - Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang) | 02:53 Tools | |
14632658 | Play | 12 - Grey/Afro | 09:38 Tools | |
14632585 | Play | Motorcycle Irene | 02:56 Tools | |
14632685 | Play | This Time Has Come | 04:42 Tools | |
14632591 | Play | After Gene Autry | 02:55 Tools | |
14632659 | Play | 18 - If I'm Good | 00:47 Tools | |
52661833 | Play | 15 - Keep Everything Under Your Hat | 00:47 Tools | |
14632682 | Play | 13 - This Time Has Come | 04:42 Tools | |
14632671 | Play | 20 - Doodle | 01:00 Tools | |
14632608 | Play | 22 - I Think You And I | 01:14 Tools | |
14632679 | Play | 21 - Fountain | 00:31 Tools | |
14632694 | Play | 19 - You Know | 01:44 Tools | |
14632690 | Play | 16 - Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) | 03:33 Tools | |
52661834 | Play | Furry Heroine Halo Of Gold | 03:33 Tools | |
52661839 | Play | Book of Moses | 09:38 Tools | |
52661836 | Play | dixie peach promenade (yin for yand) | 09:38 Tools | |
14632639 | Play | Grey , Afro | 09:38 Tools | |
87305206 | Play | Givin' Up Things (Bonus track) | 09:38 Tools | |
87305207 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat (Bonus Track) | 09:38 Tools | |
52661840 | Play | Keep Everyting Under Your Hat | 09:38 Tools | |
52661838 | Play | It's the Best Thing For You (Bonus track) | 09:38 Tools | |
52661841 | Play | If I'm Good (Bonus track) | 09:38 Tools | |
52661842 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) (Bonus Track) | 09:38 Tools | |
52661843 | Play | Doodle (Bonus track) | 09:38 Tools | |
87305208 | Play | This Time He Has Come (Bonus track) | 09:38 Tools | |
87305209 | Play | I Think You And I (Bonus Track) | 09:38 Tools | |
14632678 | Play | Diane | 03:39 Tools | |
52661844 | Play | Givin Up Things | 03:39 Tools | |
52661846 | Play | You Know (Bonus Track) | 03:39 Tools | |
14632642 | Play | Little Hands (from "Oar") | 00:30 Tools | |
52661848 | Play | Fountain (Bonus Track) | 03:39 Tools | |
52661850 | Play | Grey Afro | 00:30 Tools | |
14632660 | Play | Afro | 09:38 Tools | |
52661849 | Play | 02.Cripple Creek | 03:39 Tools | |
52661855 | Play | Tiger Rug | 00:30 Tools | |
52661851 | Play | War and Peace | 00:30 Tools | |
14632640 | Play | It's the Best Thing for You [Bonus Track] | 02:49 Tools | |
14632645 | Play | If I'm Good [Bonus Track] | 00:47 Tools | |
52661852 | Play | 06.War In Peace | 00:30 Tools | |
52661854 | Play | Margaret Tiger Rug | 00:30 Tools | |
52661853 | Play | Greyafro | 00:30 Tools | |
14632692 | Play | This Time He Has Come [Bonus Track] | 04:42 Tools | |
87305210 | Play | Oar | 01:47 Tools | |
14632665 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat [Bonus Track] | 03:05 Tools | |
52661856 | Play | 04.Margaret - Tiger Rug | 00:30 Tools | |
52661863 | Play | Doodle [bonus track] | 01:47 Tools | |
14632644 | Play | You Know [Bonus Track] | 01:47 Tools | |
89301053 | Play | I Want a Rock & Roll Band | 01:47 Tools | |
87305211 | Play | Fountain [bonus track] | 01:47 Tools | |
87305212 | Play | I Think You And I [Bonus Track] | 01:47 Tools | |
52661857 | Play | Margaret/Tiiger Rug | 00:47 Tools | |
52661860 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat [bonus] | 03:05 Tools | |
52661858 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade Yin For | 00:47 Tools | |
89301054 | Play | Diana (take 3) | 00:47 Tools | |
14632649 | Play | Givin' Up Things [Bonus Track] | 00:57 Tools | |
52661859 | Play | Greyafro (1969) | 03:05 Tools | |
52661861 | Play | 08.All Come To Meet Her | 03:05 Tools | |
14632683 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold) [Bonus Track] | 03:06 Tools | |
52661862 | Play | Diana (1969) | 03:05 Tools | |
89301055 | Play | Little Hands (take 2) | 03:05 Tools | |
52661864 | Play | Lawrence Of Euphoria (1969) | 01:14 Tools | |
52661865 | Play | 18 - If I'm Good [bonus] | 01:14 Tools | |
52661871 | Play | This Time He Has Come [Bonus] | 00:57 Tools | |
52661866 | Play | I Think You And I (1969) | 01:14 Tools | |
52661867 | Play | All My Life I Love You | 01:14 Tools | |
89301056 | Play | All Come to Meet Her (alternate 1) | 01:14 Tools | |
89301057 | Play | The Shape You're In | 01:14 Tools | |
52661868 | Play | This Time He Has Come (1969) | 00:57 Tools | |
52661869 | Play | Margaret-Tiger Rug (1969) | 00:57 Tools | |
52661896 | Play | Diana (unedited version, rec. 1968) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661870 | Play | You Know (1969) | 00:57 Tools | |
52661872 | Play | Weighted Down [The Prison Song] | 00:57 Tools | |
52661873 | Play | Doodle (1969) | 00:57 Tools | |
52661874 | Play | 15 - Keep Everything Under Your Hat [bonus] | 00:57 Tools | |
52661875 | Play | keep everything under you | 00:57 Tools | |
52661881 | Play | Doodle [bonus] | 03:32 Tools | |
52661876 | Play | 13 - This Time He Has Come [bonus] | 00:57 Tools | |
89301058 | Play | Diana (12 string version) | 00:57 Tools | |
89301059 | Play | My Friend | 00:57 Tools | |
89301060 | Play | I Got Something For You | 00:57 Tools | |
52661877 | Play | 09.Books Of Moses | 03:06 Tools | |
52661878 | Play | Weighted Down (The Prison Song) (1969) | 03:06 Tools | |
52661879 | Play | 11.Lawrence Of Euphoria | 03:06 Tools | |
14632676 | Play | 03 Diana | 03:32 Tools | |
52661887 | Play | It's the Best Thing for You [bonus] | 03:32 Tools | |
52661880 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) (1969) | 03:32 Tools | |
52661888 | Play | Givin' up Things [bonus] | 03:32 Tools | |
52661889 | Play | Books Of Moses (1969) | 03:32 Tools | |
52661882 | Play | !Fountain | 03:32 Tools | |
14632667 | Play | Little Hands [Original Album] | 03:41 Tools | |
14632629 | Play | Margaret/Tiger Rug [Original Album] | 02:15 Tools | |
52661883 | Play | 10.Dixie Peach Promenade | 03:32 Tools | |
52661884 | Play | 17.Givin' Up Things | 03:32 Tools | |
52661886 | Play | MargaretTiger Rug | 03:32 Tools | |
89301061 | Play | Diana (version 2) | 03:32 Tools | |
52661885 | Play | 14.It's The Best Thing For You | 03:32 Tools | |
89301062 | Play | She Don't Care | 03:32 Tools | |
52661901 | Play | If I'm Good [bonus] | 02:14 Tools | |
52661906 | Play | You Know [bonus] | 02:14 Tools | |
52661890 | Play | Fountain (Bonus - Unissued Oar) | 03:32 Tools | |
52661891 | Play | Givin' Up Things (Bonus - Extra Oar) | 03:32 Tools | |
87305213 | Play | Cripple Creek [Original Album] | 02:14 Tools | |
14632653 | Play | Weighted Down (The Prison Song) [Original Album] | 06:25 Tools | |
14632599 | Play | Lawrence Of Euphoria [Original Album] | 01:28 Tools | |
89301063 | Play | I Got a Lot To Say (Version 1) | 01:28 Tools | |
52661892 | Play | 15.Keep Everything Under Your Hat | 03:32 Tools | |
14632689 | Play | 02 cripple creek | 02:14 Tools | |
89301064 | Play | Broken Heart (voc & acoustic) | 02:14 Tools | |
14632651 | Play | 01 Little Hands | 03:45 Tools | |
52661895 | Play | Grey, Afro | 02:14 Tools | |
52661893 | Play | 19.You Know | 02:14 Tools | |
52661894 | Play | 20.Doodle | 02:14 Tools | |
52661897 | Play | It's The Best Thing For You (1969) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661898 | Play | Halo Of Gold [Furry Heroine] | 02:14 Tools | |
52661899 | Play | This Time He Has Come (Bonus - Extra Oar) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661918 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade Yin For Yang | 03:45 Tools | |
52661900 | Play | Broken Heart (1969) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661902 | Play | Dixie Peach Pomenade [Yin For Yang] | 02:14 Tools | |
52661920 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold) [bonus] | 03:45 Tools | |
52661903 | Play | If I'm Good (Previously Unreleased Bonus Track) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661904 | Play | If I'm Good (Bonus - Unissued Oar) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661905 | Play | It's The Best Thing For You (Bonus - Extra Oar) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661907 | Play | You Know (Bonus - Unissued Oar) | 02:14 Tools | |
52661908 | Play | I Think You And I [bonus] | 02:14 Tools | |
87305216 | Play | Diana [Original Album] | 03:45 Tools | |
14632631 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade [Original Album] | 02:51 Tools | |
89301065 | Play | Diana (Overdub) | 02:51 Tools | |
14632610 | Play | Books Of Moses [Original Album] | 02:43 Tools | |
89301066 | Play | All Come To Meet Her (Rehearsal) | 02:43 Tools | |
89301067 | Play | I Got a Lot To Say (Version 2) | 02:43 Tools | |
89301068 | Play | War In Peace (Take 2) | 02:43 Tools | |
89301069 | Play | Little Hands (Vocal Overdub) | 02:43 Tools | |
52661909 | Play | Weighted Down (Prison Song) | 01:28 Tools | |
14632624 | Play | This Time He Has Come [Extra Track] | 04:40 Tools | |
89301070 | Play | Diana (Alternate 1) | 04:40 Tools | |
89301071 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang) (alternate) | 04:40 Tools | |
89301072 | Play | War In Peace (Instrumental) | 04:40 Tools | |
87305214 | Play | Givin' Up Things. | 01:28 Tools | |
52661911 | Play | 18.If I'm Good | 01:28 Tools | |
89301073 | Play | Grey_Afro | 01:28 Tools | |
52661912 | Play | 13.This Time He Has Come | 01:28 Tools | |
89301074 | Play | War In Peace (Alternate) | 01:28 Tools | |
52661913 | Play | 16.Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) | 03:45 Tools | |
52661914 | Play | 08 Grey/Afro | 03:45 Tools | |
52661928 | Play | Grey Afro | 06:27 Tools | |
52661915 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade Yin Fo | 03:45 Tools | |
52661916 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold) (Bonus - Extra Oar) | 03:45 Tools | |
52661917 | Play | Grey _ Afro | 03:45 Tools | |
87305215 | Play | Fountain [Bonus] | 03:45 Tools | |
52661921 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat (Bonus - Extra Oar) | 03:45 Tools | |
52661922 | Play | Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin For Yang) (1969) | 03:45 Tools | |
87305217 | Play | All Come To Meet Her [Original Album] | 03:45 Tools | |
87305218 | Play | Broken Heart [Original Album] | 03:45 Tools | |
87305219 | Play | War In Peace [Original Album] | 03:45 Tools | |
89301075 | Play | Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold) (alternate) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301076 | Play | It's a Hard Life (version 1) | 03:45 Tools | |
87305220 | Play | Givin' Up Things [Extra Track] | 03:45 Tools | |
89301077 | Play | Diana (alternate 2) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301078 | Play | Diana (basics) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301079 | Play | It's a Hard Life (version 2) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301080 | Play | Broken Heart (Extended Master) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301081 | Play | All Come To Meet Her (Alternate 2) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301082 | Play | War In Peace (Guitar Overdub) | 03:45 Tools | |
89301083 | Play | Cripple Creek (Basic) | 03:45 Tools | |
52661910 | Play | Margaret | 01:28 Tools | |
52661923 | Play | 12.Grey / Afro | 04:40 Tools | |
87305221 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat [Extra Track] | 04:40 Tools | |
89301084 | Play | Lawrence of Euphoria (Alternate) | 04:40 Tools | |
52661924 | Play | 22.I Think You And I | 04:40 Tools | |
14632675 | Play | 05 Weighted Down (The Prison Song) | 06:27 Tools | |
52661925 | Play | 21.Fountain | 06:27 Tools | |
52661926 | Play | 08 All Come to Meet Her | 06:27 Tools | |
52661927 | Play | 13 - This Time He Has Come | 06:27 Tools | |
87305222 | Play | After Gene Autry / Motorcycle Irene (Demo for Columbia - 1968) | 06:27 Tools | |
52661929 | Play | skip spence - broken heart | 06:27 Tools | |
52661930 | Play | If I'm Good (1969) | 06:27 Tools | |
52661931 | Play | Dixie Beach Promenade | 06:27 Tools | |
52661932 | Play | Doodle [Givin' Up Things] | 06:27 Tools | |
52661933 | Play | Keep Everything Under Your Hat (1969) | 06:27 Tools | |
52661934 | Play | Doodle (Bonus - Unissued Oar) | 06:27 Tools | |
87305223 | Play | Fountain (1969) | 06:27 Tools | |
52661935 | Play | 22 - I Think You and I [bonus] | 06:27 Tools | |
52661936 | Play | Weighted Down The Prison Son | 06:27 Tools | |
52661937 | Play | alexander 'skip' spence - oar (21) fountain | 06:27 Tools |
Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and as a solo artist. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and his family relocated to San Jose, California in the late 1950s. His career was plagued by drug addictions coupled with mental health problems, and is described by a biographer as man who "neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out." During his tenure in the public eye, he had a profound impact on the outsider music and psych-folk genres. 1966-1969: Moby Grape and Oar 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. It was with Moby Grape that Spence found his greatest musical fame, writing among other songs, "Omaha", from Moby Grape's first album (1967)--a song identified in 2008 by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time. Spence is acknowledged as having been instrumental in the formation of the Doobie Brothers, by way of introducing John Hartman to Tom Johnston, and encouraging their musical development. During the recording session of Moby Grape's second album, Wow, in 1968, Spence attempted to break down a bandmate's hotel room door with a fire axe, while under the influence of LSD. Spence's deterioration in New York and the "fire axe incident" are described by bandmate Jerry Miller as follows: "Skippy changed radically when we were in New York. There were some people there that were into harder drugs and a harder lifestyle, and some very weird shit. And so he kind of flew off with those people. Skippy kind of disappeared for a little while. Next time we saw him, he had cut off his beard, and was wearing a black leather jacket, with his chest hanging out, with some chains and just sweating like a son of a gun. I don't know what the hell he got a hold of, man, but it just whacked him. And the next thing I know, he axed my door down in the Albert Hotel. They said at the reception area that this crazy guy had held an axe to the doorman's head." As described by bandmate Peter Lewis, it appears that both Jerry Miller and bandmade Don Stevenson were targets of Spence: "We had to do (the album) in New York because the producer (David Rubinson) wanted to be with his family. So we had to leave our families and spend months at a time in hotel rooms in New York City. Finally I just quit and went back to California. I got a phone call after a couple of days. They'd played a Fillmore East gig without me, and Skippy took off with some black witch afterward who fed him full of acid. It was like that scene in The Doors movie. He thought he was the anti-Christ. He tried to chop down the hotel room door with a fire axe to kill Don (Stevenson) to save him from himself. He went up to the 52nd floor of the CBS building where they had to wrestle him to the ground. And Rubinson pressed charges against him. They took him to the The Tombs (and then to Bellevue) and that's where he wrote Oar. When he got out of there, he cut that album in Nashville. And that was the end of his career. They shot him full of Thorazine for six months. They just take you out of the game." During his six months in Bellevue, Spence was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the day of his release, he drove a motorcycle, dressed in only his pajamas, directly to Nashville to record his only solo album, with no other musicians appearing on it, the now-classic psychedelic/folk album Oar (1969, Columbia Records). 1970s and continuing decline Spence continued to have minor involvement in later Moby Grape projects and reunions. He contributed to 20 Granite Creek (1971) and Live Grape (1978), though his bandmates always included at least one of his songs on group recordings, irrespective of whether he was capable of performing with the group at the time. He had been similarly remembered by Jefferson Airplane, whereby his song, "My Best Friend" was included on the group's definitive Surrealistic Pillow album (1967), despite his departure from the group. Due to his deteriorating state and notwithstanding that he was no longer functioning in the band, Spence was supported by Moby Grape band members for extended periods. Voluminous consumption of heroin and cocaine resulted in a further involuntary committal for Spence, based on "Aqualung"-like behaviours. As described by Peter Lewis, "Skippy was just hanging around. He hadn't been all there for years, because he'd been into heroin all that time. In fact he actually ODed once and they had him in the morgue in San Jose with a tag on his toe. All of a sudden he got up and asked for a glass of water. Now he was snortin' big clumps of coke, and nothing would happen to him. We couldn't have him around because he'd be pacing the room, describing axe murders. So we got him a little place of his own. He had a little white rat named Oswald that would snort coke too. He'd never washed his dishes, and he'd try to get these little grammar school girls to go into the house with him. He was real bad. One of the parents finally called the cops, and they took him to the County Mental Health Hospital in Santa Cruz. Where they immediately lost him, and he turned up days later in the women's ward." Mental illness, drug addiction and alcoholism thus prevented Spence from sustaining a career in the music industry. Much of his life was spent in third party care, as a ward of the State of California, and either homeless or in transient accommodations in his later years. He remained in and around San Jose and Santa Cruz, California. Peter Lewis regularly visited Spence during the latter years of his life: "The last five years I'd go up‚ he lived in a trailer up there‚ Capitola. I used to hang around with him; we'd spend the weekends together. But he just basically kind of hit the…he was helpless in a way in terms of being able to define anything or control his feelings." As one of his four children, son Omar Spence, recalls, "When I saw my dad, it broke my heart. ...There were moments of clarity when he was genius smart, and then he'd wander off having a conversation with himself. Here's a homeless guy that most people would walk past and pity, and he'd say, 'I've been working on a song', and he'd scratch out some bar chords and musical notes on a napkin." Death and postscripts Spence died in 1999 from lung cancer. He was 52, just two days shy of his 53rd birthday. More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence, an album featuring contributions from Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Beck, among others, was released a few weeks after his death. Prior to its release, the CD was played for Spence at the hospital, in his final stages before death. As Peter Lewis recalls, "He was in a coma‚ and the last thing to go is your hearing. And they had More Oar in there and were playing it for him as they pulled the plug and we were holding his hands. I mean‚ it was like this death of Van Gogh or something. That's the drama of it. You know…it was just so intense." Spence's "Land of the Sun", one of the only post-Grape recordings he ever completed, was nearly placed on the X-Files soundtrack, Songs In The Key of X. He had been commissioned to write the song. In June, 2008, a Skip Spence Tribute Concert was held in Santa Cruz. The concert featured Spence's son, Omar Spence, who has sung with various configurations of Moby Grape in recent years. Omar Spence, singing his father's songs, was backed by the Santa Cruz White Album Ensemble, with Dale Ockerman and Tiran Porter, both formerly of the Doobie Brothers, and both of whom have played with various members of Moby Grape in several bands over the past three decades. Keith Graves of Quicksilver Messenger Service played drums. Peter Lewis joined the group onstage for the finale. An additional Skip Spence tribute concert was held in October, 2008. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.