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  • Alexander Spence
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  • Alexander Spence
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  • Male
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  • Jefferson_Airplane
  • Quicksilver_Messenger_Service
  • Moby_Grape
Subject
  • American rock singers
  • American rock guitarists
  • People with schizophrenia
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American male singer-songwriters
  • 1946 births
  • American singer-songwriters
  • 1999 deaths
  • 20th-century Canadian singers
  • American rock drummers
  • American rock songwriters
  • Canadian emigrants to the United States
  • Canadian male singers
  • Canadian rock guitarists
  • Canadian rock singers
  • Canadian singer-songwriters
  • Canadian rock drummers
  • Cancer deaths in California
  • Deaths from lung cancer
  • Musicians from San Jose, California
  • Musicians from Santa Cruz, California
  • Outsider musicians
  • Psychedelic folk musicians
  • Musicians from Windsor, Ontario
  • Psychedelic rock musicians
  • Jefferson Airplane members
  • Moby Grape members
  • Quicksilver Messenger Service members
abstract
  • Born: April 18, 1946, Windsor, Ontario, CanadaDied: April 16, 1999, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CaliforniaSpence 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 [m47873], he left to co-found Moby Grape, once again as a guitarist.
dbo:abstract
  • Alexander Lee %22Skip%22 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. He had started his career as a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and was the drummer on Jefferson Airplane's debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. He has been described on the Allmusic website as %22one of psychedelia's brightest lights%22; however, his career was plagued by drug addictions coupled with mental health problems, and he has been described by a biographer as a man who %22neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out.%22
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  • Alex Spence
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  • Alexander 'Skip' Spence
  • Alexander Lee Spence
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  • Skip Spencer
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wikipedia
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  • 1946-04-18
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  • 1999-04-16
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  • 80301
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  • 499363
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  • Alexander Spence
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wsb:record_label
  • Columbia
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  • Rock
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