Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Twisted Tales According to legend, Skip Spence once sat up in a morgue, a tag on his toe, and asked for a glass of water. By then, he'd already been dead to the San Francisco rock scene for years. One of the brightest flames and quickest burnouts of the psychedelic era, Alexander "Skip" Spence drifted into decades of hard-core drug addiction after recording his only solo album, 'Oar,' in 1969. An early member of three key Bay Area groups -- Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and [...]